Starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Practical Magic 2 returns to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic and mayhem.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Based on Jane Austen's iconic masterpiece, watch the trailer for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. In Cinemas September 25th. From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Thursday 01 October at 18:10 is a hard of hearing subtitled screenings.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Maria (Saoirse Ronan), a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child's behaviour spiralling, she makes a series of bad decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this "bad apple" in her home. Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Talking Pictures

The screening on Monday 05 October at 14:50 is a Talking Pictures screening, with an informal discussion with a member of the Lexi team following the film.

Accessibility:

The screening on Saturday 03 October at 20:40 is a hard of hearing subtitled screenings.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

The follow up to De Gaulle: Résistance.

June 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom. Without an army, without backing, without hope. But with one irrational conviction – France, his France, has not laid down arms. Taking the ultimate gamble, he seeks to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over, nor lost. Reality, however, is unyielding and seems determined to prove him wrong. Yet, little by little, resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers rise up in England, France and Africa to join the cause. Their faith, audacity and thirst for freedom defy what history seemed to have written in advance.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Original language: French

Presented with English Subtitles

In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice — launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

Starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Tuesday 15 September at 18:20 is a hard of hearing subtitled screenings.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

The screening at 18:10 will have an introduction beforehand from the film's director, Daniele Rugo, as well as a post-film Q&A where Daniele will be joined by Dr Victoria Rose and Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack.

The second screening at 20:55 will have an introduction only before the film.

This screening is presented in collaboration with Brent & Harrow Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Please note tickets for both screenings will be our off-peak prices.

Since October 2023, Gaza has been sealed from the world-except for one group, international doctors. While global media are barred from reporting and governments look away, doctors breach the blockade and what they find is not just a humanitarian crisis, but a calculated dismantling of life itself.

Covering the entire two years of the genocide, their first-hand accounts and visceral footage offer a rare and vital chronicle of the daily struggles of healthcare workers as they navigate bombed-out hospitals, dwindling supplies, starvation and the overwhelming influx of casualties— predominantly women and children.

“Compulsory viewing”

– Ken Loach

The film follows the extraordinary true story of PK, a 23-year-old street artist from Delhi who sets off with a handful of paint brushes and a second-hand bicycle on a 6,000 mile journey across Europe and Asia to find Lotta, the woman who captured his heart during her visit to India. Convinced their meeting was fate, reinforced by an astrologer’s prophecy that matched Lotta’s description, PK embarks on a leap of faith that becomes a journey of love, identity and transformation.

With unprecedented access, the multiple Academy Award ® -winning filmmaking team behind Virunga and The White Helmets partner closely with PK, Lotta and their families to bring this intimate, thrilling and life-affirming story to the big screen.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything. Starring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, Emma D'Arcy, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons and John Goodman.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Thursday 15th October at 20:30 is a hard of hearing subtitled screenings.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

In rural Ireland, amateur historian Catherine Corless begins researching a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children, uncovering a shocking hidden history of loss.

Based on the true story, and featuring a powerful performance from Monica Dolan, THE LOST CHILDREN OF TUAM is a deeply moving portrait of one woman’s fight for justice.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

It’s almost Halloween and things start to go wrong when the farmer accidentally destroys the prized pumpkin patch. With a mysterious beast on the loose in the local woods and the farmer missing, Shaun and his friends have little time to try and save the day. Shaun’s third big screen adventure also marks the 50th Anniversary of Aardman Animation.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Please check our T&Cs page before booking for our policy on unaccompanied children.

The screening on Monday 12th October will be followed by a Q&A with director Taghi Amirani, moderated by Martyn Hone. Please note tickets for this screening will be at our off-peak prices.

In this documentary-meets-detective-story, there is a reckoning with one of the most striking foreign interventions. In 1953, a military coup led by British MI6 and backed by the CIA overthrew Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. His crime: nationalizing the country’s oil. The truth behind that original regime change for oil was buried for decades. Iranian director Taghi Amirani, a Queen’s Park resident, spent 10 years uncovering what really happened. With the handiwork of editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) and a gripping performance by Ralph Fiennes, the film unfolds like a John le Carré spy thriller — except every word is true. Coup 53 feels less like history and more like a warning: it exposes the roots of today’s war with rare clarity and urgency.

The film’s editor is Walter Murch, who worked on “The Conversation” and “The Godfather: Part II” (both 1974) so there’s not much that he doesn’t know about conspiracy – how it leaks into a movie like the smell of drains.

