This website uses cookies. Read more about our cookie/privacy policy.

Accept and Close

The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Beau is Afraid

Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix (Her, You Were Never Really Here, Walk the Line) is Beau Wasserman, a paranoid man beset with anxiety, living in a crime-ridden neighbourhood. When setting off to visit his mother, Beau inadvertently embarks on an epic odyssey of nightmarish proportions.

This bold, divisive and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) is one of the most unique films you will see all year.

Book now:
The Light
Showroom

You might also like...

Celluloid Screams

Showroom

Sheffield’s horror film festival returns every October – getting you spooked just in time for Halloween. Come back closer to the time for details of Celluloid Screams 2026.

Abbeydale Picture House

An enchanted princess of a building, the beguiling 1920s Abbeydale Picture House is at last mid-rescue.

Festival of the Mind

A biennial festival of new ideas. Bringing together the city's creative community and its academic minds through exhibitions, talks, screenings, performances and more. Stay tuned for dates and details for the next Festival of the Mind in autumn 2026.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Thu. 30 April 2026

Broomhall Centre, Broomspring Lane, S10 2FD

Join Sheffield Transformed for a film about activists driven by a variety of motivations to destroy fossil fuel infrastructure in West Texas. With a pre-film talk from local activist Alice Swift on efforts to resist fossil fuel extraction projects.