2025 Season of International Cinema
Click here to view or download a PDF of both the membership form and our film programme.
Watch trailers & read more information about all our screenings, below.
February 19th
COLLECTIVE (Romania/Luxembourg/Germany)
109min 2019 Colour Rated MA Director – Alexander Nanau (subtitles)
Following a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens. Journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, COLLECTIVE is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best.
March 19th
CLOSE (Belgium/Netherlands/France)
104min 2022 Colour Rated PG13 Director – Lukas Dhont (subtitles)
AGM held before this screening.
Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly and tragically torn apart. Lucas Dhont’s second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship, love, identity, independence, heartbreak and healing.
April 16th
THE MAN IN THE HAT (UK)
95min 2020 Colour Rated M Directors – John-Paul Davidson & Stephen Warbeck
A picturesque odyssey across the French countryside, the best Provençal driving holiday you’ve never had. It’s a car chase, technically, but a slow one. The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off?
May 21st
THREE SUMMERS (Brazil/France)
94min 2019 Colour Rated PG Director – Sandra Kogut (subtitles)
Over the course of three consecutive summers 2015-17 the film follows Madá, a fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beach-side condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family, as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk. While tending to the every need of her condescending employers, she becomes a bystander in a major money-laundering scandal, and eventually launches a whole new career.
June 18th
REAR WINDOW (USA)
112min 1954 Colour Rated PG Director – Alfred Hitchcock
When professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, be becomes obsessed with watching the dramas of his neighbours. He suspects that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
July 16th
THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE (Germany/USA)
98min 2023 Colour Rated PG13 Director – Ilker Çatak (subtitles)
Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own.
The more desperately she tries to do everything right, the more the young teacher threatens to break.
August 20th
It MUST BE HEAVEN (Qatar/Germany/France/Canada/Turkey)
102min 2019 Colour Rated M Director – Elia Suleiman
Palestinian comedy. The two words together seem like an oxymoron when so much news coming from that part of the world is anything but funny. But that’s where Elia Suleiman has made his mark in cinema. Many have compared Suleiman’s style to those of Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati and perhaps even Mr. Bean, as the audience sees the world through his alter-ego.
September 17th
CHICAGO (USA/Germany)
113min 2002 Colour Rated PG13 Director – Rob Marshall
Murderesses Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together and Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) who killed her lover when she discovered he wasn’t going to make her a star. They find themselves on death row and share a lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) to fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
October 15th
PERFECT DAYS (Japan/Germany)
124min 2023 Colour Rated PG Directors – Wim Wenders (subtitles)
Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. He follows a structured everyday life and dedicates his free time to his passion for music and books. Hirayama also has a fondness for trees and photographs them. More of his past is gradually revealed through a series of unexpected encounters.
November 19th
LEAVE NO TRACE (USA/Canada)
109min 2018 Colour Rated PG Director – Debra Granik
Will (Ben Foster), a military veteran father with post-traumatic stress disorder and his young daughter Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives and both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland.
December 10th
THE PARTY (UK)
71min 2017 Colour Rated R Director – Sally Potter
Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas), a politician, hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything will be going down as smoothly as the red wine. Great cast that also includes Patricia Clarkson & Timothy Spall.
CHRISTMAS PARTY TONIGHT!
(Note: December screening a week earlier than usual – 2nd instead of 3rd Wednesday).