Rebuilding

Dir: Max Walker-Silverman
USA 2025 | 96 minutes | Cert PG
English

After wildfires take his ranch, cowboy Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others, including his daughter and ex-wife.

“Filmed against the rapturous backdrop of southern Colorado, Rebuilding is a ruminative, moving portrait of resilience and human connection in the wake of loss.” – Rotten Tomatoes

The Last Viking

Dir: Anders Thomas Jensen
Denmark 2025 | 116 minutes | Cert 15
Danish with English subtitles

A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother's memory to recover stolen loot.

**** “Warmth, empathy and severed fingers in the same film? Scandi noir is back” — Phil de Semlyen, Time Out

Film Club Extra: A Matter of Life and Death

Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
UK 1946 | 104 minutes | Cert PG
English

This season we are delighted to be able to screen a bonus 11th film:

Following our showing of ‘Made in England - The films of Powell and Pressburger’ in Season 13 we present one of their most famous and best-loved films, on the 80th anniversary of its release.

An apparently doomed British airman, about to bail out over the ocean without a parachute, shares what he believes to be his final moments with a radio operator. Miraculously he survives, they meet, and fall in love.

A problem arises when a messenger from the Other World arrives to correct an oversight and balance the books.

The Secret Agent

Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil 2025 | 161 minutes | Cert 15
Portuguese with English subtitles

Amid the social and political turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert attempting to flee his past is forced to live in hiding under the protection of an underground resistance.

This stylish and thought-provoking thriller was showered with awards and nominations, winning both Best Actor and Best Director at Cannes 2025.

***** “This Brazilian Oscar contender has the best acting you will see this year” — Patrick Smith, The Independent

DJ Ahmet

Dir: Georgi M Unkovski
North Macedonia 2025 | 99 minutes | Cert PG
Turkish / Macedonian / English with English Subtitles

15-year Ahmet is a shepherd living in a conservative Yuruk Village in North Macedonia. He takes solace in music, and falls in love with a girl already promised to another.

This heart-warming coming-of-age film won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2025 Sundance Festival.

“totally charming” – Cath Clarke, Guardian

HEN

Dir: György Pálfi
Hungary/Greece 2025 | 98 minutes | Cert 15
Greek with English Subtitles

A leghorn chicken escapes from an industrial farm and settles in the chicken coop of a family linked to a human trafficking ring.

Made without CGI, the film features 8 different chicken ‘actors’ in the lead role and promises that no animals were harmed in its making.

“... witty chicken odyssey [that] blends animal adventure and politics” – Sight and Sound Magazine

Cotton Queen

Dir: Suzannah Mirghani
Sudan 2025 | 95 minutes | Cert TBC
Arabic with English Subtitles

Young Nafisa lives in a cotton farming community in Sudan, where she hears stories from her grandmother of battling British colonizers. Then a businessman arrives planning to grow genetically-modified cotton.

One of only 3 feature films from Sudan on international release, this film was made in Egypt due to the ongoing civil war in Sudan. It won the Golden Alexander for Best Film at the 2025 Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

“The vivid sunsets and sun-kissed fields lend a timeless quality to the story” – Screen Daily

Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat

Dir: Johan Grimonprez
Belgium 2024 | 150 minutes | Cert 12 / 12A
French / English / Russian with English Subtitles

This acclaimed documentary combines contemporary film clips with jazz of the period to detail the intersection between geopolitics and neo-colonization leading to the assassination of the Republic of Congo’s first elected president, Patrice Lumumba.

Awarded the Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation in the World Documentary Competition, Sundance Film Festival 2024 and nominated for the best documentary feature at the 97th Academy awards.

“... plays like a syncopated thriller” – Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter

Time Still Turns the Pages

Dir: Nick Cheuk
Hong Kong 2023 | 95 minutes | Cert 15
Cantonese with English Subtitles

A secondary school teacher confronts his own childhood trauma while trying to help a troubled student. 

This powerful and moving drama was written as a response to a spate of student suicides in Hong Kong in the 2010s and won Best Director at the 17th Asian Film Awards.

“a profound and perceptive drama” – Phuong Le, The Guardian

Kokuho

Dir: Sang-il Lee
Japan 2025 | 175 minutes | Cert 15
Japanese with English Subtitles

A Japanese historical epic spanning 50 years, and the highest ever grossing live-action Japanese film.

Upon the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is entrusted to a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the latter’s only son, he decides to devote himself to this traditional theatre.

“a wonderful demystification of a mysterious art form” – David Hughes, Time Out

The Stranger

Dir: François Ozon
France 2025 | 122 minutes | Cert 15
French with English Subtitles

The latest cinematic adaptation of Albert Camus’ novella ‘The Stranger’, directed by celebrated French film director François Ozon.

Set in Algiers in the 1940s, the story follows a diffident Frenchman (Benjamin Voisin) who kills an Arab man shortly after his mother’s funeral.

Shot in glorious black and white, the film garnered Best Film, Best Actor (Voisin) and Best Cinematography at the 2026 Lumière Awards.

“***** lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian