Below are the films being shown in 2024-2025, and a description of each film.

Full Time

Wednesday September 25th 2024
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France 2021 1hr 28mins
Director: Eric Gravel

Run! Julie! Run! Julie (Laura Calamy) with two young children to support is running all the time: childminder in the morning, run to the train, run to work, run home again.  Julie never seems to have time to find a better paying position than her lowly job as a hotel maid. Then the trains go out on strike…

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Wednesday October 16th 2024
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UK 2022  1hr 55mins 
Director: Sam Mendes

Cinema loves tales about cinema. Even if Hilary (Olivia Coleman) is stuck in a small seaside town, as a Cinema Manager she can still let the drama of cinema lighten her life. Her new assistant (Michael Ward) has his own struggles with adversity – he’s black and it’s England in 1980.

The Old Oak

Wednesday November 13th 2024

UK 2023 1hr 53mins
Director: Ken Loach

Good pubs are full of stories. “The Old Oak” of this story is the last pub standing in an old mining village that now has no mines and no miners. The cheerful, optimistic publican ‘TJ’ (Dave Turner) sees the places at his bar taken up by the new wave of Syrian refugees. There is inevitable conflict between the old and the new until the young Yara with her camera helps both sides understand each other

The Innocent

Wednesday December 11th 2024

France 2022 1hr 40mins
Director: Louis Garrel

Never mind the usual Gold Bullion robbery; only the French would mount a major heist of a truckload of caviar! Starting with an in-prison marriage looks good, but in prison or out, this bunch of misfits plans a major coup, in which every foolproof step goes wrong. Mixing drama with humour, the French have a word for this film which is ‘drôle’.

OFFICIAL SECRETS

Wednesday January 8th 2025
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UK 2019  1hr 52mins 
Director: Gavin Hood

When we saw Bush and Blair strolling together arm in arm at Camp David, most of us didn’t realise they were planning a war. Katherine Gun (Keira Knightley) worked for this government and didn’t like to discover her government was lying to the British people.  In that most terrible dilemma Katherine decides to act. 

Paris Memories

Wednesday February 5th 2025
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France 2022  1hr 45mins
Director: Alice Wincour

To survive a terrorist attack is already a very good miracle, but after three months recovery, Mia (Virginie Efira) cannot remember any part of that terrible experience. Accused of acts that she can’t recall, Mia sets out to discover what actually happened on that awful night when she stopped in that local bistro, just for shelter from the rain.

That they may face the rising sun

Wednesday February 26th 2025

Ireland 2023  1hr 51mins
Director: Pat Collins

After a successful life in London, Joe and Kate Ruttledge (Barry Ward and Anna Bederke) dream of an escape to the rural Ireland they both knew as children. It’s a small, rural, lakeside life  portraying the drama of a first year with all its work and play in all the passing seasons.

Anatomy of a Fall

Wednesday March 19th 2025

France 2023  2hr 30mins
Director: Justine Triet

The man fell from the balcony.  There’s no question about that, but did he simply fall or was he pushed?  Accident or murder? His wife (Sandra Huller) is suspect number one as there is no-one else in sight.  Her (Oscar-worthy!) dog and son are the only witnesses. Her son is half-blind and the dog isn’t talking.

NB Due to the extra length of this film, the first showing will begin earlier than usual at 4:45pm

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Incendies

Wednesday April 9th 2025
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Canada/France  2010  2hr 11mins
Director: Dennis Villeneuve

(Oscar Nominated as Best Foreign Film)
The calm of a good Canadian life is upset by an immigrant mother’s last wish that her adult children should return to their country, which they have never known, to re-establish connections lost in the turmoil of a civil war that seemingly has no end.