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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
September 11 2025 7:30 pm | 2024 | Thailand | 126m | Cert 12 | Comedy, Drama
A heart-warming film delving into the complexity of family relationships, sacrifices, and the pursuit of happiness.
After investing a significant portion of one’s life and fortune in education spanning over two decades, the natural expectation would be to enjoy financial prosperity for the remaining years, wouldn’t it?
‘M’, driven by the desire for a multimillion-dollar inheritance, puts aside his dreams as a hopeful game caster to care for his terminally ill grandmother. However, winning Grandma’s favor is no easy feat. She proves to be a tough nut to crack – demanding, exacting, and exceedingly difficult to please. To add to the drama, he’s not the only one gunning for the inheritance. M finds himself embroiled in a gripping competition, where he must go to great lengths to become the apple of Grandma’s eye before time runs out, all in pursuit of a life-changing, multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Santosh
October 9 2025 7:30 pm | India | 2024 | 128m | Cert 15 | Crime Drama
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
SANTOSH marks the feature-film debut of writer-director Sandhya Suri, following documentaries I FOR INDIA and AROUND INDIA WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, and short film THE FIELD, which was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Short Film in 2019, and won Best International Short at TIFF in 2018.
The genesis for SANTOSH came when Suri was in India, working with various non-governmental organisations, and came across an image of female protestors, following the Nirbhaya case in 2012. As she describes: ‘There was an image of a huge crowd of angry female protestors, faces contorted with rage, and a line of female police officers, forcing them back. One of these police officers had such an enigmatic expression. I became fascinated with her. What separates her from those protesting, and what power does her uniform wield over those without it? Exploring this violence and this woman’s power within it felt exciting.’
From there, Suri started to research female police constables, learning of the government scheme of ‘appointment on compassionate grounds’, meaning that eligible dependents of deceased police officers can inherit their jobs. Suri spoke to many widows, which provided valuable insight into what these women went through: ‘Some of these women had lived very sheltered lives, rarely leaving the house without their husband. I was struck by the journey from housewife to widow, to policewoman. It was a journey that I wanted to write about, and one that I wanted to watch.’
Suri had never written or engaged with fiction in this medium before, but spoke with the Sundance Institute, who encouraged her to write the script. As Suri describes: ‘Their encouragement and direction motivated me to write a draft, which was accepted to the Sundance Labs, first in India, then in the US. Developing the film there and exploring and discussing in such a creatively free and nurturing environment was an incredible experience and fundamental to putting me at ease.’
The film was produced with partners across the UK, France, Germany and India, with all producers affirming that there were drawn in by the strength of the story. One of the producers, Mike Goodridge, of UK’s Good Chaos, loved the subversive nature of the story:
‘It was one of those scripts you read that just constantly takes you by surprise. You think it’s going to be one type of film, and then it’s not. It was clear that Sandhya had put a lot of research into what she was doing, both in terms of policing in contemporary India but also the position of women in Indian society’.
Fellow producer, James Bowsher, felt extremely grateful that a project like this had come to them. As he elaborates: ‘What struck me is that I’d never read anything quite like it before. It was a really smart use of the procedural of the noir, where you’re inverting various things, putting them in a context that I’ve never seen before. I remember not quite being able to understand how something so good had fallen into our lap. It was a tremendous opportunity.’
Transit
October 30 2025 7:30 pm | Germany | 2019 | 102m | Cert 12A | Drama
An audacious concept lies at the heart of this drama by acclaimed German filmmaker Christian Petzold (‘Barbara’, ‘Phoenix’). Transposed from a 1942 novella to a modern day setting, it finds a group of migrants and refugees borderless, awaiting visas and in hope of a new beginning. Georg has taken on the identity of a dead writer and with his new documents plans to start a life in Mexico. Everything changes when he meets Maria, the writer’s wife, and falls in love with her.
★★★★ “Its mysterious, dreamlike quality began to surround me like mist.” – Peter Bradshaw’s Film Of The Week, The Guardian
★★★★★ “With so many layers to unpack, this one stays with you.” – Trevor Johnston, Little White Lies
★★★★ “The stress, anxiety and indignity of being a displaced person has rarely felt so frightening or urgent.” – John Nugent, Empire
Piano To Zanskar
November 13 2025 7:30 pm | Pakistan | 2018 | 86m | Cert 12 | Documentary
Facing his future in retirement, “sitting in deck chairs and eating lemon drizzle cake”, 65 year-old piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe decides instead to take on the most challenging and perilous delivery of his four decade long career: transporting a 100 year-old Broadwood and Sons upright piano from bustling London to the remote heart of the Indian Himalayas.
Setting off from his Aladdin’s Cave-like workshop in the quaint Camden Town district, and enlisting the help of two young and eager apprentices, Desmond’s ambitious destination is a primary school in Lingshed, Zanskar. At 14,000 feet above sea level it is one of the most isolated settlements in the world.
Aided by a team of local Sherpas and a motley crew of yaks and ponies, the trio’s various convictions are tested as they cross sheer mountain passes of breathtaking beauty, coming in direct contact with a different way of living – a world on a brink of change, filled with equal measure serenity and hardship. If successful, the expedition will be the highest piano delivery in history, but more importantly, it could become the ultimate gesture of music’s universal power: bridging cultures, inspiring strength and bringing joy.
Features an original music score by Werner Herzog collaborator, Ernst Reijseger (‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’)
Desmond O’Keeffe (1949-2018) – piano tuner, song writer and star of Michał Sulima’s critically acclaimed PIANO TO ZANSKAR – has sadly passed away. He will be fondly remembered as one of life’s rare gems.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
December 11 2025 7:30 pm | France | 1964 | 91m | Cert A | Musical Drama Romance
An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly.
Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colours, and told entirely through the lilting songs of the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.
Hard Truths
January 8 2026 7:30 pm | UK | 2024 | 97m | Cert 12 | Drama
[IMDB] Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.
In the Mood for Love
February 12 2026 7:30 pm | Hong Kong | 2000 | 97m | Cert PG | Romance
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite – until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.
Four Mothers
March 12 2026 7:30 pm | Ireland | 2024 | 89m | Cert | Comedy Drama
Edward (James McArdle), a talented novelist on the cusp of literary success, is juggling his work with the responsibility of caring for his elderly mother, Alma (Fionnula Flanagan). As the excitement of a US book tour builds, he is suddenly faced with an unexpected twist—his three friends decide to take an impromptu Pride getaway to Spain, leaving their mothers in his care. Over a lively and chaotic weekend, Edward must navigate the balance between his rising career and caring for four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies. Winner of the BFI London Film Festival Audience Award, this uplifting comedy-drama follows an unlikely found family on an emotionally charged journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
‘An irresistible comedy’ Attitude
‘Hilariously relatable’ City AM
‘A perfect feel-good film’ Loud and Clear
‘A comedy with surprising reserves of wisdom’ Variety
I’m Still Here
April 9 2026 7:30 pm | Brazil | 2024 | 138m | Cert 15 | Drama
BRAZIL, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.The Oscar-winning I’m Still Here is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
A woman married to a former politician during the military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
WINNER
Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film
Golden Globes – Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) Fernanda Torres
Best Screenplay – Venice Film Festival
La Chimera
April 30 2026 7:30 pm | Italy | 2023 | 132m | Cert 15 | Drama
A filmmaker constantly seeking to push the scope of cinema, Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film is no exception. Having made its world premiere at Cannes, La Chimera stirs together history, romance and archaeology – with a dash of the supernatural – into a dreamy tonic made for those ready to slip into another realm.
Set in the 1980s, in the former Etruscan landscape of rural Italy, the film follows a vagabond-type character called Arthur (Josh O’Connor); an Englishman who embodies the spirit of the Romantics, he is searching for something he can’t quite grasp. As an archaeologist, he makes use of his unique skills to aid a ragtag group of tomboroli – local graverobbers – to find ancient tombs filled with artefacts to sell on the black market. To the locals these graves are sacred, believing curses follow those who enter. But Arthur, who is mourning the loss of his love Beniamina, is less concerned with the monetary value of the objects, using the digs to search for the door to the afterlife – of which myths speak – where he imagines reuniting with her. A cloud of mystery follows him as he walks the line between the living and the dead, between reality and trickery, between the past and the present. Bringing him into the present is Italia (Carol Duarte), a single mother who befriends him and opens his eyes to the world in new ways.
With stylistic references to cinema history, as with all her work Rohrwacher uses the past to ask questions of the present, challenging us to consider how what we do and what we stand for now might impact the future. What will archaeologists dig up in the future, and what will it say about us and the values of our time?
All We Imagine as Light
May 14 2026 7:30 pm | India | 2024 | 118m | Cert 15 | Drama
All We Imagine as Light is a beautiful, sweeping, emotional film that explores the complexities of female friendship and captures the frantic pace, the vibrant colours and the heady atmosphere of modern Mumbai. In the city, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her secret boyfriend. Their colleague Parvaty fights to stay in her home without any requisite paperwork left by her late husband. A trip to a beach town allows them each to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it was awarded the Grand Prix.
My Favourite Cake
June 11 2026 7:30 pm | Iran | 2024 | 97m | Cert 12 | Comedy, Drama
A beautifully delicate and nuanced concoction of a film, My Favourite Cake, co-written and directed by Iranian filmmakers Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, explores themes of love, regret and second chances with nuance and grace. It’s set against the backdrop of a country with strict rules and restrictions, especially when it comes to the rights and freedoms of women.
The film follows 70-year-old Mahin (Lily Farhadpour), who has been living alone in Tehran for decades since her husband died and her daughter left for Europe. One afternoon, tea with friends leads her to reassess her life and choices; she decides to break her solitary routine and revitalise her love life. On a chance outing, where she witnesses an encounter between a woman and the morality police and decides to intervene, she comes across a lonely taxi driver called Esmail (Esmail Mehrabi). A newfound determination and confidence propels her to approach him, and she invites him over to her house in a bid for connection. What follows is an unpredictable, unforgettable evening.
The film is a moving meditation on love, loss, loneliness and ageing, and the courage to open oneself up to new experiences and connections. Though incredibly endearing, the film also reflects on the impact of oppression and intolerance, and the changing tides of a country that no longer allows space for people – particularly women – like Mahin to express themselves freely.
The Taste of Things
July 9 2026 7:30 pm | France | 2023 | 135m | Cert 12 | Period Drama
Peerless cook Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel) for the last 20 years. Bonding over a passion for gastronomy and mutual admiration, their relationship develops into romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin. So, he decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
A delectable feast for the senses, THE TASTE OF THINGS is a stunningly beautiful romance that simmers with emotion. The new film from acclaimed director Trần Anh Hùng, it will be an unmissable cinematic treat.
Select Reviews “You’ll swear you can smell and taste every shot” ★★★★ The Telegraph
“An absolute delight” The Wrap
“So rich and romantic it will leave you woozy” ★★★★★ Time Out