Special screenings & events
At the Showroom we're committed to supporting emerging film talent and bringing exciting filmmaker events to our cinema.
Here is where you'll find information on all our preview screenings, filmmaker Q&As and other special events.
Please note: These events start promptly with no adverts and trailers.
If you are collecting pre-booked tickets, please collect them at the earliest possible opportunity to avoid delays on the night.
Upcoming films & events
- Star Nhà Ease: The Little Girl of Hanoi 12A
- Vietnamese with English Subtitles
- Following the US bombing campaign in 1972, this film offers an important and alternative window into the experiences of Vietnamese families torn apart by war, told from the point of view of a child.
- Sun 28 Jul
- 18.00
- DocNights: Agent of Happiness 12A
- Dzongkha, Nepali with English Subtitles
- A happiness surveyor in the Kingdom of Bhutan grapples with his own contentment in this light-hearted yet fascinating probe into how happiness can be measured.
- Mon 29 Jul
- 18.00
- Dementia Friendly Screening: Chariots of Fire PG
- English
- Social pressure and personal turmoil beset two very different British athletes on their way to glory in the 1924 Paris Olympics.
- Tue 30 Jul
- 12.00
- Star Nhà Ease: Finding Phong 15
- Vietnamese with English Subtitles
- Through intimate video diaries we follow the complexities of life as a Vietnamese transwoman, as she faces the challenge of ‘finding’ her true self through transition.
- Tue 30 Jul
- 18.00
- Showroom Pub Quiz
- Tue 30 Jul 20:30
- Join us each month at the Showroom Cinema for our pub quiz. General knowledge rounds, picture rounds and music rounds to test your knowledge to its very limits!
- Sheffield Film Festival - Opening Night Film: Threads (40th Anniversary) + Q&A 18
- English
- Showroom Cinema is proud to present a special one-night-only encore screening of Sheffield-set masterpiece Threads with a very special Q&A to open the Sheffield Film Festival.
- Fri 2 Aug
- 18.00
- Spider-Man 12A
- English
- Spider-Man centres on student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), who gains superhuman strength and the spider-like abilities to cling to walls after being bitten by a genetically-altered spider.
- Fri 2 Aug
- 20.00
- Sat 3 Aug
- 18.20
- Sun 4 Aug
- 12.30
- Sheffield Film Festival x Celluloid Screams: Mystery 35mm Horror Marathon 18
- MYSTERY
- Sheffield Film Festival gets creepy with a special mystery 35mm horror film marathon courtesy of Celluloid Screams, Sheffield's annual horror film festival.
- Sat 3 Aug
- 12.25
- Sheffield Film Festival: Alma’s Rainbow + Intro 15
- English
- Sheffield Film Festival is proud to present a special 30th anniversary screening of Ayoka Chenzira’s Alma’s Rainbow, as part of T A P E Collective’s SNAPSHOT season.
- Sun 4 Aug
- 18.00
- Showroom Film Quiz
- Tue 6 Aug 20:30
- The finest showcase of film geekery Sheffield has to offer. Join us each month at the Showroom Cinema for our famously fiendish film quiz!
- Spider-Man 2 PG
- English
- Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) begins to yearn for a more normal life, beyond the spandex, when he experiences fading powers and self-doubt. He springs into action when Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina) threatens the city and those closest to Spider-Man.
- Fri 9 Aug
- 17.45
- Sat 10 Aug
- 20.15
- Sun 11 Aug
- 12.00
- SFF: Building Empathy with VR - GOLIATH Panel Discussion
- Fri 9 Aug 18:00
- Launched in 2021, the multi award-winning GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY - a unique immersive VR narrative taking a first person perspective of psychosis - is being used across the UK as an empathy training tool.
- Sheffield Film Festival: GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY (VR)
- Sat 10 Aug 10:00
- Sheffield Film Festival brings the award-winning VR experience GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY to the city, giving the opportunity to explore schizophrenia, gaming and connection.
- Sheffield Film Festival x Film Studies: The Man Who Knew Too Much U
- English
- Sheffield Film Festival celebrates 25 years of SHU Film Studies at Showroom Cinema with a return to the very first screening and lecture, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much.
- Tue 13 Aug
- 18.30
- Coraline (15th Anniversary) PG
- English
- Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the acclaimed stop-motion epic that has enchanted fans since its release back in 2009, when Coraline returns to cinemas.
- Thu 15 Aug
- 20.00
- Sat 17 Aug
- 14.30
- Spider-Man 3 12A
- English
- Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) must attempt to overcome the Venom suit's dark influence, as two other supervillains emerge from his past, Sandman and the new Green Goblin, determined to destroy the life he has built and the city at large.
- Fri 16 Aug
- 14.15
- Sat 17 Aug
- 19.45
- Sun 18 Aug
- 17.00
- Sheffield Film Festival: Freedom Fields + Q&A PG
- English, Arabic with English subtitles
- As part of the Sheffield Film Festival, Sheffield-based filmmaker Naziha Arebi presents a special screening of her 2018 award-winning documentary Freedom Fields - a love letter to Libya, sisterhood and the power of community.
- Fri 16 Aug
- 18.00
- Sheffield Film Festival x Film Hub North: Northern Exposure 15
- The Film Hub North Northern Exposure short film night is heading to Sheffield as part of the Sheffield Film Festival.
- Sat 24 Aug
- 18.00
- Dementia Friendly Screening: Wilding PG
- English
- Based on the best-selling book, Wilding tells the true story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate.
- Tue 27 Aug
- 12.00
- Sheffield Film Festival: Voices Unbound - QTIBPOC Cinema Club 18
- QTIBPOC Cinema Club is a once a month meet up at Gut Level to watch a movie that disrupts colonial and straight narratives, and uplifts Global QTIBPOC stories. With bring-and-share food and space to chat and socialise!
- Fri 30 Aug
- 17.30
- Sheffield Film Festival - Closing Film: Looks and Smiles 15
- English
- The first Sheffield Film Festival closes with a special big screen run of Ken Loach’s 1981 Sheffield drama Looks and Smiles, written by Barry Hines (Kes, Threads).
- Fri 30 Aug
- 18.00
- Sat 31 Aug
- 16.00
- Sun 1 Sep
- 12.00
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Extended Edition 12A
- English
- The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins.
- Fri 20 Sep
- 19.00
- Mon 23 Sep
- 11.00
- Tue 24 Sep
- 19.00
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Extended Edition 12A
- English
- The Two Towers follows the continuing quest of Frodo and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Frodo and Sam discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum.
- Sat 21 Sep
- 11.00
- Wed 25 Sep
- 18.40
- Thu 26 Sep
- 11.00
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Extended Edition 12A
- English
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King presents the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth.
- Sat 21 Sep
- 15.30
- Mon 23 Sep
- 18.00
- Thu 26 Sep
- 18.00
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Marathon – Extended Editions 12A
- English
- Experience all three, extended editions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in one incredible day. Journey with us to Middle Earth and witness the ultimate battle of good vs evil, for as little as £15.
- Sun 22 Sep
- 11.00
- Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s dance version of Tim Burton’s classic CTBA
- English
- Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the original, haunting music, Matthew Bourne tells the witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world.
- Wed 25 Sep
- 18.30
- Sun 29 Sep
- 12.00
- A Carefree Evening Out With Neil Hamburger
- Fri 11 Oct 19:00
- Neil Hamburger, the comic creation of U.S. actor/writer Gregg Turkington (On Cinema; Ant-Man; Fremont) returns to the UK with special guest Major Entertainer.
