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Sunday 26 January 7pm
Admission £6 cash only on door, online tickets for this film £6.13 (includes booking fee)
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ADMISSION PRICE INCREASE
Regretably, due to the increased cost of putting on films and some funding not being available to us this year, we need to raise our admission fee to help cover screening costs.
Admission on door for films will now be £6 (cash only please); online price for future films will also be £6 PLUS booking fee.
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Coming soon, our full programme through to Spring will include screenings at The Civic and Nowhere
Documentaries - Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Climate Emergency stream – Six Inches of Soil, Evil Does Not Exist
ACTION! Films - Last Stop in Yuma County, Old Henry
Plus a great line-up of films at Hepworth Village Hall -The Great Escaper, Anora, Rosalie, Thelma, The Crime is Mine (please note, admission to Hepworth films remains at £5 - pay on door)
Looking forward to welcoming everyone back!
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Dir. Henrik Nagy (France/Iran 2024, 96mins 12A)
Quietly subversive, this sweet, delicate and often funny slice of late romantic life in a highly repressive Iran is tremendously well-acted, with a universal theme of loneliness as a widow seeks love and companionship. Wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN-hEYwqqZg
Admission on door (cash only pls) £6
Online bookings for this film remain at £6.13
The war in Gaza...
Dir. Alexis Bloom (US 2024, 113 mins 15)
Explosive and brilliant documentary on the morally and financially corrupt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using leaked interrogation videos, as he desperately connives to cling on to power.
Environment and Climate Emergency…
Dir. Colin Ramsay (UK 2024, 96mins PG)
Uplifting documentary on British farmers fighting the industrial system of farming, nurturing the soil, benefiting our health and the community. Followed by discussion.
Dir. Baltasar Kormakur (Iceland 2024, 121mins 15)
Superbly filmed, the romantic film of the year spans decades, continents and cultures as a widower embarks on an emotional journey to find his first love.
Documentary of the Year…
Dir. Johan Grimonprez (Belgium,2024, 150 mins 12A)
Terrific, fascinating and superbly constructed account of the build-up to the assassination of the Congo leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961, set to a brilliant pulsating Jazz soundtrack.
ACTION!
Dir. Francis Galluppi (US 2023, 90mins 15)
Smart, darkly funny, tautly constructed twisting neo-noir western-style crime thriller with touches of the Coen Brothers. Bring it on…
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher (Italy 2023, 133mins 15)
Rohrwacher completes her trilogy on the changes in Italian life with an intriguing Fellini-like escapist fantasy about the lost past involving stolen antiquities and bumbling black marketeers led by Josh O’Connor’s great performance as the lovelorn thief. On many best of the year lists.
ACTION!
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli (US 2021, 99mins 15)
Great performance from Tim Blake Nelson in an excellent, atmospheric western as the mysterious widowed farmer who faces a murderous posse.
Cannes Grand Prix Winner
Dir. Payal Kapadia (India 2024 123mins 15)
Dreamlike drama of three nurses in a class-ridden and gentrified Mumbai who find friendship, love and the future can be filled with light in a humanist delight.
Dir. Pascal Plante (Canada 2023, 121mins 18)
Quietly but deeply unsettling thriller of a different kind as a fashionable model fixates on a serial killer court case which leads her down a dark social media rabbit hole.
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