Prabha’s daily routine is disrupted when she receives an unexpected gift from an unknown sender. Set in modern Mumbai, this compelling tale follows the lives and loves of three women who work in the same hospital and their unlikely, but ultimately life changing friendship. It received an eight minute standing ovation at Cannes 2024.
My Favourite Cake
A film the Iranian authorities tried to suppress. A late in life romantic encounter recalls choices denied younger women in contemporary Iran; the freedom to dress, dance and drink with whom you choose. The restrictions imposed by a strict Islamic theocracy are cleverly exposed.
Playground
A brutal and insightful drama exploring loyalty, power and betrayal among young schoolchildren, and how changing allegiances affect them. An accomplished debut feature from Belgian director Laura Wendel with some excellent cinematography including hand-held camerawork at the children’s eye level, and some brilliant naturalistic acting from the young cast.
Short Films
A selection of Oscar and BAFTA winning films including famous actors and film-makers spanning 84 years. There is a mix of ten short films covering a variety of genres: animated, live action, musical, horror, magic, romance, conflict, surreal, drama and comedy.
Do The Right Thing
It’s a hot summer’s day in a run-down Brooklyn neighbourhood and simmering racial tensions threaten to build up into violence on the streets. This cinema classic by an acclaimed black US filmmaker, remains as relevant and controversial today as it did on its release 36 years ago.
I’m Still Here
This Oscar winner follows a comfortable family enjoying the idyll of a beachfront lifestyle in Rio whose life is overturned by sinister state agents. The mother shields her five children from the truth of their father’s disappearance. Based on a true story.
Small Things Like These
It’s Christmas 1985 in a small Irish town. A coal merchant, father of girls and the son of a single mother is confronted by the local convent’s ill-treatment of unmarried mothers. It’s a moral dilemma that tortures his soul in the light of the town’s complicity. A thought -provoking drama.
Radical
An uplifting Sundance Festival award-winning film set in a Mexican school in a border town overwhelmed by corruption, neglect and violence. Staff and students lack basic educational resources and are poorly motivated until the arrival of a dynamic new teacher who is determined to turn things around.
The Zone Of Interest
A model German family enjoys a comfortable lifestyle in a spacious house with a large garden. But this is no ordinary family. Rudolf is Camp Commandant at Auschwitz which lies just outside the garden walls. The notion of ‘the banality of evil’ is thoughtfully explored in this multi-award-winning film.
This Crime Is Mine
Adapted from a French stage play, a young actress in 1935 Paris is acquitted of murdering a famous French producer. Is she really innocent, or has she got away with murder ?. This light-hearted crime farce is a mix of murder, romance, blackmail and history.