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Films // Coming up
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Sea of Shadows
The Sea of Cortez is facing total collapse because of a war at sea. Mexican drug cartels have discovered the “cocaine of the sea,” a valuable fish called the totoaba—which is at the center of a multimillion-dollar business with the Chinese Mafia. To find the fish, these cartels are destroying the ecosystem with illegal gill nets and, in doing so, are killing the Earth’s smallest whale—the vaquita.
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Parent & Baby Screening: Sea of Shadows
PARENT & BABY SCREENINGS: We believe that mums and dads shouldn't have to miss out on great cinema, which is why we are now offering special daytime screenings just for them - now every Tuesday at 12:30. Bring your under 3 for free and we'll create a friendly, half-lit and low sound atmosphere to keep them calm while you enjoy the film.
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Sea of Shadows
The Sea of Cortez is facing total collapse because of a war at sea. Mexican drug cartels have discovered the “cocaine of the sea,” a valuable fish called the totoaba—which is at the center of a multimillion-dollar business with the Chinese Mafia. To find the fish, these cartels are destroying the ecosystem with illegal gill nets and, in doing so, are killing the Earth’s smallest whale—the vaquita.
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis’ life and music are given a fascinating re-telling in this new documentary from director Stanley Nelson, this documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year to great acclaim, and will please Miles Davis fanatics and new fans alike.
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The Farewell
Hailed as “one of the year’s sweetest films," this poignant and powerful comedy-drama follows a Chinese American woman who learns that her grandmother is dying and reluctantly goes along with her family’s plan to keep it a secret.
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Parent & Baby Screening: The Farewell
PARENT & BABY SCREENINGS: We believe that mums and dads shouldn't have to miss out on great cinema, which is why we are now offering special daytime screenings just for them - now every Tuesday at 12:30. Bring your under 3 for free and we'll create a friendly, half-lit and low sound atmosphere to keep them calm while you enjoy the film.
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The Farewell
Hailed as “one of the year’s sweetest films," this poignant and powerful comedy-drama follows a Chinese American woman who learns that her grandmother is dying and reluctantly goes along with her family’s plan to keep it a secret.
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UKGFF: Welcome To Sodom
Agbogbloshie in Accra is proven to be one of the most poisonous places. it is the largest electronic waste dump in the world. About 6,000 women, men and children live and work here. They call it Sodom.
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Psycho
Directed by 'master of suspense', Alfred Hitchcock, this 1960 psychological horror follows secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) as she goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from her boss. On her way to California to join her boyfriend she stops at a motel run by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his mysterious mother.
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Waves Film Festival
We are happy to announce the newly launched Waves Film Festival will be kicking off their first ever event with us, they will be presenting a collection of some inspiring ocean going films, full of creativity and adventure, join us for an evening of all things ocean related.
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The Goldfinch
Theodore Decker (Oakes Fegley and then Ansel Elgort) was 13-years-old when his mother died in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, as he negotiates criminal plots, personal secrets, and the transformative power of art.
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Parent & Baby Screening: The Goldfinch
PARENT & BABY SCREENINGS: We believe that mums and dads shouldn't have to miss out on great cinema, which is why we are now offering special daytime screenings just for them - now every Tuesday at 12:30. Bring your under 3 for free and we'll create a friendly, half-lit and low sound atmosphere to keep them calm while you enjoy the film.
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The Goldfinch
Theodore Decker (Oakes Fegley and then Ansel Elgort) was 13-years-old when his mother died in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, as he negotiates criminal plots, personal secrets, and the transformative power of art.
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UKGFF: The Green Lie
Environmentally friendly electric cars, sustainably produced food products, fair production processes: Hurray! If everything the corporations tell us is true, we can save the world through our purchasing decisions alone. A popular and dangerous lie. Are the industry’s “green products” nothing more than a sales strategy?
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
This Mark Twain-style adventure sees a young man with Down's Syndrome run away to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler in this big-hearted comedy/drama from the makers of Little Miss Sunshine.
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Parent & Baby Screening: The Peanut Butter Falcon
PARENT & BABY SCREENINGS: We believe that mums and dads shouldn't have to miss out on great cinema, which is why we are now offering special daytime screenings just for them - now every Tuesday at 12:30. Bring your under 3 for free and we'll create a friendly, half-lit and low sound atmosphere to keep them calm while you enjoy the film.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
This Mark Twain-style adventure sees a young man with Down's Syndrome run away to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler in this big-hearted comedy/drama from the makers of Little Miss Sunshine.
