Event type: Film

Liverpool Doc Club presents: FOLKTALES (2025)

7:30PM

Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. FOLKTALES tells the timely and emotional story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional “gap year” learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world. Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of Alaskan huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, animals and humans around them.

For nearly two centuries, Scandinavian folk high schools – some of which are rooted in the lessons of Norse mythology – have emphasized the power of nature, simplicity, and community to transform young lives. “We hope we can wake up your Stone Age brain,” Pasvik instructor Iselin tells her students.

Through intimate verité storytelling and exhilarating cinematography, Academy Award®-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady examine humans on the cusp of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.

Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

This film will be subtitled

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Moolakii Club: Silent Film Soundtracks

An immersive evening of obscure silent films with live electronic soundtracks.Back this Spring for its third series, Moolakii Club returns with the ever-popular Live Soundtracks to Silent Films – a distinctive audiovisual night blending avant-garde cinema with live experimental electronica.

What to expect
Pop up cinema playing rare silent films accompanied by electronic artists performing original soundtracks live, reacting to the visuals in real time.The result is a shared, immersive experience – cinematic, atmospheric, and deeply engaging.

Featuring
+John Biddulph
+Lo Five
+ Special guest (TBC)

Each artist creates a unique live score, written and performed specifically for the films shown on the night.

Moolakii Club: Silent Film Soundtracks

An immersive evening of obscure silent films with live electronic soundtracks.Back this Spring for its third series, Moolakii Club returns with the ever-popular Live Soundtracks to Silent Films – a distinctive audiovisual night blending avant-garde cinema with live experimental electronica.

What to expect
Pop up cinema playing rare silent films accompanied by electronic artists performing original soundtracks live, reacting to the visuals in real time.The result is a shared, immersive experience – cinematic, atmospheric, and deeply engaging.

Featuring
+John Biddulph
+Lo Five
+ Special guest (TBC)

Each artist creates a unique live score, written and performed specifically for the films shown on the night.

Twilight in Concert

Age Rating: 15

Experience the legendary Twilight film in an unforgettable way with Twilight in Concert, a breathtaking live-to-film event.

A 12-piece ensemble of outstanding rock and orchestral musicians will take the stage, performing the beloved film score in perfect harmony with the movie, which will be screened in its entirety on a full-size cinema screen.

As over a thousand twinkling candles illuminate the grand stage, the music will transport you into the heart of Twilight, reliving the romance, passion, and excitement of Bella and Edward’s story. Whether you’re a lifelong fan or experiencing Twilight for the first time, this cinematic live-to-film concert is an unmissable opportunity to celebrate the iconic soundtrack like never before. Join us for an evening of music, nostalgia, and magic. Get your tickets now!

Fringe Flicks: Uncanny Desires

 

Looking for something a bit different to do in Liverpool?

Fringe Flicks: Uncanny Desires is a one-night underground short film screening at DoES Liverpool, bringing together strange, funny, and unsettling films from the UK and around the world.

This edition explores desire, obsession, intimacy, and transformation through dark comedy, surreal storytelling, and offbeat visuals. Expect films that are bold, uncomfortable, and surprising rather than polished or predictable.

The night is headlined by The Girl with the Haunted Vagina, a fearless Welsh short from 2023, alongside international films and Liverpool-made work. The programme also includes a preview of a new locally made short developed through PVTV’s Creative Meet-Ups, showing what can happen when people make work together outside traditional film structures.

Fringe Flicks is Pay What You Can and takes place in a small, informal space, so the focus is on atmosphere and shared experience rather than scale. Whether you’re into experimental film, dark humour, or just curious to try something different, this is a chance to watch adventurous cinema in good company.

 

move / 007

 

Renee Charles and Iesha Palmer host a special presentation of five short films that explore Black and queer nightlife.

Narrated by the voices shaping contemporary British electronic music culture today and produced by leading independent curation collective fynn studio, move/007 is a series of art films that centre the role of women and non-binary people at the heart of rave culture.

 

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppets reimagine Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by adding a hilarious and heartfelt touch of Muppet magic. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a wicked, cold-hearted moneylender, angered by the Christmas spirit of his colleague Bob Cratchit (played by Kermit the Frog) and those around him. However, the arrival of the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future teach him to embrace the warmth and good will that comes with Christmas time.