Monday, November 25, 2024

Green Border - Sunday 1st December 5pm

This thriller-cum-political drama takes place in the Green Border - the space between Belarus and Poland where hopeful refugees wait the next stage of their journey into Europe…

"'Green Border' strikes me as the best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year." - Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com



Monday, November 18, 2024

Here - Sunday 24th November 5pm

This week's film Here is not the new Tom Hanks film of the same name but a much better received film from Belgian director Bas Devos. 

"[This] gentle, delicate and quietly beguiling movie, a prize winner last year in Berlin, is about love and fate. It crept up on me at its own measured walking pace" - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.

Monday, November 11, 2024

Radical - Sunday 17th November 5pm


Winner of the Festival Favourite Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Radical is based on a genuine teacher, Sergio Juarez Correa, a teacher in the northeastern Mexican border town of Matamoros, whose story, by Joshua Davis, appeared on the cover of 'Wired' in 2013 and inspired this film. The school in question was known as 'the school of punishment'; it was impoverished, dominated by drug gangs and corrupt officials, all of which Sergio took on as a test to try out a new method - student-led learning.

"Brought to life by an electrifying cast fronted by Derbez and an ensemble of young actors already at the top of their game, while 'Radical' might feel like familiar territory, it is energized with so much heart and compassion that it feels almost impossible not to fall for its myriad charms." -  Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ

Monday, November 04, 2024

Kneecap - Sunday 10th November 5pm



Based very loosely around the real Irish group Kneecap (who play themselves here), this follows three guys who start rapping in Irish Gaelic after the Good Friday agreement, and manage to get popular, despite (or maybe because) they make just about everyone angry, from the Government, the IRA and an anti-drug coalition the Radical Republicans Against Drugs (RRAD)

"This is the kind of bold filmmaking that has the potential to keep cinema alive." -Maria Lattila, Film Stories