Anthony Lane – The New Yorker

This powerful and authoritative documentary by the Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani is as gripping as any thriller

Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian

Ralph Fiennes appears, lending a wry le Carré air to proceedings as an enigmatic MI6 agent with an explosive testimony.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh - The Times

It’s like taking a swim in John le Carré’s brain

Dave Calhoun - Time Out

Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this Aaron Sorkin original screenplay is a companion piece to the hit film The Social Network and a true David and Goliath story. Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Monday 19 October at 20:45 is a hard of hearing subtitled screenings.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Original languages: Hebrew, English

Presented with English subtitles when dialogue is not in English

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Tightly wound British academic Joan, played by the always excellent Lesley Manville, travels to Cold War-era Warsaw to deliver a paper on the treatment of psychiatric illness. Once in Poland, the professor is surprisingly caught in between a student uprising and escalating assassinations as authorities call in martial law. Manville is phenomenal as a spiky, on-edge professor who’s pulled into something much bigger than herself and, as Joan’s stern armour unravels, she (and we) are coolly reminded of the narrowness of her experience after being dropped into a brutal world where theory isn’t going to cut it. - SXWS London

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

The international hit musical comes to the big screen! Winner of eight Tony Awards in 2019 including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL is the genre-defying musical blending modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale of two intertwining love stories, that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and King Hades and his wife Persephone. Filmed live on stage in London’s West End and featuring the original Broadway stars, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Neasa Ní Chianáin and the documentary's subject Eamon Ryan.

Set between 2023 and 2025, this documentary follows Irish Green Party leader and Cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan during his final 18 months in government. Once buoyed by Europe’s

Green wave, Ryan now faces waning public interest in climate issues as he advocates globally for renewable energy and climate justice for the Global South.

At home, he battles public resistance, political pressure, online abuse and far-right pushback while the Irish Greens implement one of Europe’s most ambitious climate plans. Interwoven is

his tender relationship with his autistic son, Tommy, reflecting his persistence, empathy, and belief that lasting change - whether in politics or family - requires patience and hope.

After a summer of record-breaking heat and drought, understand the far-reaching impacts of climate change, and what we can do about, is more important than ever. 

This film sets out the National Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature emergency, given to MPs at Westminster by leading experts in November 2025. It is now being screened in communities across the UK, bringing people together to hear the evidence on what the emergency means for our lives and our future, and to discuss how to respond. 

The screening on Wednesday 21st October will be followed by an informal discussion for you to share your ideas and reflections.

The beloved and award-winning BBC comedy GHOSTS arrives on the big screen this Halloween. Starring writers and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are back, along with Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe, in a feature length family adventure.

Three years on from our last visit to Button House, the ghosts are back and adjusting to life without Alison and Mike. When protestors threaten to disrupt the work on the planned hotel, they try to find a way for at least one of them to finally leave the grounds

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Wednesday 28 October at 18:00 is a hard of hearing subtitled screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio that brought you unforgettable bonds between a boy and a dragon in How to Train Your Dragon, an ogre and a donkey in Shrek, and a robot and a gosling in The Wild Robot, now welcomes a dazzling and emotional story about two lifelong best friends who must come together before they drift apart in Forgotten Island.

Grammy and Academy Award® winning supernova H.E.R. and Liza Soberano (Lisa Frankenstein, Alone/Together) star as high school graduates Jo and Raissa, who have been best friends since grade school but are now about to embark on separate life paths. While celebrating their last night together, Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, packed with magical and mythological creatures they grew up hearing stories about from their Filipino families.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Please check our T&Cs page before booking for our policy on unaccompanied children.

Accessibility:

The screening on Tuesday 27 October at 12:40 is a hard of hearing subtitled screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

This screening is presented in collaboration with The Arab Film Club. 

There will be a live introduction before the film by actor Mounia Akl and Sarah Agha from The Arab Film Club.

In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino (Hasan Akil) and Yasmina (Mounia Akl) find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival,

they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies

ravaging the country.

Original language: Arabic

Presented with English subtitles

There will be a live introduction before the short film programme begins.

Coinciding with the Lexi’s Spotlight on female filmmakers this year, London Breeze presents a brilliant selection of short narrative films from the UK created by and starring women- each powerful, uplifting, and getting into the nitty gritty of womanhood. The programme is co-curated by our partners, Girls on Tops, who collaborated with the Lexi at the beginning of the year for their first Spotlight on Annemarie Jacir. Now we are here together during their Lynne Ramsay season with some excellent short films that perfectly complement her work.

