Event Type: Film

-Memory Box + In White

Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige (Lebanon, Canada, France, Qatar, 2021, F-Rated) Certification: 15 | 1 h 42 min | Drama | Language: French, Arabic with English subtitles Memory Box is an Arabic and French language drama in which a daughter finds out about her mother’s teenage years in the war-torn Lebanon of the 1980s. Maia,… Read more »

-Capernaum (Capharnaüm)

Director: Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK, 2018, F-Rated)Certification: 15 |2 h  6 min | Drama | Language: Arabic with English subtitles In a courtroom a young boy named Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) stands before a judge. He asks to sue his own parents for giving him life. The turn of events that have… Read more »

-Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, 2019)Certification: 15 | 1 h   53 min | Drama | Language: Spanish with English subtitles *RESCHEDULED DATE* A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. Pain and Glory tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo… Read more »

-Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan, 2018) Certification: 15 | 2h  1 min | Crime, Drama | Language: Japanese with English subtitles After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after… Read more »

-Another Round

Director: Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, 2020) Certification: 12 | 1h  57 min | Drama | Language: Danish, Swedish with English subtitles There is an obscure philosophical theory that humans should have been born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood; that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing… Read more »

-Bait + Q&A with co-producer Kate Byers

Director: Mark Jenkin, (UK, 2019) Certification: 15  | 1h 29 min | Drama | Language: English  The picture-postcard idyll of the Cornwall fishing village is misleading. While fishing used to be a way of supporting oneself, wealthy London tourists have now descended and are displacing the locals, whose livelihood is thus threatened. The relationship between… Read more »

-The Olive Tree

Director: Icíar Bollaín, (Spain, 2016) Certification: 15  | 1h  40 min | Drama, Comedy | Language: Spanish, German with English subtitles ‘The Olive Tree’ (El Olivo) follows a determined young farmer named Alma who embarks on a journey from the province of Castellon, on the East coast of Spain to Germany in order to reclaim… Read more »

-The Salt In Our Waters

Director: Rezwan Shahriar Sumit (Bangladesh, France, 2020) Certification: 15 | 1h  40 min | Drama | Language: Bengali with English subtitles Set in a tiny mangrove isle in the Bay of Bengal, The Salt in Our Waters (Nonajoler Kabbo) is the story of Rudro, a city-raised sculptor who travels to this remote mangrove isle on… Read more »

-It’s a Wonderful Life

Director: Frank Capra (United States, 1946) Certification: U  | 2h 10 mins | Drama| Language: English It’s Christmas Eve and George Bailey (James Stewart) has so many financial problems and is contemplating suicide. As George is about to jump from a bridge is rescued by Clarence (Henry Travers), his guardian angel. We see his life… Read more »

-Miracle on 34th Street

Director: George Seaton (United States, 1947) Certification:  U  | 1 h 36 min | Drama, Comedy | Language: English The story takes place in New York City between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, and focuses on the story of a Santa who works in a department store and is taken to court after claiming he is… Read more »