Films for this season
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The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. This film which is filmed in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational Indigenous visual narrative that deeply impacts our behavior towards natural resources and the human condition.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 12
Language: Turkish, Macedonian
Director: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Length: 89 minutes
A morality tale for the 21st Century. Loved it! A morality tale for the 21st century, Official Secrets tells the true story of British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun who, during the immediate run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, leaked a top secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing smaller, undecided member states into voting for war. At a personal and professional risk, journalist Martin Bright published the leaked document in The Observer newspaper in London, and the story made headlines around the world. Members of the Security Council were outraged and any chance of a UN resolution in favour of war collapsed. But within days, Bush declared he no longer needed UN backing and invaded anyway. As Iraq descended into chaos, Katharine was arrested and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. Martin faced potential charges too.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Gavin Hood
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Length: 112 minutes
Jobless, penniless, and, above all, hopeless, the unmotivated patriarch, Ki Taek, and his equally unambitious family occupy themselves by working for peanuts in their squalid basement-level apartment. His family are the supportive wife, Chung Sook, his cynical twentysomething daughter, Ki Jung, and his college-age son, Ki Woo. Then, by sheer luck, a lucrative business proposition paves the way for an ingeniously insidious scheme, as Ki Woo summons up the courage to pose as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the affluent Park family. Now, the stage seems set for an unceasing winner-take-all class war. How does one get rid of a parasite?
Year: 2019 (UK 2020)
Certificate: 15
Language: Korean
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Length: 132 minutes
Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Ken Loach
Genre: Drama,
Length: 101 minutes
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam’s relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defence. As a result, Sam becomes a wanted criminal for the murder of a white man, and is forced to flee with his wife across the deadly outback, through glorious but harsh desert country. A hunting party led by the local lawman Sergeant Fletcher is formed to track Sam down. As the true details of the killing start to surface, the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.
Year: 2017 (UK 2018)
Certificate: 15
Language: English, Aboriginal
Director: Warwick Thornton
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Length: 113 minutes
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. An Agatha Christie-inspired who-dunnit.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 12A
Language: English, Spanish, Hindi
Director: Rian Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Length: 131 minutes
CLASSIC FILM
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
The screening will be preceded by our AGM.
Year: 1961
Certificate: 12
Language: English,
Director: Tony Richardson
Genre: Drama
Length: 101 minutes
Romantic Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, is plagued by health issues just as a film from early in his career is readied for re-release. As his physical ailments begin to consume his vitality, he is incapacitated by an immense depression that debilitates his creativity. In this desperate state he reconnects to the earlier film’s leading man, Crespo, from whom he’s been estranged for 30 years. Crespo, too, has seen better days and self-medicates between gigs. Tapping into Crespo’s ‘vacation’ routes, pain takes a backseat allowing Salvo to revisit the temperate climes of his past – memories of his loving but emotionally frustrated mother, the purity of his first crush, his greatest muse and lover ‘lost’ to addiction…grasping for existential relief and closure, creative salvation emerges in the form of a shelved autobiographical script.
Year: 2019 (UK 2020)
Certificate: 15
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: Drama
Length: 113 minutes