“It’s not important what’s real as long as I can visualise it,” notes Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), the narrator and protagonist of Blind, aptly setting the stage for an inventive, powerful portrait of a woman whose loss of sight only serves to sharpen her creative imagination. Playful and far from pitiable, Ingrid has been rendered housebound by her new blindness, spending much of her time writing, creating a fictional narrative that allows her to see in her mind what she can no longer see with her eyes. From her flat, Ingrid narrates a romance between two people who may or may not be based upon people she knows: an internet porn addict and a single mother who lives in the apartment opposite him. Drawing upon memories, desires and very possibly her ongoing life with her husband with increasingly indiscriminate abandon, Ingrid projects her prejudices – fear, envy jealousy – onto one of her characters, turning them blind. The debut feature from renowned screenwriter Eskil Vogt, Blind is unsurprisingly as much a film about writing as it is about loneliness and blindness.

• The evening screening of Blind on Tue 31 March is part of our Cinébites deal: get a cinema ticket, veggie or meat cassoulet, and a drink (wine/beer or soft drink) for only £15.

Ticket prices: Screenings before 16:00: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions. Screenings after 16:00: £8.00 full / £6.50 concessions.

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