The Voice of Hind Rajab
Tuesday 17 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
2025 Tunisia | France | USA | 89 mins (Arabic with Subtitles)
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Stars: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury
A docu-drama based on the events of January 29, 2024. Volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society receive a call from a five-year-old girl pleading for rescue from being trapped in a car in war torn Gaza. While keeping her on the line they do everything they can to rescue her.
Marty Supreme
Wednesday 18 February at 5.30pm
2025 | USA | 150 mins
Director: Josh Safdie
Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion
Set in 1950s New York, Timothée Chalamet plays ambitious, fast-talking, Marty Mauser, a gifted but flawed table-tennis hustler clawing his way to the top of his sport. Chasing fame and quick money, his choices spark mounting pressure and emotional fallout. Told in a tense, non-linear rush, the film swaps standard sports drama for a sharp portrait of obsession, ambition, in the messy pursuit of the American Dream.
Hamnet
Thursday 19 February at 2.00pm (HOH) and 7.30pm
2025 | UK | 126 mins
Director: Chloé Zhao
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Emily Watson
Directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel, offers a fictionalised portrait of William Shakespeare’s family life. The film centres on Agnes, Shakespeare’s fiercely intuitive wife, and their son Hamnet, whose untimely death shatters their world. Through intimate storytelling and atmospheric visuals, Zhao explores love, grief, and the fragile bonds that shape great art. This moving drama imagines how personal tragedy may have inspired Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
Philadelphia
Saturday 21 February at 2.00pm (35mm)
1993 | USA | 125 mins
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
One of the first Hollywood films to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, Demme’s film was praised for its screenplay and the performances of the two leads – Hanks went on to win an Oscar. He plays a senior associate in a top Philadelphia law firm with AIDS who is fired. He believes this is because of his illness and life style, and hires Washington’s black attorney to bring a case of unfair dismissal. The attorney is at first unwilling to take the case, but seeing the parallels between the prejudice faced by his own race and gay people, he changes his mind. A 35mm presentation in association with The Cinema Museum.
Twinless
Tuesday 24 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
2025 | USA | 100 mins
Director: James Sweeney
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, James Sweeney, Aisling Franciosi
After the death of his identical twin brother, Roman meets Dennis at a support group for twinless twins. They soon bond over their trauma and form an unlikely friendship. However, as Roman gets to know Dennis’s colleague Marcie, secrets gradually begin to surface, causing both men and their connection to unravel. James Sweeney writes, directs and stars in this well crafted and darkly comic drama, expertly mixing genre and tone. Clever plot twists abound with sensitive performances to produce an immensely satisfying exploration of identity, grief, loneliness and betrayal.
Nouvelle Vague
Thursday 26 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
2025 France | USA | 106 mins (French with Subtitles)
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
Frustrated with his job as a cinema journalist, and sick of seeing his friends achieving their dreams before him, a determined young Frenchman sets out to make his first film at the turn of the sixties. Did we mention that feature was called Breathless? With Guillaume Marbeck turning in a kinetic performance as legendary director Jean-Luc Godard and Zoey Deutch shining as the iconic Jean Seberg, American great Richard Linklater brings cinema history to life once again in his second movie of 2025, celebrating the style, iconography and all-round je ne sais quoi of the French New Wave.
HAMNET
2025 | UK | 126m
Director: Chloé Zhao
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Emily Watson
Directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel, offers a fictionalised portrait of William Shakespeare’s family life. The film centres on Agnes, Shakespeare’s fiercely intuitive wife, and their son Hamnet, whose untimely death shatters their world. Through intimate storytelling and atmospheric visuals, Zhao explores love, grief, and the fragile bonds that shape great art. This moving drama imagines how personal tragedy may have inspired Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
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