The Marching Band - Sunday 14th December 5pm

We finish our season with The Marching Band, "a very amiable fare..or amiable 'en fanfare'" as Mark Kermode jests, which won our audience vote at the 25th Keswick Film Festival in March; so amiable that we felt we should give a larger audience the chance to see it and the members' vote agree.

“Warm and sure-footed, the film has the feel of a richly satisfying meal in an excellent neighbourhood bistro. Old world pleasures of character and story are generously apportioned.” - Danny Leigh, Financial 

Spring Programme 2026

Tickets are now available to book via the Alhambra website for our Spring Programme starting on January 4th. We'll be updating our website with full details of the films soon. Once again it looks like an exciting mix. Full of stars - from Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean, through Brenda Blethyn, Andrea Riseborough and Brendan Fraser to Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson plus many others, brought to us by great directors such as Lynne Ramsay, Park Chan-wook and Jafar Panahi. And, of course, we have the 26th Keswick Film Festival, our finishing weekend this year, with it's usual amazing array of great films. 

• 4th Jan: Anemone - Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean, brothers at war
• 11th Jan: Souleyman’s Story - ...trying to survive whilst his asylum is considered
• 18th Jan: Die My Love - Jennifer Lawrence’s world falls apart
• 25th Jan: Dragonfly - Is Elsie’s neighbour Colleen really trying to help..?
• 1st Feb: Palestine 36 - Was this the start of the Middle East problems?
• 8th Feb: It Was Just an Accident - What to do with a man who tortured you... or did he?
• 15th Feb: Rental Family - Brendan Fraser pretends to be a father for a job
• 22nd Feb: Sentimental Value - Is fame worth losing your family over?
• 1st Mar: Voice of Hind Rajab - A little girl calls for help, but can anyone get to her?
• 8th Mar: No Other Choice - The best way to get a job with lots of opposition...
• 15th Mar: Nouvelle Vague - Jean-Luc Godard lives again!
• 19 - 22 Mar: 26th Keswick Film Festival

Happyend - Sunday 7th December 5pm

We end the season with two members' choices, first up this week from Japan we have Happyend. The island is threatened by a bad earthquake that never seems to arrive. Tokyo is threatened by political termoil… but life goes on, and two boys, Yuta and Kou, approach the end of school.

"A prank pulled on their Principal leads to a controversial new surveillance system that not only monitors the students but gives them demerits when they do something wrong. As the students push back against Big Brother, these young people are forced to decide what matters to them and how much they're willing to fight for it..." - RogerEbert.com

“A crisp and understated piece... And the charismatic young cast brings a lively, impromptu-feeling organic energy.” - Jonathan Romney, Screen International

The Mastermind - Sunday 30th November 5pm

If we tell you this is the story of an art-heist, you might start expecting 'Oceans Twelve' or something, but if we tell you the title is definitely ironic you will be closer to understanding the gist; Josh O'Connor, wonderfully scruffy here, plays James, an art-school dropout who has this great idea to steal some paintings from a local museum in Massachusetts. What could be easier?

“'The Mastermind' may be a heist movie about a novice thief with a dumb plan. But Reichardt pulls it off like clockwork: This film is stupendously smart” - Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com.

Little Trouble Girls - Sunday 23rd November 5pm

In Little Trouble Girls we meet shy, introverted,16 year-old Lucija as she joins a Catholic choir where she is befriended by Ana-Marija. Lucija's over-protected life (she has not even been allowed to wear lipstick) is faced by the challenge of growing up like everyone, especially the sexual awakening she is feeling.

"Djukic’s feature debut echoes the sensitivities of Céline Sciamma’s early coming-of-age stories but with a bold, cinematic bent." - Tara Brady, Irish Times