What’s On Week Ahead

Fri 19 - Thu 25 June

Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales.

Until Sun 28 Jun

Four artists from our incredible Pervasive Media Studio community share works in progress exploring the future of technologies in our lives. Make faces with emotion-sensing software, build new worlds, meet future folk heroes – imagine what digital futures could look like.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Kate Sim-Read will explore how data can be stored and distributed, even in places with no buildings or power, to distribute crucial information to people living in unstable situations.

Fri 19 - Thu 25 June

Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old-age film following an older woman's transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Fri 19 - Thu 25 June

Pauline Loquès’s remarkable debut feature, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, is a beautiful ode to the heyday of French New Wave filmmaking.

Until Thu 25 Jun

In 1975 Cologne, an ambitious teenage concert promoter defies her conservative family and navigates impossible odds to book American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett for what becomes the legendary Köln Concert.

Until Thu 25 Jun

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this adaptation of the global phenomenon from Kane Parsons.

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

Until Sun 21 Jun

Now recognised as a landmark work of animation, Mamoru Oshii’s cryptic and mesmerising experimental Angel’s Egg is perhaps his most personal work and a crucially important film in anime history.

Until Thu 25 Jun

When a shy hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer/director Curry Barker's freaky and frightening feature debut.

Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights captures the spirit of life on the Yorkshire moors and the danger of an illicit romance, whilst offering a ravishingly beautiful take on a familiar story.

Rose of Nevada is Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s hotly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to his BAFTA-award-winning first feature Bait and Enys Men.

Lynne Ramsay’s superb debut Ratcatcher deftly contrasts urban decay with a rich interior landscape of hope and perseverance, resulting in a work at once raw and deeply poetic.

Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait consists in a full-length football game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as “Pinkie” – the film’s main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Until Wed 24 Jun

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water.

Grim drama telling the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two families, tracing the events leading up to the war and the decade of devastation that follows.

Join us at the 18:10 screening of Familiar Touch on Mon 22 June which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction from Nathan Hardie. After the screening join us in the Café & Bar for Deaf Conversations about Cinema with BSL interpretation.

Neglected pensioner Elsie finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour, bringing brighter days for both of them. But Elsie’s son John resents the way that Colleen has selflessly fulfilled the responsibilities that he has shirked. And simmering tensions bring shocking consequences in a gripping human story straight from the heart of broken Britain.

Dive into two of Alan Clarke's final stark and political made-for-TV films from 1987.