Upcoming Screenings
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📍Tuesday and Sunday Screenings Always in Pleasance Upper Hall
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Upcoming Events Calendar
Caught by the Tides
Showcasing two decades of China in flux, pieced together from footage by Jia Zhangke shot across his career. This is part love story and part archive, following Qiaoqiao, as she searches for a lover who has left her for the big city, forcing her to navigate an everchanging country.
Year: 2024 / Min: 111 / Country: China / Language: Mandarin / CW: Brief Violence
My Father's Shadow
Lagos 1993, two young brothers spend a day in the city with their estranged father as Nigeria’s presidential election hangs in the balance. Akinola Davies Junior’s debut film shows how one family’s day together turns into something tender, uneasy, and political.
Year: 2025 / Min: 93 / Country: UK, Nigeria / Language: English, Yoruba / CW: Brief Bloody Images
There Will Be Blood
Silver miner turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, embarks upon a relentless pursuit of money and power in which he clashes with a local priest and uses his adopted son for personal gain. Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnum opus is as monumental in its acting performances as it is in cinematography and the sheer perfection of its story.
Year: 2007 / Min: 158 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Strong Violence, Language
Pather Panchali
In rural Bengal, Apu and his older sister Durga find adventure in the smallest corners of everyday life. The first film of the celebrated Apu Trilogy, Satyajit Ray’s debut is a tender portrait of childhood, family, and poverty; a true milestone in Indian cinema!
Year: 1955 / Min: 122 / Country: India / Language: Bengali / CW: n/a
The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Year: 2025 / Min: 161 / Country: Brazil / Language: Portugese / CW: Strong Language, Violence, Sex
Nouvelle Vague
A young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.
Year: 2025 / Min: 106 / Country: USA / Language: French, English / CW: Infrequent Strong Language
Eyes Wide Shut
After Dr. Bill Harford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings – and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Year:1999/ Min: 159 min/ Country: / Language: English / CW: Strong Sex
My Night at Maud's
Jean-Louis runs into old friend Vidal and through him meets Maud. The three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, and morality and Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud’s. Jean-Louis’ Catholic views on marriage and obligation creates a dilemma as he has already proclaimed his love for a young woman who he has never yet spoken to.
Year: 1969 / Min: 110 / Country: France / Language: French / CW: n/a
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Surrounded by a cast of muppets, including Kermit as Bob Cratchett and Gonzo as Charles Dickens, Michael Caine plays a completely straight-faced Scrooge who is visited by various spirits to change his miserly view on life. Potentially (objectively) the greatest Christmas film ever made - and definitely the most fun.
Year: 1992 / Min: 85 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: n/a
The Bloody Lady
The folktale about Bloody Lady Bathory, doomed to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to be forever youthful herself.
Year: 1981 / Min: 77 / Country: Slovakia / Language: Slovak / CW: Moderate Horror
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.
Year: 1988 / Min: 88 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Moderate Horror
All We Imagine as Light
Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Year: 2024 / Min: 123 / Country: India / Language: Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi / CW: Strong Sex
It Was Just an Accident
Winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or, Jafar Panahi’s political revenge thriller follows a former prisoner who kidnaps the man he believes tortured him, only to realise he may have the wrong guy. A darkly funny reckoning with vengeance, state violence, and the messy business of justice.
Year: 2025 / Min: 106 / Country: Iran / Language: Azerbaijani, Farsi / CW: Moderate Violence
Barton Fink
A Broadway playwright moves to California with the prospect of writing Hollywood movies but instead finds writer’s block, strange hotel staff, and the truth of the Hollywood industry. This Coen Brothers film is every bit as funny and peculiar as The Big Lebowski and as gripping as No Country For Old Men.
Year: 1991 / Min: 117 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Strong Language, Violence
SOUL SOC COLLAB - Summer of Soul
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America’s history lost — until now.
Year: 2021 / Min: 117 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Violence, Drugs, Discrimination
All That Jazz
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Year: 1979 / Min: 125 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Sex References, Nudity, Drug Use
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Charts the troubled and complex power dynamics of the relatonship between students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino against the backdrop of Yūichi’s love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Year: 2001 / Min: 157 / Country: Japan / Language: Japanese / CW: Violence, Abuse
CULT SCREENING - Funeral Parade of Roses
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
Year: 1969 / Min: 107 / Country: Japan / Language: Japanese / CW: Strong injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Sex References, Drug Misuse
Swing Girls
A group of high school girl delinquents are forced to form a band after accidentally poisoning the school brass band. Swing Girls is School of Rock on steroids - funnier, cooler, and full of jazz.
Year: 2004 / Min: 105 / Country: Japan / Language: Japanese / CW: n/a
Watermelon Woman
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played ‘mammy’ archetypes.
Year: 1996 / Min: 90 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Strong Sex, Nudity, Language, Drug Misuse
CULT SCREENING - Party Girl
Mary, a party-going young New Yorker, is arrested for organising an underground rave and gets her godmother to pay her bail. She reluctantly agrees to work at her godmother’s branch of the New York Public Library in order to repay her debts. This indie comedy was the first feature film to premiere on the internet.
Year: 1995 / Min: 94 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Suicide References, Moderate Violence
Desert Hearts
While waiting to get a divorce from her husband, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a spirited young woman. Donna Deitch’s best known film is considered the first to depict a lesbian love story in a mainstream, positive fashion.
Year: 1985 / Min: 96 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: Strong Sex
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Peter Greenaway’s distinctly avant-garde style rips up Britain’s social and political landscape of the 80s in favour of affairs, crime, violence, and decadence. This film is the definition of an Eat The Rich film made right in the era of Thatcherism.
Year: 1989 / Min: 124 / Country: UK / Language: English / CW: Strong Sex, Graphic Violence, Language
The Graduate
A young Dustin Hoffman plays a recent college graduate torn between the older, married Mrs. Robinson and her daughter. This classic features a Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack, impeccable shot making, and an infinitely quotable script.
Year: 1967 / Min: 106 / Country: USA / Language: English / CW: moderate sex references, brief nudity
