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The Open Exhibition
Kino-Teatr Ltd are pleased to announce The Kino-Teatr Open, our annual open submission exhibition.
This event will be held in the Baker Mamonova Gallery space, Kino-Teatr, Norman Road, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0EG
The exhibition will run for two months
1 October – 1 December 2026
The Theme for 2026 is “Within A Landscape”.
Whilst this loosely indicates the work must include a landscape and subiect matter within, the focus is not on traditional landscape painting. The work can be painting, collage or original prints (not digital). The dimensions must not exceed 60 x 60cm. Works must be offered for sale.
Prizes given for outstanding work
Visitors' Choice prize to be announced
Judges’ Favourite prize to be announced
Click on link to apply
Submission is open now & closes on 31st August 2026
The fee for submission is £20 for up to 3 works. This fee is non returnable. There will be a commission of 30% charged on sales.
Moss and Freud
UK/New Zealand 2025, 15, 100 mins, drama
Moss & Freud is a 2025 biographical drama written and directed by James Lucas, starring Ellie Bamber as English model Kate Moss and Derek Jacobi as painter Lucian Freud. The plot is set in London in 2002, when supermodel Kate Moss agreed to pose for a painting by ageing artist Lucian Freud. After sittings over the course of many months, the resultant painting was auctioned in 2005 for £3,928,000.
Thursday July 2nd at 3pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £14/ £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)/ £10 Under 16s
Kokuho
Japan 2025, 15, 175 mins, historical drama
In post-war Japan's economic boom, gangster family-born Kikuo Tachibana finds himself adopted by a kabuki actor. Despite life's challenges, he develops into a gifted performer.
Highest-grossing live action film in Japan and winner of 10 Japanese Academy Awards.
Language: Japanese (with English subtitles)
'Lee Sang-il’s heartfelt drama spans 50 years following the bond and rivalry between two young men who play the rigorously observed female roles in the traditional art form'
★ ★ ★ ★ The Guardian
★ ★ ★ ★ The Financial Times
★ ★ ★ ★ Time Out
'Nothing short of intoxicating' ★ ★ ★ ★ Little White Lies
Friday July 3rd at 3pm & 7.30pm & Saturday July 4th at 3pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £14/ £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)/ £10 Under 16s
Coffee Concert: Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Fenella Humphreys, winner of BBC Music Magazine Awards in 2025, 2023 and 2018, has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim with the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances.
Artist in Residence at London’s Wigmore Hall for the 2025/6 season, Fenella has been enjoying premieres of new works by Sally Beamish, Tom Coult, Stephen McNeff and Anna Berg as well as performances with orchestras including CBSO and London Mozart Players. Fenella performs widely as a soloist.
Her recent album of Sibelius’ solo works with BBC National Orchestra of Wales has been featured in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library and Gramophone Magazine’s Guide to the Concerto. BBC Music Magazine wrote of the recording: “Fenella Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of technical panache.”
Released in 2024, her Chandos recording of Adrian Sutton’s Violin Concerto with BBC Philharmonic won BBC Music Magazine’s 2025 Premiere Award, with the Strad Magazine writing “Humphreys brings her endlessly unfurling violin lines taut, silvery weightlessness.” The concerto was written for her in 2023, and premiered at the Southbank Centre with the RPO.
Fenella plays on a beautiful G.B. Guadagnini violin kindly on loan from Jonathan Sparey.
Programme:
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Sonata in G minor BWV 1001 (1720)
Nicola Matteis Sr. (c.1650-after 1713) - Movimento Incognito & Passaggio Rotto from Ayres (1676)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Ciaconna from Partita in D minor BWV1004 (1720)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Partita in E Major BWV1006 (1720)
Sunday July 5th at 11am
Tickets £12 includes coffee & croissant
Savage House
UK 2026, 15, 114mins, black comedy, period drama
Savage House is a 2026 British black comedy period drama written and directed by Peter Glanz, starring Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant.
Set in 18th century England during a pox outbreak and Jacobite uprising. Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life and this pursuit is filled with ironic decadence and bloodshed. A darkly satirical play on class and power.
Sunday July 5th at 2pm, Thursday July 9th at 3pm & 7.30pm & Friday July 10th at 3pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £14/ £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)/ £10 Under 16s
Obsession
US 2026, 18, 109 mins, horror
Obsession is a critically acclaimed 2026 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear (Michael Johnston), a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants his wish for his friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) to fall in love with him, resulting in horrific consequences. Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter appear in supporting roles.
'The low budget relationship horror about a cursed wish is set to outgross a new Star Wars movie, energizing Gen Z audiences and creating a rare cultural conversation' **** The Guardian
Wednesday July 8th at 3pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £14/ £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)
Documentary Week: The Art of a True Story
Trains
Poland 2024, 81 mins, documentary
Directed by Maciej J. Drygas, a renowned film maker, screenwriter, producer, and professor at the Polish National Film School in Łódź, whose works have received numerous prestigious awards, including the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary for Hear My Cry (1991), the Grand Prix at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival for State of Weightlessness (1995), and the award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the Cinema Verité festival in Tehran for Abu Haraz (2013).
