In Kate Winslet’s first film as a director, we follow a group of fractured siblings who must come together under sudden and trying circumstances.

It's nearly Christmas when an unexpected turn in their mother's health thrusts four adult siblings and their exasperating father into chaos as they navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss. But their quick-witted mother June orchestrates her decline on her own terms - with biting humour, blunt honesty and a lot of love.

Winslet has brought together an eye-opening A-list cast that includes Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Stephen Merchant, Timothy Spall, Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn and Jeremy Swift.

UK 2025 Kate Winslet

La Femme la Plus Riche du Monde

In the final film of this year’s French Film Festival UK, a nonagenarian's gift of millions to a young artist sparks a scandal, leading her daughter to uncover alleged political corruption involving a former president.

Marianne Farrère (Isabelle Huppert), the billionaire head of the Windler Group, is the richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain Fantin (Laurent Lafitte) is a Parisian dandy, writer and photographer. After meeting on a photo shoot, the two become inseparable. Their friendship – one where Pierre-Alain is only too happy to take financial advantage - surprises, amuses, intrigues and eventually unsettles the billionaire’s entourage and family. Featuring Huppert in a delicious, tailor-made role, writer/director Thierry Klifa’s film is freely inspired by the captivating real-life scandal surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the heir to the L’Oreal fortune. ‘A story of love, money and scandal’. New York Times. (Subtitles)

France 2025 Thierry Klifa 103m

Royal Ballet & Opera

Peter Wright’s ‘The Nutcracker’ has enchanted audiences since its 1984 premiere by the Company. See it at Chichester Cinema this Christmas.

Thu 11 Dec 19:15

Sat 13 Dec 12:45

La Tour de Glace

A 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale ‘The Snow Queen’, and she becomes fascinated by its star, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

Jeanne (Clara Pacini) is a teenage girl living in a foster home in 1970’s France. One day she runs away, breaks into a nearby film soundstage to sleep overnight, and she somehow gets a job as an extra. She is astonished to realise what story is being filmed - Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’, a story she has long been fascinated with. It is here that her urchin-like prettiness and air of demurely sensitive adoration for the queen catches Cristina’s (Marion Cotillard) eye, the enigmatic diva-ish star of the film. A mutual fascination grows between the actress and the girl. Sequences in the film let us drift as if in a dream. It is a mesmeric melodrama, mixing sensuality with a teetering anxiety, balancing on a cliff-edge of disaster. (Subtitles)

France/Germany 2025 Lucile Hadzihalilovic 117m

Met Opera

Umberto Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution.

Sun 14 Dec 14:15

This new comedy drama from Noah Baumbach follows a famous movie actor and his devoted manager as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe.

Pampered, narcissistic movie legend Jay Kelly (George Clooney) is personable and charming, but so devoted to his career that he doesn’t notice the emotional wreckage he leaves in his wake. He will always rely on his long-suffering manager Ron (Adam Sandler) or his sardonic publicist Liz (Laura Dern) to clear up the mess. This very cleverly crafted screenplay, co-written by Baumbach and British actor-writer Emily Mortimer, balances the in-jokes with perceptive observations about status anxiety, the vapidity of celebrity culture and the fragility of family ties. George Clooney is raw and revealing and may just see an Oscar nomination coming his way.

USA 2025 Noah Baumbach 132m

In Tribute to Diane Keaton

In commemoration of the ‘brilliant, beautiful and extraordinary’ Diane Keaton - as described by Bette Midler after Keaton’s recent passing – we present the film in which she won her Oscar for Best Actress.

The second of a two-part film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz's silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of goodness for all of Oz, living at the Emerald City palace and about to marry Prince Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding. When an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, and a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together and truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves and all of Oz, for good.

USA 2025 Jon M. Chu 138m

In a remote forgotten rural area, a mother struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. Lynne Ramsay’s latest work is further proof of tis director’s immense skill.

Grace (Jennifer Lawrence, who is outstanding) is an aspiring writer who moves from New York to the countryside with her partner Jackson (Robert Pattinson). The couple's new life has the potential to be idyllic. They are fiercely in love, surrounded by woods and meadows, allowing Grace the peace and freedom to write a novel. But once a baby comes into their life, Grace becomes blearily adrift from reality, brilliantly conveyed by the director using a variety of cinematic techniques. The threat of violence pervades the film, but it is cleverly balanced with touches of dark humour.

USA/Canada/UK 2025 Lynne Ramsay 118m

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.

Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king Jack Skellington has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colours and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life and plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

USA 1993 Henry Selick 73m

A Stop-Motion Workshop

Making stop-motion pocket-sized films

A magical world of creativity awaits in this stop-motion animation workshop which will encourage creative expression and simple storytelling.

The workshop will be led by co-Family Flicks programmer Conor Riley who has run animation workshops at The Courtyard Cinema and the National Film and Television School for AccessNFTS and in 2024 created Cinema for Young Explorers, discovering how storytelling helps children understand themselves and the world around them.

Tickets £5

Sat 20 Dec 10:30

Three Cracking Adventures

A Grand Day Out - Wallace and Gromit find themselves desperate for "a nice bit of Gorgonzola", so they build a rocket ship and blast off for a cheesy lunar picnic! 24m

The Wrong Trousers - Wallace gifts Gromit his latest invention - mechanical "techno-trousers". But things go from bad to worse when a new boarder arrives - a suspicious-looking penguin. 30m

A Close Shave – The duo meets lovely wool-shop owner Wendolene and her malevolent dog Preston - mastermind of a sheep-napping scheme! Features Shaun the Sheep. 31m

Sat 20 Dec 12:15

Shipwrecked on a remote island, a young boy must adapt to life alone. But is he alone? A gripping animated adaptation of Michael Morpugo’s beloved novel with an A-list voice cast.

When Michael (Aaron MacGregor) is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parents' (Cillian Murphy and Sally Hawkins) yacht, he struggles to survive on his own. He can't find food or water, and as Michael and his dog curl up to sleep, he knows they cannot last long. But he soon realizes there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive. Following a close-run battle between life and death, the mysterious stranger – Kensuke (Ken Watanabe) - allows Michael into his world and they become friends, teaching and learning from each other until the day of separation becomes inevitable. This is a traditional hand-drawn animation which adds to the film’s charm, and the message that we should all work together despite our cultural differences is more relevant today than ever.

UK 2023 Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry 85m

The Foley Factory

The Art of Sound Effects Workshop

Let your child embark on a journey of discovery in this special workshop on sound effects.

Taking scenes from E.T., we'll remove the soundtrack and provide a host of objects and materials to recreate realistic sound effects. Led by Foley artist and sound designer Will Henley, who worked on the BAFTA-winning short film Rock, Paper, Scissors, this fun-filled workshop will encourage children to listen and compare different sounds, experimenting with objects and textures to bring film scenes to life. Bring an apron!

