Foyle Film Festival Autumn Programme 2016

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MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER – THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2016 COMING THIS SEASON: THE COMMITMENTS // THE DANISH GIRL // YOUTH // HALLOWEEN HORROR WEEK

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WELCOME Foyle Film Festival’s Autumn Programme launches on a musical note with Ethan Hawke turning in a brilliant performance as the legendary jazz musician Chet Baker in Born to be Blue.

Other musical treats include Tom Hiddleston as the charismatic country and western singer Hank Williams in I Saw The Light, while actor Don Cheadle makes his directorial debut and stars as jazz legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead.

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Also this season is a special 25th anniversary screening of the Alan Parker classic The Commitments. Sing Street – from John Carney, the writer and director of Once – is also based in Dublin and is the story of a young boy who forms a band in order to impress the girl he fancies. U2’s Bono has praised the movie commenting: “Most films won’t touch Sing Street’s portrayal of awakening.”

Reminiscent of Michael Haneke’s acclaimed Amour, Chronic is a hardhitting drama featuring a stunning performance from Tim Roth as a nurse who provides home care to three dying patients. The power of cinema to challenge the audience is also clear in the documentary Notes On Blindness – the emotional story of writer and theologian John Hull who went blind just days before the birth of his first son.

Truth, starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, strikes a topical note as this fact-based drama follows the 2004 US Presidential election and the media’s investigation into George W. Bush receiving preferential treatment from the military during the Vietnam War. The movie puts the spotlight on the dirty tricks employed by both sides in the media war over the presidency.

The Autumn programme also includes a Halloween Season featuring horrors such as The Boy. When Greta takes a job as a nanny she soon discovers that her young charge is a life-sized doll that the family treat like a real boy as a way of coping with the death of their child 20 years earlier. In When The Lights Went Out a young family discover that their new council house is inhabited by a violent poltergeist known as ‘The Black Monk’.

If that’s not enough for you then don’t forget this year’s Foyle Film Festival will run from Wednesday 16 to Sunday 20 November. Full details coming soon so mark it in your diary!

SEPTEMBER FILMS

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PROGRAMME LAUNCH: COMPLIMENTARY REFRESHMENTS

THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

TUESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

EYE IN THE SKY

YOUTH

UK/South Africa.2015. Director: Gavin Hood. Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman.

Duration: 1hr.42mins. Cert: 15

Italy/France/UK/ Switzerland.2015. Director: Paolo Sorrentino. Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda. Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano.

Duration: 2hrs.4mins. Cert: PG Paolo Sorrentino’s reflections on ageing are beautifully captured in Youth.

MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

BORN TO BE BLUE

UK/Canada/USA.2015. Director: Robert Budreau. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Rennie. Duration: 1hr.37mins. Cert: 15

Born To Be Blue, starring Ethan Hawke as the so-called ‘James Dean of jazz’, is a re-imagining of the legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker’s life in the 1960s. When Chet stars in a film about himself, a romance begins with his co-star, the enigmatic Jane.

However, the project is shelved when Chet’s past comes back to haunt him and it appears he may never play music again.

“Brilliant, often brutal biopic that’s cool for cats of any persuasion, whether jazz fans or otherwise.”

Dave Aldridge, Radio Times

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A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday in a Swiss hotel with his best friend, a film director who is working on his latest script. Fred and Mick reflect upon their own lives, as well as those of the other hotel guests.

Nominated for an Oscar® “The clear highlights of the film are its distinctive look and the two lead performances by veterans who have such a depth of acting knowledge that their perspective oozes out of their pores.”

Philip Price, MovieMarker

WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

CHRONIC

Mexico/France.2015. Director: Michel Franco. Cast: Tim Roth, Elizabeth Tulloch, Michael Cristofer. Duration: 1hr.33mins. Cert: 15 Tim Roth is mesmeric in this bleak but audacious drama as David, a nurse who provides home care to three dying patients.

An enigmatic figure whose own life story is revealed slowly during the course of the film, David goes to great lengths to alleviate the suffering of his patients, and meets their care needs with empathy and respect. The film is constructed mainly from long, static takes that cleverly evokes the drudgery of care while also witnessing the agony of the afflicted. This is a challenging film in many respects and very similar to Michael Haneke’s Amour.

