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North East International Film Festival Brings A Week Of Indie Film To Newcastle
The North East International Film Festival takes over screens in Newcastle this month, running from Monday, November 16 to Sunday, November 22, 2026, and opening at Tyneside Cinema with The Fox.
The festival is a qualifying event for both BIFA and the Grierson Awards, which makes its programme a place where the next names in British independent film get noticed first. Alongside the screenings, filmmakers take part in question and answer sessions, and this year’s edition adds a new games strand to the week.
Tyneside Cinema, the city’s landmark independent picture house, anchors a festival that has put the North East’s own screen culture at the center of the map.
We Speak Media will be watching the Newcastle week closely, and we will bring readers the full story from the festival.
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The Human Appeal Winter Comedy Tour reaches The New Bingley Hall in Birmingham on Sunday, December 20, 2026, as the Muslim Comedy Takeover closes its twelfth year of touring in aid of orphaned children.
Guz Khan, Tez Ilyas, Kae Kurd, Aatif Nawaz and Riaad Moosa share the bill on a tour that has become one of the fixtures of the British comedy winter, playing arena scale rooms across the country. The Birmingham date closes a leg that also calls at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester.
Comedy for a cause at this scale is its own kind of show, part stand up spectacular and part community gathering, and the Bingley Hall is ready for a full house.
We Speak Media will be watching the Birmingham night closely, and we will bring readers the full story from the show.
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