New Features

All screening in Brighton for the first time, this is your chance to catch the latest dramas and documentaries before they go on national release and to see others in special one-off UK screenings.

LUST, CAUTION (18)

 
Thursday 15 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:15PM

(SE JIE) Venice Golden Lion winner LUST, CAUTION is the latest film from Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON). Set in occupied Shanghai during the Second...continue

THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY (adv 15)

 
Saturday 17 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

(Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) was the editor of French Vogue known for living life to the full, when he was paralysed by a stroke at the...continue

MADRIGAL (adv 15)

 
Sunday 18 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 11:30AM

UK Premiere From the director of HAVANA SUITE and MADAGASCAR, a challenging and intense fable about the importance of imagination as a means of escape. Javier is a wannabe writer...continue

TALK TO ME (15)

 
Sunday 18 November
Lewes Cinema 7:30PM

A certain shift in tone for director Kasi Lemmons (EVE’S BAYOU), TALK TO ME is an energetic biopic of Petey Greene (Cheadle), an ex-con and wannabe DJ who went on to capture...continue

SACCO & VANZETTI

 
Monday 19 November
Sallis Benney Theatre 8:30PM

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born anarchists accused of murder in Boston in 1927 and after a notorious trial, executed. This is the first major documentary...continue

O ZELADOR (adv 15)

 
Tuesday 20 November
Sallis Benney Theatre 8:30PM

(The Caretaker) UK Premiere Shot in Brazil over a four year period, O ZELADOR explores the life of Mestre Russo who lives with his family an hour’s bus ride from the centre...continue

SAVIOUR SQUARE

 
Wednesday 21 November
Sallis Benney Theatre 7:00PM

(Plac Zbawiciela) The latest film from husband and wife directorial team Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze (MY NIKIFOR) is a quality drama, a family tale of guilt and redemption....continue

COMRADES IN DREAMS (adv 12)

 
Thursday 22 November
Sallis Benney Theatre 8:30PM

A celebration of cinemas and movie-going. Director Uli Gaulke ( a former projectionist) introduces us to four very different cinemas thousands of miles apart, the people who run...continue

TALK TO ME (15)

 
Friday 23 November
Cineworld 8:45PM

A certain shift in tone for director Kasi Lemmons (EVE’S BAYOU), TALK TO ME is an energetic biopic of Petey Greene (Cheadle), an ex-con and wannabe DJ who went on to capture...continue

OCCIDENT (adv 15)

 
Saturday 24 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 2:00PM

A rare UK screening of Cristian Mungiu’s debut feature - an intelligent black comedy that interweaves several stories about migration and about those who stay behind. Life does...continue

ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (18)

 
Saturday 24 November
Cineworld 8:45PM

First time director Jonathan Levine takes the ‘80s style teenager-slasher-pic and makes it his own. New girl Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is pretty, sweet and nice to everyone...continue

RUBY BLUE (adv 15)

 
Sunday 25 November
Cineworld 7:00PM

Presented in association with SCREEN SOUTH. The latest feature from Jan Dunn after her debut GYPO features Bob Hoskins in splendid form as Jack, consumed by guilt and regret. Hated...continue

YOU KILL ME (adv 15)

 
Monday 26 November
Cineworld 8:45PM

Frank Falencyzk (Ben Kingsley) is a hitman for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. He is also an alcoholic. When his addiction gets in the way of his business his uncle...continue

WATER LILIES (adv 15)

 
Wednesday 28 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

(Naissance Des Pieuvres) A coming of age tale set in amidst the world of synchronised swimming as three 15-year old girls explore their burgeoning sexuality. Celine Sciamma’s...continue

JOY DIVISION

 
Friday 30 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

This engrossing documentary directed by Brighton-based Grant Gee (MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY) and written by music critic Jon Savage explores in-depth one of the most influential and...continue

JETSAM (adv 15)

 
Friday 30 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 11:00PM

Grace (Alex Reid) washes up on a beach along with a man (Jamie Draven) who she cannot remember, no matter how hard she tries. It soon becomes clear that the man means to kill...continue

CARAMEL (adv 15)

 
Saturday 1 December
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

A charming comedy drama with echoes of Almodovar, centred on the everyday lives of five Lebanese women in a Beirut beauty salon. Each has their own problem: Layal (played by the...continue

BEAUTY IN TROUBLE (adv 15)

 
Sunday 2 December
Duke of York's Picturehouse 11:30AM

(Kráska V Nesnázích) The title of Jan Hřebejk’s masterful multi-character drama comes from the Robert Graves poem of the same name: "Beauty in trouble flees to the good...continue

