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Winter 2025

Thelma

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03
Dec

Showing: 5th January 2025

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin on movies like Mission Impossible, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero.

Year: 2024
Director: Josh Margolin
Cast: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree
Language: English
Duration: 98 Minutes
Cert: PG-13

Winter 2025

Didi

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03
Dec

Showing: 19th January 2025

This is a semi autobiographical American coming-of-age comedy.
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Year: 2024
Director: Sean Wang
Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen
Language: English
Duration: 94 Minutes
Cert: R

Winter 2025

Io Capitano

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03
Dec

Showing: 2nd February 2025

This film is part adventure story, part slavery drama. Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However between their dreams of escape to the fabled land of the EU and the brutal reality of this journey, there lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
An epic journey of incredible strength in which the boys are swept along by power and inequality, but as Garrone shows, that their humanity and compassion remain buoyant.

Year: 2023
Director: Matteo Garrone
Cast: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha FallIssaka Sawadogo
Language: English
Duration: 121 Minutes
Cert: 15

Winter 2025

What Happened to Miss Simone

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03
Dec

Showing: 16th February 2025

A biographical documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone; an American singer, classically trained pianist and civil rights activist labeled the “High Priestess of Soul.” ‘Director Liz Garbus does a beautiful job of packing a complex life into the film – from Simone’s childhood as Eunice Waymon in the Jim Crow South through to her later years of self-exile in Liberia and France. ‘ Leigh Kolb, Critic.

Year: 2015
Director: Liz Garbus
Cast: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone, Kelly Roger Nupie
Language: English
Duration: 101 Minutes
Cert: 15

Winter 2025

Four Daughters

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03
Dec

Showing: 2nd March 2025

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. The two older girls were radicalised as teenagers and left their family to join Islamic State in Libya, making headlines around the world.
Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania uses professional actresses along side the remaining family and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. This is a documentary of a real family with dramatic reconstructions, blending the reminiscences of the mother and the two remaining girls (all three are engrossing natural storytellers) with dramatic reconstructions. It is an emotionally wrenching film that takes its subjects to bruising places, but it’s also full of love, optimism and defiant humour.

Year: 2023
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Cast: Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui
Language: Arabic French English
Duration: 107 Minutes
Cert: 15

Winter 2025

My Favourite Cake

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03
Dec

Showing: 16th March 2025

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, played by Lily Farhadpoir in a much admired perfomance. Throwing caution to the wind she challenges accepted social practices, despite the risks, and sets out to shake up her life. One night she meets a man who is destined to change her life. This charming and quietly subversive film wowed audiences at the Berlin Film Festival with it warmth and humour. A touching and funny exploration of love, loss loneliness and old age.

Year: 2024
Director: Maryam Moghaddam Behtash Sanaeeha
Cast: Lily Farhadpoir, Ehmail Mehrabi
Language: Iranian with EnglishSubtitles
Duration: 97 Minutes
Cert: 12A

Winter 2025

All We Imagine As Light

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03
Dec

Showing: 6th April 2025

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her feature debut, described by the Guardian as a glorious film. All We Imagine as Light is the story of three nurses in modern-day Mumbai who have come to the big city from smaller home towns. It is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

Year: 2024
Director: Payal Kapadia
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
Language: Malayalam, Hindi
Duration: 118 Minutes
Cert: 15

Autumn Season 2024

Wicked Little Letters

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14
Aug

Showing: 15th September 2024

When people in Littlehampton — including conservative local, Edith–begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, the rowdy, Irish migrant, Rose, is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town’s women investigate. Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story.

Year: 2023
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Jessie Buckley Olivia Colman Timothy Spall Anjana Vasan, Thea Sharrock
Language: English
Duration: 100 Minutes
Cert: 15

Autumn Season 2024

Next Goal Wins

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14
Aug

Showing: 29th September 2024

Story of the American Samoa soccer team, who suffered the worst loss in World Cup history, losing to Australia 31-0 in 2001. With the 2014 World Cup approaching, the team recruits a down on his luck, maverick coach (Fassbender) to help turn their fate around.

Year: 2023
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender Oscar Kightley Kaimana
Language: English
Duration: 104 Minutes
Cert: PG-13

Autumn Season 2024

Anatomy of a Fall

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14
Aug

Showing: 20th October 2024

When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed.
The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s complicated marriage.

Year: 2023
Director: Justine Triet
Cast: Sandra Hüller,Swann Arlaud,Milo Machado-Graner
Language: French, English
Duration: 151 Minutes
Cert: 15