The Rider
Presented with Headway Thames Valley, the film will be followed by a Q&A with the charity and some of its clients.
Presented with Headway Thames Valley, the film will be followed by a Q&A with the charity and some of its clients.
Our 150th screening - with free prosecco reception.
A retired arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king's call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honour himself. But he quickly makes an enemy of a merciless local landowner, who believes that the heath belongs to him and not the king.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
This poignant and emotional biographical drama follows the life of humanitarian Nicholas Winton, who helped hundreds of children escape German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.
A young woman is determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village. When she finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
At an idyllic mountain chalet, a woman is suspected of her husband’s murder and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
Two Senegalese teenagers leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await. On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers and the beauty of the desert, the shock of detention centres in Libya, and the perils of the sea in their pursuit of a better life, in a powerful, epic story that offers a deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis.
You won’t want to miss this 1971 film shot entirely in and around Wokingham. There are tantalising glimpses of the old red brick Victorian railway station, the town centre and a psychopath’s unnerving gaze from The Red Lion out onto Wokingham Market Place.
A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.
A group of women struggle to decide whether they should leave an abusive religious commune.
Already nominated for multiple awards this beautiful film tells the story of two deeply connected childhood friends who lose contact after Nora’s family emigrates. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week.
The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village in the NE, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
The threat of state-sanctioned violence hangs over a male student after he is recruited as an informant in a deadly power struggle between the political and religious establishment in this dark Egyptian conspiracy drama.
Two young people share their disappointments in love over the course of a day in this warm-spirited British romantic comedy drama.
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades, the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
A playful satire of film industry pretensions.
The main feature will be preceded by a short The Dead of Winter, introduced in person by local filmmaker Stephen Graves.
Pamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest bread-winning to help his family.
Set in the heart of rural England, Rudy finds her relationship with her father being tested. Stuck as a proxy parent to her younger siblings and dealing with a recent loss, she feels increasingly pushed out when her home gets opened up to a paying guest. Through a newfound friendship with a boy from Coventry, she discovers fun, freedom and autonomy, but is it at the sacrifice of unspoken family wounds?
Wokingham Film Society will be 10 years old in October. Join us to celebrate in style at our special red carpet Gala Night! There will be a complimentary glass of Prosecco on arrival, live piano music in the foyer and the pop of flash bulbs for fun photos.
An emotional drama based on the infamous slaying of 14 year old Emmet Till in 1955 Mississippi.
A man falls to his death in the mountains of South Korea. Tragic accident or a push? The investigating detective at first suspects the man’s wife but then finds himself falling for her as the threads of the case become more entangled.
The original Swedish film on which the recent Tom Hanks release A Man called Otto is based. This version stars Rolf Lassgard as the ill tempered Ove, preoccupied with enforcing neighbourhood rules. Then some new people arrive.
A separated father takes a holiday in Turkey with his 11 year old daughter, who looks back on the holiday and her relationship with her father 20 years on.
A family of four—and a dog– take a mysterious road trip across a remote part of Iran. Where are they going—and why? The feature film debut of director Panah Panahi, son of legendary film maker and activist Jafar Panahi.
Based on a film by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, with a script by Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1950’s London it portrays the monotonous routines of the life of an archetypical bureaucrat—until he finds the determination to achieve something meaningful.
Martin McDonagh’s (In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) tale of two longstanding friends on a remote island off the Irish coast, one of whom ends the relationship without warning.
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young Norwegian woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
France in 1963. A student decides to seek an (Illegal) abortion to finish her studies and escape the social constraints of a working-class family. Her exams are just around the corner, and her baby bump is growing fast...
Imagining the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of Emily Bronte, a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon aged only 30.
Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
As we approach Valentines Day, we present a modern classic romance from 1995. The first of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy each filmed 10 years apart.
A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland is working to secure a place at the country's National Sports Center. When, in 2013, the Euromaiden revolt breaks out in her home country, anxieties rise as her family gets involved.
In an attempt to deal with his mid-life crisis a Norwegian man leaves his family to live in the mountains in the manner of his ancestors
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch."
A Finnish student making the long rail journey from Moscow to Murmansk finds herself sharing a compartment with an initially boorish young Russian coal miner.
An English tailor (Mark Rylance) has set up his business in Chicago making suits for the Mob— outfits for the Outfit. Somebody is selling out the mob to rivals and the FBI using tapes from a hidden recorder, But who?
Two single mothers meet in a hospital where they give birth on the same day, a meeting and bonding that changes their lives.
Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in the unlikely story of the only successful theft from the National Gallery.