New Starter (12 min) Dir. Olamide Ajisafe

The Contraception Fair (13 min) Dir. Julie Magnaudet

Jellyfish (9 min) Dir. Jesse May Fisher

Sunny Side Up (16 min) Dir. Chakira Alin

Made From Leakproof Plastic (15 min) Dir. Anastasiya Mykhaylova

The Mirror That Consumes You (12 min) Dir. Gabriella Leonardi

My Sister is a Cactus (11 min) Dir. Laura Calzada

Unauthorised Absence (15 min) Dir. Georgia Parris

Total runtime of programe: 113 minutes

Sunday's screening will have a recorded introduction from Lexi Programmer Johnathan Kirk.

This film is part of our season celebrating the films of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, running from October to December.

You can find the other films in the season and information about our wider year-long season spotlighting international female filmmakers, here.

Set in Glasgow during the mid 70s, Ratcatcher is seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old James Gillespie, a young boy haunted by a secret. Feeling increasingly distant from his family, his only escape comes with the discovery of a new housing development on the outskirts of town where he has the freedom to lose himself in his own world. Enticed by a local gang of older boys, James is thrown together with vulnerable fourteen-year-old Margaret Anne and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship which becomes their hesitant but touching experience of first love. This is the beautiful 4K

Laurent Cantet’s Palme D’Or winner is a trailblazing piece of social realism. François Bégaudeau, who wrote a memoir in 2006 about his teaching experiences, effectively plays himself in this drama about an inner-city Parisian secondary school, and the efforts of a passionate teacher battling to keep his form class out of trouble. The French title Entre les Murs (“Between the Walls”) is literal: the entire film is set inside the school itself, keeping us intimately close to both the students’ learning and the clashing attitudes of authority figures.  

This screening will include an introduction from CLASSROOM CINEMA season curator Tom Saer.  

Screening as part of the 2026 edition of Film Africa.

CROCODILE is a coming-of-age story about nine young Nigerians who, in a country shaped by Christianity and marked by political difficulties, discover their voice through sci-fi filmmaking.

Shot by the protagonists themselves over twelve years, CROCODILE reveals a widening worldview as they grow beyond the boundaries of their Nigerian homeland.

The film develops its own unique cinematic language, blending self-shot observational documentary, science fiction, and Nollywood influences.

Original languages: English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba

Presented with English Subtitles

From the makers of Coraline, Wildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about Prue, a young girl who journeys into a hidden forest to rescue her younger brother. Along the way she encounters warring factions, extraordinary creatures, and a world unlike anything she's ever known.

Adapted from the novel written by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Please check our T&Cs page before booking for our policy on unaccompanied children.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki and Peter Dinklage.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Talking Pictures

The screening on Monday 02 November at 15:00 is a Talking Pictures screening, with an informal discussion with a member of the Lexi team following the film.

Accessibility:

The screening on Wednesday 04 November at 18:20 is a hard of hearing subtitled screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau’s hilarious laugh-a-minute comedy is a wonderfully chaotic love letter to the theatre.

The Comédie-Française is one of France’s most revered arts institutions, and the oldest still-performing theatre company in the world. There is one golden rule: the play is NEVER cancelled.  Unfortunately for theatre producer Nina (Pauline Clément), everything is unravelling just three hours before the premiere of her first production – an ambitious retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Her lead actor is stuck on a train, tensions are exploding, passions flaring, equipment breaking down and egos are clashing. With panic setting in and the clock ticking Nina must hold things together at all costs. Will the show go on?

France’s hit summer comedy and the runaway winner of four awards at the Alpe d’Huez comedy Film Festival, Comédie Française is a delicious behind-the-scenes farce which is unafraid to poke fun at the highbrow reputation of French theatre. Featuring a cast of real-life members of the Comédie-Française company, this is a gleeful, knowing parody and a sheer delight.

Original language: French

Presented with English subtitles

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.

This acclaimed masterpiece from Lee Chang-dong (Burning) won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and is being widely touted as one of it not the best film of 2026. It'll be at the Lexi for one week only so don't miss your chance to see it.

Original language: Korean

Presented with English subtitles

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

A special screening in memory of Tim Curry (1946 - 2026). This year's Halloween night extravaganza will be the iconic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, having just celebrated its 50th Anniversary last year. Coming dressed the part optional (but encouraged by Team Lexi!).

Tickets are priced at £10.

Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a cross-dressing scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Never theatrically screened in the UK outside festivals, this critically under-seen gem features a captivating central performance from veteran Slovenian actor Igor Samobor. Much like The Class (2008), the vast majority of Class Enemy takes place within the confines of school. Samobor plays a stern German teacher with nerves of steel, who takes over a class on maternity cover. After the tragic death of class member Sabina, fingers start being pointed. Detfly handling a wide range of themes including grief, the sanctity of the classroom space, and the philosophy of teaching, Class Enemy is a shining example of compelling modern Slovenian drama.

