The Wild Pear Tree
Mon 22 Apr – Wed 24 Apr
Doors: 7.00pm for 8.00pm
Sun 28 April (5.00pm for 6.00pm)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film premiered in Cannes 2018 to huge acclaim: “Gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie” (The Guardian) “a lyrical, tremendously acted drama of prodigal fathers and sons” (The Daily Telegraph) “A big, bold masterpiece… his greatest work to date” (Little White Lies).
Sinan returns from his studies in the city of Çanakkale to his parents’ home in the small rural town of Çan. He hopes to publish a book of essays and short stories (or what he describes as a “quirky auto-fiction meta-novel”). But his teacher father Idris is an addictive gambler, so much so that his mother and sister have become reluctantly accustomed to making do without food or electricity. So Sinan, with his writing dreams, worrying that we will be reduced, after army service, to teaching in the remote East, wanders around town, visiting his grandparents, encountering old friends, all the while looking for funding for his book.
Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Run Time: 188 mins
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaiR3zdv5cU
Kids Whirled: Paddington 2
Sat 27 April
Doors: 10.30am for 11.00am start
Paddington 2 honors its star’s rich legacy with a sweet-natured sequel whose adorable visuals are matched by a story perfectly balanced between heartwarming family fare and purely enjoyable all-ages adventure.
Dir: Paul King
Run time: 103 mins
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x5HJ9H8DM
Films before this:
An Impossible Love
Mon 1 Apr – Wed 3 Apr
Doors: 7.00pm for 8.00pm start
Sun 7 April (doors: 5.00pm for 6.00pm start)
A semi-autobiographical novel is the basis of ‘Leaving’ and ‘Summertime’ director Catherine Corsini’s decades-spanning drama. Rising star Virginie Efira is superb as Rachel, a young woman whose affair in the 1950s with a callous young man (Niels Schneider) results in the birth of a daughter and a relationship that continues across decades.
Based on Christine Angot’s (co-writer of ‘Let the Sunshine In’) controversial novel, Corsini’s impeccably directed and moving drama is beautifully made and stunning to look at.
Dir: Catherine Corsini
Run Time: 130 mins
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVJP9UdGP0
Whirled Docs: The Great Game
Thurs 4 April
Doors: 7.00pm for 8.00pm start
Jon Beardmore, 38 and frustrated with his 9-5 career, makes a decision that will change his life forever.
Inspired by a game of cricket in Kabul, Jon sets out on an extraordinary nine-month solo overland journey across Central Asia in a 20 year Landcruiser called Boris and only his mascot Kiwi Ted for company. And he sets off with one burning question in mind – is Central Asia really as dangerous as we’re led to believe?
Dir: Jon Beardmore
Run time: 61 mins
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUlenWQM0bk
Burning
Mon 8 April – Wed 10 April
Doors: 7.00pm for 8.00pm start
Sun 14 April (doors: 5.00pm for 6.00pm start)
Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this critically acclaimed South Korean film tells the story of Jong-soo, a part-time worker who bumps into old neighbour Hae-mi. She asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Kenya, but when she returns, Hae-mi introduces Ben (Steven Yeun) to Jong-soo. One day, Ben visits Jong-soo with Hae-mi and confesses his own secret hobby.
Dir Chang-dong Lee
Run time: 148 mins
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKnOaJYwJI
The House By The Sea
Mon 15 April – Wed 17 April
Doors: 7.00pm for 8.00pm start
Sun 21 April (doors 5.00pm for 6.00pm start)
By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela, an actress living in Paris, Joseph, who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand, the only one who stayed behind in Marseilles to run the family’s small restaurant. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil
Dir: Robert Guédiguian
Run Time: 107 mins
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