Baltic Cinema: Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam UK 1981English | 35mm transferred to digital video
Baltic Cinema: Time Bandits Sat 20 September | 11:00
£6 Full price / £4 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+
In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon — but the Evil Genius is watching their every move.
Featuring a darkly playful script by Gilliam and his Monty Python cohort Michael Palin (who also appears in the film alongside Sean Connery, Ian Holm and others), Time Bandits is at once a giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire of technology gone awry.
Doors open 10:45 Film starts 11:00
Baltic Cinema
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.
Baltic Cinema has five strands:
Currents presents new work from across the world
Sources expands on our exhibitions
Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners
Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children
News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here
All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. In addition, you can catch free drop-in films in Front Room every week.
Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of
the BFI Film Audience Network.
Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.
Donate to keep Baltic free
As a registered charity, donations to Baltic are crucial as rising costs threaten our ability to
- Keep our exhibitions free entry and accessible to everyone
- Preserve support and opportunities for our communities to thrive
- Maintain our historical and iconic building