This screening will include a recorded introduction from director and co-writer Rok Biček (work permitting). Special thanks to Triglav Film for providing complimentary screening materials.

Content notes: discussion of suicide.  

The screening on Wednesday 4th November at 18:10 will be followed by a Q&A with the film's director Rich Felgate.

A filmmaker gets more than he bargained for when his girlfriend is part of starting one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. As irreversible climate tipping points loom and their controversial protests face mounting repression, four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—grapple with the personal cost of action against the existential stakes of inaction. How far will ordinary people go to stop oil drilling and how far will the authorities go to stop them?

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts.

Rich Felgate - Director/Producer

Rich Felgate is a documentary filmmaker who first picked up a camera to document his insider’s view of environmental activism. For his debut feature doc, 'Finite', Rich spent a year and half living in protest camps in the UK and Germany with communities opposing opencast coal extraction. ‘Finite’ screened at festivals around the world (DocEdge, DokuFest, Leeds), won multiple awards, including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix and went on to be released theatrically in the UK and broadcast by public service broadcasters around the world including NHK.

His latest film, ‘We, The Hated', had its world premiere as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.

Martin McDonagh's much anticipated follow-up to The Banshees of Inisherin is previewing on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th November exclusively for our members.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic.

1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. He must confront what he’s willing to sacrifice, who he’s willing to become and how to find his place in a world that demands he choose a side.

Brought to life with a live string quartet and filmed live from the Almeida Theatre, Olivier Award-winner Sam Yates (Vanya) directs this propulsive drama exploring ambition, identity, and the high price of success.  

Please note there are no trailers before NT Live performances and the content starts at the advertised time.

There is a interval for this performance.

“Uncut Gems for teachers”, as described by one Letterboxd reviewer: The Staffroom makes an up-close approach to school labour all too literal. Young school counsellor, Anamarija, begins working at an elementary school in Zagreb, but quickly realises she has her work cut out for her when faced with opposition by colleagues. A bold debut feature from Croatian filmmaker Sonja Tarokić, this is a breathless drama exploring duty of care and the clash between idealism and stubbornness, maintaining an uneasy proximity with the characters throughout.  

The Lexi is proud to present (what we believe to be) the first non-festival UK cinema screening of The Staffroom.

This screening will include an introduction from UK film critic and writer Lillian Crawford.

Director İlker Çatak’s fascination with tough decisions, and the subtle manifestations of ethnic and class divides, shine through in this intense Oscar-nominated drama. Young maths teacher Carla (Leonie Benesch) becomes embroiled in a thorny moral debate when she begins suspecting a fellow staff member of stealing at school. As the final screening of CLASSROOM CINEMA, the film will be followed by a panel discussion with teacher and film writer Charlotte Harrison and film critic Tim Robey.

There will be a panel discussion following the film, with details TBC.

This screening is presented by Japanese Film Club.

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival’s rock concert—including a classic ’80s song by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts called “Linda Linda”.

Original language: Japanese

Presented with English subtitles

Sunday's screening will have a live Q&A with the film's cinematographer Seamus McGarvey! As well as his Academy Award nominated work on Atonement and Anna Karenina, Seamus also shot Lynne's most recent film Die My Love. We're delighted to welcome him to the Lexi to discuss the film in the context of its 15th anniversary.

This film is part of a season celebrating the films of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, running from October to December.

You can find the other films in the season and information about our wider year-long season spotlighting international female filmmakers, here.

We Need To Talk About Kevin is an emotional thriller, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and starring Tilda Swinton.

Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?

Based on the Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Our screening on Monday 23rd November will feature a post-film Q&A with director Marc Evans.  Please note tickets for this screening will be at our off-peak prices

Based on Gary Owen's much lauded and widely performed monodrama, Iphigenia in Splott, 'Effi o Blaenau' is director Marc Evans' cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales. The film follows Effi, a young woman desperate to escape a town where the pubs are closed, the jobs have vanished and her grandmother works night shifts in the local chip shop just to get by. A chance encounter in a Llandudno nightclub with injured soldier Lee, played by Tom Rhys Harries, briefly opens a door to something better. For a moment, Effi glimpses a life she never imagined. The reality that follows is far tougher. As she faces the future as a single, unemployed mother-to be, Effi's story exposes a stark social crisis: a system with too few maternity wards, too few midwives and too many impossible choices made out of necessity rather than care. Leisa Gwenllian gives a searing performance as Effi, evoking condemnation and sympathy in equal measures.

Original language: Welsh

Presented with English subtitles

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts.