Orphan - Sunday 4th October 5pm

Orphan was the Hungarian entry to the last Oscars. Andor is fighting back against the Soviet Occupation as best he can as a young teenager, helping his friend Sari hide her activist brother from the Soviet police, all the while idealising his missing father, last seen in the concentration camps.

"Director László Nemes ('Son of Saul') crafts an indelible portrait of 1950s Hungary, still reeling from Nazi terrors, antisemitism bubbling away. Newcomer Barabas is a magnetic presence as Andor, a child permanently angry at the world" - James Mottram, Radio Times.

Cactus Pears - Sunday 27th September 5pm

Cactus Pears takes a gentle look at the problems faced when a 30 year-old, gay Indian man has to return to his village for his father's funeral. Facing the villagers questions on why he has not married, he finds some solace when an old crush of his from his youth comes on the scene.

"A luminous work, brimming with grace and delicacy" - Srikanth Srinivasan, Sight and Sound

Familiar Touch - Sunday 20th September 5pm

Whilst films about sufferers from dementia have become more frequent, nearly all have shown the problems more from the point of view of the relations and friends rather than the sufferer. Familiar Touch lets us travel along with Ruth on the journey from respected professional to patient, from living in a lovely home to supported living, showing her ups and downs, losses and gains, along the way.

"The result is an auspicious first feature, and I'd see it if I were you." - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune 

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Colours Of Time - Sunday 13th September 5pm

Colours of Time, our opening film this season was chosen by the members...twice! First time round it was not available, but we finally have it.

Four strangers have been gathered together by a development company who want to knock down a cottage, empty since 1944; unknowingly, they have inherited this from Adèle Meunier who disappeared back then looking for her own mother she had not seen for 20 years. The cottage turns out to be full of clues and memorabilia that set them off looking into Adèle's past; where did she go, who was she? Their search for her history is then comically interlaced with their own discovery of their future 

"Genially inventive in messing with the codes of period cinema." - Jonathan Romney, Screen International

Autumn Programme

The films are booked, the brochure has been printed and is waiting at the Alhambra (or can be downloaded as a PDF), tickets can be bought at the Alhambra and the season will begin on September 13th with Colours Of Time. 

The season has several famous directors included -  Pedro Almodovar, Paolo Sorrentino, Marc Evans, Pawel Pawlikowski and László Nemes - which we hope you will approve of, plus an array of newer ones and even first-timers. We visit France, USA, India, Hungary, Spain, Canada, Italy, Greece, Sudan, Nigeria, Wales, Romania, Poland and China - not a bad selection of World Cinema, and we don't have a single one from England for once!

Enjoy the rest of your summer - see you on 13 September.