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES (15)

 
Friday 16 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

Andrew Dominik’s (director of CHOPPER) elegant and artful Western stands comparison to the great cycle of 1970s movies that included PAT GARRET AND BILLY THE KID, and McCABE...continue

WΔZ (18)

 
Saturday 17 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 11:00PM

An impressive first feature from British director Tom Shankland, WAZ is a grungy, intelligent horror pic in the SEVEN mould with added gore. New York cop Eddie Argo (Stellan Skarsgard)...continue

THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON

 
Sunday 18 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

“I was nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on earth.” Mark Chapman’s chilling words provide the key to Andrew Piddington’s non-fiction drama. In the opening titles...continue

GARBAGE WARRIOR (adv 12)

 
Monday 19 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

Presented in association with Screen South. GARBAGE WARRIOR explores the extraordinary story of Michael Reynolds, the radical US architect and originator of the ‘Earthship’....continue

LES CHANSONS D'AMOUR

 
Tuesday 20 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

Ismael (Garrel, DANS PARIS) and Julie (Sagnier, SWIMMING POOL) are beautiful twenty-somethings who have been together for eight years and find that their relationship is becoming...continue

SILENT LIGHT (adv 15)

 
Wednesday 21 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

(Stellet Licht) Screened to rapturous acclaim in Cannes, where Reygadas (JAPON, BATTLE IN HEAVEN), won a deserved Best Director award, SILENT LIGHT is the Mexican’s most assured...continue

XXY (adv 18)

 
Thursday 22 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

What does it mean to have to choose your gender? Alex is a 15-year-old struggling with usual mood swings and teenage crushes. However all is not quite what it seems. Born as...continue

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 Days (adv 15)

 
Friday 23 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

Further evidence of the continuing renaissance of Romanian cinema (e.g. THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU, 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST) was clearly shown when 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS won...continue

FRONTIÈRE(S)

 
Friday 23 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 11:00PM

Four tough youths on the run from a riot-filled Paris make an ill-fated stop in a border-town motel in which they discover a Nazi family intent on creating a new Aryan race. Borrowing...continue

EDGE OF HEAVEN (adv 15)

 
Saturday 24 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

(Auf der anderen Seite) This is Fatih Akin’s (HEAD-ON) most hard-hitting film to date, an beautifully plotted multi-layered drama that confirms him as one of European cinema’s...continue

BATTLE FOR HADITHA (adv 15)

 
Sunday 25 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

In November 2005 in the Iraqi city of Haditha, 24 men, women and children were allegedly shot by four US Marines in retaliation for the death of a Marine killed by a roadside bomb. Nick...continue

PERSEPOLIS (adv 15)

 
Monday 26 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

An expressionistic animation stunningly drawn in black and white, PERSEPOLIS is a touching coming-of-age story about an intelligent, outspoken Iranian girl growing up during the...continue

IMPORT EXPORT (adv 18)

 
Tuesday 27 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

Ulrich Seidl (DOG DAYS) is no stranger to controversy and his films invariably divide opinion. IMPORT EXPORT is no exception. It is unflinching and at times brutal in its depiction...continue

BILLY THE KID (adv 15)

 
Thursday 29 November
Duke of York's Picturehouse 6:30PM

"I'm not black, I'm not white, not foreign, just different in the mind. Different brains, that's all," explains 15-year-old Billy Price in Jennifer Venditti's brilliant coming...continue

THE SILLY AGE (adv 15)

 
Friday 30 November
Lewes Cinema 8:00PM

(La Edad De La Peseta) Havana in 1958 just prior to La Revolucion: Aliciaand her ten year-old son, Samuel, go to live with Violeta, his eccentric grandmother. Violeta doesn’t...continue

PROFIT MOTIVE & THE WHISPERING WIND

 
Saturday 1 December
Sallis Benney Theatre 4:00PM

UK Premiere An inspired and radical new contribution to the hybrid genre of essay film, this supremely calm, and calmly defiant, pilgrimage of witness to the cemetery graves,...continue

BRIGHTON SCREENING DAY

 
Sunday 2 December
Sallis Benney Theatre 11:00AM

To squeeze in even more films, we have created an extra screening day to showcase the latest documentaries and dramas made in and around Brighton. There is no need to book and...continue

ADDICTIVE TV

 
Sunday 2 December
Concorde 2 8:00PM

"Awesome in a word" TIME OUT Using laptops and revolutionary DVD turntables, DJ/Producers Addictive TV are a total audiovisual experience driven by their fast-paced breakbeat...continue

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