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Tuesday September 29th, 7:30pm
Birdman
2014; Dir: Alejandro Inarritu; US; Cert: 15; 1hr 59 mins
Through the progress of his latest Broadway play this film shows a former popular performer’s struggle with his life as a washed up actor.
Tuesday October 13th, 7:30pm
2 Days, 1 Night
2014; Dir: Jean-Pierre &Lucy Dardenne; Belgian; Cert: 15; 1hr 35mins
Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers her workmates have opted for a pay bonus in exchange for her dismissal. Can she change their minds over a weekend?
Tuesday October 27th, 7:30pm
Mystery Road
2013; Dir: Ivan Sen; Australian; Cert: 15; 2 hrs
An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
Tuesday November 10th, 7:30pm
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
2014; Dir: David Zellner; Japanese; Cert:12A; 1hr 45mins
A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money.
Tuesday November 24th, 7:30pm
Omar
2013; Dir: Hany Abu-Assad; Palestinian; Cert:15; 1hr 36mins
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he’s tricked into an admission of guilt in the wake of an Israeli soldier’s killing.
Tuesday December 8th, 7:30pm
The First Film
2015; Dir: David Wilkinson; British; Cert: PG; 1hr 50mins
Was the first moving film ever made shot in Leeds? One of the film makers will be with us to answer questions about the mystery!
Tuesday January 12th, 7:30pm
Grand Budapest Hotel
2014; Dir: Wes Anderson; British; Cert 15; 1hr 39mins
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
Tuesday January 26th, 7:30pm
Ida
2013; Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski; Polish; Cert: 12A; 1hr 22mins
Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960’s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
Tuesday February 9th, 7:30pm
Pride
2014; Dir: Matthew Warchus; British; Cert15; 1 hr 59mins
UK gay activists work to help miners during the lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Tuesday February 23rd, 7:30pm
Still Alice
2014; Dir: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland; US; Cert:12A; 1hr 41mins
A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.
This screening will be a fund raiser for Alzheimer’s Research UK .
Tuesday March 8th, 7:30pm
Love Is Strange
2014; Dir: Ira Sachs; US; Cert 15; 1hr 34 mins
After Ben and George get married George is sacked from his teaching post forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their home and look for cheaper housing.
Tuesday March 22nd, 7:30pm
Human Capital
2015; Dir: Paolo Virzi; Italian; Cert: 15; 1hr 50 mins
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep on the night before Christmas Eve.
Tuesday April 5th, 7:30pm
Difret
2014; Dir:Zeresenay Mehari; Ethiopian; Cert:12; 1hr 39 mins
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa a bright 14 year old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape...
Tuesday April 19th, 7:30pm
Wild Tales
2014; Dir: Damian Szifron; Spanish; Cert: 15; 2hrs
Wickedly hilarious and delightfully deranged this is six short stories involving distressed people. A subversive, entertaining and satirical film.
Tuesday May 3rd, 7:30pm
Phoenix
2014; Dir: Christian Petzold; German; Cert: 15; 1hr 38 mins
A disfigured concentration camp survivor, unrecognisable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged post-war Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Tuesday May 17th, 7:30pm
Of Horses And Men
2013; Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson; Icelandic; Cert 15; 1hr 25 mins
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced with immense consequences in this comic film.
Tuesday June 7th, 7:30pm
Mr Holmes
2015; Dir: Bill Condon, British; Cert PG; 1hr 45mins
An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.
There will be a collection for Alzheimer’s Research UK following the screening.
Tuesday June 21st, 7:30pm
Force Majeure
2014; Dir: Ruben Ostlund, Swedish; Cert:15; 2 hrs
A family on a skiing holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath a question mark hangs over their patriarch in this Swedish comedy.
Kumiko turned out to be a strange little film, frustrating and fascinating by turns. The central character was so disturbed she was hard to relate to, but it took the simple kindness of two Minnesota residents to provide a narrative contrast with the self obsessed behaviour of her family and colleagues in Tokyo. As Kumiko pursued her delusional quest for treasure in the desrted frozen landscape of the American Midwest she was portrayed increasingly like a strange little conquistador, an alien in every sense . The pseudo-happy ending left the audience puzzled, frustrated or disappointed, but at least there was something to debate in the bar afterwards!
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