2023 Programme

We are proud to be able to screen a really awesome programme of international cinema, including films from Japan, Senegal, Australia, Romania, Macedonia, Poland, Burkina Faso, Somalia and a couple of landmarks of New Zealand cinema from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Click through to the individual pages of each film for notes and reviews, a trailer, sharing options, and the ability to save to your calendar. And here’s an ics calendar file of the full programme that you can download and import to the device of your choice, and pdfs of the full 2023 brochure and the one-page schedule


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Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in the riverboat The African Queen
4
December
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

The African Queen

John Huston's film, now restored for its 50th anniversary, is a ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Humphrey Bogart plays the boozy riverboat captain, Katharine Hepburn the prim Christian missionary. ...

Street scene with detectives and car in The Naked City
27
November
6:15 pm - 7:55 pm

The Naked City

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. ...

Robert de Niro sitting in a movie theatre in a scene from Taxi Driver
20
November
6:15 pm - 8:10 pm

Taxi Driver

A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best. - Rotten Tomatoes ...

Group of riders with large rock formations from the film The Searchers
13
November
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

The Searchers

Perhaps the most iconic and revered Western ever made, It was named the 15th greatest film of all time in the Sight and Sound Critics Poll last year. Martin Scorcese said of John Wayne's leading role "It’s the greatest performance of a great American actor." ...

Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell in a scene from Nightmare Alley
6
November
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Nightmare Alley

The hauntingly strange world of a travelling carnival is the setting for this moody melodrama about a charlatan spiritualist and his fall from grace. ...

Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The WIcker Man
30
October
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

The Wicker Man

This brilliant folk horror classic follows a devoutly Christian policeman (Edward Woodward) whose search for a missing girl on a remote Scottish island is led astray by the pagan-worshipping inhabitants ...

Omar Abdi (Guled) and Yasmin Warsame (Nasra) in The Gravedigger's Wife
2
October
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

The Gravedigger’s Wife

A gentle, big-hearted drama about a gravedigger seeking money for his wife’s operation. “This Somali language film’s simplicity and economy is its power.”– The Observer ...

A troup of dancers in Gallant Indies
25
September
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Gallant Indies

Gallant Indies offers a behind-the-scenes look into a completely reimagined production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera "Les Indes Galantes”. Artist Clément Cogitore uses the performance to tackle issues of racism, colonialism and slavery. ...

A group of musicians in yellow overalls in the film System-K
18
September
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

System K

A lively, endlessly fascinating documentary about the incredible art world stirring in Kinshasa. “A full-blown nosedive into a unique moment of collective creation” – Hollywood Reporter ...

Max Hubacher (Willi Herold) hiding from a group of German soldiers in 'The Captain'
11
September
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

The Captain

A German deserter in WWII discovers great power in an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform. “Parable, historical reckoning and pitch-black comedy. Clever and well-crafted” – Film Comment ...

Rasmané Ouédraogo (Saga) in a scene from Tilai and  Ina Cissé (Nogma)
4
September
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

Tilaï

Forbidden love for a stepmother sets in motion a chain of devastating events in pre-colonial West Africa. Cannes Grand Prix. Winner of the 1990 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. ...

Lea Seydoux as a TV presenter sitting at a desk in France film
28
August
6:15 pm - 8:30 pm

France

Dumont takes aim at 24-hour news culture, with Léa Seydoux as a TV journalist juggling her unflappable public image and chaotic family life. “A biting and complex satire” – Les Inrockuptibles ...

A man looking at exhibits in a waxworks museum
21
August
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

Waxworks

One of the final works of German Expressionism offers a sophisticated melding of genres, as a young poet dreams up fantastical tales inspired by the waxworks of some notorious personages ...

24
July
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Celia

A dark childhood fable about a young girl who escapes into her fantasies. “One of the best films about childhood since The 400 Blows” – Time Out ...

10
July
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Sweet Smell of Success

Broadway has never been as seductive or as menacing as it is in this bitter farce about a venomous gossip columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his soulless lackey (Tony Curtis) ...

Hatidze Muratova, said to be the last wild beekeeper in Europe, looking out of a window
19
June
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

Honeyland

A centuries-old way of life tending wild beehives deep in the countryside is disrupted by the arrival of new neighbours. “An elemental struggle between ancient tradition and greed… an incredible true story” – Time Out ...

Holly Hunter as Helen Remington looking toward camera from back seat of a car in Crash film
12
June
6:15 pm - 7:55 pm

Crash

Highly controversial on its original release, Cronenberg’s provocative satire about a group of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists remains as unsettling as it is mesmerising ...

Jayne  Mansfield and Joan Blondell in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
29
May
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Former animator Frank Tashlin brings cartoonish exuberance to this wild satire of ’50s mores, as a put-upon ad-exec attempts to wrangle a glamorous movie star for a lipstick commercial. With Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield ...

A view of the back of a woman facing a crowded press conference with tV cameras and reporters
22
May
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Collective

A heroic reporter investigates a shocking health-care fraud in the aftermath of a tragic nightclub fire. “The best film about journalism since All the President’s Men” – The Times ...

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