Past Events

 

Take a look at information about our previous screenings to get a flavour of what Daydream Cinema is all about.

A line drawing of a woman dancing with a background of paint splattered textured paper.

Our previous screenings include…

Daydream Cinema Day 2025

Tuesday 28th October, 2025 – Gosforth Civic Theatre

A full day of films brought audiences to GCT to enjoy The Gruffalo, CatVideoFest and a whole load of  short films.

To celebrate Halloween, we screened three programmes of 31 short films – predominantly by neurodivergent filmmakers – bundled together as TREAT, TRICK and TERROR. These films were selected from FilmFreeway submissions, which is now open for 2026.

Still from the short film "One for the road" by Sarah Leigh. Black and white image of a person with long hair, pale skin and vampire fangs standing looking menacing, with some blurred out people behind them.

Spring 2025

Tuesday 27th May, 2025 – Gosforth Civic Theatre

We screened a host of films during packed day in Spring 2025, including a family screening of the original 70’s Muppets Movie. Surrealist arthouse documentary The Stimming Pool wowed our audience, with its portrayal of neurodivergent artists and filmmakers creating new work.

Australian animation Memoir of a Snail rounded off the day, with a poignant but wry look at mental health issues.

Cover for the Memoir of a Snail toolkit, featuring two animated young people - a boy and girl - perched on a giant snail shell and reading books.

Divergent Odysseys

Thursday 24th April, 2025 – Newcastle City Library

Daydream Cinema hosted our first screening at Newcastle City Library in Spring 2025 to celebrate the work of neurodivergent filmmakers from around the world. The programme of Divergent Odysseys explored themes of mental health through films created by filmmakers with lived experience.

This programme was curated from films submitted via FilmFreeway. This programme was subsequently shown for a limited time via our YouTube page.

Black line drawing of a young woman lying down and stroking a cat. The illustration is on textured paper.

February 2025

Tuesday 25th February, 2025 – Gosforth Civic Theatre

Our first event of 2025 featured two films with a cult following and a new release that is destined to be a future cult classic. The day started with a family screening of climate-emergency animation FernGully, and continued with 80s action Masters of the Universe. A rare North East screening of surreal comedy Fantasy A Gets A Mattress brought the day to a close.

Picture from Ferngully animation of a flying bat, and a flying fairy in a rainforest.

Halloween 2024

Monday 28th October – Gosforth Civic Theatre

We celebrated Halloween with a day of spooky films, starting with a sold-out screening of Disney’s magical classic Fantasia. We hosted a craft-along screening of Interview With A Vampire, with a star-studded cast and based on the Anne Rice novel. Audiences enjoyed the film while doodling, sewing and getting on with crochet projects.

 

Still from Fantasia. Mickey Mouse wearing a magicians hat and a red cloak holding up his white gloved hands. He is standing on a cliff against a night time backdrop.

Daydream Cinema Day 2024

Monday 4th April, 2024 – Gosforth Civic Theatre

Daydream Cinema’s launch event included a sold-out screening of the The Very Hungry Caterpillar and a showing of Ghostbusters supported by a presentation on the film by guest programmer Phil Coghill. The day ended with a screening of the documentary Ott Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story.

The event also included Connect with Film: Neurodivergent Short Films, a programme curated with Gosforth Civic Theatre Dance Development group from films submitted via FilmFreeway. These short films were subsequently received an online screening through our YouTube page.

Poster for the film in the design of in a film slide with stylised text which says: "Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story". A black and white picture of Ottos head with the top cut off to reveal a range of colourful characters and filming equipment bursting out. At the bottom, its says "Life has no script, so write your own"

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Daydream Cinema Day is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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