The 2016-17 Season was split between St. Mary’s Creative Space and Chester Steam Mill.
Marguerite was shown at the Little Theatre, Newtown.
2016-17 Season
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Rams
Audience Rating: 7.71
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and…
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Anomalisa
Audience Rating: 6.35
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
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Mia Madre
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
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Marguerite
Audience Rating: 7.35
Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her…
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The Lobster
Audience Rating: 4.77
Set in Kensington, a working-class district of Liverpool, England in mid-1950s, this is the story of eleven-year-old Bud, a sad and lonely boy. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local ‘picture-house’. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school,…
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The Battle of Algiers
Audience Rating: 8.15
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels’ struggle and the increasingly…
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The Witch
Audience Rating: 4.81
New England in the 1630s: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their newborn son vanishes and crops fail, the family turns on one another. Beyond their worst fears, a supernatural evil lurks in the nearby wood.
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Mustang
Audience Rating: 7.99
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
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Tangerines
Audience Rating: 8.42
War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
