Independent Cinema for Everyone

The silent film that captured the imaginations of a modern cinema audience, The Artist is a crowd-pleasing tribute to the magic of silent cinema. This film will be introduced by film historian and critic Pamela Hutchinson.

Nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards. The searing tale of two young boys’ migration from Africa to Europe. Io Capitano is an emotional story of epic scale.

Single mother Saori knows that there is something wrong when her son Minato starts to behave strangely. Mysterious and deeply moving, Monster is a breathtaking piece of cinema with a sublime score from Ryuichi Sakamoto.

This gripping film defies convention and confounds expectations. Wurlitza’s soundtrack includes everything from Bach to Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen.

Aleksei, a young Belarusian, has his sights set on the nightclubs of Paris. After a painful journey through Europe, he enlists in the Foreign Legion, in pursuit of a French passport.

The inspirational true story of Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel.

Jacqueline, a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island, where she tries first to survive and then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour-guide and together they find the res...

Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka is an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion.

A highly anticipated return to fiction feature filmmaking from Wim Wenders, Perfect Days tells a story celebrating the hidden joys and minutiae of Japanese culture.

Join us for a relaxed creative workshop before we watch Wonka! We will make sweets out of fabric scraps and string them together into colourful garlands that you can take home.