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Join us for another Classic Film Afternoon!
A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Includes a hot drink and a cake and a cake from our theatre cafe. Food served from 12noon, film starts at 1.00pm.
£6.00 per ticket or £10 for two.
Join us for another Classic Film Afternoon!
A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing – and then tragedy strikes.
Includes a hot drink and a cake and a cake from our theatre cafe. Food served from 12noon, film starts at 1.00pm.
£6.00 per ticket, £10.00 for two.
Experience a night of thrilling adventure – up on the big screen!
The Banff Mountain Film Festival features a brand-new collection of short films filled with extreme journeys, untamed characters and captivating cinematography! Join the world’s top adventure filmmakers and thrill-seekers as they climb, ski, paddle and ride into the wildest corners of the planet!
With free prize giveaways, this is an unmissable event from the world’s most prestigious mountain festival – guaranteed to ignite your passion for adventure, action and travel!
This is a screening of the Blue Film Programme. See www.banff-uk.com for more.
Picture by Antoine Mesnage
Age Guidance: 12A
Join the Stafford Film Festival for a celebration of global cinema in the heart of Stafford.
Experience a unique award ceremony and meet the passionate filmmakers behind the films from around the world, hear their stories, and watch award-winning films.
Don’t miss this once-a-year gathering of storytelling and film discovery.
Andrew Haigh / UK 2024 / 105 min / Cert 12A
This film won 7 awards at the British Independent Film Awards including best film, director and screenplay. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screen writer living a lonely life in a London tower block. He starts to develop a hesitant relationship with Harry (Paul Mescal) another resident of the block. Adam becomes increasingly preoccupied with his early memories and is drawn back to his childhood suburban home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) still appear to be living just as they were 30 years before. The four leads provide tremendous performance in this stylish film. One 5 Star review describes it as ‘an enormously satisfying and affecting experience.’(The Guardian)
Justine Triet / France 2023 / 151m / Cert 15 / Subtitles Sandra Huller stars in this Palme d’Or-winning courtroom thriller directed by Justine Triet. Daniel, a partially sighted 11-year-old, finds his French father dead in the snow outside the family’s isolated chalet where they live with Sandra, a successful German writer and his mother. An inquest into the death can’t rule out foul play, indicting Sandra with Daniel as a key witness. The prosecution concentrates on Sandra’s chosen priorities over her career and the apparent deep-seated unhappiness in their marriage that might make her capable of murder. The film examines the expected role of the wife within marriage and the status of a female migrant in France.
Hirokazu Kore-eda / Japan 2023 / 126 min / Cert 12A / Subtitles
Starting with distressed single mother Saori marching into her son’s school, to berate the staff for what she understands to be bullying and physical abuse, Kore-eda’s follow-up to his award-winning films Broker and Shoplifters delicately brings us to view events from three different perspectives: mother’s, teacher’s and child’s – three differing ‘truths’ that are gradually unravelled and reconsidered, all the while reflected in a beautiful accompanying musical score. ‘One of the best movies my eyes have ever seen. Beautiful, engaging, mind-blowing and inspiring. How it’s filmed, the suspense, everything at first doesn’t make sense just to make the perfect sense at the end. I loved it with every fibre of me’ (Yasmine Idali)
James Hawes / UK 2024 / 110 min / Cert 12A
Many will be familiar with the story of Nicholas Winton who rescued 669 children from the Nazis via the ambitious Kindertransport, with the help of his firebrand mother (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a group of dedicated volunteers. The story does not end there. 50 Years later Winton (Antony Hopkins) is still haunted by the fates of those he was not able to save. An unexpected event helps him to approach making peace with the guilt and grief of his past. ‘With an all-star cast One Life is a powerful reminder of the value of individual acts in defence of human rights’ (ICO).
Celine Song / USA, S Korea 2023 / 105 min / Cert 12
Writer and director Celine Song’s first feature is a veritable tour de force. It tells the tale of two South Korean childhood sweethearts Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung Teo Yoo) who are painfully separated when Nora’s parents move to Toronto. After years apart their lives intertwine again, but by now Nora is in a relationship with Arthur (John Magaro). Song brings us an achingly beautiful love story, but this thoughtful film offers much more; it is an exploration of how people change over distance and time. Beautiful camerawork and a sublimely understated soundtrack complement the subtle portrayal of emotions by all three principals, resulting in a totally absorbing film.
Cristain Mungiu / Romania 2023 / 133 min / Cert 15 / Subtitles
R.N.M is directed by Cristian Mungiu, (famed for 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days which we showed a few years ago to critical acclaim). His latest film explores the live issue of inherent racism between and within many European ethnic communities. Mathias returns to his village in Transylvania from working in Germany where he experienced racism in the workplace. But his very mixed community is not above doling out similar treatment to Sri Lankans brought in to undercut local workers in a local bakery. Simultaneously, his family crises expose the anger within him and his community. As Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian) says the film is ‘is seriously engaged with the dysfunction and unhappiness in Europe that goes unreported and unacknowledged’ .