2022/23 Film Programme

The Duke
16th September
Roger Michell • 2020
95 mins • 12
British comedy drama depicting the infamously true story of how Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National Gallery and held to ransom.

Lad: A Yorkshire Story
30th September
Dan Hartley • 2013
96 mins • 12A
Following the death of his father, a teenage boy forms a friendship with a park ranger in the Yorkshire Dales after a brush with the law.

Luzzu
14th October
Alex Camilleri • 2021 • Subtitles
94 mins • 15
A man risks everything to provide for his wife and new-born son by entering Malta’s black- market fishing industry.

King Richard
4th November
Reinaldo Marcus Green • 2021
122 mins • 12A
Coming from an unprivileged background, Venus and Serena Williams rise to the top and dominate the world of women’s tennis with the help of their ever supporting father, Richard.

Limbo
18th November
Ben Sharrock • 2020
104 mins • PG
A young Syrian musician and other refugees await the answers to their requests for asylum on a remote Scottish island.

Petite Manan
2nd December
Céline Sciamma • 2021 • Subtitles
73 mins • U
Nelly, an 8-year-old girl, has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her home. One day her mum abruptly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl in the woods…

Phantom of the Open
16th December
Craig Roberts • 2021
106 mins • 12A
A heartwarming story of Maurice (Mark Rylance) entering the 1967 Golf Open against all the odds (and never having played a round before!).

Belfast
6th January
Kenneth Branagh • 2021
99 mins • 12
A semi-biographical film which chronicles the life of a working-class family and their young son’s childhood during the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.

Everything Went Fine
20th January
François Ozon • 2021 • Subtitles
113 mins • 15
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuella rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuella to help him end his life. But how can you when it’s your own father?

Operation Mincemeat
3rd February
John Madden • 2021
128 mins • 12A
Starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen; during WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

Quartet
17th February
Dustin Hoffman • 2012
98 mins • 12A
In Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, the residents of a retirement home for professional musicians prepare for their annual concert. However, the arrival of diva-like Jean throws a spanner in the works.

Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom
3rd March
Pawo Choyning Dorji • 2019
110 mins • PG
A young man with a dream of moving to Australia finds himself teaching a classroom of eager children — and a yak — in a remote Bhutanese village.

Misbehaviour
17th March
Philippa Lowthorpe • 2020
106 mins • 12A
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.

Romantic Road
31st March
Oliver McGarvey • 2017
82 mins • 12A
Life is never a straight road, as leading London lawyer Rupert Grey and his wife show, driving across India in a battered 1936 Rolls Royce to a human rights festival in Bangladesh.