 | Borderlines Film Festival returns for its 13th year to cinema screens across Herefordshire & Shropshire & we are pleased to once again be a partner venue bringing festival screenings to Oswestry audiences.
This year we are expanding on our festival screenings with five fantastic & very different films that highlight the differing strands across the full festival programme.
Tickets for Festival screenings at kinokulture cinema, Oswestry can be booked online through our own Box Office system: 0845 2500517 (local rate) http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/box-office/4585677279
Or through the Film Festival Central Box Office at The Courtyard, Hereford: 01432 340555
http://www.courtyard.org.uk/event_type/borderlines-film-festival/
"Borderlines is back, loud and proud in 2015, offering our biggest ever selection of films for audiences
in Herefordshire and Shropshire with the added boost of a thrilling three-day Festival of British Cinema at Hay-on-Wye
to launch our opening weekend. Our Film Programmers from the Independent Cinema Office, David Sin and Jonny Courtney, have brought in a wealth of terrific films on preview, screening at the Festival with special permission from the distributors. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to see fascinating and absorbing films before they go on general release.
Enjoy what promises to be our biggest and best Festival ever!"
Festival Director Naomi Vera-Sanso
For more information & the full festival programme visit
the Borderlines website:
http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/ The doors open 30 minutes before the screening time and our licensed bar/cafe sells a range of wines, beers, soft drinks, hot drinks, Ice cream & snacks
(sourced locally where possible). Car parking is available in the Horse Market car par at the back of the Market Hall, just a short walk from the cinema. | | | Borderlines Film Festival 2015
Screenings at
kinokulture cinema, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | Still Life (12A)
Friday 27th February 7:30pm
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Saturday 28th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/78489
Or call the Box Office: 0845 2500517 (local rate) The long-awaited and multi award-winning new film from Uberto Pasolini, producer of the beloved worldwide smash-hit The Full Monty, STILL LIFE is a poignant and inspirational drama about a quiet, optimistic and selfless man who finds joy in helping everyone but himself.
For over 22 years, life for the unassuming John May (an indelible performance from the extraordinary Eddie Marsan) has been his work for the local council in South London, finding the next of kin for those in his community who have passed away alone. But in this age of 'efficiency', John's meticulousness and care is no longer deemed necessary, and he is abruptly made redundant. John is left with one assignment: a search for the relatives of an elderly neighbour, Billy Stoke.
As he journeys beyond London to piece together Billy's past, John uncovers a life of mischief, misadventure, love and regret, most of all for an abandoned daughter, Kelly (the radiant Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey) whom John manages to locate. These two insular people are naturally drawn to each other, and as friendship blossoms, John's outlook opens imperceptibly to life's possibilities…
Beautifully observed and profoundly affecting, STILL LIFE is a gem – a resonant and universal celebration of dignity, community values and human connection, and ultimately, all that life is worth living for.
WINNER – 2013 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Art Cinema Prize for Best Film, Best Director (Horizons) &
Pasinetti Critics' Prize
WINNER – 2013 REYKJAVIK FILM FESTIVAL – Best Film
WINNER – 2014 EDINBURGH FILM FESTIVAL – Best Actor
WINNER – 2014 VOICES FILM FESTIVAL – Grand Prix & Best Actor
★★★★
"Deeply moving and richly rewarding – a film with incredible heart." Empire
★★★★
"Wistfully funny. Sweet, poignant and absorbing." The Sunday Telegraph
Run time: 92 mins
View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9CsXrlO8Y | |  | Testament Of Youth (12A)
Tuesday 3rd March 1:30pm
Thursday 5th 7:30pm
Friday 6th 7:30pm
Saturday 7th March 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/79258
Or call the Box Office: 0845 2500517 (local rate) Vera Brittain's classic memoir - the first part of a trilogy - is such an important book, both for its vivid portrayal of a generation lost to war and as a woman's account of her life in a time of tumultuous change. Eventually mother to politician Shirley Williams, Brittain's autobiography is a seminal text depicting a life altered by history and also a vivid portrayal of the development of an instinctive and distinctive writer, a woman finding her own voice and the conviction to speak.
This is a faithfully rendered interpretation following Vera from her teenage years as an academically ambitious teenager in pre-WWI England, horsing around with her brother and his school friends, through to the shattering impact the war has on all of their lives, their dreams and their futures. There is stellar acting talent on display from a uniformly excellent cast, a keen visual eye which contrasts the lyricism of a pastoral idyll with the mud and grit of the trenches and at its centre, a poignant and heartfelt depiction of grief and loss.
