Season 24: 2023 - 2024

Sunday ​17th September 2023:  The Velvet Queen

Two men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet, searching for the rare and elusive snow leopard. This dazzling, award winning film captures stunning images of a little-known part of the world, as well as reflecting on the reasons we are drawn to nature. 

​Documentary. French with English subtitles.

2021 | France | 92 min | Cert. 12A
Directors:  Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier

Bean number: 58 / Audience 64
Bean score:   ​3.95
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Sunday ​15th October 2023:  Godland

At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.

Drama. Danish and Icelandic, with English subtitles.

2022 | Iceland | 143 min | Cert. 12A 
Director:  Hlynur Pálmason ​ 

Bean number: 39 / Audience 47
Bean score:    3.23​
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Sunday 19th November 2023:  Flee

The extraordinary true story of Amin Nawabi who is on the verge of marriage and feels compelled to reveal his hidden past for the first time. Recounted mostly through animation, he tells of his journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.
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Drama, animation. Danish, Dari, Russian, Swedish and English, with English subtitles.

2021 | Denmark | 89 min | Cert 15
Director:  Jonas Poher Rasmussen  ​

Bean number: 17 / Audience 17
Bean score:   ​3.47

​Friday 24th - Sunday 26th November 2023
Aberfeldy Film Festival : Gallus Wimmin

A weekend of films celebrating female film directors
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Sunday 17th December 2023:  Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

An aspiring singer, living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan, dreams of moving to Australia but is sent to the remote Himalayan village of Lunana to complete his teaching service. He gradually learns of the hardship in the lives of the children he teaches and begins to be transformed through the amazing spiritual strength of the villagers.

Drama with English subtitles.

​2019 | Bhutan | 109 min | Cert. PG
Director:  Pawo Choyning Dorji  ​

Bean number:  51 / Audience 61
Bean score:  ​ 3.92
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Sunday 21th January 2024:  Sweet Bean

Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
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Drama. Japanese with English subtitles

2015 | Japan |  113 min | Cert. PG
Director:  Naomi Kawase

Bean number: 33 / Audience 34
Bean score:    3.76 ​ 
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Sunday 18th February 2024:  EO

Exploring a vision of modern Europe through the eyes of EO, a grey donkey. He meets good and bad people on his life's path, experiences joy and pain, and endures the random turning of his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss.
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Drama.  English subtitles

2022 | Poland |  88 min | Cert. 15
Director:  Jerzy Skolimowski
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Sunday 17th March 2024 (AGM): Sick of Myself
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Terrible people do awful things, deliciously, in this satire of a competitive relationship between artists. Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved place in Oslo's cultural scene.

​​Drama. Norwegian with English subtitles

2022 | Norway |  97 min | Cert. 15
Director:  Kristoffer Borgli

Sunday 21st April 2024: The Boy and the Heron

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.

​Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli animated drama. 

2023 | Japan |  124 min | Cert. PG-13
Director: Hayao Miyazaki

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Sunday 19th May 2024: Poor Things

An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

​Oscar-winning drama based on Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel of the same name, this film gives us a fresh point of view from Bella's perspective.


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Sunday 16th June 2024:  All of Us Strangers
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Widely acclaimed, All of Us Strangers won Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards and six BAFTA nominations.It stars Andrew Scott (Ripley, Fleabag) as Adam, a screenwriter struggling with a script based on his past, who begins a chance relationship with Harry, played by Paul Mescal (Normal People, Aftersun), and revisits his childhood home.There he meets his late parents who appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.  In a blend of love, ghost and time-slipped narratives, the film explores the need for human love and connection against a backdrop of 1980s music, memories and homophobia.

Bean number: 33
Bean score:   ​ 3.33
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Special Event Tuesday 6th August 2024:  Io Capitano

IO CAPITANO tells the story of Seydou and Moussa, two Senegalese teenagers who 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 an epic story that offers a deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis. 
 
Rosie Harrison Flower who has recently been volunteering for RCK (Refugee Community Kitchen) in Calais shared her experiences and insights into the realities of migrants' lives in Calais as well as a meal similar to those that RCK provide. 

2023 | Director Matteo Garrone

Bean number: 48
Bean score:  ​  3.89
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