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CFF Friday Night Gala: The Cliff Top Sessions with Director Q&A
On a wild winters night in a secret clifftop cottage in deepest Cornwall, nine musicians and a camera crew collide. Cult songwriters from around the UK were invited to play their best song; no backing band, audience or music industry - just a house on the edge of a cliff, roaring fire, guitars, grand piano and the invisible magic of song that was palpable that night.
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CFF: Regional Shorts Programme in Competition
A selected screening of the best entries from the short film competition, highlighting filmmakers from the South West.
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CFF: International Shorts Programme in Competition
From first-time writer-director and seasoned festival contributors alike, from sci-fi and horror to documentary, animation, experimental and comedy, this year’s shorts are bound to once again be cited by audiences as an unmissable highlight of their Festival experience. The International programme represents the best of short filmmaking for the UK and beyond.
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CFF: Good Posture
In her feature debut, Dolly Wells crafts a contemporary, sharp-witted comedy starring her frequent collaborator Emily Mortimer and talented newcomer, Grace Van Patten.
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CFF: System Crasher
She is small, but dangerous. Wherever Benni ends up, she is immediately expelled. The wild 9-year-old girl has already become what child protection services call a “system crasher”.
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CFF Saturday Night Gala: Only You with Director Q&A
As Glasgow celebrates New Year’s Eve, a chance encounter brings Jake (Josh O’Connor) and Elena (Laia Costa) together and the attraction is instant. Sexy and smitten, they’re totally swept up in each other and the relationship develops at speed. Sure, there’s an age gap, but not one that matters to them, especially when everything feels this good. But this bliss is tested when the couple consider starting a family and hit a brick wall of biology. We will be joined for the screening by writer and director Harry Wootliff.
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CFF: Honeyland
In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently manoeuvres the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to her handmade hives and her bedridden mother, occasionally heading to the capital to market her wares. One day, an itinerant family installs itself next door, and Hatidze’s peaceful kingdom gives way to roaring engines, seven shrieking children, and 150 cows.
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CFF: Monos
Alejandro Landes delivers one of the most talked-about films of the year: a hallucinogenic, intoxicating thriller about child soldiers. In competition at London Film Festival this year. High in the mountains of South America, above the billowing clouds but with gunshots heard in the distance, a motley group of child and teenage soldiers train and wait for instruction. This might be some teen rave gone feral, but for the deadly seriousness underlined by the presence of an American hostage, the Doctora.
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CFF: Little Monsters
Earning its place alongside modern undead comedy classics Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland, this raucous outing has more gags, gore and unashamed sentimentality than you can shake a severed limb at.
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The Day Shall Come
Nine years after his incendiary first film Four Lions, master satirist Chris Morris returns with this wild (and very funny) dark comedy about a Miami preacher who becomes the unlikely focus of an FBI terrorist sting.
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Parent & Baby Screening: The Day Shall Come
PARENT & BABY SCREENINGS: We believe that mums and dads shouldn't have to miss out on great cinema, which is why we are now offering special daytime screenings just for them - now every Tuesday at 12:30. Bring your under 3 for free and we'll create a friendly, half-lit and low sound atmosphere to keep them calm while you enjoy the film.
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The Day Shall Come
Nine years after his incendiary first film Four Lions, master satirist Chris Morris returns with this wild (and very funny) dark comedy about a Miami preacher who becomes the unlikely focus of an FBI terrorist sting.
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Home
This exciting documentary follows adventurer Sarah Outen on her five year, 20,000 mile, human-powered journey as she traversed the globe by bike, kayak and rowing boat.
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
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Parent & Baby Screening: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
PARENT & BABY SCREENINGS: We believe that mums and dads shouldn't have to miss out on great cinema, which is why we are now offering special daytime screenings just for them - now every Tuesday at 12:30. Bring your under 3 for free and we'll create a friendly, half-lit and low sound atmosphere to keep them calm while you enjoy the film.
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
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Exhibition on Screen - Leonardo: The Works
Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world's favourite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased this extraordinary genius but often not examined closely enough is the most crucial element of all: his art. Leonardo's peerless paintings and drawings will be the focus of this documentary, as Exhibition On Screen presents every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen.
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Coppice Theatre: Tales From A Haunted Bookshop
Why, hello there and welcome to the Haunted Bookshop. Come in, come in, take a seat, make yourself at home... and...
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Join graphic designer and artist Dave Pentin to learn a little-known image-making technique which creates beautiful...
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