The 2017-18 Season was split between St. Mary’s Creative Space, the Little Theatre and Grosvenor Museum.
Dead of Night was shown at the new Storyhouse Cinema.
2017-18 Season
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Sweet Bean
Audience Rating: 7.08
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
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A Man Called Ove
Audience Rating: 8.42
Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
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Truman
Audience Rating: 7.84
When Julián receives an unexpected visit in Madrid from his lifelong friend Tomás, who now lives in Canada, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion, their first meeting in many years, may also be their last. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián is focused on putting his affairs in order, while Tomás is still grasping at hope.…
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Frantz
Audience Rating: 8.42
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
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Graduation
Audience Rating: 6.51
About compromises and the implications of the parent’s role.
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The Innocents
Audience Rating: 7.62
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
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The Fencer
Audience Rating: 7.92
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
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Black Coal, Thin Ice
Audience Rating: 5.75
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
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Manchester by The Sea
Audience Rating: 8.01
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
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I Am Not Your Negro
Audience Rating: 8.17
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.