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Previous Films

Season:  2022

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A Caribbean Dream

Director : Shakirah Bourne

Country : Barbados

Release Date : 2017

Duration : 82 mins

Language : English

Subtitles : No

In a modern day setting on the Caribbean island of Barbados, we enter a carnival atmosphere as Puck – the butler – and the staff of a tropical home, turn into mischievous fairies and tamper with the wedding plans of three couples. While Theseus and Hippolyta are returning nationals, we also reconvene with some of our beloved characters, including the mechanicals re-imagined as fishermen, the fairies carrying mobile phones and a female Bottom. Through an intertwining of Caribbean and Shakespearean folklore, culture, history and the surrounding landscape, the story unfolds in chaos and madness as mystery, magic and romance take over underneath the Caribbean moonlight.

If you’ve had your fill of flitty-fluttery fairies, its forest sprites are a palate cleanser – constantly sloping off to carnival, which makes for more twerking than your average Shakespeare.”  (Cath Clarke – The Guardian)

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Les Géants

Director : Bouli Lanners

Country : Belgium

Release Date : 2011

Duration : 84 mins

Language : French

Subtitles : Yes

Abandoned at their late grandfather’s house for the summer, teenage brothers Zak and Seth are left to their own devices. With the endless possibilities of summer fun and adventure to be had in the idyllic Belgian countryside, they feel the world is their oyster. But when money runs short and with no help in sight, the boys scheme to support themselves by renting their deceased grandfather’s house to a local drug dealer, but things don’t go exactly as planned.

A lovely, sportive, bucolic film, turns Belgium into an annexe of Huck Finn country.” (Nigel Andrews – Financial Times)

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Abouna (Our Father)

Director : Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Country : Chad

Release Date : 2002

Duration : 84 mins

Language : Chadian Arabic and French

Subtitles : Yes

The lives of two brothers, who live in a small town in Chad, are upended when they awake one Saturday morning to find that their father has left the family. They are Amine – 8 years old, playful and asthmatic, and Tahir – 15, handsome, quiet, his brother’s protector. The boys go in search of their father and find only trouble. The father’s departure also debilitates their mother. The movies, a musical uncle, a village Koran school, a poster of a Moroccan beach and a young deaf woman figure in the resolution. Is there any place for happiness, or is happiness only in storybooks? With a soundtrack by acclaimed Malian multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré.

A splendid achievement for the nascent African film industry. And it is also a fascinating film, notable for its empathetic heart as well as its political guts.” (Shirley Sealy – Film Journal International)

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Theatre Of Blood

Director : Douglas Hickox

Country : UK

Release Date : 1973

Duration : 100 mins

Language : English

Subtitles : No

Hammy Shakespearean actor, Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price), becomes enraged after failing to win a prominent acting award and decides to seek revenge on the critics responsible. This he does in a delicious manner – killing them in methods featured in the works of the Bard. Highly camp, supremely witty, inventive and surprisingly grisly, this comedy masterpiece features a distinguished cast including Michael Hordern, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Jack Hawkins, Ian Hendry, Arthur Lowe, Joan Hickson, Robert Morley, Milo O’Shea, Eric Sykes, Diana Dors and Dennis Price.  Diana Rigg, who considered this as her best film, also stars as Lionheart’s daughter Edwina.

The magnum opus of Vincent Price’s film career, this stylish, witty comedy horror boasts an irresistible premise, an inspired ensemble cast, fabulous music and first-rate production values.”  (Alan Jones – Radio Times)

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Aparajito (The Unvanquished)

Director : Satyajit Ray

Country : India

Release Date : 1956

Duration : 108 mins

Language : Bengali

Subtitles : Yes

In this, the second film of Satyajit Ray’s masterful Apu Trilogy, Apu and his family move to the holy city of Benares (Varanasi) as Apu continues his academic and spiritual education in adolescence. Enormously touching in its simplicity, emotional sweep and visual beauty, it is often featured in lists of the greatest films ever made. With a soundtrack by Ravi Shankar.

What makes it almost unparalleled in cinema is its fusion of poignancy, humour, and poetry … it concerns a poor boy growing up in India nearly a century ago – and yet, miraculously, it concerns us all.” (Andrew Robinson – New York Times)

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8 Women

Director : François Ozon

Country : France

Release Date : 2002

Duration : 111 mins

Language : French

Subtitles : Yes

At an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season, including a stellar cast including Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart and Fanny Ardant. But there will be no celebration – their beloved patriarch has been found dead! Dark secrets emerge and comedic situations arise about each of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Also serving as a witty pastiche of and homage to the history of film and the actresses’ filmographies, all eight women are suspect. One of them is guilty. Which one is it?

The French screen royalty assembled by Ozon and the film’s sheer exuberance in its own artifice make this a delight from beginning to end.”  (J.R. Jones – Chicago Reader)