When a group of Al-Shabaab terrorists are clocked by satellite in a Nairobi safe house prepping for a suicide bombing, a clean, surgical strike appears the perfect option. However, when a teenage girl wanders into the kill zone, British colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) finds her chain of command buckling as those in charge pass the buck across four continents. Director Gavin Hood keeps the audience on the edge of their seats with this timecritical thriller featuring Alan Rickman in his final movie role.

“A beautiful idea, beautifully executed.”

Angus Wolfe Murray, EyeForFilm

“Roth gives a career best performance in a film that’s enamoured of him.” Eric Hillis, The Movie Waffler

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MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

A SCENE AT THE SEA (ANO NATSU, ICHIBAN SHIZUKANA UMI) 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING Japan.1991. Director: Takeshi Kitano. Cast: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ôshima, Sabu Kawahara.

Duration: 1hr.41mins. Cert: U. Language: Japanese with English subtitles Born with a hearing impairment, Shigeru is a part time worker for the sanitation service. His girlfriend Takako also has the same condition.

On his usual pickup route, Shigeru finds a broken surfboard in a pile of garbage, and this begins his fascination with the world of surfing.

“A Scene At The Sea is a practice in beautiful, saddening subtlety…

It’s more than just an ode to surfing, it’s an ode to life.”

Cameron Sherwell, Super Reviewer 6 SEPTEMBER FILMS

A WORLD NOT OURS (ALAM LAYSA LANA)

UK/Lebanon/Denmark/United Arab Emirates.2012.

Director: Mahdi Fleifel.

Cast: Mahdi Fleifel. Duration: 1hr.33mins. Cert: 15.

Language Arabic/English

TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

USA.2015. Director: Marc Abraham. Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Maddie Hasson. Duration: 2hrs.3mins. Cert: 15

UK/France/Canada/Belgium.2014. Director: Saul Dibb. Cast: Kristin Scott-Thomas, Michelle Williams, Matthis Schoenaerts, Margot Robbie. Duration: 1hr.47mins. Cert: 15

I SAW THE LIGHT

The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles the period between 1944, when 21-year-old Hank married Audrey at a Texaco station in Alabama, to his death in 1953 due to excessive alcohol and drug abuse. Abraham’s screenplay follows the singer’s rise from local radio performer to best-selling country superstar, with a string of hits that topped the charts and allowed him to join the famous Grand Ole Opry show in Nashville.

“Hiddleston…gives a convincing performance as the charismatic man who mined his troubled life for musical material.”

Kenneth Turan, LA Times

SUITE FRANCAISE

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams) is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas) as they both await news of her prisoner of war husband. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers’ own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), the handsome and

refined German officer staying with them. But soon a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war. The film is based on Irene Nemirovsky’s famous unfinished novel, which was discovered in an attic 60 years after she was killed at Auschwitz.

An intimate portrait of three generations of exiles in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. Based on extensive personal recordings, family archives and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is part of their normal existence.

“Flips storytelling and MideastArab clichés on their heads, while weaving an irresistible mood of amused melancholy.”

John Anderson, Variety

“A gripping slice of history and an intoxicating love story in the classic mould.”

Trevor Johnston, Radio Times SEPTEMBER FILMS 7

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TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

ANOMALISA

USA.2015. Director: Cast: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan. Duration: 1hr.30mins. Cert: 15. Language: English/Italian/Japanese

MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN WORDS (JAG ÄR INGRID) Sweden.2015. Director: Stig Björkman. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Pia Lindström, Isotta Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Liv Ullman. Duration: 1hr.54mins. Cert: U. Language: Swedish, English

Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words makes extensive use of the iconic Hollywood star’s own diaries, personal pictures, home movies and family members. The portrait that emerges is intimate, concentrating on her marriages and family life.

This is perhaps how Bergman saw herself; with many inserts of her own home movies and photographs. A romantic score

by Michael Nyman completes this captivating documentary.

“The way she writes is almost poetic, incredibly articulate and profound… Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words is a must see.”