Tickets £5

Sun 21 Dec 10:30

In this Spielberg classic, a troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, he is befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial (E.T.) into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T. to his brother (C. Thomas Howell) and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien. Even after more than 40 years, this is a spellbinding film that reminds us of human compassion and the eternal joy of cinema.

In this classic Walt Disney animation based on Rudyard Kipling's book, Mowgli, an abandoned child raised by wolves, has his peaceful existence threatened by the return of the man-eating tiger Shere Khan (George Sanders).

Facing certain death, Mowgli must overcome his reluctance to leave his wolf family and return to the "man village." But he is not alone on his quest: Aided by Bagheera the panther, and later by the carefree bear Balloo (Phil Harris), he braves the jungle's many perils. With expressive animation, fun characters and extremely catchy songs, ‘The Jungle Book’ endures today as one of the most crowd-pleasing Disney classics.

USA 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 78m

From Vision to Set Design Workshop

Inspired by the spectacular world of ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’, your child will explore the art of production design in this creative workshop.

Participants will create mood boards and miniature set pieces that capture the visual magic of the film, working with mixed media and everyday materials to bring their imaginative designs to life. This hands-on workshop will encourage children to think like production designers, transforming their ideas from concept sketches into tangible miniature worlds.

Tickets £5

Mon 22 Dec 10:30

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

Predicated on a May-December romance, the difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson). Throwing conventional behaviour to the winds and facing social ostracism, Cary pursues her romance with Bohemian Ron, who is unjustly perceived as a fortune-hunter by Cary's friends and family - especially her priggish brother Ned (William Reynolds). With lavishly saturated colour schemes and loaded compositions, we are treated to a potent story for the ages. Director Sirk was one of the inspirations for R.W. Fassbinder's vivid visual style and Brechtian narrative approaches; his ‘Fear Eats the Soul’ is modelled on ‘All That Heaven Allows’.  

USA 1955 Douglas Sirk 89m

Follows David Bowie's final creative chapter, exploring his artistic resurrection and extraordinary creativity in his last decade, culminating in the release of his album Blackstar.

90m

A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials, growing increasingly obsessed with understanding evil as he forms a disturbing bond with Hermann Göring.

At the end of WWII, after Adolf Hitler and many of his high command officers committed suicide, the allied countries wanted to put the mess of the war behind them. After millions lost their lives to a genocide of unspeakable proportions, several governments came together to put on an unprecedented trial that would challenge international law. As the Nuremberg trials (as they would come to be known) are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe). Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) is a lead prosecutor in the case and relies on Kelley’s instincts to persuade Göring to admit certain criminal activities and assist in how to cross-examine the Nazi leader best. Richard E. Grant, as British lawyer David Maxwell Fyfe, take the courtroom scenes to higher ground, tearing Göring down with carefully crafted monologues. The potent performances by Crowe and Malek ignite this bracingly relevant historical courtroom drama.

USA 2025 James Vanderbilt 148m

An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.

This new comedy written and directed by James L. Brooks (‘As Good as It Gets’, ‘Terms of Endearment’, ‘Broadcast News’) about the complicated politics that arise when a young woman's stressful career clashes with her chaotic family life.

USA 2025 James L. Brooks

When Mary finds herself in a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace.

The global phenomenon returns to the cinema screen for the final time as the Crawley family and their staff enter the 1930s. They must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future. While we will surely miss the presence of the great Maggie Smith as late Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, the film nevertheless boasts a stellar cast which includes Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan and Jim Carter. They will be joined for the finale by Joely Richardson, Dominic West, Simon Russell Beale, and the magnificent Paul Giamatti. Book your seat for the final bow!

UK 2024 Simon Curtis 123m

In Hayao Miyazaki’s breakthrough classic, a prince becomes involved in the struggle between a forest princess and the encroachment of mechanization.

While seeking to cure himself of a curse, young warrior Ashitaka stumbles into a conflict between the people of Iron Town and Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the destruction of her home. She hates and distrusts all humans, including Ashitaka. Superbly imagined and visually sumptuous, this is a call for peaceful co-existence Miyazaki was already a culture hero in Japan when this animated mythic adventure raised him (and Studio Ghibli) to a status approaching living national treasure. (Subtitles)

Japan 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 133m

Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.

Detectives Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootropolis and turns the mammal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

USA 2025 Jared Bush & Byron Howard

Our final Melodrama of the season is an Almodóvar classic. After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbour from their hometown reports that she has seen the ghost of Irene and both daughters do not believe her, but after a family tragedy, Irene's spirit materializes around her daughters to help comfort them. This is a touching, beautifully plotted film, full of visually stunning images and memorable jokes, it zips along without a wasted second in its 121 minutes. Almodóvar brought together a superb female ensemble in a picture about women working together as friends, sisters, mothers and neighbours, and the jury at Cannes rightly gave their best actress award to the lot of them. (Subtitles)

Spain 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 121m

Berlin Philharmonic

From heartbreak to ecstasy, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert will take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride to bring in 2026.

Wed 31 Dec 16:00

The true story of John Davidson; diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed.

At age 15, John Davidson (Robert Aramayo) faced and overcame many hardships from adolescence and early adulthood, as a result of what was a little known and entirely misunderstood condition in 1980’s Britain. Targeted as insane by his peers, Davidson lived with a condition few had ever witnessed, as he attempted to live a ‘normal’ life against the odds. Written and directed by Kirk Jones (‘Waking Ned’, ‘Nanny McPhee’), this is a heart-warming film that will surely prove popular with filmgoers. The supporting cast includes some of Britain’s best: the always brilliant Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), Shirley Henderson (‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’, ‘Trainspotting’), and Cannes Best Actor Award winner & Golden Lion winner Peter Mullan (‘War Horse’).

UK 2025 Kirk Jones 120m

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, a new arrival is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love.

Larry (Miles Teller) is a devoted husband who spent 65 years making his wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) happy. When he sees an old photograph of Joan with her first spouse Luke (Callum Turner), he chokes on a pretzel and ends up in the afterlife in a younger version of his body and eager to wait for his wife. But he's not the only one waiting on Joan. Also on the other side is the dashing Luke (Callum Turner), who died valiantly in "the war” and has been waiting for Joan ever since. When Joan shows up in the afterlife, a new war brews between her two beaus, fighting for who she'll spend eternity with. The result is a charming comedy with a unique premise, that is heartwarming fun. Look out for the always brilliant Da'Vine Joy Randolph (‘The Holdovers’) who co-stars as an ‘afterlife counsellor’ and shares some great comedic moments with a work rival (John Early).

USA 2025 David Freyne 112m

Yek Tasadef Sadeh

In this outstanding 2025 Palme D’or winning, darkly funny, Coen-esque abduction tale, a small mishap triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems.

