3rd October 2023 Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Pawo Choyning Dorji 2019 • Bhutan • 110 mins
Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung
Drama/Family • Rating: PG
A Bhutanese teacher sent to a remote, glacial Himalayan village is warmly received but has no resources, not even a blackboard. How does he manage? Shortlisted for an Oscar.
7th November 2023 The Quiet Girl
Colm Bairéad 2022 • Ireland • 95 mins
Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch
Drama • Rating: 12
Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
5th December 2023 Phantom of the Open
Craig Roberts 2021 • UK • 105 mins
Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans
Comedy/Drama/Sport • Rating: 12
A dreamer, optimist and complete golfing novice manages to gain entry to the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualification round. Mark Rylance is perfect for this film based on a true story.
2nd January 2024 Broker
Hirokazu Kore-eda 2022 • Korea • 129 mins
Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona
Drama • Rating: 12
From the director of Shoplifters, a surprisingly tender film relating to the trade in the illegal adoption of babies in South Korea. Ethically complex, it is at once, in an off-beat way, a road movie, family drama and police chase.
6th February 2024 Maudie
Aisling Walsh 2016 • Canada • 111 mins
Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke
Biography/Drama/Romance • Rating: 12
Set in the 1930s, this moving film sees a Nova Scotia woman who is struggling with severe arthritis decide to take work as a housekeeper for a surly fish peddler while she develops her skills as an artist.
5th March 2024 Under the Volcano
Gracie Otto 2021 • US • 96 mins
Sting, Nick Rhodes, Jimmy Buffett
Music/Documentary • Rating: 15
On a remote Caribbean island, under the shadow of an active volcano, George Martin created a state-of-the-art recording studio, and the world’s biggest recording artists made music and myth that defined an era.
2nd April 2024 Hit the Road
WE HAVE HAD TO POSTPONE THIS FILM UNTIL NEXT SEASON.
THE DANISH ANIMATION FLEE WAS SCREENED INSTEAD
7th May 2024 Adrift in Tokyo
(This replaces the previously scheduled film Departures)
Satoshi Miki 2007 • Japan • 100 mins
Joe Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura, Kyôko Koizumi
Comedy drama • Rating: PG
A thug offers to pay a student’s gambling debt if the he accompanies him on a trip across Tokyo. An entertaining road movie, where the unlikely duo walk instead of drive. Marvellous footage of Tokyo, and a smörgåsbord of odd characters and situations along the way.
4th June 2024 Il Postino
Michael Radford 1994 • Italy • 114 mins
Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret
Drama • Rating: U
A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. Winner of three BAFTAs and one Oscar.
2nd July 2024 Rye Lane
Raine Allen-Miller 2023 • UK • 83 mins
David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah
Comedy/Drama/Romance • Rating: 15
Two people reeling from bad breakups connect over an eventful day in South-London. A smart, funny and heartwarming, but never sickly-sentimental, romantic comedy to end our season on a high note.
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