'Magnetic cine-essay explores the liberation that the locomotive gave us' **** The Guardian
'Masterfully edited... Harnesses the magic of cinema and as an audience we are haunted by our present historical time, even while we bear witness to the past… The film confronts us with history both subtly and with exacting precision and without a single word of dialogue' – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Wednesday July 15th at 3pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £14/ £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)/ £10 Under 16s
Documentary Week: The Art of a True Story
Melt It! - The Film of The Iceman + Producer/Director Q&A
In the 1980s and 1990s, Anthony Irvine was a comedian and cabaret performer. His act was a little unusual. As the Iceman, he went on stage… to melt ice. Literally. He’d bring a large block of ice onto the stage then try to melt it (or fail to melt it) in a variety of creative ways. Among his fans were Mike Myers, Stewart Lee and Bill Bailey.
In 2010, when Robert Wringham wrote his book about this era of comedy, the Iceman could not be found.
But a few years later, Anthony Irvine popped up again, this time as a visual artist called Aim. What was going on?
Starring: Anthony Irvine & Robert Wringham with Stewart Lee, Jo Brand, Mark Thomas, Robin Ince, Ronni Ancona, Simon Munnery, Neil Mullarkey & Stuart Semple.
Producers: Mark Cartwright & Robert Wringham (You are Nothing / New Escapologist).
Executive Producer: Michael Cumming (Toast of London / Brass Eye / King Rocker).
Director: Mark Cartwright
Length: 75 minutes
“It’s art, it’s odd, it’s fun and you need to see it.”
- Mark Thomas (Comedian)
"An affectionate and heartfelt celebration of a man who pioneered the idea of melting ice on stage. Immensely charming."
- Arthur Matthews (Father Ted / Toast of London)
“This film is n…ice. You must see it. It’s important.”
- Iain Lee (TV / Radio)
Sunday July 19th at 2pm
Tickets £16/ £14 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)
Disclosure Day
US 2026, 12A, 145 mins, sci-fi, fantasy
A 2026 American science fiction thriller directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars an ensemble cast including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo.
Filming took place In New York and New Jersey. John Williams composed the film's score, marking his thirtieth collaboration with Spielberg.
The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney called it 'spellbinding' and 'an essential addition to Spielberg's rich body of work', while also highly praising Blunt's performance as 'simply breathtaking and never more magnetic'.
**** The Guardian
Friday July 24th at 7.30pm and Saturday July 25th at 3pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £14/ £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)/ £10 Under 16s
Leonora in the Morning Light
UK/Germany/Mexico/Romania 2025, 15, 103 mins
Leonora in the Morning Light is the epic true story of a woman who turned trauma into transcendence, creating beauty from chaos and forging a legacy that changed the history of modern art.
In 1930s Paris, she joins surrealists Breton and Dalí. Her romance with Max Ernst forces her to face her inner struggles. Defiant, brilliant and untameable, Leonora Carrington refuses to live by anyone’s rules but her own.
But as war engulfs Europe, their fantasy shatters. Ernst is arrested as an enemy alien, and Leonora is thrust into a nightmare of loss, madness, and survival. Fleeing to Spain, she spirals into psychological torment and endures brutal institutional treatment. Emerging scarred but unbroken, Leonora finds her way to Mexico—a place of magic and rebirth—where she reclaims her art, her identity, and her freedom.
Directed by Thor Klein & Lena Vurma. Starring Olivia Vinall, Alexander Scheer, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Ryan Gage, Istvan Teglas and Luis Gerardo Mendez.
Sunday July 26th at 2pm
Tickets £14 / £12 Concessions (over 65s/disabled people)/ £10 Under 16s
Samaki
Kino welcomes the return of Hastings saxophonist Chris White’s afrobeat project Samaki. With a repertoire based on the sound of 1970s African musicians like Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, and Oscar Sulley,
Samaki brings the afrobeat elements of relentless grooves and soaring melodies to the stage.
Friday August 7th at 7.30pm
Tickets £15
Eternal Triangle
Trevor Watts - Saxophones
Veryan Weston - Piano/ keyboard
Jamie Harris - Percussion
Trevor Watts has been at the forefront of jazz & improvised music for many years.
An original member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble/Amalgam/Moire Music Drum Orchestra/Moire Music group/London Jazz Composers Orchestra/Bobby Bradford Quartet with John Stevens & bassist Kent Carter and also played in Stan Tracey's Open Circle and the Trevor Watts Quartet with bassist John Edwards, drummer Mark Sanders and Pianist Veryan Weston. With Archie Shepp/Don Cherry/Steve Swallow/Jayne Cortez & Denardo Coleman and many more. Important duos with Veryan Weston, Jamie Harris and John Stevens. Recently he has played in Trio form with Barry Guy (Bass), Ramon Perez (drums) and another trio with Tollef Ostvang (Drums) from Norway and John Edwards (Bass).
He has been on the scene since 1964 and is still playing on top form as ever.