Impulsive mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has caught the brutal interrogator who once tortured him for three months and left him scarred – a man given the epithets ‘Peg Leg’ by his victims. The guy has a prosthetic leg. It must be him. But like so much else in this blackly brilliant film, a question mark hangs over this scenario. Is this man (Ebrahim Azizi) really the author of his suffering or is he just a family man called Eghbal, as he claims? Jafar Panahi is a formidably courageous filmmaker who has spent time in jail at the hands of his country’s repressive regime. Here, he brings deep feeling to a movie that often plays closer to a straight comedy than a fiercer indictment of the state. One police officer even fishes out a card reader to take a bribe when Vahid doesn’t have cash on hand to get out of a tight spot. Panahi holds this tonal range expertly as laughs give away to a probing, philosophical third act that upends expectations in quietly thrilling style.

(Subtitles)

Iran 2025 Jafar Panahi 105m

In this very funny… and naughty comedy, a directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Colin (Harry Melling) is a sweet, shy guy who lives at home with his dad Pete (Douglas Hodge) and mum Peggy (Lesley Sharp), who is always tenderly trying to set Colin up with dates. Colin sings with his dad’s cheesy barbershop quartet every Sunday in the pub which is where he somehow catches the imperious gaze of leather-clad Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). Soon Ray is requiring the thrilled Colin to cook and clean and shop for him, and ride pillion behind Ray when on his bike. Director Harry Lighton finds a delicate balance between funny, disturbing, sweet and sad, and brings out an impressive performance from his two leads, especially Melling as the instantly lovable young chap trying to understand the full spectrum of his identity as a gay man. “It’s basically what Fifty Shades of Grey should have been.” Peter Bradshaw (Guardian).

UK 2025 Harry Lighton 107m

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return, in this cold-blooded satire of Hollywood. The best film ever to capture the transitory nature of film fame returns in a stunning 4K remaster.

Struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) needs to lie low for a while when he chances upon a run-down mansion on Sunset Boulevard. The creepy residence is home to faded movie star Norma Desmond (the hypnotic Gloria Swanson), and devoted manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). Desmond is planning an unlikely movie comeback and wants Cecil B DeMille to direct her hapless version of ‘Salome’. Eyeing an easy buck, Joe offers his writing services to the deluded one-time great, who covets more than just his editing skills. ‘Sunset Boulevard’ is both a savage indictment of the star system (and the monsters it produces), and an all-too-knowing depiction of a writer's impotence in Hollywood. Classic scene unspools after classic scene filled with priceless one-liners.

USA 1950 Billy Wilder 110m

Focus on the Documentary

Chronicling Jacinda Ardern's tenure as New Zealand PM, navigating crises while redefining global leadership through her empathetic yet resolute approach.

Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister, led her nation through unprecedented challenges, implemented bold policies and became the second leader in history to give birth in office, all while championing an inclusive and empathetic leadership style that changed global expectations of what a leader can be. This is an essential political portrait seeding optimism and concern, leaving you with hope that more Jacinda Arderns are in the wings ready to enshrine common sense, despite the pitfalls of politics. World leaders have rarely been captured with as much intimacy. Includes 17-minute recorded Q&A with Jacinda Ardern.

USA/New Zealand 2025 Lindsay Utz & Michelle Walshe 118m

Fri 19 Dec 15:30

Mon 22 Dec 20:00

Wed 24 Dec 14:45

National Theatre Live

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (‘Slow Horses’, ‘Dunkirk’) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (‘The Hobbit’, ‘The Responder’) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

Thu 27 Nov 20:15

Sat 29 Nov 15:45

Tom Hardy narrates this unique eco-thriller documentary where Park Rangers must relocate 21 black rhinos to a new sanctuary, which is surrounded by poachers.

With only 6000 black rhinos left on earth, one dedicated wildlife ranger, Kiloku, has made it his life mission to protect the species against all odds. Hemmed in by ruthless bandits and with overcrowding becoming an issue, the rhinos at his sanctuary risk turning on each other in a deathmatch for territory. With the help of a recently qualified ranger named Rita, the pair launch an audacious plan to move a group of the formidable herd to a new safe haven, 60 miles west. It is a potentially deadly mission, but one that the team are willing to risk their lives for in order to launch a new population, and further Kenya’s incredible ongoing conservation efforts. Crafted from four years of living and working alongside Kenya’s conservancy community, this is both timely and urgent, as poacher violence spirals out of control and the demand for illicit rhino horn climbs ever higher.

UK 2025 Tom Martienssen 83m

Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, intricate and suspenseful interpretation of Patricia Highsmith’s first Ripley novel, published in 1955, about a poor man who wanted to be a rich man.

By chance, Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow), Dickie's cultured fiancée, and soon finds himself soaking in luxury. Through Damon’s performance and Minghella’s direction, each of Ripley’s lies, and murders, have an emotional immediacy in a story of self-destruction so convincing, so compelling, that we want to believe Tom’s lies as much as he does. The cast also includes Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman

USA 1999 Anthony Minghella 137m

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Believe the hype – this will be one of the films of the year!

1952: In the Jewish heart of New York’s Lower East Side, we meet Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) – ping-pong legend in waiting, hustler, woman-slayer and then some. Essentially the film is about the calamitous, all-swaggering rise of Marty, including an interaction with ageing, married film star Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow) on smoulderingly good form, who is seduced before being financially hoodwinked. The payback for Marty is a gloriously humiliating. Chalamet turns in an Oscar-worthy performance with a titular character that is by equal turns an arrogant, abrasive people user while also being completely lovable and endearing.

USA 2025 Josh Safdie 149m

A film exploring the 1936-39 Arab revolt against British rule, laying bare the colonial interference that sowed the seeds for the Israel-Palestine conflict.

1936. As villages across mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya) drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain's 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region. The cast includes Jeremy Irons as High Commissioner Wauchope and Robert Aramayo (‘I Swear’) as Captain Wingate. (Some subtitles)

France/Palestine 2025 Annemarie Jacir 115m

Affeksjonsverdi

An intimate exploration of family, memories and the reconciliatory power of art.

Sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-renowned film director. He offers Nora, a famous face at the National Theatre in Oslo, a role in his comeback passion project, which she turns down, later discovering he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star (Elle Fanning). Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father - and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics. This is a heart-swelling and unexpectedly humour-filled tale that will break you before it makes you whole again. At one point Gustav says, “when it comes to world cinema, they really don’t make ‘em like they used to”. He is right of course, but what a treat when someone makes one like this. Cinema this intelligent is rarely this much fun to watch. (Subtitles)

Norway 2025 Joachim Trier 133m

Numerous actors have portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the big screen over the course of the past century, but nobody comes close to Eille Norwood, who starred as Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth in 45 shorts and two features between 1921 and 1923.

Three of the restored two-reelers are on view here: ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ (1921), ‘The Golden Pince-Nez’ (1922) and ‘The Final Problem’ (1923). What’s striking about these films is how well they distil the essence of Conan Doyle’s stories into twenty-odd minutes of screen time, efficiently setting up the mystery, deduction and solution, and inserting flashbacks to reveal key details. Directed by the reliable hands of Maurice Elvey and George Ridgewell, the witty and involving productions move at a snappy pace towards satisfying endings. Norwood is captivating as Holmes, he is an authoritative presence and a largely understated performer perfectly suiting Conan Doyle’s detective. “He (Norwood) has that rare quality, which can only be described as glamour, which compels you to watch an actor eagerly even when he is doing nothing”. – Arthur Conan Doyle. Silent with new music by Joanna MacGregor, Joseph Havlat and Neil Brand.