Liz Whittemore, Reel News Daily

Famous author of customerservice manuals, Michael Stone (voice of David Thewlis) arrives in Cincinnati for a sold-out stage appearance. Checking into the Fregoli Hotel, he awkwardly attempts to reconnect with a past flame before unexpectedly meeting Lisa (voice of Jennifer Jason Leigh), a young woman attending his seminar whom he finds to be utterly unique.

Superficially simple, Anomalisa is actually a thoroughly complex web of human experience, recognisably real, even though the characters are 30cm tall stop motion puppets, and it succeeds in its intense exploration of the question “What is human?”

Nominated for an Oscar® “Exquisitely sad, strange, and achingly humane.”

Leslie Felperin, Radio Times

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WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

THE COMMITMENTS 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING Ireland/UK/USA.1991. Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Robert Arkins, Johnny Murphy, Michael Aherne, Andrew Strong, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Bronagh Gallagher, Glen Hansard. Duration: 1hr.53mins. Cert: 15 Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, originally a schoolteacher in deprived North Dublin, The Commitments is a rags-to-riches tale that sees the band fall short of stardom – mainly due to internal squabbling – but nonetheless offers the young members a chance to escape the poverty and hopelessness of their lives.

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

OMAR

Palestine.2013. Director: Hany Abu-Assad. Cast: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani. Duration: 1hr.36mins. Cert: 15.

Language: Arabic/Hebrew A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he’s tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier’s killing. From the director of Paradise Now. Nominated for an Oscar® “Hard-hitting moments abound.”

Patrick Peters, Empire

Nominated for an Oscar® “Foul-mouthed, fast-talking and very funny.”

Time Out “One of the greatest films in the last 50 years.”

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OCTOBER FILMS

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TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

THE DAUGHTER Australia.2016. Director: Simon Stone. Cast: Anna Torv, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill.

Duration: 1hr.36mins. Cert: 15

MONDAY 3 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

FIRE AT SEA

Italy/France.2015. Director: Gianfranco Rosi. Cast: Samuele Pucillo, Maria Signorello, Pietro Bartolos. Duration: 1hr.54mins. Cert: 15.

Language: Italian, English Situated just off Italy’s southern coast, Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe. Director Rosi spent months living on the Mediterranean island, capturing its history, culture and the current everyday reality of its 6,000-strong local population as hundreds of migrants land on its shores on a weekly basis. The resulting documentary focuses on 12-year-old Samuele, a local boy who loves to hunt with his slingshot and spend time on land even though he hails from a culture steeped in the sea.

“Should be compulsory viewing for all those politicians and others who would refuse these people safe haven and a new home.”

Geoff Andrew, Sight & Sound 10 OCTOBER FILMS

Set in the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. Reconnecting with his childhood friend Oliver and Oliver’s family, wife Charlotte and daughter Hedvig, he unearths a long-buried secret.

As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.

“A powerful…achingly intense reimagining of Ibsen’s ‘The Wild Duck’.”

Eddie Cockrell, Variety

UK.2016. Director: Stephen Frears. Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg. Duration: 1hr.50mins. Cert: PG

WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

TRUTH

Australia/USA.2015. Director: James Vanderbilt. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid. Duration: 2hrs.5mins. Cert: 15 Fact-based drama starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford as two under-fire journalists in the eye of their own storm-making exclusive. Blanchett is Mary Mapes, a confident TV Producer who in real life oversaw America’s top current affairs programme 60 Minutes, which was anchored by respected newsman Dan Rather (Redford). However, in the run-up to the 2004 US Presidential election, Mapes assembled a team to investigate rumours that George W. Bush received preferential treatment from the military during the Vietnam War. Her decision that Rather should report on unsubstantiated information puts a spotlight on the dirty tricks employed by both sides in the media war over the presidency.

The true story of a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, even though she couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket. Meryl Streep is a delight as the lady in question, hilarious when she’s singing and convincingly on edge at all times. She portrays a woman who is tethered to reality just enough to function, but divorced from it just enough to be clueless about her lack of musical ability.

“Meryl Streep, fat suited and bewigged, is flawless – to say “as usual” would take her for granted – and Grant proves… that he is so much more than a one-trick pony. As for Helberg, he steals the show.”

