Welcome to this bumper edition of the kinokulture cinema newsletter featuring our February film screenings and our Borderlines and WOW: Wales One World Film Festival screenings. We are very pleased to once again be a partner venue for Borderlines Film Festival the biggest rural film festival in the UK and are delighted to be a new partner venue for WOW: Wales One World Film Festival.
Both of these film festivals bring a wonderful selection of top notch films to our screen plus a number of preview screenings and rare World Cinema titles. Other highlights coming up in February are The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. With live broadcasts from The RSC: Macbeth, The National Theatre: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and The Royal Opera House: Tosca and The Winter's Tale. All our films for February & March are on sale via our website :
http://www.kinokulture.org.uk/#
Ticket prices for regular screenings are £7.00 Adult & £5.00 Under 16's
Prices for the Borderlines Film Festival screenings are: £7.50 Adults/£5.50 Under 16's
Prices for Event Cinema & Live broadcasts vary depending on the distributor.
Please scroll down to see full information & booking links for all of this month's films.
Doors open 30 minutes before the screening time and parking is available in The Horse Market car park just a short walk from the cinema.
Our cafe/bar space sells a range of light refreshments and is licensed in the evenings and on Saturdays.
The cinema has a loop system and is also installed with Mobile Connect - Sennheiser's WiFi based system that enables low-latency transmission of audio content to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. We can now easily provide assistive listening, audio description and interpretation channels to your own mobile phone. all you need to do is download the 'Sennheiser Mobileconnect' App for free from the Android or ITunes app store and listen through headphones connected to your mobile phone. This service can be used by anyone needing hearing assistance but is also very useful for people who can not understand the indecipherable mumbling of certain actors when they are 'In character'.
We look forward to seeing you this month | | | | February Film Screenings & Events
kinokulture cinema, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11 1JN | | |  | Kaleidoscope (15)
Thursday 1st February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/436452
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 A year after being released from prison, middle-aged CARL WOODS has done well to carve out a life for himself in the outside world. Having procured some work and a flat, he now embarks on his first date in fifteen years. The event coincides with his estranged mother's reappearance in his life, and her subsequent attempts to mend the differences that so violently drove them apart many years before. As Carl tries to withstand the insidious influences of his past, so he finds himself increasingly drawn in to the dark imaginings of his own psychological vortex. "delicious psycho-thriller" ★★★★ Ed Potton, The Times "This is an intriguing watch" "Toby Jones is mesmerising" ★★★★ Anna Smith, Time Out DIRECTOR: RUPERT JONES STARRING: TOBY JONES, ANNE REID, SINEAD MATTHEWS, CECILIA NOBLE Run time: 100 mins | |  | The Florida Project (15)
Friday 2nd February 7:30pm
Saturday 3rd February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5,00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/215192
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Young Moonee and her mother Halley live in a motel close to Disney World, but they can only dream of going there. Instead Moonee turns her world into a theme park, while Halleey finds ways to make money. Sean Baker's (Tangerine) dazzlingly colourful drama explores the flipside of the American Dream, and cements his position as one of cinema's most exciting emerging filmmakers. "Thrillingly vibrant" ***** The Guardian "A moving, emotional masterpiece" ***** Empire Director: Sean Baker USA 2017 Cast: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto Run time: 111 mins | |  | Tomorrow/Demain (12A)
Wales One World Film Festival Curtain Raiser
Monday 5th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/221829
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 As a curtain raiser to the Wales One World Film Festival we are pleased to present this one off screening of Tomorrow. Already viewed by over 1.5 million people in France alone, and winner of Best Documentary at the Cesar Awards (the French Oscars), 'Tomorrow' has been hugely impactful. Produced by activist and writer Cyril Dion and actress/director Mélanie Laurent, it tells the story of their search for solutions to the crisis humanity faces. A new twist on the ecological crisis: a feel-good movie about the best ways to solve it, both economic and social. Following the publication of a study that announced the possible disappearance of part of humanity by 2100, Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent set out with a team of four people to ten countries, investigating what could cause this catastrophe and most of all how to avoid it. During their trip, they met pioneers who are reinventing agriculture, energy, the economy, democracy and education. By shedding light on these positive and concrete initiatives that already work, they begin to see the emergence of what could be tomorrow's world… Maddy Harland, co-founder and editor of Permaculture magazine says: "This is a very powerful and empowering film, showing how simple solutions when combined on a community level can make a huge difference and become viral. In a world full of problems, Tomorrow provides more than just feel-good factors. It is full of cogent, practical and doable solutions." France 2015 Run time: 118 mins French with English subtitles To find out more about the WOW Wales One World Film Festival please visit: https://www.wowfilmfestival.com/en/latest | |  | The Big Sick (15) Oswestry Film Society Screening Tuesday 6th February 7:30pm Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Season Membership: £21.00
Please note that tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings
cannot be booked through kinokulture.
Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website: https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/current-season
Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com The Big Sick arrives at the Film Society riding the crest of a multitude of accolades, with many hailing it as the romantic comedy of 2017. It's based on true events that happened to writer and star Kumail Nanjiani and his fellow writer Emily. When Pakistan born Nanjiani fell in love with Emily they struggled as their cultures clashed and their relationship was further troubled when Emily became suddenly ill and had to be put into a medically induced coma. On screen Emily is played by rising star Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks) in a cast that includes brilliant Holly Hunter (Broadcast News). 2017 / US/ 117 minutes 'A hugely enjoyable, lovable comedy.' The Guardian | |  | Royal Opera House Live: Tosca (12A)
Wednesday 7th February 7:15pm
Tickets: £15.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book Online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/437661
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Drama, passion and fabulous music – Puccini's operatic thriller is one of the great opera experiences. Dan Ettinger conducts a star cast led by Adrianne Pieczonka, Joseph Calleja and Gerald Finley. The painter Mario Cavaradossi helps a fugitive escape – and so attracts the attention of Scarpia, the sadistic Chief of Police. Scarpia captures Cavaradossi and has him tortured within earshot of his lover, the singer Tosca. Scarpia sentences Cavaradossi to death – but promises Tosca that her lover can be saved if she gives herself to Scarpia. Tosca consents but as soon as the order has been given kills Scarpia. Scarpia's menace continues even in death: betrayed by a double-cross, Cavaradossi dies and Tosca leaps to her death. From its strident opening chords, Tosca conjures up a world of political instability and menace. The Chief of Police, Scarpia – one of the most malevolent villains in opera – ruthlessly pursues and tortures enemies of the state. His dark, demonic music contrasts with the expansive melodies of the idealistic lovers, Tosca and Cavaradossi, who express their passion in sublime arias, including 'Vissi d'arte' and 'E lucevan le stelle'. Giacomo Puccini's dramatic work was a hit with audiences on its 1900 premiere and it remains one of the most performed of all operas – and with its gripping plot and glorious music, it's easy to see why. - Music: Giacomo Puccini
- Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
- Director: Jonathan Kent
- Designer: Paul Brown
- Lighting designer: Mark Henderson
- Conductor: Dan Ettinger
- Floria Tosca: Adrianne Pieczonka
- Mario Cavaradossi: Joseph Calleja
- Baron Scarpia: Gerald Finley
- Spoletta: Aled Hall
- Cesare Angelotti: Simon Shibambu
- Sacristan: Jeremy White
- Sciarrone: Jihoon Kim
- Chorus: Royal Opera Chorus
- Concert Master: Sergey Levitin
- Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Run time: 3 hours approx including two intervals | |  | The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (15)
Thursday 8th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/437663
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Steven (Colin Farrell), an eminent cardiothoracic surgeon, is married to Anna (Nicole Kidman), a respected ophthalmologist. They live a happy and healthy family life with their two children, Kim (Raffey Cassidy) and Bob (Sunny Suljic). But Steven has formed a friendship with Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless 16 year-old boy whom he has taken under his wing. Things take a sinister turn when Steven introduces Martin to his family, gradually throwing their world into turmoil and forcing Steven to make a shocking sacrifice or run the risk of losing everything. "Deadpan humour meets full-blooded horror in Yorgos Lanthimos's unsettling drama about a surgeon's friendship with a teenage boy" **** The Guardian "Yorgos Lanthimos's surrealistic revenge tragedy is all the more chilling because of its absurdist and macabre humour." **** The Independent Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Nicole Kidman Run time: 121 mins | |  | Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool (15)
Friday 9th February 7:30pm
Saturday 10th February 7:30pm
tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/215746
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening), and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner (Bell), quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control. "Had the film simply been The Annette Bening Show, we'd certainly have coped. But she's matched every step of the way by Bell, in a flat-out career-best performance achieved so naturally it's a marvel." **** Daily Telegraph "Brittle and insecure, yet also steely and magnetic, Bening's performance is full of nuance." **** Time Out Director: Paul McGuigan UK 2017 Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Leanne Best Run time: 106 mins | |  | Doc Of The Month: Human Flow (12A)
Tuesday 13th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/437805
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. Human Flow is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice: from teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind to the unknown potential of the future. "Gorgeous shots in Greece, Calais and elsewhere, many filmed from drones, create a visual tone poem that proves both epic and highly human." **** The Guardian "Ai Weiwei's refugee documentary weighs on your heart like a cannonball." **** The Telegraph Director: Ai Weiwei 2017 Run time: 140 mins | |  | RSC Live: Twelfth Night (12A)
