Season 27, Winter 2025

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Spanning several decades and continents, TOUCH is a rich study of love and grief that’s both heart-breaking and achingly romantic. It follows a widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

In 1960s London, Icelandic student Kristófer took a job in a Japanese restaurant and fell in love with the owner’s daughter, Miko. In 2020, Kristófer – now a widower living in Iceland – knows his memory is starting to fail. As lockdowns loom, Kristófer flies to London to find out why Miko left without a goodbye all those decades ago.

Baltasar Kormákur’s deeply moving film is based on the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Touch is an uncommonly poignant drama that balances rich sentimentality with more harrowing themes. Only cynics will resist a swoon or three. – Irish Independent ★★★★★

This is a love story, pure and simple and unashamedly emotional. – The Guardian

Its sensibility is as exquisitely tender as the flutter of a butterfly wing. – RogerEbert.com

Touch is the kind of movie you get when a filmmaker thinks like that, on his feet and with his heart—and in so doing, he makes us believe we can, too. – Time Magazine

Touch is a worthy consideration of the things that matter most when the clock is running out. – Wall Street Journal

Touch rekindles a treacly genre that I didn’t realize I missed. Its tender performances and gut-punch reveals are classic tear-jerker ingredients. – New York Times

92% Rotten Tomatoes

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• TOUCH [Snerting]
• Iceland, 2024 | Language: English, Iceland, Japanese | 2 hrs | Cert: 12A
• Director: Baltasar Kormákur
• Cast: Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Palmi Kormakur, Masahiro Motoki
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Cadejo Blanco

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CADEJO BLANCO follows the story of Sarita, a young woman on a desperate search for her sister who disappeared during a night out in Guatemala City. Sarita risks her life to learn the truth by infiltrating the country’s underground gang networks. It is a story of revenge and personal resilience that considers the complexity of life in contemporary Guatemala under the perpetual threat of violence. Screen Daily calls it “a nail-biting, evocative and utterly persuasive crime drama that is very much a part of the country’s burgeoning film output.”

Not so much an out-and-out suspense thriller as a character study powered by an outstanding lead performance by Karen Martínez. – Guardian

Lerner’s slowburn saga deconstructs and admonishes a system where boredom begets anger and anger begets violence, and the hardnut lieutenants in these organisations go about their grisly business simply because, once you’re in, you’re in for life. – Little White Lies

89% Rotten Tomatoes

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• CADEJO BLANCO
• Guatemala, 2023 | Language: Spanish | 2 hrs 5 min | Cert: 15
• Director: Justin Lerner
• Cast: Karen Martínez, Rudy Rodriguez, Pamela Martínez
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), CROSSING is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations. Lia, a retired school teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey. Hoping to bring Tekla home after a period of estrangement, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi to find her. Exploring the hidden depths of the city, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim, who helps them in their search. Humanistic and compassionate, Akin’s third feature is a heartfelt portrayal of overcoming the degrees of separation that divide us.

Following on from Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry, Crossing gifts us the second essential Georgian screen heroine of 2024. –The Irish Times ★★★★

A thoroughly intelligent, emotionally engaging and robustly performed movie from Levan Akin, the Georgian-Swedish director who had an international breakthrough four years ago with the love story And Then We Danced. – The Guardian ★★★★

Beautifully poignant with a subtle message of acceptance. – RTÉ

An incredibly powerful moment that feels like a queer shout of rage. It’s a shout that needs to be heard, from a film that needs to be seen. – Film Ireland Magazine

Crossing is terrific: a rich and rewarding tapestry of characters and cultures flung together and flourishing. – Observer

Sweet without being cloying, it’s a love letter to the commonalities between Georgian and Turkish culture; one that encourages empathy and reminds us it’s never too late to change for the better. – Little White Lies

97% Rotten Tomatoes

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• CROSSING
• Turkey, Georgia, 2024 | Language: Georgian, Turkish, English | 1 hr 45 mins | Cert: 15A
• Director: Levan Akin
• Cast: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanlı
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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PARADISE IS BURNING is an emotional drama that navigates the complexities of society and family in the working-class Swedish suburbia. Three sisters — sixteen-year-old Laura, twelve-year-old Mira, and seven-year-old Steffi — are left to their own devices by their absent mother. As summer approaches, the trio revels in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate. Keeping the truth hidden from her younger sisters, Laura navigates the blurred lines between the thrill of independence and the harsh realities of growing up, as the sisters’ relationships with each other are put to the test.

It’s a soft, palliating movie, convincingly performed and surprisingly light on class politics. The result is essentially a triumph of feeling over substance. But that’s OK. – Times [UK]

What sets Paradise Is Burning apart is the unique quasi-rural ambience and a set of performances that speak of great investment by film-makers and cast. – The Irish Times

Paradise Is Burning exudes joy, but also a sense of imminent collapse. — and decidedly no cuteness. – Financial Times

Swedish writer-director Mika Gustafson’s feature debut has raw edges and some sloppy stitching in places, but the whole is fresh, directional and beautifully cut. – Guardian

100% Rotten Tomatoes

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• PARADISE IS BURNING [Paradiset brinner]
• Sweden, 2023 | Language: Swedish | 1 hr 48 min | Cert: CLUB
• Director: Mika Gustafson
• Cast: Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad, Safira Mossberg, Ida Engvoll
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Master Man is a serious-minded Taoist priest dealing with his family’s many trials and tribulations. Dominic is a businessman whose wedding planning firm has recently collapsed. When Dominic eyes an opportunity in the funeral trade, the pair become unlikely business partners. Master Man’s stubborn adherence to tradition and Dominic’s embarrassing blunders lead to a tense start for their partnership. However, both men soon discover they have much to learn from each other.

