JUNE 2023

Elemental

Wed 7 June

Disney and Pixar transport us to a fantastical city, where fire, water, land and air residents live together. Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur) and produced by Denise Ream (Cars 2), it features the voices of Leah Lewis (The Half of It) and Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World: Dominion).

We’re introduced to Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade. While they cannot touch each other, Ember and Wade discover how much they actually have in common. But not everyone is happy about this flourishing relationship… especially her parents who have quite robust views about non-fire elements.

Every Body

Fri 30 June

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Julie Cohen casts light on a world obsessed with gender; where intersex people are often erased entirely, in this powerful documentary. Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel and River Gallo recount their individual experiences with stigma, social pressure, andsurgeries performed on them as minors.

This trio make the case for the much-needed rethinking of both archaic medical practices and binary ideas of gender and sex. A huge hit on the festival circuit, Every Body paints an intimate portrait of life in between and outside binaries and exposes how little has evolved in the way intersex people are viewed and treated.

Surrounded

Tue 20 June

Letitia Wright and Jamie Bell take us back to five years after the American Civil War. Freedwoman and former Buffalo Soldier Moses “Mo” Washington travels west to lay claim on a gold mine. It’s the summation of years of toil for her community.

This is a dangerous world for an unaccompanied Black woman, so she travels disguised as a man. After her stagecoach is ambushed by a group of murderous thieves, Mo is forced to hold legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh captive while the remaining surviving passengers seek out help. What ensues is a battle of wills, blurring the line between captor and captive, as they both try to survive the harsh western landscape.

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

Fri 30 June

It’s another crack of the whip for Harrison Ford, as he returns to the role of everyone’s favourite heroic archaeologist for this fifth instalment of the iconic franchise. Alongside Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Antonio Banderas (Pain And Glory), John RhysDavies (Raiders Of The Lost Ark), Shaunette Renee Wilson (Black Panther) and Toby Jones (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).

In 1944, Jones prevents Jürgen Voller from obtaining a mysterious dial known as the Antikythera. A quarter century later, he becomes uneasy that the US Government has recruited former Nazis to help win the space race. Voller is now working on the moon-landing program. But is everything as it seems?