Below are the films being shown in 2026-27, and a description of each film.

Wednesday 23rd September 2026

the choral

UK 2025 1hr 53m
Director: Nicholas Hytner

During the first World War the Northern Mill Town of Ramsden is forced to revamp its choral society now that so many male members are away at the front. They choose Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) as leader. A controversial choice since Guthrie has lived and worked in Germany and his love of the German musical masters is undimmed even despite the ongoing war. Choral conflict is imminent!

Wednesday 28th October 2026

H IS FOR HAWK

UK 2025 1hr 59mDirector: Philippa Lowthorpe

Helen MacDonald (Claire Foy) had a special loving relationship with her father photographing and recording a mutual love of wild birds. When her Dad dies it is a great shock to her life. Teaching at Cambridge as a natural science professor is a privileged life but no protection for her inner mental stress. Helen retreats into her own grief but finds eventual solace with the training of her special stubborn pet “Mabel”, her very own wild goshawk. (The free flying photography a special treat for us!).

Wednesday 25^th November 2026

I’m still here

Brazil 2024 2hr 17m
Director: walter salles

A young family life can seem normal – but not if you live under a military dictatorship that treats all imagined opposition as treachery. This small family is torn apart by these faceless threats and then the eventual ‘disappearance‘ of the father. Against these hostile moves the family is held together by the moral strength of the wife/mother played here by the powerful Fernanda torres.

Wednesday 9th December 2026

the ballad of wallis island

UK 2025 1hr 39m
Director: James Griffiths

If you love folk music this is a gem. (It won the Audience Award at Sundance) It’s a very British sort of story where a newly wealthy fan (played by writer Tim Key) wants to set up his own festival honouring the music of his past. Of course nothing goes according to plan - the moral seems to be that life is complicated so making the best of the good times is really important.

Wednesday 6th January 2027

a private life

France 2025 1hr 47m
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski

It’s not often you get to see a major American actor playing important roles in French films - but here we have the American Jodie Foster playing psychoanalyst Lilian Steiner working in France (in fluent French!). When one of her clients is discovered dead, Lilian (Jodie) cannot believe the too-easy report that this woman she knew well could possibly be a suicide so she begins to ask questions. Getting no help from the police, Lilian eventually starts up her own investigation. In French or American Jodie Foster is a very good actor we love to watch.

Wednesday 3rd February 2027

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Norway 2025 2hrs 13m
Director: Joachim Trier

First: You must know this film won the 2026 Oscar as “Best Foreign Film”. Everything that makes a famous film director probably makes a doubtful Dad. Famous director Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgard) long separated from his daughters now plans on casting them in his new family-centred film. The funeral of his wife brings them together in the old family house in Oslo but there are many old wounds that have to be healed. This film has echoes of Ingmar Bergman, but a well-deserved Oscar.

Wednesday 3rd March 2027

MIROIRS No 3

Germany 2025 1hr 26m
Director: Christian Petzold

This film is the opposite of a Hitchcock. Petzold prefers a different sort of mystery full of unresolved questions for the viewer to work out. Laura (Paula Beer) is a Berlin pianist enjoying a drive in the German countryside when a car accident changes everything. For her. For us. How? Why? Sometimes in life things are left incomplete. This is a small masterpiece of everyday life in rural Germany. The French “Cahiers du Cinema” listed this film in their Top Ten of 2025 (most unusual for a German film!)

Wednesday 31st March 2027

NOUVELLE VAGUE

France 2025 1hr 46m
Director: Richard Linklater

As film has grown into a giant money-making business there are frustrated film makers who search for another, freer, way of making movies. This modern film looks way back to 1968 when this now famous French film group broke all the so-called rules and, against all the odds, made movies that were faster, freer, (and cheaper to make! This “New Wave” has aged well with their films still important today.

Wednesday 28th April 2027

the marching band

France 2024 1hr 43m
Director: Emmanuel Courcol

The famous classical conductor Thibault (Benjamin Laverne) discovers that he was adopted as a child and also finds out that he now has leukaemia which means he needs a bone marrow donor urgently. Thibault discovers that he has an elder brother working in a factory in Northern France who would be an ideal donor. Their eventual reunion unites his classical tastes with the Douai marching band to good musical ends - and the bone marrow donor success sparks a fraternal musical journey uniting both their lives.