Our 2022/2023 Season is shown below. Full details are on the individual calendar pages.
Please note the change of the venue – GARRET THEATRE, at Storyhouse, and also the change of the screening days – THURSDAYS !
Films start at 7.30pm, doors open at 7pm.
15 September 2022
Sound of Metal
USA | 2019 | 120m | Cert 15
Director: Darius Marder
A heavy-metal drummer’s life is turned upside down when he begins to lose his hearing and he must confront a future filled with silence.
22 September 2022
Petite Maman
France | 2021 | 73m | Cert U
Director: Céline Sciamma
The acclaimed French director has created another gem with this magical story of a young girl coming to terms with her grandmother’s death.
This film will be preceded by our AGM.
6 October 2022
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Bosnia| 2020 | 101m | Cert 15
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
Best film, European Film Awards 2021
13 October 2022
Swan Song
USA| 2021 | 105m | Cert 12A
Director: Todd Stephens
Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as a retired hairdresser who escapes his small-town nursing home and embarks on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past after learning of his former client’s dying wish for him to style her final hairdo.
3 November 2022
Lamb
Iceland| 2021 | 106m | Cert 15
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale. “Darkly imaginative and brought to life by a pair of striking central performances, Lamb shears expectations with its singularly wooly chills.”
24 November 2022
Master Cheng
Finland/China | 2019 | 114m | Cert PG
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Following the death of his wife, professional chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote village in Finland to connect with an old Finnish friend he once met in Shanghai.
1 December 2022
Belle
Japan | 2021 | 121m | Cert 12A
Animation
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
A shy high school student living in a rural village enters a massive virtual world, into which she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer. This Japanese anime is inspired by the 1756 French fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
12 January 2023
Nae Pasaran!
Chile/UK | 2018 | 96m | Cert 12A
Documentary
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.
26 January 2023
Dear Tenant
Taiwan | 2020 | 106m | Cert 15
Director: Yu-Chieh Cheng
A boy lives with his grandmother and a tenant who looks after them both. But when the grandmother passes away, the boy’s uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
9 February 2023
Here We Are
Israel| 2020 | 94m | Cert 12A
Director: Nir Bergman
A man and his Autistic son live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But now the son is a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialised home. While on their way to the institution, the father decides to run away with his son and hits the road.
16 March 2023
Who You Think I Am
France| 2019 | 101m | Cert 15
Director: Safy Nebbou
A 50-year-old divorced teacher (Juliette Binoche), creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?
30 March 2023
Hope
Norway | 2019 | 125m | Cert 15
Director: Maria Sødahl
A couple with a large blended family has grown apart. When the wife is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, their life breaks down and exposes neglected love.
“A sublime piece of filmmaking”