Event Type: Film

-Revolution Of Our Times

Director: Kiwi Chow | Cast: Gwyneth Ho, Benny Tai Duration: 152 mins | Age Rating: 15 | Language: Cantonese, English subtitles This gripping documentary follows seven groups of protestors involved in the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests whose mission was to uphold free speech. These protests lead to thousands of protestors being arrested following the… Read more »

-Zanzibar Soccer Dreams + Director Q&A

Director: Florence Ayisi (UK, 2005 – 2016, F-Rated)Total films: 1 h 10 mins | Documentary| Language: Swahili with English subtitles Zanzibar Soccer Dreams, (co-directed with Catalin Brylla, 2016, 63 mins) presents the dawn of an era for women’s football in Zanzibar. This film is a follow-up to the short film Zanzibar Soccer Queens (2007) which… Read more »

-Speed Sisters

Director: Amber Fares (Occupied Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Denmark, Canada, USA, 2015, Triple F-Rated) Certification: PG |1 h  18min | Documental, Adventure | Language: Arabic with English subtitles The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these… Read more »

-Memory Box + In White

Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige (Lebanon, Canada, France, Qatar, 2021, F-Rated) Certification: 15 | 1 h 42 min | Drama | Language: French, Arabic with English subtitles Memory Box is an Arabic and French language drama in which a daughter finds out about her mother’s teenage years in the war-torn Lebanon of the 1980s. Maia,… Read more »

-Capernaum (Capharnaüm)

Director: Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK, 2018, F-Rated)Certification: 15 |2 h  6 min | Drama | Language: Arabic with English subtitles In a courtroom a young boy named Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) stands before a judge. He asks to sue his own parents for giving him life. The turn of events that have… Read more »

-Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, 2019)Certification: 15 | 1 h   53 min | Drama | Language: Spanish with English subtitles *RESCHEDULED DATE* A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. Pain and Glory tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo… Read more »

-Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan, 2018) Certification: 15 | 2h  1 min | Crime, Drama | Language: Japanese with English subtitles After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after… Read more »

-Another Round

Director: Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, 2020) Certification: 12 | 1h  57 min | Drama | Language: Danish, Swedish with English subtitles There is an obscure philosophical theory that humans should have been born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood; that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing… Read more »

-Bait + Q&A with co-producer Kate Byers

Director: Mark Jenkin, (UK, 2019) Certification: 15  | 1h 29 min | Drama | Language: English  The picture-postcard idyll of the Cornwall fishing village is misleading. While fishing used to be a way of supporting oneself, wealthy London tourists have now descended and are displacing the locals, whose livelihood is thus threatened. The relationship between… Read more »

-The Olive Tree

Director: Icíar Bollaín, (Spain, 2016) Certification: 15  | 1h  40 min | Drama, Comedy | Language: Spanish, German with English subtitles ‘The Olive Tree’ (El Olivo) follows a determined young farmer named Alma who embarks on a journey from the province of Castellon, on the East coast of Spain to Germany in order to reclaim… Read more »