4 Dec 2024 Director: Marco Bellochio Italy 2023 125 min Veteran director Bellochio brings to life an almost unbelievable true story from a shocking and turbulent period in Italian history. In 1858, six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, lived with his family in Bologna. Claiming that the boy was baptised by the family’s maid as a… Continue reading Kidnapped
Category: Film season 2024-2025
Films 2024-2025 season
Monster
25 Sep 2024 Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan 2023 126 min When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. As the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and… Continue reading Monster
Ama Gloria
5 Feb 2025 Director: Marie Amachoukeli France 2023 84 min Cléo lives with her widower Dad Arnaud and her nanny Gloria in Paris. She loves her father but Gloria is the emotional centre of her world. When Gloria must return to her home in Cape Verde to attend to her own family, she’s heartbroken and… Continue reading Ama Gloria
Driving Mum
22 Jan 2025 Director: Hilmar Oddsson Iceland, Estonia 2022 112 min Hilmar Oddsson’s darkly comedic road movie is a bewitching 1980-set odyssey of self-discovery and acceptance across the beautifully photographed landscapes of Iceland. Middle-aged and disappointed, Jón spends his days knitting and listening to the radio with his domineering elderly mother on their rural Icelandic… Continue reading Driving Mum
Black Box Diaries
19 Mar 2025 Director: Shiori Ito Japan, UK, USA 2024 103 min In 2017, journalist and writer Shiori Ito’s memoir Black Box launched a societal reckoning in Japan. In the book, Ito publicly accused a prominent TV journalist of raping her two years previously. She had reported her assault to the police at the time,… Continue reading Black Box Diaries
The Elvermen
20 Nov 2024 Director: Isla Badenoch UK 2021 14 min As the sun sets on the banks of the River Severn on the outskirts of Gloucester, a group of men gather in a race to catch a vanishing and valuable creature; the elusive elver. Isla Badenoch’s atmospheric view of this moonlit community shows how a… Continue reading The Elvermen