Wednesday 14th February 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/354474
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 'I am all the daughters of my father's house, and all the brothers too.' Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love - hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister...Christopher Luscombe, Director of the 'glorious' Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company to tackle Shakespeare's greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet account of "the whirligig of time". Run time: 3 hours 20 mins | |  | Call Me By Your Name (15)
Screening As Part Of LGBT History Month
Thursday 15th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/448642
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favour him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. "This coming-of-age love story is all texture, tone and nuance...Luca Guadagnino has made a lovely cinematic feather. And it floats down beautifully, riding a soft breeze of melancholy and grace." Detroit News Director: Luca Guadagnino Italy/France/Brazil/USA 2017 Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhbarg, Amira Cesar, Esther Garrel Run time: 132 mins | |  | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (15)
Friday 16th February 7:30pm SOLD OUT
Saturday 17th February 7:30pm
Wednesday 21st February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/215785
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Martin McDonagh's follow-up to Seven Psychopaths is a characteristically pitch-black comedic drama featuring a blistering central performance from Frances McDormand. It's been seven months since her daughter was murdered and foul-mouthed, tough-as-nails Mildred Hayes (McDormand) is fed up. Fuelled by grief and outraged that the investigation has gone quiet, she provokes the local police department with a series of messages plastered on three disused billboards outside her home town of Ebbing, Missouri. So begins a rapidly escalating and very public feud between Mildred and venerated community leader and family man, Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). The situation is exacerbated when blundering side-kick, Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) gets involved. Just as unhinged as Mildred, but with a significantly lower IQ, Dixon's penchant for violence is stoked by his leaden, borderline psychotic mother to whom he is unhealthily attached. McDonagh's screenplays are consistently audacious and his sleight-of-hand here is to make the victim (or more accurately, the victim's mother), a righteous, nasty woman who is just as hell-bent on rebuffing sympathy as she is on getting justice. Like many of McDonagh's best and most profane characters, Mildred has a fibrous moral code. Her indignant blustering is frequently triggered by social injustice and small-town bigotry – 'it seems to me that the police department is too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crime' – and her increasingly reckless actions are prompted by a deep-seated sense of guilt and regret. McDonagh's latest exploration of the American psyche is by turns riotously funny and deeply sobering, cutting to the quick of social division and tearing to shreds – like the tattered billboards that Mildred papers over – the all-American dreaminess of the Capra-esque small town. A universally splendid cast is rounded out by Abbie Cornish, Peter Dinklage, John Hawkes, Clarke Peters and Caleb Landry Jones. Clare Stewart - The BFI "Frances McDormand is commanding as a woman avenging the murder of her daughter in Martin McDonagh's modern-day western." ***** The Guardian "Like the best movies often do, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" leaves audiences with a complex set of emotions, and with a hard-to-define hint of the profound." **** San Francisco Chronicle Director: Martin McDonagh Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage USA 2017 Run time: 115 mins | |  | Ferdinand (U)
Tuesday 20th February 1:30pm
Wednesday 21st February 1:30pm
Thursday 22nd February 1:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/217635
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 FERDINAND tells the story of a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure. Set in Spain, Ferdinand proves you can't judge a bull by its cover.From Blue Sky Studios and Carlos Saldanha, the director of "Rio" and inspired by the beloved book "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, "Ferdinand" is a heartwarming animated comedy adventure with an all-star cast that includes John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Anderson and many more. Director: Carlos Saldanha, Cathy Malkasian 2017 Cast: John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Gina Rodriguez, Daveed Diggs, Gabriel Iglesias, Bobby Canavale, David Tennant, Anthony Anderson, Flula Borg, Sally Phillips, Boris Kodjoe, Jerrod Carmichael, Raul Esparza, Karla Martinez, Miguel Angel Silvestre Run time: 106 mins | |  | The Levelling (15)
Oswestry Film Society Screening Tuesday 20th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £6.00 Adult/£4.00 Under 16's
Season Membership: £21.00
Please note that tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings
cannot be booked through kinokulture.
Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website: https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/current-season
Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com
In October 2014 Clover receives a call informing her that her younger brother Harry is dead. On returning to her family farm in Somerset, she is not only shocked by the devastation left by the floods six months earlier, but must face her father Aubrey who she hasn't spoken to in years. Together they must form a new understanding as Clover unpicks the truth of what happen to Harry. A low key British drama in the vein of God's Own Country, The Levelling holds an impressive 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes and has won much critical acclaim. 'It may sound bleak, but there is such life and compassion in every frame that the film's tune turns to a song of love.' Mark Kermode UK / 2016 / 83mins | |  | NT Live: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (12A)
Thursday 22nd February 7:00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/410843
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Tennessee Williams' twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London's West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews' 'thrilling revival' (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O'Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out? This is a recording of the Young Vic's production captured during it's successful run in the West End ★★★★
"A bold reimagining…innovative and powerfully acted" - Sunday Times ★★★★
"A brilliant, lacerating account of the play… unforgettable" - The Independent ★★★★
"Miller and O'Connell get to a raw and naked truth" - The Metro Director: Benedict Andrews Starring: Sienna Miller, Jack O'Connell, Colm Meaney run time: 185 mins Approx including interval | |  | Borderlines Film Festival 2018
Friday 23rd February - Sunday 11th March We are delighted to one again be a partner venue for Borderlines Film Festival bringing a host of screenings including previews, Top Award winning & nominated films and World Cinema to our audiences in Oswestry.
To support the festival there is a 50p subsidy on Borderlines Film Festival tickets.
"Easily rural UK's most impressive film festival" The Independent To find out full festival screenings across all venues please visit the festival website: https://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk Scroll down for our festival screenings at kinokulture cinema | |  | The Darkest Hour (PG)
Borderlines Film Festival
Friday 23rd February 7:30pm
Saturday 24th February 7:30pm
Tuesday 27th February 1:30pm
Advance booking advised as at the point of going to press
both Friday & Saturday screenings are almost sold out.
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/221935
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our opening film for this year's Borderlines Film Festival is 'Darkest Hour' for which Gary Oldman won the Best Actor Golden Globe Award. Gary Oldman is utterly transformed and Oscar-worthy as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's gripping retelling of a pivotal moment in British history. Days after becoming Prime Minister in May 1940, Churchill is thrust into a baptism of fire. Allied forces are cornered at Dunkirk. The threat of invasion looms. A cabal of politicians led by Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane) pushes hard for peace talks. Faced with an unprepared public, a sceptical king (Mendelsohn), and his own party plotting to oust him, Churchill must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler or stand and fight. Based on a screenplay by Anthony McCarten (The Theory Of Everything), this lavish period drama thrillingly depicts the bubbling cauldron of backroom conflict in Churchill's momentous first weeks in office. It's a rousing story of leadership, and makes for a wonderful companion piece to last year's immersive epic Dunkirk. "An Oscar-buzzed performance acts as the stoic centre of Joe Wright's retelling of the events of 1940, played as a House of Cards style thriller." **** The Guardian "Churchill's darkest hour is Gary Oldman's finest. Gripping, touching, amusing and enlightening, his performance is the prime reason this film must be seen — but not the only one. **** Empire Director: Joe Wright UK 2017 Cast: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn Run time: 125 mins | |  | The Nile Hilton Incident (15) Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW Screening
Monday 26th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/448777
