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FLOW - MON 29th SEPT 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2025
Country: Latvia
Cert (UK): U
Runtime: 1 hr 25 mins
Genre: Animated eco-fable
Language: Animals’ own voices
Original Title: Straume
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
This award-winning animation depicts a silent, post-apocalyptic world where humans have vanished. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, it finds refuge on a boat along with a capybara, a secretary bird, a dog and a lemur. The fable unfolds in the animals’ natural voices as the unlikely group must learn to cooperate and overcome their differences to survive, as they drift through flooded landscapes, avoiding the constant threat of predators.
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I'M STILL HERE - MON 13th OCT 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Political drama
Language: Portuguese
Original Title: Ainda Estou Aqui
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello
I’m Still Here is a gripping and powerful true story of human resilience and political injustice. It documents the life of Eunice Paiva, following the 1971 arrest and disappearance of her husband, congressman Rubens Paiva, by Brazil's military dictatorship. As the dictatorship's arbitrary violence shatters her family, the film follows Eunice's relentless, decades-long search for the truth behind her husband's disappearance. Her steadfast determination becomes the story's focus, as she endures torture and years of searching while navigating the brutality of the regime to protect her children.
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THE TASTING - MON 27th OCT 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2022
Country: France
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Language: French
Original Title: La dégustation
Director: Ivan Calbérac
Cast: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campon, Mounir Amamra
Hortense, a kind-hearted midwife in her forties, longs for a family of her own, while living with her demanding mother. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Jacques, a grumpy, newly divorced wine merchant who has had to give up alcohol for his health. Keen to see him again, she signs up for his wine-tasting workshop, and an unlikely connection blossoms. As their relationship deepens, the emotional scars they both carry threaten to spoil their chance at happiness.
This heartwarming romantic comedy is set in the stunning medieval town of Troyes. Get lost in its Gallic charm, from the picturesque half-timbered houses and grand Gothic cathedrals to the quaint canals and cobbled streets.
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ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS - MON 10th NOV 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
In 1990s rural China, police chief Ma Zhe investigates a series of brutal riverside murders. A mentally disabled suspect is quickly arrested, but Zhe remains unconvinced of the suspect’s guilt, pushing deeper into the town's unsettling secrets. As more bizarre clues emerge, the pressure from his superiors and anxieties about his pregnant wife cause his grasp on reality to unravel. The investigation transforms from a standard noir procedural into a surreal and hallucinatory descent into paranoia, leaving the truth obscured.
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Production year: 2023
Country: China
Cert (UK):15
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Crime Thriller
Language: Chinese
Original Title: 河边的错误 | Hébiān de cuòwù
Director: Wei Shujun
Cast: Yilong Zhu, Chloe Mayaan, Tianlai Hou
THE SNOW LEOPARD - MON 24th NOV 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2023
Country: Tibet/China
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Drama
Language: Tibetan
Original Title: གངས་གཟིག (Gangs gzig)
Director: Pema Tseden
Cast: Jinpa, Dylan Xiong, Tseten Tashi
DVD: Troy
In the stunning Tibetan Plateau, a herder traps a snow leopard that killed nine of his rams. A fierce conflict erupts between him and his brother, a monk, over the protected animal's fate. The herder demands to kill the leopard or win compensation from the government to release it. His brother and father, who view the leopard as a “spirit of the mountain”, plead for the its life. The arrival of a local television crew and the Chinese authorities further complicates the emotional conflict over tradition, modernity, and coexistence.The elusive snow leopard is brought to life with beautiful animated sequences that have a dreamlike quality.
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THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG - MON 8th DEC 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Newly appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran, Iman soon learns that his role isn't to seek justice but to approve the harsh verdicts of his superiors, including handing down death sentences without reviewing the evidence. As public unrest swells and his own gun goes missing, his paranoia intensifies. He turns his brutal interrogation methods on own his wife and daughters, becoming the very tyrant he’s meant to oppose.
Filmed secretly and smuggled out of Iran, this is a tense, powerful condemnation of a tyrannical regime. Shortly before the film was set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Rasoulof was sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, and a fine for "collusion with the intention of committing a crime against national security." In order to avoid this sentence, he was forced to flee Iran on foot, leaving his home and family behind.
Production year: 2024
Country: Iran
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins
Genre: Political thriller
Language: Persian
Original Title: Dane-ye anjir-e ma'abed
Director: Mohammed Rasoulof
Cast: Soheila Golestani, Missagh Zoreh, Setareh Maleki