Announcing our 2025-26 Season!
We’re excited to unveil the first half of our brand-new film programme, curated with care to bring you the very best in world cinema. This season, we’re taking you on a cinematic journey across the globe, with standout films from Brazil, France, Belgium, Denmark, and India.
Explore the full lineup here!
Memberships are now open!
Whether you’re joining us for the first time or renewing your membership, you can now sign up. CFS membership remains just £10 for the season, giving you access to all 10 films at the special member price of only £5 per screening.
Already a member?
You will have received a personalised email with all the details and a dedicated link to renew your membership online. Current (2024-25) memberships expire on 31st August and you’ll receive reminder emails before then.
Not currently a member?
We have also emailed all subscribers on our Mailing List with a link to join easily via PayPal, so you can enjoy this season’s fantastic lineup at member prices. You can also join by going to our Membership page and following the instructions there.
Membership and ticketing
A Film Society membership will only cost £10 for the whole season! This allows our members to buy tickets for each film directly from Picturehouse at an exclusive cost of just £5 a time. Non-members are still welcome, but they would have to buy tickets at the full standard Picturehouse price (currently £10 plus any online booking fee). Our arrangement with Picturehouse means that they cover all the venue and film licensing costs and take all ticket revenue.
We administer memberships using an online platform called Membermojo. Memberships for joining or renewal are now open!
Programming our films
We split the season into two parts which allows us to take advantage of obtaining more recent films from World Cinema, which is the focus of our programme. Part 1 covers September to December and Part 2 covers January to April.
We have a Film Programming Group of film society members who meet to discuss and agree on our final shortlist of films. These are then submitted to Picturehouse’s Senior Film Programmer who obtains the necessary screening licenses. For details of last season’s films and an archive going back to 1990, go to our Archive page.
‘”Don’t worry. You’ll make it through. And you’ll have quite the ride on the way“
David Copperfield to his younger self in The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)