Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay. Originally “Des hommes et des dieux”, a French film set in 1996 Algeria, where eight French monks have a simple life serving the poor community that was…
Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady’s man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger…
In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process (and life itself) changed when a new teacher comes to the school. Doors open for refreshments at…
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Original title: Darbareye Elly. The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travellers. A gripping mystery set among a group of old friends on a holiday retreat. With the return of their close friend Ahmad…
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside and quickly finds himself at home with his new…
Original title: La fille du puisatier. In 1930s southern France, a father is torn between his sense of honour and his deep love for his daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
The classic black and white film noir, this is the story of private investigator, Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to stop his youngest daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed over her gambling debts. Things almost immediately unravel as Marlowe finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and…
An unforgettable true story chronicling the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965,…
The colourful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination…
Notorious is a 1946 American thriller directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August…
A South Korean drama telling the story of a woman in her sixties who is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease when she is faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime involving her grandson. She finds strength and purpose when she joins a poetry class. Doors open…
Set in 1952 in New York City, the film tells the story of a forbidden love affair between a young aspiring photographer and an older woman going through a difficult divorce. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm. Film Selection night tonight.
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family who offer him a temporary haven. Based on Paddington Bear by Michael Bond. Doors open for refreshments at 7pm.
Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960’s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Two sisters have led a life centred around their father and their church in 19th-century Denmark. They take in a refugee who wants to repay them by cooking a magnificent French meal for the sisters and their friends. It proves to be an eye-opening experience for all of them. Doors…
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950’s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. However, when her past catches up with her, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within both of them. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
A wonderful comedy following how two friends – neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar and fun-loving slob Oscar Madison – try sharing an apartment even though their ideas of housekeeping are as different as day and night. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
A Mexican love story between Pedro and Tita, who couldn’t get married because Tita’s mother wanted her oldest daughter to get married first. Made in the style of magical realism based on the popular novel, published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. A film that shows how love…
A young postal delivery boy, obsessed with an opera diva, makes bootleg tapes of her performances. Evil hoods chase him down, thinking he has a tape that implicates them in a crime. It is one of the first French films to let go of the realist mood of 1970s French…
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the southern states, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The film, considered to be one of the best ever made, received…
In the Spring of 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his home town, Liverpool, to join the fight against fascism in Spain. The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It’s almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
Film Selection night – Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job – for which he needs a bike – hanging up posters. But soon his bicycle is stolen. He and his son walk the streets of Rome, looking for the…
Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together. Doors open 7pm for…
The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
A female Girlie Club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales…
Meek housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) joins her friend Louise (Susan Sarandon), an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
‘Jane Shore’ – the film we are showing on Friday 22 May – is a highly unusual addition to our 2015 programme. We were asked by Laura Rossi (a local film composer) to be part of a national tour to mark the centenary of this film. ‘Jane Shore’ is a…
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon, in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
A Saudi girl enters a Koran recitation competition to raise funds to buy a green bicycle. Audience score: 8.4 (84 votes)
A young man survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into a journey of adventure accompanied by a Bengal tiger. Awards include four Academy Awards – Best Director; Best Cinematography; Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score. Life of Pi also won a Golden Globe for Best Original…
Undercover of a Hollywood scouting mission, a CIA agent attempts to rescue American hostages in Iran. The film won many awards; three Academy awards; three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globes.
A scathing satire of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie stardom. The film won three Academy Awards for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay; Best Art Direction and Best Music.
An innocent girl in Paris decides to help those around her, and along the way discovers love. Nominated for five Academy Awards: foreign film, art director, cinematography, sound and screenplay. In 2001 it won several awards at the European Film Awards. Doors open 7 pm for refreshments.
A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talkies sends their careers in opposite directions. In the awards celebrating the films of 2011, The Artist won 7 awards in the British Academy Film Awards; it was nominated for 6 and won 3 Golden Globes and in…
A comic allegory about a travelling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries. FILM SELECTION NIGHT: please come early to help with selecting the coming season’s films! Doors open at 7pm.
A jubilant musical about the power of home, hearth, family and love with the euphoric music of the Proclaimers.
In Santiago, Gloria, a free-spirited older woman has a whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer. Gloria won the Ariel Award for the Best Latin-American Film
A 19th Century boot maker tries to run the lives of three unruly daughters who rebel on the issue of marriage. Based on a play of the same name by Harold Brighouse Hobson’s Choice won the Best British Film in the 1954 British Academy Film Awards.
A journalist picks up the story of a woman’s search for her son, taken away from her at birth. Based on the book ‘The Lost Child of Philomena Lee’ by Martin Sixsmith. The film and its cast and crew have earned several award nominations, including four Academy Award nominations and…
