Union Films
Union Films is your student-run cinema, right at the heart of Highfield Campus. Located in the Union, we're completely run by volunteers; from the front of house staff who sell tickets and refreshments, to the projectionists who show the films on our 35mm and digital projectors. You can help out as much or as little as you like, and when you do, you get to see films for free!
The Committee
All clubs and societies within the Students' Union are run entirely by students. The student committee for Union Films this year are:
Cinema Manager
- Organises the running of Union Films
Front of House Manager
- In charge of what the customers see on a typical screening.
Logistics Officer
- Responsibilities Include: Making sure refreshments are fully stocked, including placing orders on a weekly basis Being the main point of contact with bars and raising any issues which may come up. Ensuring prices on the tills are current and that bars are aware of our screenings. Knowing everything and anything about the financial situation of Union Films, including the current balance and all spending and income Obtaining and keeping receipts or records for all transactions, if applicable. Offering guidance to the rest of the committee in terms of budgeting Establishing contact with the SUSU Finance team when required Keeping track of audience takings
Communications Manager
Deputy Head Projectionist
- Assist the Head Projectionist and maintain advert packs, trailers and screen ads.
Design Officer
Design Officer
Head Projectionist
- In charge of projection and all projectionists.
Marketing Officer
- Manages social media and distribution.
Programme Officer
- Helps select the lineup and run Audience Choice.
Publicity Manager
- Takes care of publicity and design.
Web Officer
- Takes care of the website.
Membership Information
These are the current membership fees offered by Union Films, although many clubs and societies offer a free period for new members to try out their activities.
| Name | Cost | Valid Period | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Films 26/27 | FREE | 15/08/2026 - 31/05/2027 | Welcome to Union Films! We are a student-run cinema where like-minded individuals can meet and volunteer. We collaborate with a film club, Phoenix Films, on Wednesdays, where they showcase the best of world cinema and on Sundays, we project films which our line-up officer has picked out for students to watch! With each film you volunteer for, you get a free refreshment, and you’ll be able to watch the film afterwards. There are three different roles you can be picked for: Box Office, Door or Refreshments! Later on in the year, there will be opportunities to learn how to project films on our digital projector. We also plan to have socials, some drinking and non-drinking. For example, we host an annual potluck for Christmas, and there is much more to look forward to! |
Products
Available products to purchase for Union Films
Union Films: Tokyo Godfathers (2003) - Free!
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Union Films: The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
Union Films: The Social Network (2010) - Free!
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
Union Films: The Secret Agent (2025) - Phoenix Films
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Union Films: The President's Cake (2026) - Phoenix Films
While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients for the mandatory cake or face the consequences.
Union Films: The Last Viking (2025) - Phoenix Films
After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.
Union Films: The Hunger Games (2012) - Free!
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which 'Tributes' must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Union Films: Sentimental Value (2025) - Phoenix Films
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
Union Films: Pitch Perfect (2012) - Free!
A comedy set in the middle of a war between rival a cappella groups and centered on a rebellious girl who joins one of the groups as an escape from her unhappy life at school.
Union Films: Obsession (2026) - Free!
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Union Films: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2026) - Free!
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
Union Films: My Father's Shadow (2025) - Phoenix Films
Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
Union Films: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) - Phoenix Films
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family's housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family's idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.
Union Films: Kung Fu Hustle (2004) - Free!
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Union Films: Arrival (2016) - Free!
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Union Films: Alien (1979) - Free!
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Union Films & Sudan Soc: Khartoum (2025) - Fundraiser
Forced to leave Sudan for East Africa following the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum — a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two young bottle collectors — reenact their stories of survival and freedom through dreams, revolution, and civil war.
Union Films - Three Colours: Blue (1993) - Phoenix Films
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Union Films - The Raid: Redemption (2012)
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it.
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Upcoming Events
Check out our upcoming events below:
Sunday 01 Nov
Free Screening: Obsession
The Cube B42
Sunday 01 Nov
Paid Screening: Leviticus
The Cube B42