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this summer
The 2017/8 season has now finished and our next season will start on Wednesday 24th October. Click here for provisional details of the next season.
Over the summer we will providing information concerning the next season and will be profiling members' choices of the best and worst films of the season just finished. More details are available on the Announcements page.
The Open Film Society is a non-profit film organisation, offering some of the best alternative cinema in Milton Keynes. Housed at the Open University, the Society has excellent facilities.
Films screened are all in Blu-ray or DVD format, and are shown Wednesday evenings at 6.30 pm unless otherwise stated.
Peter Twomey's choice
My six favourites and the one I liked least, American Honey.
20th December:
The Other Side Of Hope
A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
21st February :
American Honey
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying
28th March :
Aquarius
Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil
25th April:
The Unknown Girl
A woman gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
2nd May:
The Olive Tree
A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree starting a travel with unexpected consequences for everyone
9th May:
Les Cowboys
When his daughter goes missing from their prairie town east of France, Alain and his young son, Kid, head out to find her.
9th May:
The Searchers
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches. A fantastic film!