Cannes Film Festival award winner, LA CHIMERA is set in the 1980s in a small town on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the Italian west coast. Arthur played by Josh O’Connor as a British archaeologist turned tomb robber with a gift for divining the locations of Etruscan tombs. Also stars Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini and Alba Rohrwacher.
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Celebrate Sweden with the film Midsommar and delicious vegan meatballs, mash potato, gravy and a berry sauce.
Dir. Ari Aster/2hrs 28mins/Certificate 18/2019
Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor and Vilhelm Blomgren – A couple travel to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Poisoned Peach Cinema Presents
Drop Dead Gorgeous
In the small town of Mount Rose, Minnesota, a teen beauty pageant is about to unleash a fury of very unladylike behaviour. For in this contest, going after the crown is not just a fairy-tale dream but an all-out war where you win any way you can… or die trying.
American satirical black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, and Amy Adams.
After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from lacerated bodies, to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities.
SAFAR Film Festival presents a premiere of the newly restored Watch Out for Zouzou by Hassan Al-Imam. This classic was one of the highest-grossing Egyptian films of all time.
Starring Suad Husni – known affectionately as the ‘Cinderella of the Screen’ and often compared to Marilyn Monroe – the story examines societal tensions when traditional values and social mores are challenged by modern liberalism in 1970s Egypt.
Cinema on the Square returns this summer for four days of open-air film screenings, transforming Millennium Square into a giant outdoor cinema with concert-quality sound.
We close the Millennium Square's Summer Series with a standout lineup of concert films, cult classics from the ‘80s and ‘90s, Japanese favourites, family screenings, singalongs, a Bollywood blockbuster and our first-ever 'Bring Your Own Dog' event.
The film follows the daily routine of Hirayama (Yakusho Kōji), a middle-aged cleaner for The Tokyo Toilet company. He rises in his tiny apartment, lit in early morning purples and greens, gets a coffee from the vending machine opposite his door. Gets in his work van and chooses which audio cassette he will put on – Nina Simone, Lou Reed…
Dir Wim Wenders/2hrs 4mins/Certificate PG/Subtitles/2023
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Experience time and space on the big screen with Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and celebrate an epic two-part end of season finale at your local cinema on the 31 May 2025.
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still unable to get her home to Earth, Belinda must fight for her life as the Doctor faces an almighty threat to reality itself…
Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home they'll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected expert crafter.
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Join us from 10.30am before our Saturday screening for a self-led, drop-in activity.
Come and watch the finest shorts God’s Own Country has to offer and meet like-minded creatives. Most filmmakers will be in attendance, so this is a great way to find future collaborators for your next film project.
There will be two halves of short films and a 30-minute interval, for an opportunity to network with the filmmakers and take part in the infamous Milk Teeth raffle!