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March 2024

Shayda (15) PREVIEW

March 16th 1:30 pm

    An Iranian woman in Australia attempts to cut her abusive husband out of her life and retain custody of their daughter. At the start of Noora Niasari’s compelling drama, Nowruz, Persian New Year, 1995 is approaching. Shayda is trying to make it special for her daughter Mona, but it’s not easy – they are living in a women’s refuge. Shayda’s husband Hossein is due to finish his medical studies and return to Iran; she fears he will try…

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The Dupes (15)

March 16th 5:00 pm

  Banned for decades, Egyptian director Tewfik Saleh’s uncompromising film is shatteringly prescient. Three Palestinian refugees, a boy, a younger and an elderly man, each with their own back story, attempt to flee to Kuwait through a blisteringly hot desert, concealed in the empty tank of a truck. From the novella by Ghassan Kanafani – a militant intellectual assassinated by Mossad in 1972 – this allegorical statement on the Palestinian struggle makes for urgent viewing. Simple in structure, it’s more…

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Rosalie (15) PREVIEW

March 16th 7:30 pm
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One event on 17th March 2024 at 12:00pm

  Based loosely on a true story, this offbeat period drama champions a woman who challenges body expectations and community prejudices. Set in 1870s provincial France, Rosalie marries café-owner Abel who is desperate for her dowry to save his business. What he doesn’t know is that she shaves her face daily to conceal her hairiness, which extends across her whole body. Her new husband is initially repulsed but as Rosalie relinquishes her embarrassment and lets her beard grow, the novelty…

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  An unmissable night of unbelievable entertainment for all the family (No pets). Having consulted with top Harley Street specialists, the St Anne's Jombulance Brigade and Professor Witty, (who I never found funny?) the one that did covid, (the bald one), Count Arthur Strong has decided to gradually phase in his farewell to the nation with a tour over a, as yet to be specified number of parts, because of the likelihood of people doing 'Cold Turkey' in theatres over…

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Rosalie (15) PREVIEW

March 17th 12:00 pm
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One event on 16th March 2024 at 7:30pm

One event on 17th March 2024 at 12:00pm

  Based loosely on a true story, this offbeat period drama champions a woman who challenges body expectations and community prejudices. Set in 1870s provincial France, Rosalie marries café-owner Abel who is desperate for her dowry to save his business. What he doesn’t know is that she shaves her face daily to conceal her hairiness, which extends across her whole body. Her new husband is initially repulsed but as Rosalie relinquishes her embarrassment and lets her beard grow, the novelty…

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MFFC: Gas-oil (PG)

March 17th 3:00 pm

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON GAS-OIL 1955 (PG) - B&W 93 mins (crime/drama) Gilles Grangier After spending the night with his girlfriend, trucker Jean runs over a dead body on the road. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that he was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man’s widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of crooks are also after him. Stars…

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Occupied City (15)

March 17th 4:00 pm

  In Steve McQueen’s own words, his cinematic take on the Holocaust holds “the weight of what happened”. Taking as its starting point Bianca Stigter’s Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940- 1945, it visits 130 (edited down from 2,000) locations in present-day Amsterdam that the Jewish community inhabited before and during the Nazi occupation of the city. As Melanie Hyams’ voiceover quietly and matter-of-factly narrates what took place at each site, we confront all sorts of dissonance between the…

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Drift (15) PREVIEW

March 17th 7:00 pm
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  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 chain of events brings two women from across the impenetrable divide within Sudanese society together in this compelling drama. Khartoum, 2005, ex-singer Mona, a Muslim, lives in a gated property with her controlling husband Akram. Julia, a dark-skinned Christian from the south, is a street-seller with a small son Daniel from a shanty town. An inadmissible secret causes Mona to employ Julia as her housekeeper, and the women bond, until the moral dilemma facing Mona unravels. Though it…

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Dune: Part Two (12A)

March 18th - March 22nd

  Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee. Cert: 12A Running time: 2hrs 47mins AD Audio Description available DS Descriptive Subtitles: Monday 18th March, 7pm

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