THE JONSSON GANG
Monday September 5 10am; 6:30pm Director: Tomas Alfredson Comedy/Crime Sweden (English Subtitles) 122 minutes Award-winning director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) goes back to his comedy roots in remaking this iconic Scandinavian comedy series about the formidable Olsen Banden, a gang of harmless robbers. Their leader is criminal genius and habitual offender Egon Olsen, […]
COMPARTMENT N0. 6
Wednesday August 24 10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7.30pm Director – Juho Kuosmanen Drama Romance Finland (English subtitles) 107 minutes Cannes Film Festival winner and ‘one of the best films of this year’ (Vulture), Compartment No. 6 is an unconventional love story takes place as two strangers share a Russian train journey through the Arctic Circle. A […]
BENEDICTION
Monday August 15 10am; 6:30pm Director – Terence Davies Documentary UK/US 137 minutes Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden). The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated […]
UNDINE
Wednesday August 10 10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm Director Christian Petzold Drama Romance Germany (English subtitles) 90 minutes “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you,” Undine tells Johannes who has beckoned her to their usual café, across the street from the Berlin City Museum, where she works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban […]
SWAN SONG
Wednesday 27 July 10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm Director: Todd Stephens Drama/Comedy US 105 minutes Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client’s dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Soon, Pat embarks on an […]
WRITING WITH FIRE
Monday 18 July 10am, 6:30pm Directors: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas Documentary India (subtitled) 94 minutes In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues or within the confines […]
NOBODY HAS TO KNOW
Wednesday 13 July 10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm Director: Bouli Manners Drama Romance Scotland 99 minutes Memories tell us the story of who we are. If those memories vanish, whose stories will take their place? Phil (Bouli Lanners), a middle-aged farmhand working on a remote Scottish island, suffers amnesia following a stroke. A lonely local woman, […]
WHEN POMEGRANATES HOWL
Wednesday 22 June 10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm Director Granaz Moussavi Drama Afghan/Australia 80 minutes Based on real events, the film tells the story of Hewd, a nine year old boy who lives on the streets in Kabul. Following the loss of both his father and brother he decides to create a business by working as […]
NOWHERE SPECIAL
Monday 13 June 10am, 6:30pm Director Uberto Pasolini United Kingdom Drama 96 minutes John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a […]
THE GOOD BOSS
Wednesday 8 June 10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm Director Fernando Leon de Aranoa Drama Spain (subtitles) 120 minutes A piercingly clever satire from Spain, featuring Academy Award winner Javier Bardem. Blanco (Bardem), the charismatic owner of a family-run scale factory, is under pressure as he covets a local award for business excellence. Everything needs to be perfect! […]