UK 1921-23 Maurice Elvey/George Ridgwell 75m

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura and virtuoso vocal fireworks, Vincenzo Bellini’s ‘I Puritani’ has few equals.

This first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years – with a striking staging by Charles Edwards - arrives at Chichester Cinema.

Sun 11 Jan 13:45

Royal Ballet & Opera

In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Guiseppe Verdi’s opera shines bright.

Thu 15 Jan 19:15

Sun 18 Jan 14:30

Screening as part of our annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration. After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, tells a tale that takes on its own dangerous life.

Eleanor (June Squibb - ‘Thelma’) and her best friend Bessie (Rita Zohar – a real Holocaust survivor) share a home in Florida. Eleanor is generally grouchy and has a tendency to lie, but when a change in their situation forces Eleanor back to New York, she becomes the unwelcome guest in her divorced and much-criticised daughter’s (Jessica Hecht) tiny apartment. This film wraps the Holocaust and Jewish identity into a sentimental story of truth and reconciliation, and Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut. It is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell, and will make you laugh, cry and hug everyone you love. Co-stars Chiwetel Ejiofor.

USA 2025 Scarlett Johansson 98m

‘Lightning and Thunder’, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson shine as these troubled souls - a middle-aged mechanic and hairdresser - drawn to each other as much as they are to their shared love of the venerable singer-songwriter, and the film’s musical sequences are superb. The best Neil Diamond songs are catchy enough to unite huge crowds, they’re deeply sentimental, and they refuse to make even the slightest effort to be cool… just like this film.  It shows us that everyone has a voice worth using and the world is a better place when we all sing along.

USA 2025 Craig Brewer 133m

This wildly entertaining thriller follows a struggling woman who is happy to start over as a housemaid for an affluent, elite couple.

Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sydney Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous - a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters' closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end.

Based on the best-selling book by Freida McFadden and directed by Paul Feig (‘Bridesmaids’), the film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems.

USA 2025 Paul Figg 131m

Plus Tony Palmer Q&A

To commemorate 50 years since the death and 120 years since the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich, we present Tony Palmer's remarkable film portrait of the great composer, starring Ben Kingsley in the title role.

Palmer's prowess as an editor, skilfully interweaves archive footage and Soviet cinematic portrayals of Stalin with his own film, which is mostly in black and white reflecting the nature of the times in which Shostakovich lived. The starting point is Shostakovich’s funeral, where the composer himself is commenting sardonically in a voiceover on the guests. The dread figure of Stalin looms over the film, and Shostakovich’s terror becomes emblematic of the Terror itself. Based on the now-equivocally-considered memoirs of Shostakovich, written down by Solomon Volkov, this film is an overwhelming experience. Music (generously) is performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Barshai. Rare 35mm print.

UK/Netherlands/Denmark 1987 Tony Palmer 157m

We are delighted to welcome back director Tony Palmer for a Q&A after the film.

Jean Vigo's dreamy classic returns to cinemas in a beautiful 4K restoration. A film now considered to be one of cinema’s very greatest works.

Dita Parlo stars as a young bride who begins married life aboard her husband’s barge on the Seine. But within its cramped confines, shared with a small crew (including the eccentric Père Jules, memorably played by Michel Simon) and an abundance of cats, the relationship begins to flounder. Vigo imbues this simple tale, beautifully shot by Boris Kaufman, with social realism, lyrical romance and sensual eroticism to create a unique and enduring classic. A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, this was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. (Subtitles)

France 1934 Jean Vigo 89m

A documentary which delves into the complex inner world of this national treasure nearly ten years after her passing.  

Victoria Wood remains one of Britain’s most cherished entertainers - a northern comic genius whose work reshaped the landscape of British humour. But behind the joyous persona - the singer, the satirist, the sharp-witted writer - lay a young woman navigating insecurity, anger and self-doubt. Told in her own words and through the voices of those who knew her best, the film uncovers the formative experiences and personal battles that powered Victoria’s unmatched ability to make the nation laugh. Actor Jessica Barden brings to life extracts from letters, interviews and Victoria Wood’s own personal archive in specially filmed scenes combining readings with dramatisation in the upcoming feature length documentary.

UK 2025 Catherine Abbott 90m

A powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of William Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Agnes (Jessie Buckley), an expert falconer, and Will (Paul Mescal), a Latin tutor who longs to be a writer, quickly fall in love, marry and have three children, the happiness of their rustic Stratford-Upon-Avon home only interrupted by Will’s occasional journeys to London to workshop his plays. But when their only son, 11-year-old Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe), succumbs to the plague, Agnes and Will face the first severe challenge to their relationship, their grief turning to animosity between them. Chloe Zhao’s (‘Nomadland’) adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell novel charts the romance between Shakespeare and his wife as the couple experience wedded bliss and then tragedy, inspiring the birth of the Bard’s heralded ‘Hamlet’. Where other films reduce the act of creation to a simplistic cause-and-effect scenario, ‘Hamnet’ far more profoundly investigates how love and art shift in intensity and clarity over time. So much of the movie is meticulously composed, colourful and detailed, that it almost feels like a romantic fairytale. What ‘Hamnet’ leaves you with isn’t sadness, but joy – at the human capacity to reckon with death’s implacability through art, or love, or just the basic act of carrying-on in its defiance. One of the must-sees of the season.

UK/USA 2025 Chloé Zhao 125m

After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely, unpredictable and uninvited houseguest.

Following the death of his wife, a young father's (Cumberbatch) hold on reality crumbles and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons (real-life brothers Henry and Richard Boxall). A man-like crow, seemingly brought to life from the father's work as an illustrator, is about to become a very real part of all of their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape their family must take. Anyone who has had an experience with loss will deeply resonate with this film; it will be a little distressing, yet somewhat cathartic viewing. Cumberbatch’s full-throttle performance is the best he has been in years.

UK 2025 Dylan Southern 98m

A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.

Riz Ahmed plays a world class "fixer" who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James), needing his protection just to stay alive, the rules quickly start to change. This is a crisply edited old-school thriller, full of style, and with Ahmed outstanding as always.

USA 2024 David Mackenzie 112m

Collaborators, Perpetrators, Bystanders and Victims

An illustrated talk to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

This talk by Professor Maggie Andrews and Sonia Smith interrogates the representations of women in feature films about the Holocaust.

Sat 24 Jan 10:30

Le Assaggiatrici

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary real-life account, this film sees a group of women risk their lives as Hitler’s ‘food tasters’.

