Our 2024-25 Season has now come to an end!
Details of our 2025-26 Season will be announced shortly – sign up for emails to be kept informed

Thanks to everyone who supported us and came along to our 2024-25 films at the new venue of Chester Picturehouse. We increased our membership to 200 and showed ten films with an average audience of 95, the greatest being 127 for In The Mood For Love.

We split the season into two parts which allowed us to take advantage of obtaining more recent films from World Cinema, which remains the focus of our programme. 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.

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. We expect to open up memberships for joining or renewal in early August!

‘I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring,’

David Bowie, 1997.

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