"..a restrained cinematic polish that feels wholly appropriate to its subject: it's soberly moving" **** - Tim Robey, The Telegraph
"Traditional, heartfelt and stirring in all the right ways, the filmfeels as though it is the natural successor to the war romances of Powell and Pressburger." - Wendy Ide, The Times
Director: James Kent
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, Dominic West
UK, 2015
Run time: 2 hours 10 minutes
View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tP7k4wqVJo | |  | National Gallery (12A)
Saturday 7th March 2:00pm
Tickets: £6.00 adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/79481
Or call the Box Office: 0845 2500517 (local rate)
After his magisterial accounts of the Paris Opera Ballet in La Danse and the University of California in At Berkeley, documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores another august cultural institution, London's National Gallery.
Running just shy of a mesmerising three hours, this is a richly detailed, beautifully nuanced portrait of the gallery's working life, from the difficult financial decisions facing the charity's executives to visitors' awed appreciation of its blockbuster exhibitions.
Combining a vivid sense of how vast the gallery's many activities are with an eye for droll observational detail, the film finds Wiseman in commanding control of his material. And perhaps unsurprisingly for such a tireless and painstaking artist, we ultimately find him drawn to the work of other visual practitioners, notably the gallery's restorers and curators.
A profound mediation on the act of looking, National Gallery is a triumphant summation of Wiseman's career to date.
"Truly inspiring…a great, great film. It's like being lulled with intelligence."
"…It's beautifully organised, and there's no way you could possibly watch it without learning all kinds of stuff." –Tim Robey, The Telegraph
Director: Frederick Wiseman
USA/France 2014
Run time: 2 hours 53 mins
View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyYBz5_aMM8 | |  | A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence (15)
Preview Screening
Courtesy of Curzon Film World
Tuesday 10th March 7:30pm
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Friday 13th March 1:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/79315
Or call the Box Office: 0845 2500517 (local rate) We are pleased to present this preview screening before general release in the UK of the Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2014.
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man's perpetual inhumanity to man.
Embodying the Swedish spirit through phrasing, mood and general interactions; capturing the sharp tongue and redundancy of speech that feels like a definition of a tired society, but a society that still has an underlying humaneness to its intentions.
The two main characters represent two regular tempers; one who is gloomy, but sensitive, who's become beaten by the world, and another that is irritable and brushes off anything that has the possibility of confronting his hidden despair.
This is a world dominated by morose and resigned people, but there are still glimmers of humanity within them, even if its interrupted by snarky remarks and half-hearted advice.
Captured through static shots and long, but vivid, sequences, Anderson has made another film that captures the absurdities of the human condition through deadpan and sardonic humor.
A pigeon.... is a film that will keep a persistent grin on your face as you experience an odd and tragic world seen through a comedic lens.
"…a species of existential comedy, playing out like a series of skits by Beckett, a sort of Saturday Night Live of the soul." Catherine Bray, Hitflix
"Roy Andersson's series of comic sketches may be untranslatable cinema, but it's heaven." ***** - The Telegraph
"What a bold, beguiling and utterly unclassifiable director Andersson is. He thinks life is a comedy and feels it's a tragedy, and is able to wrestle these conflicting impulses into a gorgeous, deadpan deadlock. " ***** - The Guardian
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson
Sweden/Germany/Norway/France, 2014,
Run time: 1 hour 41 minutes
subtitles
View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7pna4laaAk | |  | The Duke Of Burgundy (18)
Friday 13th March 7:30pm
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Saturday 14th March 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult (18 +)
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/79494
Or call the Box Office: 0845 2500517 (local rate)
The new film from Peter Strickland, director of the acclaimed Katalin Varga (2009) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012) is an intensely erotic melodrama that has already received huge praise at early festival screenings.
Cynthia, (Sidse Babett Knudsen) a lepidopterist (the title of the film refers to a rare type of butterfly) seems to treat her newly hired housekeeper Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) with dismissive cruelty. In time we discover that they are entwined in a very curious, very particular S&M relationship, which Strickland invites us to view, but not judge.
Despite the explicit sex scenes, this is a beguiling, tender, even humorous film with a heightened sense of emotion, confirming Strickland as one of the UK's most ambitious and intellectually probing filmmakers.
"Knudsen and D'Anna are both terrific, and have tremblingly palpable chemistry, although the film is so teasing and elusive that after one viewing, you just want to watch the thing again" **** - The Telegraph
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna, Monica Swinn
UK, 2014
Run time: 1 hour 41 minutes View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xIMBnclyA | | | |
