Below are the films shown in 2025-2026, and a description of each film.

My Favourite Cake

Wednesday 24th September 2025

Iran 2024 1hr 37 m
Directors: Mary Moghadarn and Behtash Sunaeeha

Mahin and Faramarz are two 70 year olds looking for and finding love together. But their story plays out in a country, Iran, that is very big on moral policing. Mahin’s courage and chutzpah is all very well, but here a nosy neighbour can get you into really serious trouble.

Touch 

Wednesday 8th October 2025

Iceland/UK 2024 2hrs 1m
Director: Baltasar Kormakur

Iceland’s Oscar nomination “Touch” carries us on a roller-coaster ride of several lifetimes in several countries; Iceland, England, Japan. An old man in Iceland remembers the love of his youth from some fifty years ago, so he sets out to look for her. It was a love he couldn’t leave behind.

Conclave

Wednesday 12th November 2025

UK 2024 2hrs
Director: Edward Berger

This is a rare one! Most members will have seen it, but when we put it to the vote on one of our film nights a forest of hands told us that you want to see ‘Conclave’ again. So here we are; The choice of a new pope to be fought out again!

The Holdovers

Wednesday 10th December 2025

USA 2023 2hrs 13m
Director: Alexander Payne

It’s Christmas again! Not Scrooge this time, rather an exclusive boys boarding school where an old curmudgeonly History Teacher (Paul Giamatti) is stuck with looking after the few boys who can’t go home for Christmas. He is helped by the black lady cook played by Da’Vine Joy Randolph who won an Oscar for this role.

A Complete Unknown

Wednesday 7th January 2026

USA 2024 2hrs 21m
Director: James Mangold

It’s 1961 and a 19 year old youth steps off the bus in New York with a guitar and high hopes. This ‘complete unknown’ works with Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Then - Boom! - it’s 1965 and the Newport Jazz Festival makes him famous. His name is Bob Dylan. Actor Chalamet does his own singing and I bet Dylan approves!

Shall We Dance

Wednesday 4th February 2026

Japan 1996 2hrs 16m
Director: Masayuki Suo

On the Tokyo commuter train we meet a successful accountant (Kôji Yakusho) in a steady job but who somehow forgot to love life. From his train he sees a woman dancing (Tamiyo Kusakari) and, hoping to meet her, he secretly joins the dance class. It is all about conformist Japanese society in conflict with liberating Western Dance.

The Quiet Girl

Wednesday 25th February 2026

Ireland 2022 1hr 35mins
Director: Colin Bairead

This film won the ‘Best Foreign Movie’ Oscar in 2022. Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is a ten-year old girl rescued from her unfit parents in the city to live with older relatives in rural Ireland. Catherine Clinch is a star at 10 years old and the cinematography (Kate McCullough) deserves a special notice. Ireland has never looked better

Perfect Days

Wednesday 18th March 2026

Japan 2023 2hr 4mins
Director: Wim Wenders

Everybody experiences happiness in their own way, whether a CEO of a giant company or, as here. a simple toilet cleaner. The actor (Kôji Yakusho) won the Oscar in 2022 in a story to make you aware of the joys in the simple things of life. You may leave this film learning to appreciate the small and beautiful things all around us

Vermiglio

Wednesday April 15th 2026

Italy / France / Belgium 2024 1hr 59m
Director: Maura Delpero

A remote village is never remote enough in times of war. This is Italy in 1944 and the newcomer to Vermiglio is a deserter, Pietro (Giuseppe de Domenica) who must be hidden. He flees the war but discovers his love for Lucia, clashing with the villagers’ moral condemnation of a deserter. ‘Vermiglio’ is a moving painting of rare emotional depth.