Angus Wolfe Murray, EyeForFilm

“Truth is blessed with another galvanizing performance by Blanchett…”

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter OCTOBER FILMS 11

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TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE ASSASSIN (NIE YIN NIANG) Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/ France.2015. Director: HsiaoHsien Hou. Cast: Chen Chang, Qi Shu, Yun Zhou. Duration: 1hr.45mins. Cert: 15. Language: Mandarin with English subtitles

MONDAY 10 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

MILES AHEAD

USA.2015. Director: Don Cheadle. Cast: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor. Duration: 1hr.40mins. Cert: 15 Don Cheadle’s directorial debut about jazz legend Miles Davis is a loose interpretation of fragments of Davis’ life woven together to provide a sense of the man rather than the cold hard facts. The story is simple, Rolling Stone Journalist David Braben (Ewan McGregor) blags his way into Miles’ inner circle by getting in a scrap with the recluse and then scoring him some drugs as an apology. Miles has rejected music, turning to drink and drugs to get over his shattered relationship and bad health.

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off a catastrophic chain of events that sets the two men running around after the only copy of a session tape that is owed to Capitol Records. This citywide hunt results in Miles casting his mind back across his career and relationship with Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi).

“Don Cheadle consumes everything Miles Davis and delivers a promising debut with a superb central performance and wonderful direction.”

Paul Heath, The Hollywood News

The story takes place in 9th century China when the Tang dynasty was in decline; Yinniang, who has been living in the countryside with the nun who abducted her in childhood and trained her as an unrivalled practitioner of the martial arts, is sent back to kill a cousin, a noble and military leader to whom she was once promised.

Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes 2015 “Outstandingly beautiful martial arts tale.”

Anne-Katrin Titze, Eye For Film

WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

SING STREET

Ireland/UK/USA.2016. Director: John Carney. Cast: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy.

Duration: 1hr.46mins. Cert: 12 From the writer and director of Once and Begin Again, Sing Street is the story of a boy growing up in Dublin in the ‘80s who escapes his troubled family life by starting a band to impress the girl he fancies.

“In truth, most films won’t touch Sing Street’s portrayal of awakening.”

U2’s Bono “Sing Street is a special, magical film. It’s beautifully constructed, practically flawless from script to screen.”

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THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE DANISH GIRL

UK/USA/Belgium/Denmark/Germany. Director: Tom Hooper.

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw. Duration: 1hr.59mins.

Cert: 15. Language:English/French/German The fascinating true love story of Danish artist Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda as he makes the pioneering journey to becoming a woman, Lili Elbe, in 1920s Copenhagen. Danish artist, Gerda Wegener, painted her own husband, Einar, as a lady in her painting. When the painting gained popularity, Einar started to change his appearance into a female appearance and named himself Lili Elbe.

With Gerda’s support, Einar – or Elbe – attempted one of the first male-to-female sex reassignment surgeries, a decision that obviously had a huge impact on their marriage.

Won an Oscar® “Eddie Redmayne is remarkable in this stunning piece of filmmaking...”

Paul Heath, The Hollywood News

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TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

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MONDAY 17 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

TALE OF TALES

Italy/France/UK.2015. Director: Matteo Garrone. Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly. Duration: 2hrs.13mins.

Cert: 15. Language: English/Russian Anthology of three fairytales that follow a queen whose obsessive desire for children has horrific consequences, two reclusive sisters who provoke the passion of a king, and a ruler whose obsession with a giant flea leads to his daughter being married to an ogre.

Fantasy based on the stories of Glambattista Basile, Tale Of Tales is as different from a Hollywood fairy story like Snow White And The Huntsman as a snuff movie is from a perfume commercial.

“It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian 14 OCTOBER FILMS

UK/USA.2015. Director: John Madden. Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, David Strathairn, Richard Gere, Celia Imrie.

Duration: 2hrs.2mins. Cert: PG

10 COVERFIELD LANE

USA/UK/Canada/Brazil.2015.

Director: Robert Eggers.