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Get to see this film ahead of it's UK release date at our special Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW screening. A murder investigation is mired by bureaucratic corruption in this dark Egyptian thriller, where everyone is on the make. Inspired by a real murder case, Tarik Saleh brings Nordic noir sensibilities to the Egyptian capital and a grubby world of personal, political and systemic corruption. Police detective Noredin, as casually amoral as any of his colleagues, is handed the case of a woman found murdered in a bedroom at Cairo's Nile Hilton Hotel. Noredin initially views the job as just another opportunity to squeeze the usual suspects and hopefully pocket a few more bribes. But as he uncovers the ever more disturbing roots and reach of the crime, the ambivalent antihero finds his conscience piqued. An outstanding performance by Fares Fares (Department Q) as Noredin and an intelligent and nuanced script elevate this story above a conventional procedural drama. It paints an excoriating portrait of endemic corruption, made all the more potent by Metropia (LFF2009) director Saleh's re-staging of the action to the days before the 2011 Tahir Square demonstrations. Sarah Lutton - BFI "Excellent performances and an intelligent script elevate this drama from a conventional procedural to an excoriating portrait of systemic corruption, set – movingly – in the days before the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising." ICO Director: Tarik Saleh Sweden/Denmark/Germany 2017 Cast: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yaser Aly Maher Arabic with English subtitles Run time: 107 mins Preview courtesy of New Wave Films | |  | Shadow World + Q&A (Cert. TBC)
Tuesday 27th February 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/441285
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 SHADOW WORLD REVEALS THE SHOCKING REALITIES OF THE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE – THE ONLY BUSINESS THAT COUNTS ITS PROFITS IN BILLIONS AND ITS LOSSES IN HUMAN LIVES. Directed by Johan Grimonprez ("dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y") and in part based on Corruption Watch UK founder Andrew Feinstein's globally acclaimed book TheShadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, the film reveals how the international trade in weapons – with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents – fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering. Andrew Feinstein, Executive Director of Corruption Watch UK, will introduce the film and host an after screening Q&A. The film unravels a number of the world's largest and most corrupt arms deals through those involved in perpetrating and investigating them. It illustrates why this trade accounts for almost 40% of all corruption in global trade, and how it operates in a parallel legal universe, in which the national security elite who drive it are seldom prosecuted for their often illegal actions. SHADOW WORLD posits alternatives through the experience of a peace activist and war correspondent, as well as through the voice of Eduardo Galeano who contributed selections from his stories for the film. Ultimately SHADOW WORLD reveals the real costs of war, the way the arms trade drives it, how weapons of war are turned against citizens of liberal democracies and how the trade decreases rather than enhances security for us all. In shedding light on how our realities are being constructed, the film offers a way for audiences to see through this horror, in the hopes of creating a better future. Run time: 94 mins + Q&A This screening is supported by Oswestry Coalition For Peace | |  | Happy End (15)
Borderlines Film Festival
Wednesday 28th February 1:30pm
Thursday 1st March 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222078
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Fans of Michael Haneke's 2012 masterwork Amour will see two of its stars, Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant, reunited in Happy End, which screened in Competition at Cannes 2017 (to typically rapturous acclaim). The scene is Calais, where Anne (Huppert) is the chatelaine of both her family's estate and lucrative business, having taken it over from her father Georges (Trintignant) – who (in another echo of Amour) is suffering from dementia and occupies a Lear-esque place in their household, waited on by long-suffering Moroccan servants. The family is shot through with anxiety: from Anne's engagement to a British lawyer (Toby Jones), to her deadbeat son Pierre (Franz Rogowski), her secretive brother Thomas (Mathieu Kassovitz), and mysteriously self-possessed Eve (Fantine Harduin), whose mother is ill in hospital. Their interactions are a portrait of dysfunction – against which, the migrants of Calais linger in the background, planning their next attempt to cross the Channel. As with Funny Games, the film's title is entirely ironic, as Happy End contains no simple resolution. It's a blistering satire of the haute-bourgeoisie, wrought by a dazzling master of cinema, exploiting his favourite themes – of familial dysfunction and psychological violence; the horror of death and the obsession with surveillance – to brilliant effect. "The Austrian director returns to many of his classic themes in a stark, unforgiving and gripping satire on bourgeois Europeans and the people who serve them" ***** The Guardian Director: Michael Haneke France/Austria/Germany 2017 Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Toby Jones French with English subtitles Run time: 107 mins | |  | Royal Opera House Live: The Winter's Tale Ballet (12A)
