Holmfirth Film Festival

Dir. Manuela Martelli (Chile 2023, 95mins 15)

A middle-class wife is asked by her family priest to look after a young man he has been sheltering. This first time director delivers a wonderfully cool, original and stylish paranoid thriller set in Pinochet’s Chilean police state.

Dir. Alon Schwarz (Israel 2022, 94mins 15)

Stunning documentary investigation of the long-lasting cover-up of the controversial events surrounding the massacre of Palestinian villagers of Tantura in the summer of 1948 by the Israeli Defence Force during the War of Independence or what Palestinians call Nakba.

 Dir. Cristian Mungiu (Romania 2023, 125mins 15)

Another great film from this Romanian director about custom and tradition in a small town clashing with modern life as a new bakery brings in two EU migrant workers. The parallels with Brexit are obvious in what is a powerful and gripping film.

Dir. Celine Song (Korea 2023, 120mins 15)

Nominated for numerous awards, this is the critics' and audiences' top romantic film of the year. Childhood sweethearts in South Korea are parted but reunite years later in North America. How will it go when one of them is married?

Dir. Steven Spielberg (US 2022, 151 mins, 12A)

Spielberg's glowing semi-autobiographical story of growing up in post-WW2 America with aspirations to become a film-maker whilst discovering a shattering family secret.

Screening at FARNLEY TYAS COMMUNITY CINEMA, St Lucius Church

Admission £6  Pay on door for this screening 

Film starts 8pm  

The Edge of the World Friday 20 October 7.30  Choppards Mission

Dir. Michael Powell (UK 1937, 75mins U)

Powell’s first serious film is a jewel and displays his visual flair with the magnificent scenery of the Hebridean island where the skipper of a yacht lands with tourists and is confronted by past memories of long-gone island-life and the coming modernity. A story of love and rivalry at its most compelling. A free taster prior to our November weekend of Powell + Pressburger 

(UK 1945, 91mins 12)

An Englishwoman travels to the Hebrides to marry an older, wealthier fiancé but the weather keeps them islands apart. Haunting, romantic and witty, this is for many their favourite P&P film.

(UK 1947, 101mins PG)

Dazzling, provocative and richly coloured by Jack Cardiff’s Oscar-winning photography this psycho-sexual melodrama staring Deborah Kerr is Powell & Pressburger at the height of their creative powers.

Admission £5 - or see separate entry for Special £10 Ticket (admission to all four Powell and Pressburger films screening Autumn 2023)

(UK 1949, 107mins PG)

Based on Nigel Balchin’s 1943 novel, a troubled research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert struggles with trauma, alcoholism and complex problems in a powerful and wonderful gem deftly mixing suspense and romance

Admission £5 - or see separate entry for Special £10 Ticket (admission to all four Powell and Pressburger films screening Autumn 2023)

(UK 1944, 119mins U)

Set against the backdrop of the war, this vision of an England with its spiritual roots in the countryside, this film is now considered one of the best British of the period.

Admission £5 - or see separate entry for Special £10 Ticket (admission to all four Powell and Pressburger films screening Autumn 2023)