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie. Duration: 1hr.32mins. Cert: 15

WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Almost all of the old gang are back for another round of love, intrigue and fun under the sun at the charming hotel for senior citizens near Jaipur in India.

Greece/USA.2015. Director: Jeff Nichols. Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard. Duration: 1hr.52mins. Cert: 15

“Contains enough of the same adoring elements to match the original’s entertaining balance of irreverent wit and bittersweet charm.”

Frank Wilkins, Reel Talk

Michael Shannon plays a father who must go on the run with his son (Jaeden Lieberher) to escape the police and members of an organised sect (headed by Sam Shepard) who want to keep control of the little boy with special powers. But Shannon’s character, Ron, has enlisted the help of his friend and State Trooper Lucas (Joel Edgerton) to guide them to a special place that will fulfil his son’s destiny.

“Midnight Special is an absolute must. The film is truly wonderful and truly special… Starman, Close Encounters and E.T. all rolled into one.”

Paul Heath, The Hollywood News

10 Cloverfield Lane begins when car crash victim Michelle finds herself held in an underground bunker by a crazy survivalist called Howard. He’s convinced that aliens have poisoned the air outside and that she and fellow captive Emmet must wait out the invasion with him. But even if he is a complete nutter, what if he’s correct?

“Hugely satisfying, bloodpounding, darkly enthralling fantastical thriller.”

The Telegraph

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HALLOWEEN HORROR WEEK

MONDAY 24 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

STALKER

Soviet Union.1979. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Cast: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko. Duration: 2hrs.35mins. Cert: PG. Language: Russian with English subtitlesCert: PG-13 Deep within the Zone, a bleak and forbidden landscape, lies a mysterious room with the power to grant man’s deepest wishes.

Desperate to get there, a scientist and a writer approach the Stalker, one of the few able to navigate the Zone, and so begins a dangerous trek into the unknown. Tarkovsky’s second foray into science fiction after Solaris is a surreal and disturbing vision of the future. Stalker has been described as one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time.

“Stalker…scrutinizes the destruction we have wreaked on the earth’s natural resources, and in hindsight it seems eerily prescient of the Chernobyl disaster.”

Tom Dawson, BBCi

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TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

USA.2015. Director: Jason Zada. Cast: Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Rina Takasaki, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt. Duration: 1hr.33mins. Cert: 15. Language: English, Japanese

UK.2012. Director: Pat Holden.

Cast: Kate Ashfield, Nicky Bell, Alan Brent. Duration: 1hr.26mins. Cert: 15

USA.2015. Directors: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz. Cast: Troian Bellisario, Bailey Noble, Kate Burton. Duration: 1hr.26mins. Cert: 18

USA/China/Canada.2015.

Director: William Brent Bell.

Cast: Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell.

Duration: 1hr.37mins.

Cert: 15. Language: English

THE FOREST

Supernatural horror set in the legendary Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place at the bottom of Mount Fuji in Japan where people go to end their lives.

A young American woman Sara comes to the forest in search of her sister who has gone missing. In spite of everyone’s warnings not to stray from the path she enters the forest looking for her sister, only to be confronted by the tortured souls of the dead who prey on those they encounter.

“Teeth grindingly scary… one of the best horrors in recent years.”

MJ Simpson, Urban Horrors

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WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT

England, 1974, and one Yorkshire family has more to worry about than the energy crisis and rising unemployment.

Their new council house is host to a violent poltergeist known as ‘The Black Monk’ and nobody is safe, particularly not the teenage daughter.

“This modest but unnerving British horror, reportedly based on a true story, is a natural born chiller.”

Rob Daniel, Sky Movies

MARTYRS

Martyrs tells the story of Lucie, a young girl who was the victim of beatings and torture by a sadistic family. Lucie sets out to track down the family years later and is eventually joined by her friend Anna. Lucie exacts brutal revenge but things quickly take a turn for the worse when the girls encounter a group of fanatics.

“A new take on the source material that is worthy of consideration.”

Tyler Doupé, Wicked Horror

THE BOY

Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village. She soon discovers that her eight-year-old charge is a life-sized doll that the family treat like a real boy as a way of coping with the death of their son 20 years earlier.

After breaking a number of strict rules, a series of disturbing events take place that brings Greta’s worst fears to life, and leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.