Wednesday 28th February 7:15pm
Tickets: £15.00 Adult/£10.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/448598
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 King Leontes, possessed by a mad jealousy, believes his pregnant wife Hermione to be having an affair with his childhood friend King Polixenes. His actions tear their families apart. Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare's late great romance The Winter's Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. Building on the success of Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Winter's Tale received ecstatic praise at its premiere, acclaimed by critics and audiences alike for its intelligent, distinctive and emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite dance. It is now widely judged to be a modern ballet classic. The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a seemingly miraculous return to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music by Joby Talbot, The Winter's Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet. - Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
- Scenario: Christopher Wheeldon and Joby Talbot
- Music: Joby Talbot
- Designer: Bob Crowley
- Lighting designer: Natasha Katz
- Projection designer: Daniel Brodie
- Silk effects designer: Basil Twist
Conductor: Tom Seligman | |  | Journey's End (12A)
Borderlines Film Festival
Friday 2nd March 7:30pm
Saturday 3rd March 7:30pm
Tuesday 6th March 1:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222102
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 From director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy, The Duchess) comes this piercing new adaptation of R.C. Sheriff's seminal 1928 anti-war play, following James Whale's enormously successful 1930 screen adaptation and others. Selected to premiere at TIFF 2017 it features a vast array of British talent led by Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge and Toby Jones. In the trenches of World War I, youthful new recruit Lieutenant Raleigh (Butterfield) has pulled strings to join his childhood hero Captain Stanhope (Claflin) on the front line. But Stanhope is horrified by Raleigh's arrival into the tension and claustrophobia of the officers' dugout, where they are anticipating a massive German advance. Altered almost beyond recognition by his years at the front, Stanhope is sustained only by one thought: that when the war is over he can return to his beloved, Raleigh's sister Margaret. A towering classic, Sheriff's play is adapted with ambition and sensitivity in this extremely moving film, which – set for release in the centenary year of the Armistice, and informed by modern psychological insights – focuses its gaze above all on the pathos and harrowing emotional costs of war. "wonderfully acted First World War drama goes deep into the trenches." *** The Telegraph Director: Saul Dibb UK 2017 Cast: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield Run time: 107 mins | |  | Dark River (15)
Borderlines Film Festival
Monday 5th March 7:30pm
Wednesday 7th March 1:30pm
Thursday 8th March 1:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222125
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 One of contemporary British cinema's most distinctive filmmakers, Clio Barnard follows The Selfish Giant and The Arbor with this searing and eloquent Yorkshire set drama exploring the fragility of familial relationships. Inspired by Rose Tremain's novel Trespass, Dark River follows two siblings as they struggle to come to terms with their inheritance, following the death of their Father. Fiercely holding on to a promise made long-ago, independently-minded Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns home for the first time in 15 years to claim family farm. Her grieving brother Joe (Mark Stanley) has spent years looking after their father (Sean Bean) and has scarcely kept the property afloat. Estranged for so long they can barely communicate, Alice soon incurs her brother's wrath when she claims legal tenancy. As tensions mount, troubling memories surface and the real reason for her prolonged absence is revealed. Barnard's expressive use of landscape and Adriano Goldman's haunting camerawork amplify two commanding performances, Wilson's displaying all the power and vulnerability so evident in her recent TV (The Affair) and stage work (Hedda Gabler) , with Stanley (Game of Thrones) equally compelling as a man who has squandered his life in denial of the past. Clare Stewart - BFI "A fine Ruth Wilson headlines Clio Barnard's third feature, a stirring battle-for-the-land drama combining classicism with a nervous edge." Variety Director: Clio Barnard UK 2017 Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Esmé Creed-Miles, Joe Dempsie, Sean Bean Run time: 89 mins | |  | Loving Vincent (12A)
Borderlines Film Festival
Tuesday 6th March 7:30pm Tickets: £6.50 Adult/£4.50 Under 16's
Please note that tickets for Oswestry Film Society screenings
cannot be booked through kinokulture.
