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MY FAVOURITE CAKE - MON 3rd FEB 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2024
Country: Iran
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Romantic Drama
Language: Persian
Original Title: Keyke mahboobe man
Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Cast:Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoore Ilkhani
An Iranian widow, Mahin, lives alone since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, with just FaceTime for contact. Her routine is mundane and her home city, Tehran, has become unrecognisable to her, subjugated by the repressive presence of Iran's military police.
But Mahin has not given up on love, and an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine. What begins as an unexpected encounter quickly evolves into an unpredictable, unforgettable evening of music, dance and wine, as she embarks on a relationship with a lonely taxi driver in this heart-warming, yet quietly subversive comedy of late-in-life romance.
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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS - MON 17th FEB 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2022
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Spoof Silent Comedy
Language: No dialogue
Original Title: Hundreds of Beavers
Director: Mike Cheslik
Cast: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Doug Mancheski
In this whacky, silent, black and white spoof comedy, set in the snowy North American wilderness of a hundred years ago, cider worker Jean has his livelihood destroyed when beavers wreck his barrels. So he turns trapper, attempting to capture beavers, rabbits and other creatures all played by adults in furry costumes. He is helped by another tracker and a Native American, but finally encounters a grumpy trader and falls in love with his daughter, but the price of the bride’s hand is…hundreds of beavers!
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THE CRIME IS MINE - MON 3rd MARCH 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
In Jazz Age Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, but talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her lawyer friend Pauline, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defence in a sensational courtroom trial. The case propels her to stardom, but is she really innocent or has she got away with murder? A frothy farce with wonderfully chic period costumes, stylish set designs and a hilarious, scene-stealing role for Isabelle Huppert.
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Production year: 2023
Country: France
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Costume Comedy Crime Courtroom
Language: French
Original Title: Mon Crime
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
PERFECT DAYS - MON 17th MARCH 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life, driving across the city making his rounds. He follows a structured daily routine and dedicates his free time to his passion for rock music and books. Every day he has his lunch beside a shrine in the shade of the trees he loves to photograph. When his niece comes to visit, we gain an insight into his past life, but we conclude that beauty and happiness can be found in our everyday life, if only one is willing to look for it.
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Production year: 2023
Country: Japan
Cert (UK): PG
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Drama
Language: Japanese
Original Title: Perfect Days
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
BANEL E ADAMA- MON 31st MARCH 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
Production year: 2023
Country: Senegal
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 27 mins
Genre: Drama
Language: Pulaar/Peul
Original Title: Banel e Adama
Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Cast: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy
In a remote village in Senegal, Banel and Adama are fiercely in love, and for them, nothing else in the world exists; however, their perfect love is at odds with their families' traditions. The lovers carve a life for themselves beyond conventional expectations. Banel is something of a female rights activist for herself: she's ambitious, rebellious, and strong and sees a future beyond motherhood, whilst Adama is perhaps more used to conforming to custom.
In addition, the village is facing a climate crisis with cattle dying in the scorching heat, and food and water scarce. The villagers place their faith in a Muslim prayer, but many place the blame for the worsening situation on the troublesome woman, Benal. This haunting, poetic fable is wonderfully photographed and powerfully acted. The film brings up a lot of modern topical issues regardless of the fact that the village community is firmly rooted in old times.
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ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT -MON 14th APRIL 2025, 2.30 & 7.30pm
This beautiful, emotional film explores female friendship and captures Mumbai's frantic, vibrant atmosphere. Nurse Prabha receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband, whilst rebellious Anu carries on a secret romance and widowed Parvaty must deal with eviction from her apartment. When they share a trip to a peaceful coastal village, they find a space to explore their dreams.
Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it was awarded the Grand Prix.
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Production year: 2024
Country: India
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Drama
Language: Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi
Original Title: All We imagine as light
Director: Payal Kapadia
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam