The Return (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
A retelling of Odysseus’ (Ralph Fiennes) return to Ithaca pivots on the hero’s inner state of being. Odysseus’s homecoming from 20 years of war and adventure is far from peaceful.…
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Small Things Like These (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Cillian Murphy plays Bill, a man who witnesses Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries, abusive workhouses for unwed mothers, in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history. Bill is a coalman…
Holy Cow (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Filmed on location in the western French Alps, this earthy romp offers a realistic insight into the hardscrabble life of French agriculture, a moving romance and an ode to the…
Hard Truths (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Mike Leigh returns with a fierce, compassionate and darkly funny character study. Angry, depressed and wracked by fear, Pansy (BAFTA-winner Jean-Baptiste) lashes out at family and strangers alike. She simply…
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Filmed over a year, this documentary has a lot to say about personal and intimate interaction, how it’s affected by creativity, recognition, fame and ageing. Thirty years after a chance…
The Critic (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Ian McKellen gives a magnificent performance as a powerful London theatre critic writing for The Daily Chronicle. He is known as “The Monster” due to his acerbic reviews. He finds…
Welcome To The Orchard of England (PG) + Q&A (Borderlines Film Festival)
Known historically as the Orchard of England, Herefordshire is apple country. This film brings together a wide-ranging and eccentric cast of local people – farmers, Travellers, former apple-pickers, clergymen, wassailers,…
Architecton (U) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Victor Kossakovsky France/Germany/USA, 2024, 1 hour 38 minutes, English/Italian + English subtitles The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation…
The Brutalist (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Brady Corbet Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola US/UK/Hungary, 2024, 3 hours 35 minutes, English AD Audio Description available Adrien Brody plays visionary architect László Toth,…
Take Me In Your Arms (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Julio Bracho Starring: Ninón Sevilla, Armando Silvestre, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Andrea Palma Mexico, 1954, 1 hour 31 minutes, Spanish + English subtitles Erotic torments and class conflicts come to…
The Last Showgirl (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Gia Coppola Starring: Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka US, 2025, 1 hour 28 minutes, English AD Audio description available DS Descriptive subtitles: Friday 14th March…
Murdering the Devil (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Ester Krumbachová Starring: Jiřina Bohdalová, Vladimír Menšík Czechoslovakia, 1970, 1 hour 15 minutes, Czech + English subtitles Long forgotten, recently restored, Ester Krumbachová’s directorial debut is an exuberant, biting…