Please book online through the Oswestry Film Society website: https://www.oswestryfilmsociety.com/current-season
Or email: oswestryfilmsociety@gmail.com
A young man comes to the last home town of Vincent van Gough to deliver the artist's final letter to his brother Theo, and ends up investigating Vincent's final days there. Loving Vincent has generated a significant amount of interest not only for its subject matter but for the extraordinary way in which the story has been brought to the screen. Each of the film's 65,000 animated frames are oil paintings, painstakingly created by a team of 100 painters. The finished product is an extraordinary work that demands to be seen on the big screen. 'It is a phenomenal technical accomplishment.' Film Inquiry
UK / 2017 / 94mins | |  | Sweet Country (15)
Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW Screening
Wednesday 7th March 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5,50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449070
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Another opportunity to be one of the first to see this film ahead of it's UK release at our special Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW screening. Australian director Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) brings a vital Indigenous perspective and great cinematic vision to this powerful, revisionist epic. An Aboriginal stockman is accused of murdering a white man in Warwick Thornton's searing Australian Western. Thornton follows up his uncompromising Camera d'Or winning debut Samson & Delilah (LFF2009) with an expansive film of great cinematic scope and vision. It's 1929 and segregationist policies weigh heavy in Australia's Northern Territory. Cattle-herder Sam (Hamilton Morris) is sent with his wife and niece to work for newly-arrived station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie). But where Sam's religious boss (Sam Neill) treats them respectfully, March is institutionally racist, unhinged and abusive. When March goes on a booze-fuelled rampage, an altercation occurs and Sam shoots him in self-defence. Anticipating that frontier 'justice' will prevail, Sam and wife Lizzie (Natassia Gorey-Furber) go on the run. The local sergeant (Bryan Brown) sets off in hot pursuit, leading a posse of landowners and aided by Aboriginal tracker Archie (Gibson John). Traversing the stunning MacDonnell Ranges outside Alice Springs, the chase takes them onto country where Sam, a seasoned bushman, has the upper hand. Heightening the overall sense of dread and unease with a series of hallucinatory flash-forwards that reveal horrors yet to come, Thornton brings a vital Indigenous perspective and a striking visual imagination to this potent, revisionist epic. Clare Stewart - BFI "Old Testament cinema, with an almost biblical starkness in its cruelty and mysterious beauty, set in a burning plain where it looks as if the sun-bleached jawbone of an ass could at any moment be picked up and used as a murder weapon." ***** The Guardian "Thornton wrings from this fable of rough frontier justice a statement from the heart. Australia now has its High Noon." ***** Time Out Director: Warwick Thornton Australia 2017 Cast: Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Thomas M Wright Run time: 110 min Preview courtesy of Thunderbird Releasing | |  | Faces Places (PG)
Borderlines Film Festival PREVIEW Screening
Thursday 8th March 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449103
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Our final PREVIEW screening for Borderlines Film Festival is this beautiful, heartwarming documentary by 89-year old Agn̬s Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR. Agn̬s Varda teams up with artist JR for a road-trip across France, in this moving meditation on friendship, cinema and the power of art on people's lives. Arriving in town in a van that doubles up as a giant camera, Agn̬s Varda and JR make quite an impression. For all the initial odd-couple thrills of seeing the revered French filmmaker rolling her eyes at the younger artist's exuberance, a deep connection is quickly forged between two creative souls, who are fuelled by the desire to see their imaginations realised on a grand scale. Photographing people at home or work and pasting the huge images in public spaces, the pair use this art practice as a pretext to listen to working class French people reflect upon their lives. Deceptively simple in structure, the film's socialist feminist politics are expertly folded into a moving humanism, exemplified in a moment where JR recreates the world as viewed through Varda's blurring vision. And the film's final act? A pilgrimage to visit old friend and notorious recluse РJean-Luc Godard. Kate Taylor - BFI Winner of The Best Documentary at The New York Film critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and San Francisco Film Critics Circle Directors: Agn̬s Varda, JR France 2017 Run time: 89 mins French with English subtitles | |  | The Mercy (12A)
Borderlines Film Festival
Friday 9th March 7:30pm
Saturday 10th March 1:30pm & 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.50 Adult/£5.50 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/222189
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
There is an additional screening of The Mercy outside of the festival with subtitles for The Hard Of Hearing
on Monday 12th March.
