Autumn & Winter 2018
The first half of the 2018/9 season has a broad range of films from French drama to an English comedy via a Norwegian fantasy.
31st October 2018:
After the Storm
Washed-up Japanese novelist has an epiphany during a typhoon.
7th November 2018:
Happy End
Dysfunctional French family practice standing on one another’s toes!
14th November 2018:
A Fantastic Woman
A transgender woman living in Chile strives to define her place in the world.
21st November 2018:
Loveless
Wildly unhappy Russian couple drive their son to extreme measures.
28th November 2018:
The Square
Curator of Stockholm art gallery develops inverse Midas touch.
5th December 2018:
Thelma
A Norwegian thriller, a horror film and a coming of age story all rolled into one.
19th December 2018:
Funny Cow
A comedienne builds her reputation on the northern club circuit.
Winter and Spring 2019
The second part of the season starts with a great French film and proceeds through dramas from Indonesia China and many other countries to the death of the Sun King.
9th January 2019:
Redoubtable
The legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard in the Paris of 1968.
9th January at 8.30pm:
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard’s first film broke all the rules and was an instant success.
16th January 2019:
The Road to Mandalay
Two Burmese kids head for the city in search of a better life.
23rd January 2019:
Glory
A rail worker hands in cash found on the track, only to fall victim to bureaucracy.
30th January 2019:
Let the Sunshine in
Middle-aged Parisian divorced woman
seeks new love.
6th February 2019:
Marlina, the Murderer
A well-crafted ‘western style’ revenge tale set in the vast plains of eastern Indonesia.
13th February 2019:
Marjorie Prime
An old woman has the story of her life retold to her by a holographic image of her dead husband.
20th February 2019:
120 BPM
Gay activists poke the French government and ‘Big Pharma’ into doing something about HIV/AIDS.
27th February 2019:
Mountains May Depart
The story of a woman’s life is suggested by events she experienced at three different times.
6th March 2019:
Clash
Totally inside a police truck, protesters from various backgrounds have to co-exist amid turmoil in Egypt.
13th March 2019:
Félicité
A singer is in a great rush to raise money for her son’s treatment by chasing up loans and favours.
20th March:
Lost in Paris
A Canadian backpacker comes to Paris in search of her aunt and gets into a series of comic scrapes.
20th March at 8.15pm:
I got Life!
Aurore meets an old flame and gets a new lease of life at fifty.
27th Mar:
In Between
The adventures of three young Arab women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv.
3rd April:
A Gentle Creature
A gentle woman on a pilgrimage through the worst of Soviet Russia
10th April:
A Woman’s Life
Maupassant’s tale of the experience of a young woman in 19th century France.
17th April:
I am not a witch
Spilling a bucket of water has unimaginable consequences for a Zambian girl.
1st May:
Hotel Salvation
A son takes his father to the holy city of Varanasi so that he can die and attain salvation.
8th May:
The Shepherd
A reclusive herdsman comes under pressure from neighbours to sell his land to developers.
15th May:
Western
In the frontier lands of Eastern Europe, a German construction worker’s mixing with local villagers raises issues of pride, prejudice and masculinity.
22nd May:
The Death of Louis XIV
The Sun King, a supposed god, meets mortality.
22nd May at 8.35pm:
The 400 Blows
A Truffaut classic in which a young teenager drifts into crime and solitude.
24th October 2018:
The Midwife
Unexpected news makes a midwife’s life even more complicated.