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Showing This Weekend
28 January 2022: Guns of the Trees
Guns of the Trees deals with the thoughts, feelings, and anguished strivings of my generation, faced with the moral perplexity of our times.
29 - 30 January 2022: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
The film consists of 124 brief sketches, each half-a-minute to about two minutes long. Portraits of people I have spent time with, places, seasons of the year, weather (storms, snow, blizzards etc...) many of my film-maker friends...
30 January 2022: Never on Sunday: Under Your Skin (35mm print)
Directed by Mikko Niskanen, an indispensable figure of Finnish new cinema of the 1960s, Under Your Skin (Käpy selän alla) is one of the most significant films in the history of Finnish cinema which, in the spirit of New Wave.
In February
4 - 26 February 2022: Theorem
The story of a sexually magnetic stranger, played by a mesmerizing Terence Stamp, who methodically disrupts the well-ordered household of a wealthy Milanese industrialist, Theorem’s hidden tensions are brought to the surface with a shocking suddenness that remains as inexplicable as it is inevitable.
5 - 19 February 2022: The Return
The father of two teenage boys suddenly reappears, without an explanation, after a 12-year absence. Something sinister hangs in the air in this enigmatic thriller, which combines mysteries with religious allusions, signalling the arrival of a new Russian auteur.
5 February 2022: Memoria + Fireflies Press Book Launch
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2021, the latest feature from director Apichatpong Weerasethakul stars Tilda Swinton as a woman left isolated and traumatised by unexplained sounds and noises that it appears only she can hear. This screening coincide with Fireflies Press book launch Memoria.
6 - 12 February 2022: Leviathan
Kafkaesque horror awaits an auto mechanic who wages war against the corrupt, bureaucratic system that threatens to tear apart his home and family. Set in the far-flung Kola Peninsula, on the northwestern tip of Russia, this complex political allegory captures the struggles of ordinary life.
6 - 11 February 2022: Tokyo Story
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujirō Ozu.
10 - 24 February 2022: Mysterious Object at Noon
Mysterious Object at Noon is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's hallucinatory debut feature, an extraordinary mix of experimental documentary and fiction that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural Thailand.
12 - 26 February 2022: Funeral Parade of Roses
A carnivalesque melding of documentary verité and avant-garde psychedelia, Funeral Parade of Roses offers a shocking and ecstatic journey through the nocturnal underworld of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood, following the strange misadventures of a rebellious drag queen fending off his/her rivals.
13 - 27 February 2022: The Turin Horse
Embracing an extraordinary minimalism of story, setting and cast, Béla Tarr's last film is structured around one week in the back-breaking lives of an aging farmer and his daughter, alone on a barren, windswept farm with a recalcitrant horse that suddenly refuses to work.
13 - 20 February 2022: Bait
Stunningly shot on a vintage 16mm camera using monochrome Kodak stock, Mark Jenkin’s Bait is a timely and funny, yet poignant new film that gets to the heart of a community facing up to unwelcome change.
14 February 2022: In the Mood for Love
A swooningly cinematic unfolding of romantic desire, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love paints the industrious world of 1960s Hong Kong in luxuriant color, texture, and sound. At once restrained and sensual, the film layers detail upon detail to create a ravishing, hypnotic portrait of urban desire
20 - 27 February 2022: Ida
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Bressonian first feature, Ida, delves through 20th Century Polish history to explore the anti-Semitism within Polish culture during WWII and the Stalinist peak in the 50s
Calendar
Fri 28 Jan 8:15pm
Guns of the Trees
Guns of the Trees
Sat 29 Jan 7:30pm
He Stands in a Desert ...
He Stands in a Desert ...
Sun 30 Jan 5:30pm
He Stands in a Desert ...
He Stands in a Desert ...
Sun 30 Jan 8:15pm
Under Your Skin
Under Your Skin
Fri 04 Feb 8:15pm
Theorem
Theorem
Sat 05 Feb 6:00pm
The Return
The Return
Sat 05 Feb 8:00pm
Memoria + Book Launch
Memoria + Book Launch