Rosa Sauer (Elisa Schlott) flees her bombed-out Berlin apartment, moves in with her in-laws, all while her husband, a German soldier, is fighting in Ukraine. Not too far away in a forest surrounded by barbed wire is the "Wolf's Lair" - the Eastern Front military headquarters of Adolf Hitler. Rosa lands among a group of war-weary young women, long deprived of sufficient food, who are forcibly recruited by the SS. They are driven every day to Hitler's complex to serve as his food tasters, dining on abundant vegetarian delicacies three times a day. The only price: risking their lives with each bite as they are tasked with making sure that the food intended for Adolf Hitler has not been poisoned. The extraordinary account by then 95-year-old Margot Wölk created a sensation when it first appeared in a Berlin tabloid more than a decade ago. Her decision to break decades of silence about her wartime experiences captured the imagination of German reporters, then global media, finally inspiring a documentary, two novels and a play. You may remember the director from his wonderful 2000 film ‘Bread and Tulips’. (Subtitles)

Italy/Belgium/Switzerland 2025 Silvio Soldini 123m

To start off our Staff Choice selections, Head of Technical Operations Mark Hoare has chosen Nicholas Ray’s ferocious, frayed melodramatic Western, led by two women whose real-life dislike for one another bled into their performances.

Vienna (Joan Crawford) owns a saloon on the edge of town, a regular haunt of outlaw The Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady). The railroad is coming and Vienna's plot of land will soon make her fortune. But opposing her is Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), scion of the richest family in the area and so ashamed of her desire for the Kid that she wants him dead. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a musician with a past that Vienna is desperate for him to forget. Enter love or something like. A yearning score by Peggy Lee and Victor Young. A cast including John Carradine, Royal Dano, Ernest Borgnine and Ben Cooper. The boldest colour scheme. Pedro Almodóvar's favourite film. Rapture.

Mark: "I chose this chiefly because it's sublime and I adore it, but also because of its melding and rejection of genre and convention, it’s repression and twisted emotion, it’s gorgeous and gaudy colours, it’s spite and malice, McCambridge and Crawford in a battle of who crumbles first, the longing".

USA 1954 Nicholas Ray 110m

NT Live

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (‘Life of Pi’) is Hamlet in this National Theatre fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Sun 25 Jan 14:45

In this comedy/drama, a choral society's male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription into the army.

1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral's ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) - driven, uncompromising and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together. Director Hytner has previously given us ‘The History Boys’ and ‘The Lady in a Van’, giving us an idea of the similar crowd-pleasing tone of this film.

UK/USA 2025 Nicholas Hytner 113m

An American actor struggling to find purpose, lands an unusual gig in Tokyo: working for an agency playing stand-in roles for strangers, where he rediscovers purpose, belonging and the beauty of human connection.

Phillip Vandarpleog (Brendan Fraser) is a washed-up American actor whose only brush with fame came from a Japanese toothpaste commercial years before. Now stuck in a loop of loneliness and failed auditions, his life changes when he is hired to pose as a mourner at a “living funeral”. What follows is a strange odyssey through Japan’s rent-a-relative industry, where he takes on increasingly intimate roles, being caught in a whirlwind of exhilarating experiences. ‘Rental Family’ is not only funny, but also melancholic and deeply human, and Brendan Fraser is a real Oscar hopeful, following his big win in 2023 with ‘The Whale’.

USA 2025 Hikari 103m

Otto e Mezzo

Probably Fellini’s most acclaimed work. This tale of a harried filmmaker retreating into memories and fantasies strikes the perfect balance between fantasy and reality.

Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical. The result is a dazzling array of themes and images which make this the quintessential Fellini movie as well as the most potent movie about filmmaking.

Italy 1963 Federico Fellini 138m

James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in this epic spectacle of an adventure

The family of Marine turned Na'vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Na'vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) grapples with grief after their eldest child Neteyam's death, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang (Oona Chaplin), as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. Cast includes Kate Winslet as clan leader Ronal, as well as Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Jermaine Clement and David Thewlis.

USA 2025 James Cameron 192m

Following its November premiere at the 2025 Jewish Film Festival, we are delighted to be given permission to screen this special preview, a riveting portrait of 100-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel.

German-born, Jewish ex-spy, Peter Sichel - known as “the Jewish James Bond” in his Hamptons’ community, and “the wunderkind” in espionage circles - was in his early 20s when he joined the OSS (the precursor to the CIA). Aged 100, he looks back on his chequered career with the organisation, considering his huge successes, as well as his decision to quit in the 1960s, following years of disagreements with the CIA and consecutive American administrations. With spotless integrity plus a good dose of wit and humour to boot, Sichel relishes the opportunity to talk about the copious amounts of alcohol consumed by CIA agents in the 1950s, berate senior politicians, and call General Patton “a very stupid man” - in short, being a worldclass secret agent and mensch. “A fascinating and wide-ranging history lesson.” Screen Daily

USA/Germany 2025 Katharina Otto-Bernstein 106m

When her family is murdered by a group of corrupt officers led by the tyrannical Norman Stansfield, a young 12-year-old girl enlists the help of an Italian-American hitman to seek revenge.

Mathilda (Natalie Portman) is only 12 years old, but is already familiar with the dark side of life: her abusive father stores drugs for corrupt police officers and her mother neglects her. Léon (Jean Reno), who lives down the hall, tends to his houseplants and works as a hired hitman for mobster Tony (Danny Aiello). When her family is murdered by crooked DEA agent Stansfield (Gary Oldman), Mathilda joins forces with a reluctant Léon to learn his deadly trade and avenge her family's deaths. Oozing style, wit and confidence from every sprocket, and offering a dizzyingly, fresh perspective on the Big Apple that only Besson could bring, this is, in a word, wonderful. (Some subtitles)

France 1994 Luc Besson 110m

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family, as the Davenport family deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.

From the director of ‘Catastrophe’ Jim O’Hanlon; the hilarious story of a pickpocket (Ben Radcliffe) who blags his way into service at the grand Fackham Hall, only to fall for the Lord’s (Damien Lewis) rebellious daughter (Thomasin Mckenzie) who is betrothed to marry another (Tom Felton) to keep the family from financial ruin. A British Comedy from comedian turned screenwriter Jimmy Carr; mistaken identities, forbidden love and one very inconvenient corpse turn the grand English manor of Fackham Hall into total bedlam in this comedy of class, romance, manners and mischief.

UK 2025 Jim O’Hanlon 97m

Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.

Paul Mescal brings the same introspective charm that gently lit ‘Normal People’ and ‘Aftersun’ to the role of Lionel, a golden-voiced singing student of humble rural origins who is gifted with synaesthesia wherein stimulation of one sense triggers experience of another. Josh O’Connor’s ethno-musicologist David is more angular, urbane and theatrical, flamboyant of gesture with a slightly smug smirk. He also possesses a photographic - or rather phonographic - memory for folk songs. When the two men embark on a field trip, their journey of musical discovery leads to mutual discovery, and the two fall in love. The lead performances are remarkable, particularly Mescal’s - just to watch him listening is galvanizing. This beautiful-looking, measured period piece is allowed to resonate quietly and linger in the mind and ears of the viewer.

