YULI Monday 9th December (Screening 8.00pm. Doors 7.30pm) Yuli” tells the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta (who plays himself), from his beginnings in a poor neighbourhood of Havana until becoming the star of one of the biggest ballet companies in the world. Yuli (Carlos’s nickname) is a gifted boy who doesn’t want…
CAPERNAUM Monday 25th November (Screening 8.00pm. Doors 7.30pm) Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. CAPERNAUM follows Zain, a gutsy streetwise child as he flees…
WOMAN AT WAR Monday 11th November (Screening 8.00pm. Doors 7.30pm) Halla is a 50-year-old environmental activist who crusades against the local aluminium industry in Iceland to which she declares a one-woman-war against. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
FOXTROT Monday 21st October (Screening 8.00pm. Doors 7.30pm) A troubled family face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post. The father’s world quickly spins out of control as fate intervenes in unexpected ways when they discover that their grim news may have been a case of mistaken identity.
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME Monday 16th September (Screening 8.00pm. Doors 7.30pm) When bestselling celebrity biographer, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend, Jack. Desperate for money, she…
CINEMA PARADISO Monday 26th August (Screening 8.00pm. Doors 7.30pm) Salvatore discovers the perfect escape from life in war-torn Sicily: the Cinema Paradiso, where the projectionist (Alfredo) instills in the boy named Salvatore, who lives in a small Italian village, overjoyed when the local movie projectionist (Philippe Noiret) reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking, beginning…