“The Boy, in which a doll may be alive, or the heroine may be mad.”

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times FAMILY FILMS 17

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THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT

Ireland/UK/USA.2016. Director: John Carney. Cast: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy. Duration: 1hr.46mins. Cert: 12

TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

USA.2016. Director: Sam Liu. Cast: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong. Duration: 1hr.16mins. Cert: 15

Greece/Ireland/Netherlands/UK/France.2015. Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden.

Duration: 1hr.59mins. Cert: 15. Language: English, French

BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE An animated comic-book thriller based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel, featuring the voices of Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill. Batman once again confronts The Joker, who has kidnapped Commissioner Gordon after escaping from prison.

THE LOBSTER “Liu delivers a film that is true to the original graphic novel and shows his understanding of the nature of this winged superhero and his nemesis, but has made this film for true fans and mature audiences only.”

Russ Matthews, Entertainment Fuse

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

“Quirky, off-beat, dark, random and absolutely batty, The Lobster is one of the highlights of the year.

A hilarious, delicious delight from start to finish.”

Paul Heath, The Hollywood News

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A darkly comedic dramatisation of a frightening real life experiment conducted in 1971 by Dr Phillip Zimbardo.

Twenty-four male students were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. But over the course of just five days the experiment spun way out of control.

“An intense retelling of a world-famous psychological experiment gone wrong.”

Jazmine Sky Bradley, The Hollywood News

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TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE) Colombia/Venezuela/ Argentina.2015. Director: Ciro Guerra. Cast: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar.

Duration: 2hrs.5mins. Cert: 15.

Language: Spanish/Portuguese/ Aboriginal/German/Catalan/ Latin with English subtitles The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Nominated for an Oscar® “A visually mesmerizing exploration of man, nature and the destructive powers of colonialism.”

Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

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WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

UK.2016. Directors: Pete Middleton, James Spinney.

Cast: Dan Renton Skinner, Simone Kirby, John M. Hull.

Duration: 1hr.30mins. Cert: U

Greece.2015. Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari. Cast: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orphanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos. Duration: 1hr.45mins. Cert: 18. Language: Greek with English subtitles

NOTES ON BLINDNESS

In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping an audio diary. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as: “the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece.” With exclusive access to these original recordings, Notes On Blindness

encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness.

“Who knew that a tale of blindness could be so visionary and so beautifully photographed on screen?”

Kate Muir, The Times

CHEVALIER

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s brilliant Chevalier is a film about six friends on an octopus-fishing trip aboard a luxury yacht in the Aegean who compete to determine which among them is “the best in general”. Whether out of boredom, malice or some combination of the two, they gamify their holiday so as to both formalise and justify the selfish competitiveness that infuses their interactions, while the servants look on and discuss the proceedings.

“With the perfect timing of a deadpan comic and the keen observational skills of a zoologist, Athina Rachel Tsangari highlights just how bizarre the most banal of human activities can be.”

Melissa Anderson, LA Weekly

“This is a beautiful, accessible and thoughtful work of art.”

Charlie Phillips, The Guardian

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TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE FOREST

WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT

MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

BORN TO BE BLUE

THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

MARTYRS

TUESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

YOUTH

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE BOY

WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

CHRONIC

THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

EYE IN THE SKY

MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

A SCENE AT THE SEA

TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

I SAW THE LIGHT

TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE

WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

SUITE FRANCAISE

WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

THE LOBSTER

THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

A WORLD NOT OURS

THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT

MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN WORDS

TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

ANOMALISA

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

NOTES ON BLINDNESS

WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

THE COMMITMENTS

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM

CHEVALIER

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER @ 7.30PM

OMAR

NOVEMBER

OCTOBER MONDAY 3 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

FIRE AT SEA

TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE DAUGHTER

WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

TRUTH

THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

MONDAY 10 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

MILES AHEAD

TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE ASSASSIN

WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

SING STREET

THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE DANISH GIRL

MONDAY 17 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

TALE OF TALES

TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

THE SECOND BEST MARIGOLD HOTEL

WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER @ 7.30PM

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