Our Summer Season returns from June to September 2026 at Chester Picturehouse, with this year’s theme celebrating music on film.
Explore the four Summer Season films here!

Our 2025-26 Season has now finished!
We had two halves of the 2025-26 Season – the first half – Autumn/Winter ran from September to December 2025. The second half – Winter/Spring – ran from January to April 2026
Explore the full 2025-26 season lineup here!

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)

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