'Every concert is a journey, an emotion to be experienced with the audience' Giancarlo Spezia, MusicaJazz, Italy
'Weston's musical vision, which bristles with flowing genius, and is so seductive and singularly mindboggling...There is nothing like this music, in recent memory — not, in fact, since Bach wrote his Goldberg Variations' Raul d'Gama Rose - All About Jazz - June 12, 2011
'It is always a pleasure to see Trevor Watts blooming and vital as he always was since I've first met him well over fifty years ago. I wish for many more years of him being as productive and artistically challenging, as he still is today. British Jazz would have never been what it is today without his contribution. Respect!' Adam Baruch
Friday September 4th at 7.30pm
Tickets £15
Kevin Armstrong
Kevin Armstrong has played guitar for some of the biggest names in music from the mid 1980s to the present day. From David Bowie to Morrissey, Thomas Dolby to Prefab Sprout, from Sinead O'Connor to Iggy Pop, his range of experience as a musician has brought him into contact with some of the most interesting and diverse talents on the planet. His fifty-year career as a music producer and guitar player to the stars shows no sign of slowing down.
Kevin played for David Bowie at Live Aid in 1985. As well as albums and tours with Iggy Pop and the soundtrack for Absolute Beginners and Labyrinth, He was a ‘fifth member’ of Tin Machine and collaborated with Bowie on the Outside album. He co-wrote songs with Morrissey in the early post-Smiths phase. Kevin has continued to tour and record with a huge variety of famous, as well as up-and-coming artists and produces critically acclaimed solo work.
His book and highly entertaining one man show Absolute Beginner, give an insight into how to survive in the fickle music world, and tell stories and sing songs from half a century as a professional musician, writer, producer and bandleader. He continues to tour and collaborate with a wide range of world-renowned musicians.
Saturday September 12th at 7.30pm
Tickets £24/ £22 concessions
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Robyn Hitchcock
With a career now spanning six decades, Robyn Hitchcock remains a truly one
of a kind artist – surrealist rock ‘n’ roller, iconic troubadour, guitarist, poet, painter, and performer. An unparalleled, deeply individualistic songwriter and stylist, Hitchcock has traversed many genres with humour, intelligence and originality over 30 albums and seemingly infinite live performances.
From The Soft Boys’ proto-psych-punk and The Egyptians’ Dadaist pop to solo masterpieces like 1984’s milestone I Often Dream of Trains and 1990’s
Eye, Hitchcock has crafted a strikingly original oeuvre rife with sagacious observation, astringent wit, recurring marine life, mechanized rail services, cheese, Clint Eastwood, and innumerable finely drawn characters, real and imagined.
Saturday September 19th at 7.30pm
Tickets £25
Coffee Concert: Viola Lenzi & Isabella Gori - Piano Duo
Two fantastic Italian pianists bring to Kino-Teatr exciting new symphony arrangements such as music from Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov and the Rhapsodie Espagnole by M. Ravel!
Sunday September 20th at 11am
Tickets £12 include coffee & croissant
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope by Martin Crimp (after Molière), directed by Indhu Rubasingham.
Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.
Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.
Thursday September 24th at 7pm
Tickets £20/ £18 Concesssions
Coffee Concert: Lewis Kingsley Peart (piano)
Franz Schubert & Frederic Chopin
Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 1
Mazurka, Op. 63 No. 2
Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 3
Mazurka, Op. 7 No. 4
Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 6
Mazurka, Op. 6 No. 2
Erik Satie & Claude Debussy
Gnossienne No. 1
Clair de Lune
Je Te Veux
The Snow Is Dancing
Gnossienne No. 4
Minstrels
This recital pairs Schubert with Chopin, and Satie with Debussy — composers who found remarkable expression in intimate musical forms.
Schubert’s Moments Musicaux and Chopin’s Mazurkas share a quixotic nature and the spirit of experiment. Both explore surprising turns of harmony and rhythm: Schubert through shifting moods and unexpected modulations, and Chopin through subtle rhythmic inflections that transform the Polish dance into something deeply personal and poetic.
In the second half, Satie and Debussy reflect a friendship marked by both admiration and tension. Satie’s Gnossiennes and Je te veux reveal his spare, unconventional style, while Debussy’s Clair de lune, The Snow Is Dancing, and Minstrels expand these ideas with greater colour and nuance — shaped, too, by the lingering influence of Chopin.
Together, these works trace a path from Romantic intimacy to modern refinement, showing how small forms can hold entire worlds of imagination.
Sunday October 4th at 11am
Tickets £12 include coffee & croissant
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Coffee Concert: Evgenia Startseva (piano)
Born in Kazakhstan, Evgenia has enjoyed an international concert career both as a soloist, chamber music player and recording artist. She collaborated with Maxim Vengerov and has also featured in numerous broadcasts for ITV and Sky Arts TV (UK),Südwestrundfunk, ORF2 (Vienna), RTE (Ireland) & Saarlländischer Rundfunk(Germany).
Sunday October 18th at 11am
Tickets £12 include coffee & croissant