SAFAR Film Festival 2025 at The Ultimate Picture Palace: Celebrating Independent Arab Cinema in Oxford The UK’s leading platform for independent Arab cinema, the SAFAR Film Festival returns from 11–28 June 2025 for its landmark 10th edition, with screenings taking...
This spring, The Ultimate Picture Palace presents ‘Antifa On Screen: Anti-Fascist Cinema Classics’, a new film season running throughout May and early June. In a time of renewed global tensions and rising authoritarianism, we’re revisiting a selection of six radical,...
Spring is here and so is our brand-new programme for April and May 2025, featuring everything from epic marathon screenings and director Q&As to live music, powerful short films, and a landmark season of anti-fascist classics. Tickets for all screenings are now on...
Exploring Identity, Culture, and Home through Cinema We’re excited to partner with Maona Art to bring you Kumba, a dynamic short film programme that celebrates the richness of African cinema. Curated by Tatenda Jamera of Maona Art, this programme brings African and...
Painter, filmmaker, surrealist, and one of the great American artists of the 20th Century. We’ve teamed up with The Evolution of Horror Podcast to honour one of the most influential artistic voices of American cinema, the late great David Lynch. Join us on Saturday...
Join us for our brand new fortnightly strand of family-friendly classics (old and new), the Kino Kids Cinema Club! Every other Sunday (with extra screenings during the school holidays), we will be screening some of the very best kids films for 5-11 year olds in a...
The gloves are off this November! Get ready for a knockout season of action movie classics, from Akira Kurosawa's epic rain-soaked samurai battles to the jaw-dropping martial arts of kung-fu king Bruce Lee. "Fight Nights at The UPP" celebrates the powerful influence...
This October, we have programmed a season of screenings and events linked with Oxford University’s city-wide project 'Kafka’s Transformative Communities' marking the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death. The season includes a rare outing for Hidden director Michael...
On Saturday 31st August 2024, The Ultimate Picture Palace is celebrating National Cinema Day by offering audiences £4 tickets to all screenings that day. We have scheduled four screenings for Saturday, including: animated adventure Kensuke's Kingdom; Chinese...
The cinema will be closed for our annual summertime period of maintenance between Friday 2nd and Thursday 8th August. We will be open again as usual from Friday 9th August with a brand new programme of new releases, special events, and seasons including coming-of-age...
Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!