Anselm Chan’s film has proven a smash hit in its native Hong Kong. It’s not hard to see why: this is a warm, charming film that delicately balances its comedy and drama. It also offers a fascinating, sensitively handled insight into funeral traditions and rituals in the region.

This likable Cantonese-language comedy drama starts out as an odd couple story but evolves into something more complex and satisfying: a film about tradition, gender roles and family tensions. – Observer

A well-constructed and punchy melodrama. – Guardian

Rotten Tomatoes

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• THE LAST DANCE [Po Dei Juk /破·地獄 ]
• Hong Kong, 2023 | Language: Cantonese | 2 hrs 6 min | Cert: 12a
• Director: Anselm Chan
• Cast: Dayo Wong, Michael Hui, Michelle Wai
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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After a cartel gunman from a small Mexican town is murdered, Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son, is left an orphan and in danger. Sujo narrowly escapes death with the help of his aunt who raises him in the isolated countryside amidst hardship, poverty, and the constant peril associated with his identity. When he enters his teens a rebelliousness awakens in him, and like a rite of passage, he joins the local cartel. As a young man, Sujo attempts to make his life anew, away from the violence of his hometown. However, when his father’s legacy catches up with him, he will come face-to-face with what seems to be his destiny.

Sujo is an evocative film guided by magic and compassion. – RogerEbert.com

Narratively speaking, the story is most exciting when the risks to Sujo are greatest. But the moments that stick with you in the days and weeks afterward are the quiet ones. – Variety

Its undertow of menace is expertly sustained, and its dread buffered by hope. – Hollywood Reporter

95% Rotten Tomatoes

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• SUJO
• Mexico, 2024 | Language: Spanish | 2 h 6 min | Cert: 12a
• Director: Astrid Rondero & Fernanda Valadez
• Cast: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Alexis Varela, Sandra Lorenzano, Jairo Hernández, Kevin Aguilar
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), BIRD is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan, Saltburn) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski, Passages), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold’s latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.

A film that showcases Arnold’s gifts – the artful shepherding of apparent chaos – while allowing new and surprising elements. – Irish Times ★★★★

Bird at least maintains a heartbeat of ache and affection for youth in all its rudeness, revealing a filmmaker who isn’t afraid of losing her claws if she traffics in the thing with feathers. – Los Angeles Times

Bird is a very Andrea Arnold film, from a director whose stories always orbit strong-minded young women. For all Keoghan’s star power and Rogowski’s diligence, Adams is the centre of the film. – Financial Times

It’s a fragile but beautiful vision, and marks the strongest blend yet of Andrea Arnold’s primary directives as a filmmaker. – Independent [UK]

Bird would make a pretty good stage musical — not just because people always seem to be singing, but because it’s achingly, heartbreakingly sincere, and for a character living in chaos, that sincerity can feel like magic. – New York Times

85% Rotten Tomatoes

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• BIRD
• UK, 2024 | Language: English | 2 h | Cert: 15A
• Director: Andrea Arnold
• Cast: Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Anchored by a pair of terrific performances swathed in vivid colours, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut attests to his universal fluency in provocative filmmaking.

Winner – Golden Lion, Best Film, Venice International Film Festival 2024

★★★★ It’s a lovely, mordant, tender affair; a lush September song in duet, performed with aplomb by Swinton and Moore. – The Guardian

Quiet yet moving, “The Room Next Door” is a heartfelt meditation on friendship, grief, and death. – RogerEbert.com

The movie is all about death, yet in the unblinking honesty with which it confronts that subject, it’s powerfully on the side of life. – Variety

“The Room Next Door” showcases a carefully choreographed dance between two Oscar winners that elevates both of their performances to greatness. – Boston Globe

81% Rotten Tomatoes

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• THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
• Spain, 2024 | Language: English | 1 h 47 min | Cert: 15A
• Writer/Director: Pedro Almodóvar
• Cast: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Winner – Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2024

100% Rotten Tomatoes

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT is a beautiful, sweeping, emotional film that explores the complexities of female friendship and captures the frantic pace, the vibrant colours and the heady atmosphere of modern Mumbai.

In the city, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her secret boyfriend. Their colleague Parvaty fights to stay in her home without any requisite paperwork left by her late husband. A trip to a beach town allows them each to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it was awarded the Grand Prix.

Bound to be one of those international films that break out of the art-house festival circuit and into cinemas and hearts everywhere. – BBC ★★★★★

That the movie is so delicately felt and sensuously textured is cause for outright celebration. – The New Yorker

A gorgeous achievement. – Daily Telegraph ★★★★★

Kapadia has established her rare talent for finding passages of exquisite poetry within the banal blank verse of everyday Indian life. – Variety

It’s a film that feels like a long exhale, the moment of unburdening after a tight embrace. It’s beautiful. – Independent [UK]

So fluent and absorbing… a glorious film. – The Guardian ★★★★★

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• ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
• India, 2024 | Language: Malayalam, Hindi | 1h 58 min | Cert: 15
• Director: Payal Kapadia
• Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Awaiting Confirmation for I’M STILL HERE

Fernanda Torres- winner, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, 2025.

Eunice Paiva investigates her husband Rubens’ disappearance while maintaining family stability. Rubens is a former PTB deputy who has gone missing.

91% Rotten Tomatoes

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• I’M STILL HERE
• Brazil, 2024 | Language: Brazilian Portuguese | 2 h 15 min | Cert:
• Director: Walter Salles
• Cast: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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