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March 2024

  A pick’n’mix of highlights from Oska Bright 2022, the world’s leading festival for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism. Watch out for killer mattresses, unexplained sinkholes, and a grumpy old man. Full programme details on our website. With less than 5% of disabled people working in the UK film industry, Oska Bright Film Festival is driven to make change happen. Working internationally with industry partners and funded by the BFI, their team produces the…

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Monster (12A) PREVIEW

March 12th 7:45 pm
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One event on 14th March 2024 at 4:45pm

  Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Broker) returns with an exquisitely layered conundrum that is a both coming-of-age film and thriller – who or what is the monster of the title? Saori becomes aware her eleven-year-old son Minato is behaving strangely and goes to his school to confront the alleged cause, a bullying teacher. But nothing is straightforward. Different viewpoints intervene to tell the story anew. Homophobia, intolerance, family dysfunction, rumour-mongering are all factors, but are not the kernel of the truth.…

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Drift (15) PREVIEW

March 13th 1:00 pm
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One event on 17th March 2024 at 7:00pm

  A piercing take on seeking refuge focuses on the interior life of a young Liberian woman forced into exile on a Greek island. Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s (Ilo Ilo) first English language film follows Jacqueline (played with real presence by Cynthia Erivo), a survivor of horrific violence in her home country of Liberia, eking out an existence among the sun worshippers on a Greek resort. Brief flashbacks reveal glimpses of the trauma she has escaped from but a growing…

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    A deeply personal exploration of Lina Soualem’s relationship with her mother, the acclaimed Palestinan actor Hiam Abbass, is also a powerful and pertinent testimony about displacement. Abbass (Lemon Tree, Insyriated, Blade Runner 2049, Succession) always wanted to act and left behind her mother, her grandmother and her seven sisters to pursue her career abroad. Soualem’s love letter to her mother follows the actor as she returns home to the village she grew up in and traces the turbulent…

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  Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep) returns to the stark landscape of eastern Anatolia for this tale about a teacher accused of sexual misconduct. Samet is sitting out his four years' mandatory service in a remote village school – he’d rather be in Istanbul – with bad grace and sarcasm. When the authorities find a letter to him written by a pupil with whom he has been friendly, the situation blows out of proportion. Samet’s rivalry with his…

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American Fiction (15)

March 14th 2:00 pm
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One event on 10th March 2024 at 6:30pm

One event on 12th March 2024 at 11:00am

One event on 14th March 2024 at 2:00pm

    A scathingly hilarious satire about an African American writer facing an industry that reduces Black storytelling to trauma and poverty narratives. Jeffery Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison who is constantly being told by his agent that his intellectual novels just don’t sell. Cynically, under a pseudonym, he puts together a parody of “ghetto” fiction, teeming with clichés about gangbangers, drug dealers and pimps. To his consternation, it’s a huge success. Adapted from the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival…

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Monster (12A) PREVIEW

March 14th 4:45 pm
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One event on 14th March 2024 at 4:45pm

  Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Broker) returns with an exquisitely layered conundrum that is a both coming-of-age film and thriller – who or what is the monster of the title? Saori becomes aware her eleven-year-old son Minato is behaving strangely and goes to his school to confront the alleged cause, a bullying teacher. But nothing is straightforward. Different viewpoints intervene to tell the story anew. Homophobia, intolerance, family dysfunction, rumour-mongering are all factors, but are not the kernel of the truth.…

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La Chimera (15) PREVIEW

March 14th 7:45 pm
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One event on 14th March 2024 at 7:45pm

  From Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro), a tale of lost love and an ethereal spiritual journey. Arriving in Riparbella, Tuscany, in the early ’80s, Arthur, a melancholic British archaeologist in a grimy linen suit, is fresh out of prison. Yearning for his dead lover, the daughter of a local aristocrat, he falls back in with a group of tombaroli (tomb robbers), a rowdy, Fellini-esque crew of twentysomethings who pilfer the area’s ancient burial sites for Etruscan treasures to sell…

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Evil Does Not Exist (12A)

March 15th - March 16th

  In Drive My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s enigmatic new drama, a rural community in harmony with the natural environment faces the threat of change. Single parent and odd job man Takumi, keenly attuned to the local flora and fauna, lives with his small daughter Hana in a forest close to the peaceful village of Mizubiki, an area of outstanding natural beauty. When a development company proposes to set up a substantial glamping site there, it meets strong resistance from…

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Perfect Days (PG)

March 15th - March 17th

  Wim Wenders’ captivating Japanese drama is a warm-hearted portrait of a middle-aged Tokyo toilet cleaner. Hirayama lives a life of quiet routine. He goes to work, eats in the same cafe every day, his pleasures are buying books and music. He loves trees and takes photos of them. Tiny details draw us into the richness of his simple life. A series of unexpected encounters only gradually reveal more of his past. With a soundtrack featuring Lou Reed (as you…

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