USA/UK 2025 Oliver Hermanus 128m

When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is inspired by Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel ‘Vineland’ set in ‘a zone of blessed anarchy’ in Northern California. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a civil rights activist who joins an anti-government group to combat an “alt-right” white supremacist organisation, with Sean Penn playing the leader. Part political satire, part black comedy and part action blockbuster, the film is shot in glorious Vista Vision with breathtaking cinematography bathed in golden-hour natural light. With a cast to die for which also includes Benicio Del Toro and Regina Hall, the film also marks the sixth feature film collaboration between Anderson and composer Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), whose score oscillates between high tension and playful mischief, grounding the more chaotic moments with sonic weight.

USA 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson 170m

Following the very popular ‘Nosferatu X Radiohead’ for Halloween 2025, we bring you one of Buster Keaton’s best comedies paired with supergroup R.E.M.

In this sublime comedy teetering between reality and illusion, Buster Keaton stars as a film projectionist who dreams of becoming a detective. He uses his limited skills when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocket watch. Keaton reportedly broke his neck performing one of the many dangerous practical stunts in the film. ‘Silents Synced’ pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music to bring audiences a unique big screen experience. Here, Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic is reimagined with R.E.M.'s alt-rock masterpieces ‘Monster’ (1994) and ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’ (1996). Whether you’re a movie lover or a rock music fan this is an experience you won’t want to miss!

USA 1924 Buster Keaton 45m

We are delighted to have Mike Jennings from the Cinema Education Team present a short Buster Keaton talk

Sawt Hind Rajab

A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, Red Crescent volunteers do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

This is an innovative hybrid of drama and documentary, recounting the heart-shattering story of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl caught in the Israel-Gaza war in January 2024. Travelling one afternoon in a car with family, the car was fired upon, and Hind was the only one to survive. She was then trapped for hours in the wreckage, squeezed against the bodies of her relatives, and hoping ito be rescued. Heart-wrenching recordings of phone conversations between the terrified girl and Palestinian Red Crescent volunteers have been used as the basis of this film. Director Kaouther Ben Hania is no stranger to the Oscars, having been nominated for ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ (2020), and ‘Four Daughters’ (2024). But her latest work – which numbers Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonathan Glazer and Alfonso Cuarón among its executive producers – will have a greater impact than anything she has done before.

Tunisia/France 2025 Kaouther Ben Hania 89m

This is the first-ever Tibetan-language anthology feature film, exploring the profound themes of statelessness and migration through four poignant stories of Tibetans living in exile.

Directed by Tibetan filmmakers in India, America, and Vietnam, the film captures the painful realities of a scattered people, from a father’s tale of the Mekong River to a son’s discovery of a family secret in Dharamshala. Directors: Tenzin Tsetan Choklay, Tsering Tashi Gyalthang, Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam and Sonam Tseten. (Subtitles)

India/USA/Vietnam 2024 Various Directors 106m

The Life and Cinema of Federico Fellini

Following our Italian Neo-Realism talk in June 2025, we again join the Friends of Ravenna in a second collaboration. This time we examine one of the giants of Italian cinema - Federico Fellini.

Mon 9 Feb 18:30

Watashi ni fusawashi hotel

A semi-autobiographical story about the author of the best-seller ‘Butter’, this charming and comical film explores the brutal reality of becoming a notable novelist.

Despite winning an award for newcomers, the future of rookie novelist Nakajima Kayoko (Non) does not seem at all bright, her struggles stemming from harsh criticism courtesy of veteran writer Higashijujo Munenori (Takito Kenichi). When Kayoko visits a prestigious Hotel for a writing retreat, to her surprise, staying in the room directly above her is none other than Higashijujo himself! With the help of her editor (Tanaka Kei), she devises a plan to sabotage Munenori’s work. Transposing Yuzuki Asako’s original story from the present day to the 1980s, the film is filled with satire, humour and a fabulous 80s wardrobe! (Subtitles)

Japan 2024 Tsutsumi Yukihiko 98m

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.

Helen (Claire Foy) is a gently eccentric young Cambridge academic whose father Alisdair (Brendan Gleeson) is one of the most notable press photographers of his day. He is also his daughter’s closest friend, confidante and mentor, so when he dies she is understandably bereft. To deal with the loss, Helen buys a goshawk from a dealer, names it Mabel, and obsessively dives into training it... a unique yet effective way to deal with her grief. This is an incredible true story, a warm and pensive adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s 2014 memoir where she rediscovers the beauty of being alive. Look out for the outdoor hunting scenes, shot with natural-history-documentary photographic precision as Mabel chases down her prey, skimming mere inches over the ground and flitting instinctively between trees.

UK 2025 Phillipa Lowthorpe 114m

Laura Dern and Will Arnett play a divorcing couple in this hilarious Bradley Cooper directed film, loosely based on the Liverpudlian comedian John Bishop’s life.

“We need to call it, right?” says Tess (Dern) to her husband Alex (Arnett). “I think so too”, Alex replies as they calmly countdown to their divorce. Alex then does what anyone would do: he makes his debut as a stand-up comedian, spilling the minutiae of the split to a roomful of strangers. Tess’s eventual exposure to the routine is a not-to-be-spoiled highlight.

Bradley Cooper is a hoot as Alex’s best buddy, and in a lesser film, would have stolen the show, but the leads in this warm and extremely funny comedy are just so engaging, with the ever-superb Dern giving an Oscar-worthy performance.

USA 2025 Bradley Cooper 124m

On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team's preparation base in Saipan, following a heated disagreement with the Irish manager Mick McCarthy.

Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) is a player turned manager taking charge of the Republic of Ireland football team as they make a rare appearance in a global tournament. The media is perhaps rightfully crediting this to Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke), whose success as part of a very professional Manchester United organization has elevated the national team, whether McCarthy likes to admit it or not. When they arrive in Saipan however, they are welcomed to a junky and crumbling hotel (Keane compares it to Fawlty Towers), allocated unsafe training facilities and served sandwiches for food. Tensions begin to spiral out of control and into the media spotlight. Coogan, now one of England’s most reliable character actors, is excellent but it is Hardwicke who steals it and their final, blistering confrontation is an escalating thrill to watch.

Ireland/UK 2025 Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn 91m

Royal Ballet & Opera

Experience a ballet triptych inspired by Virginia Woolf's genre-defying works, haunting meditations of memory, madness & time.

Sun 15 Feb 14:45

To believe, or not to believe, that is the question… A gripping film challenging us to question what is real, whom to trust and how fragile the images we create of others truly are.

