A romantic story spanning several decades and continents. Touch follows one Icelandic man’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago before his time runs out.
Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. But old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
An investigating judge struggles with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran caused by the death of a young woman. When his gun goes missing he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing harsh measures that fray family ties.
The story of a wild schoolboy son of a boozy miner - Rich Jenkins and the english teacher who recognised his talent; Philip Burton.
A moving story of how Rich Jenkins became Richard Burton, the biggest star Wales has ever produced.
While serving as a juror in high-profile murder trial a family man finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma, one which he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer.
BRAZIL, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.
I’m Still Here is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, sharing memories, anecdotes, art, movies—yet Martha has a request that will test their newly strengthened bond.
Set over the course of one week, ROSE is the story of two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some and downright discrimination from others.
Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona, who, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast.
After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past.
Hirayama lives a life of blissful contentment, spending his days balancing his job as a caretaker of Tokyo’s public toilets with his passion for music, literature, and photography.
His structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that force him to reconnect with his past.
Married to a wild, reckless biker named Benny, Kathy recounts the Vandals' evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes and respect for their strong leader Johnny.
As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect and corruption, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to unleash the curiosity and potential of his students... and maybe even their genius.
A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam .
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
You won’t want to miss this 1971 film shot entirely in and around Wokingham. There are tantalising glimpses of the old red brick Victorian railway station, the town centre and a psychopath’s unnerving gaze from The Red Lion out onto Wokingham Market Place.
Andy Jones, Head Chef at one of the top restaurants in London, is battling debts, addiction and an imploding personal life.
Co-written by Bracknell-local James Cummings who will be joining us for a post-film Q&A
Two Senegalese teenagers leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await. On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers and the beauty of the desert, the shock of detention centres in Libya, and the perils of the sea in their pursuit of a better life, in a powerful, epic story that offers a deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis.
At an idyllic mountain chalet, a woman is suspected of her husband’s murder and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
A young woman is determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village. When she finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
This poignant and emotional biographical drama follows the life of humanitarian Nicholas Winton, who helped hundreds of children escape German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
Our 150th screening - with free prosecco reception.
A retired arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king's call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honour himself. But he quickly makes an enemy of a merciless local landowner, who believes that the heath belongs to him and not the king.
Presented with Headway Thames Valley, the film will be followed by a Q&A with the charity and some of its clients.
A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.
A group of women struggle to decide whether they should leave an abusive religious commune.
Already nominated for multiple awards this beautiful film tells the story of two deeply connected childhood friends who lose contact after Nora’s family emigrates. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week.
The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village in the NE, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
The threat of state-sanctioned violence hangs over a male student after he is recruited as an informant in a deadly power struggle between the political and religious establishment in this dark Egyptian conspiracy drama.
Two young people share their disappointments in love over the course of a day in this warm-spirited British romantic comedy drama.
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades, the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
A playful satire of film industry pretensions.
The main feature will be preceded by a short The Dead of Winter, introduced in person by local filmmaker Stephen Graves.
Pamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest bread-winning to help his family.
