The Old Oak

Dir. Ken Loach (UK 2022, 90 mins 15)

A fierce call for compassion and solidarity. Set against a background of Syrian refugees being placed in the village, a landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold on to his pub.

Living

Dir .Oliver Hermanus (UK 2022, 102mins 12)

Bill Nighy delivers a perfect stiff-upper-lipped performance as the humourless and lifeless bureaucrat in 1950s London who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to change.

Screening at FARNLEY TYAS COMMUNITY CINEMA, St Lucius Church

Admission £6  Pay on door for this screening 

Film starts 8pm  

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Dir. Val Guest (UK 1961, 100mins 12)

A reporter discovers that nuclear tests have altered the earth’s orbit which results in earthquakes and fires raging across the globe. This extremely well-done British disaster movie feels entirely of now.

The Edge of the World

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.

This screening is a 'taster' film for our Powell and Pressburger Autumn selection of four further P&P films to be shown on different dates throughout October and November in different venues across the valley.  

The Edge of the World

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.

Utama

Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi (Bolivia 2022, 87mins 12)

On the edge of the desert, an elderly couple barely existing with their goat herd are confronted by climate change in a beautifully told and photographed Sundance winner and entry to the Oscars.

Godland

Dir. Hlynur Palmason (Denmark 2022, 127mins 15)

A young Danish priest with a passion for photography travels to Iceland to build a church but is undone by a world he can’t understand. Beauty and terror reside side by side in this extraordinary film.

The Velvet Queen

Dir. Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier (France 2021, 92mins 12)

The quest to document the exceptionally elusive snow leopard in the Tibetan highlands is stunning and humbling, and to finally see it in this glorious landscape is deeply emotional.

See trailer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11937680/

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji (Bhutan 2019, 110mins 12)

The only Bhutan entry to the Oscars is a sweet-natured and satisfying story full of beautiful moments of an aspiring singer living with his grandmother who dreams of getting a visa to visit Australia.

HEPWORTH FILM NIGHT https://hepworthvillagehall.org.uk/film-night/

Film starts 7.30pm

Admission £5  Pay on door for this screening 

No Bears

Dir. Jafar Panahi (Iran 2022, 106mins 12A)

Before he was imprisoned by the Iranian authorities, the acclaimed director Jafar Panahi managed to shoot in secret this outstanding film within a film about two parallel romances and a film-maker who relocates to a rural village only to face acute ethical dilemmas which build to a devastating finale. One of the best films of the year.

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