Fukuoka, 2003. Devoted schoolteacher Yabushita Seiichi (Ayano Go) is accused of callously disciplining a child by the boy’s mother (Shibasaki Ko). Despite insisting that it is completely untrue, Seiichi is forced by his headteacher - who is more concerned about the school’s reputation - to apologise publicly. However, a news reporter (Kamenashi Kazuya) seizes on the story, publishing a sensational exposé that reveals Seiichi’s real name and casts him as a national villain. Internationally acclaimed director Miike Takashi delivers a film which serves as both a social critique and a moral inquiry. (Subtitles)

Japan 2025 Miike Takashi 129m

SpongeBob journeys to the ocean's depths to face the Flying Dutchman's ghost, encountering challenges and uncovering marine mysteries.

SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail in their biggest, all-new, can't miss cinematic event ever. Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman - a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate - on a seafaring comedy-adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

USA 2025 Derek Drymon 96m

A heart-warming family comedy about a disgraced TV Host and a young indigenous girl who work together to rescue and rehabilitate a group of orphaned joeys in a remote Australian Outback community.

When Chris Masterman (Ryan Corr) loses his job as a TV breakfast show presenter in Sydney, he heads west to take up another offer but accidentally runs over a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch, damaging his sports car in the process. The only person he can interest in his predicament is 12-year-old indigenous girl Charlie (Lily Whiteley – a real find here) who is having her own problems adjusting to the Outback town, but finds him (and the joey) a place to stay. Here, Chris has a chance for redemption, but not before making heavy weather of ingratiating himself with the locals. Ernie Dingo (‘Crocodile Dundee’) is at his homespun best as chatty local mechanic who is in no hurry to fix Chris’s car. ‘Kangaroo’ is a fun film, loaded with Aussie charm, and manages to sell both the wonder of the beleaguered Alice Springs region, and glitzy Bondi Beach, to the world.

Australia 2025 Kate Woods 117m

In this satirical black comedy thriller from one of South Korea’s best directors, an unemployed man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

When paper expert Yoo Man-soo (Lee Byung-hun from ‘Squid Game’) is abruptly laid off, he loses the perfect life he’s worked hard for. So, when a new job comes along, he realises a perfect plan – by getting rid of his competition via any available means. Park Chan-wook is one of Asia’s best contemporary directors, having two of the 21st Century’s best in his canon (‘Oldboy’, ‘The Handmaiden’). He has once again delivered with this delightfully wicked, continually surprising black comedy, featuring his signature twists and exquisite imagery – everything that has made him such a unique cinematic presence. (Subtitles)

South Korea 2025 Park Chan-wook 139m

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an evil is waiting to welcome them back.

The dreams of rabble-rousing (and former Chicago enforcers for Al Capone) twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) come to fruition when they return to their small Mississippi hometown and successfully open a music bar in an abandoned sawmill. The place overflows with music and mysticism, and when their cousin Preacher Boy (Miles Caton) picks up his guitar and plays the Blues in front of a rowdy audience, all hell (including a rabble of vampires) breaks loose. Jack O’Connell’s co-stars as the despicably smirking villain in this rip-roaring fusion of masterful visual storytelling and outstanding toe-tapping blues. It looks phenomenal too: shot on 70mm film, the frame throbs with sultry reds and golds. Do not let any vampire film prejudice stop you from seeing this film, it is a recent stand-out of the genre.

USA 2025 Ryan Coogler 137m

A compelling drama that explores a family's bond with Africa's land and the war's impact on the region and individuals through a child's perspective.

8-year-old Bobo (Lexi Venter) lives on her family's Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) farm during the Bush War's final stages. Set against this violent backdrop, and seen through her eyes, we witness the family's desperate attachment to Africa's soil and the deep, festering scars of a war that reshapes both land and soul. Venter, who was only 7-years-old when making this film, is remarkable and entirely natural: a captivating, curious presence and our guide in this uncertain world. This is an earthy adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s autobiographical novel about her childhood. (Some subtitles)

South Africa 2024 Embeth Davidtz 99m

Exhibition on Screen

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography.

Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance. Caravaggio’s masterpieces are some of art’s most instantly recognisable. No one else uses his signature blend of dramatic light, intense naturalism and bold, striking figures. His incredible paintings have captivated audiences for centuries. But there lies a deeper mystery - one that still beckons us to explore. What do these masterpieces reveal about the man behind the brush? The intriguing self-depictions within his works - sometimes disguised, sometimes in plain sight - offer a rare window into his psyche and personal struggles. Join us as we unravel the story of one of history’s most brilliant, complex and controversial figures.

UK 2025 David Bickerstaff/Phil Grabsky 100m

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Les Quatre Cents Coups

François Truffaut's semi-autobiographical 1959 debut is one of the French new wave's most accessible and best-loved films.

Jean-Pierre Léaud is Antoine, a tearaway kid perpetually in trouble both in school and at home: his difficult family circumstances are only revealed at the very end - a cool narrative coup. Antoine resolves to leave home and see life for himself eventually ending up in reform school. The film looks superb and Antoine's heartbreakingly open face is like Truffaut's monochrome Paris: beautiful, tough, innocent and yet worldly. One of the great movies about childhood, you will never forget Léaud’s extraordinary central performance or the film’s remarkable coda. Perhaps Truffaut’s best film – it was also his first and what a startling and vigorous debut it is. (Subtitles)

France 1959 François Truffaut 99m

As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson makes a discovery that could alter the world.

Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later -- but turning that world on its head - Nia DaCosta directs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) becomes a nightmare he can't escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival - the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.

UK/USA 2026 Nia DaCosta 109

We are delighted to welcome local director Max Keegan (Fishbourne) for a Q&A following his documentary about an aging shepherd struggling to find a successor as bears prey on his flock.

Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, we learn of a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears amid a traditional shepherding community. 63-year-old Yves struggles to find a successor to take over his work whilst a teenage boy becomes obsessed with tracking the bears, recently reintroduced after their disappearance in 2004. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, ‘The Shepherd and the Bear’ is a modern folktale about tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world. Keegan learned to speak French fluently from scratch for the film and spent two years living in the Pyrenees with his subjects. ‘Lyrical, visually and aurally ravishing’ – Screen International. (Some subtitles)

UK/France 2024 Max Keegan 101m

In our second staff pick, our Executive Director Anne-Marie Flynn has chosen this 1951 love story which sees a handsome, earnest but ambitious young man getting a job in his rich uncle’s factory and finding himself entangled in an impossible love triangle, ending in tragedy.

Anne-Marie: “This is the film which made me fall hopelessly in love with cinema. Shot in atmospheric, shimmering black and white, every luminous frame is beautiful to behold. This deeply romantic but ultimately tragic tale is also a terrific, suspenseful drama with dramatic moments which pulsate with tension. Described by Charlie Chaplin as “the greatest film ever made about America”, this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's 1951 novel ‘An American Tragedy’ won six Oscars and the first ever Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama. It pairs two of Hollywood’s most heavenly creatures; Montgomery Clift as George Eastman, the impoverished nephew of a wealthy industrialist and Elizabeth Taylor as glamorous socialite, Angela Vickers. This is a magnificent tale of passion, ambition, class struggle and morality. George faces the ultimate dilemma of fulfilling all his American dreams in a life with Angela or doing the right thing with office co-worker Alice, (a wonderfully downtrodden Shelley Winters) and succumbing to a life of drudgery.  If ever a film was made to be seen on the big screen, it is this one. I urge you to savour every dazzling moment”

USA 1951 George Stevens 122m

Honshin

Would knowing the truth about somebody you loved bring you happiness? This is a possible glimpse into our future and a critique of advancing technology.

