Films and screening dates are subject to change if venue clashes or distribution constraints arise.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and three Academy Awards, including Best Director. Set in politically-heated 1970s Mexico City, it follows Cleo, a live-in domestic worker, through a turbulent year with the middle-class family she cares for.
A celebrated New Zealand drama anchored by Cliff Curtis’s career-defining lead performance. Based on a true story, it follows Genesis Potini, a Māori chess master living with bipolar disorder, who starts a chess club to give local kids in Gisborne something to believe in.
A Cannes selection, filmed on 35mm across harsh Icelandic landscape. In the late 1800s, a young Danish priest travels to a remote corner of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people, the journey testing both his faith and his body.
Winner of the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and the film that made Östlund an international name. A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps is shaken by a close call with an avalanche, and one parent’s split-second reaction begins to unravel the marriage.
Film 5 · Friday 15 October
2019, Dir. Joe Talbot
Joe Talbot’s dreamlike debut won the Directing Award at Sundance, and is carried by Emile Mosseri’s lush, yearning score. Jimmie Fails, with his best friend Mont, sets out to reclaim the Victorian house his grandfather built in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.
A wordless, Oscar-nominated charmer with a soundtrack you’ll be humming until Christmas. In 1980s New York, a lonely dog builds a robot companion, and when the two are separated at the beach, each must find a way to carry on.