Tickets for this can be booked here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/459827 Our closing film for this year's Borderlines Film Festival is The Mercy. Oscar winners Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and James Marsh (Man on Wire, The Theory of Everything) team up for The Mercy, a maritime biopic based on the haunting true story of British businessman and amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst. 1968: Crowhurst (Firth) enters the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Hoping to publicise a new navigation device he's created, he also needs the cash prize to salve his ailing business. So, leaving his wife Clare (Rachel Weisz) and children behind, he takes to his untested trimaran and sets off on a mission to circumnavigate the globe. But his inexperience and the intense loneliness of the experience make for disastrous and dramatic struggles on the high seas, and press him to consider falsifying his progress; while back in England, his family eagerly awaits his return. Marsh's biopic promises complex, expressive performances from Firth and Weisz, ably supported by the likes of Ken Stott and David Thewlis. It's a tale of ambition, adventure, madness and tragedy elucidating the life of a man who remains a quixotic and mysterious figure in British history – his deepest motivations still unknown. Director: James Marsh UK 2017 Cast: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Ken Stott Run time: 110 mins | |  | WOW: Wales One World Film Festival
We are incredibly pleased to have been invited as a partner venue for WOW: Wales One World Film Festival this year. A celebration of the wonderful diversity of global flmmaking, WOW Film Festival brings the very best of world cinema to your local cinema screen. WOW's special focus for 2018 is 'Tales from the Silk Road'. A cinematic journey following the ancient trade networks from China through Mongolia and Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Get to see all three of our WOW: Wales One World Film Festival screenings at a reduced price with this limited edition Festival Pass. The kinokulture WOW Passport will give you entry to 'The Square', 'Heavenly Nomadic' and 'The Gulls'.
Festival Passport £18.00 Adult/£12.00 Under 16's: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/459529
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167
Scroll down for film information and individual booking links | |  | The Square (15)
WOW: Wales One World Film Festival
Thursday 15th March 7:30pm
Tickets:7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449948
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 This wickedly funny, bracingly surreal satire is a masterly dissection of the pretensions of high art. A respected curator of a contemporary art museum, Christian is desperate to make a splash. He devises the idea of 'The Square', an installation inviting the public into a space where they are encouraged to behave responsibly. A few days before the opening Christian has a disturbing experience he cannot shake off. Seeking revenge, he soon finds himself in meltdown. A daring, provocative, riveting film, The Square also contains more humane notes as Ostlund's eye for the subtleties of human behaviour never fails. "Moments of pure showstopping freakiness [...] This is high wire cinema" **** Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Winner Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival 2017 Director: Ruben Ostland Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark 2017 Cast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West Run time: 144 mins English/Swedish/Danish with English subtitles | |  | Heavenly Nomadic (PG)
WOW: Wales One World Film Festival
Wednesday 28th March 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449986
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 A family of nomads live in the high, remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan breeding horses. There is wise old Grandfather Tabyldy, his wife Karachach, their dutiful daughter-in-law Shaiyr and their sweet granddaughter Umsunai. But their apparently idyllic life has been tough since Umsunai's father drowned. After listening to her grandfather's stories she's now convinced her father has been reborn as a bird that's watching over them. With its wistful humour, this is a warm, atmospheric, sweet natured tale about nomadic traditions that are slowly disappearing from the magnificent mountains of Central Asia. "a visually majestic debut" Variety Winner FEDEORA Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015 Kyrgyzstan's Entry For the Oscars in 2016 Director: Mirlan Abdykalykov Kyrgyzstan 2016 Cast: Tabyldy Aktanov, Jibek Baktybekova, Taalaikan Abazova Run time: 81 mins Kyrgyz with English subtitles | |  | The Gulls (15)
WOW: Wales One World Film Festival
Thursday 29th March 7:30pm
Tickets: £7.00 Adult/£5.00 Under 16's
Book online: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/449968
Or call the Box Office: 01691 238167 Set against the background of modern Kalmykia (the only country in Europe where Buddhism is the national religion), the haunting story of Elza, a fragile, beautiful fisherman's wife who yearns to escape, unfolds in a small town squeezed between the sparse steppes the shores of the freezing Caspian Sea. A mysterious, misunderstood woman, Elza seems to have drifted in to this patriarchal world from elsewhere, unsuited to the harsh life and her brutal husband. With her keen eye for an image, sure control of her material set among a fascinating mix of people and cultural traditions, Ella Manzheeva creates a mesmerising blend of minimalist realism and tense noir-ish drama reminiscent of the Dardennes Brothers. "a haunting character study with strong visual appeal." Hollywood Reporter Winner Best Debut Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2015 Director: Ella Manzheeva Russia-Kalmykia 2015 Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Evgeny Sangadzhiev Run time: 87 mins English subtitles | | | |