Factory worker Ishikawa Sakuya (Ikematsu Sosuke) witnesses his mother (Tanaka Yuko) drowning in a river. One year later, after waking from a coma caused by an injury sustained while trying to save her, he discovers that she participated in government approved “elective death” programme, leaving Sakuya distraught and confused. Sakuya meets a developer (Tsumabuki Satoshi) of AI recreations of the dead built from harvested data and accessed through VR goggles, and commissions a ‘Virtual Figure’ of his mother. However, her digital image gradually reveals a side of her that Sakuya has never known. From AI to virtual beings to the controversial topic of assisted dying, it tackles urgent social issues while confronting audiences with the question of what we might feel when we finally learn the truth about others. (Subtitles)

Japan 2024 Ishii Yuya 122m

A conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.

Hujar (Ben Wishaw) was a brilliant photographer and stylish gay man of the 1970s and 80s, associated with Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe and part of a hip New York coterie of artists and intellectuals. In 1974, he took part in a kind of documentary nonfiction project undertaken by author Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which he simply came to her apartment and recounted into a tape machine everything that happened to him on a certain day. Through their freewheeling, intimate exchange, Hujar shares vivid stories of his interactions with literary and cultural icons like William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg, and what initially feels like art world name-dropping gossip quickly becomes an intriguing time capsule of life in New York’s 1970s downtown scene.

USA/Germany/UK 2025 Ira Sachs 76m

One of the most watched NT Live releases of all time. Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the much-anticipated return of the Olivier Award–winning hit production, that inspired Netflix’s The Crown.

Peter Morgan's play shows a series of the Queen's weekly meetings with various prime ministers to have held office during her reign, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron. For sixty years she has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. 'The Audience' breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. Directed by Stephen Daldry ('Billy Elliot', 'The Hours').

180m including interval.

The story of Jean-Luc Godard making ‘Breathless’, told by American director Richard Linklater (‘Before Sunrise’, ‘Boyhood’) in the form and spirit of the times.

This is a playful, black-and-white making-of story for Godard’s New Wave classic ‘À Bout de Souffle’ that captures a revolutionary moment in cinema history with reverence and a touch of cheek. Styled as a mischievous declaration of love for the 1959 cult film, but also for a pivotal period of cinema that Linklater nostalgically revisits right down to techniques characteristic of the era. More than the portrait of a man and his art, the film evokes a prolific period in film, symbolised by freedom of voice, improvisation, and an attachment to everyday poetry. “It’s the story of a personal revolution of cinema led by a man, and by everyone around him”, the filmmaker says. The cast includes Guillaume Marbeck (Jean-Luc Godard), Zoey Deutsch (Jean Seberg), Aubry Dullin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), Adrien Rouyard (François Truffaut) and Antoine Besson (Claude Chabrol), with the film paying tribute to their accomplishments with infectious admiration. ‘An enchanting ode to the rapture of cinema’. Variety. (Subtitles)

France/USA 2025 Richard Linklater 105m

The passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

UK 2026 Emerald Fennell

The paths of an elusive thief and a disillusioned insurance broker intertwine, with only a relentless detective in the way of the multi-million dollar heist they are planning.

Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles, elusive thief Davis’s (Chris Hemsworth) high-stakes robberies along the iconic 101 freeway have mystified police. When he eyes the score of a lifetime with hopes of this being his final job, his path collides with disillusioned insurance broker Sharon (Halle Berry) who is facing her own crossroads. As the multimillion-dollar heist approaches, relentless detective Lou (Mark Ruffalo) closes in, and the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. This high action thriller also stars Barry Keoghan as the more ruthless rival thief.

USA 2026 Bart Layton 135m

The Revolutionary Vision of the French New Wave

As Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ returns to the cinema, accompanied by a screening of ‘Breathless’, this talk will examine the impact of one of the most radical movements in cinema history.

Sat 28 Feb 10:30

À Bout de Souffle

Screening in conjunction with ‘Nouvelle Vague’, Jean-Luc Godard's gritty and engaging first feature had an almost revolutionary impact when first released in 1960.

Small-time thief (Jean-Paul Belmondo) steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student (Jean Seberg) and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. Widely regarded as the ground zero of the French New Wave movement and clearly hugely influential and standout in terms of narrative and attitude. The film feels cuttingly original and has an aura of edge, attitude and freedom to the proceedings. A landmark film, it forever changed perceptions of cinema. (Subtitles)

France 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 90m

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

Monsieur Hulot arrives at a beachside hotel for a vacation, where he accidentally (but good-naturedly) causes havoc.

This was the first film to introduce Jacques Tati’s much-loved alter ego Monsieur Hulot, it set the pattern for future appearances, throwing the bumbling hero unwittingly into the middle of the action and letting the ensuing mishaps provoke humour ranging from gentle observations to fairly biting satire. Nearly dialogue-free and driven more by episode than plot, standout set pieces include a disrupted funeral, an interrupted game of cards, and a game of tennis played with rules that can politely be called unconventional. Tati was the heir to the great comics of the silent era - Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd. If you have not seen this classic – make sure you see it this time around. (Some subtitles)

France 1953 Jacques Tati 114m

Umi no Chinmoku

The line between imitation and authenticity is thin, and so is the line that determines the value of art. Where does the truth about ourselves lie?

A major incident occurs at an exhibition celebrating the career of world-renowned artist Tamura Shuzo (Ishizaka Koji): one of the displayed works is revealed to be a forgery. Guided by artistic conscience or pride – Shuzo publicly acknowledges it, even conceding its superiority. When the body of a tattooed woman is discovered, suspicions quickly fall on Shuzo’s rival and former prodigy Tsuyama Ryuji (Motoki Masahiro). Having made a living by creating forgeries and tattooing women, Ryuji is now terminally ill and pursued for his crimes, and obsessively devoting his final days to completing one last painting. Featuring stunning cinematography and an extraordinary lead performance by Motoki. (Subtitles)

Japan 2024 Wakamatsu Setsuro 112m

Royal Ballet & Opera

Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, this classic ballet conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.

Tue 3 Mar 19:15

Sun 8 Mar 15:15

Theatre Royal

Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ rages to life like never before in an explosive new production from the theatre Royal. David Harewood (‘Homeland’, ‘Best of Enemies’) is compelling as the suave Othello while Toby Jones (‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’, ‘Detectorists’) is a gleefully malicious Iago.

Wed 4 Mar

Sat 7 Mar