Our 2024-25 Season was the first held at Picturehouse and also the first time that we split the Season into two halves:
- Sep-Dec 2024 and
- Jan-Apr 2025.
2024-25 Season
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The Good Boss
Audience Rating: 5.76
Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company manufacturing industrial scales in a provincial town, anxiously prepares for an imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they deserve a local Business Excellence award. Striving for perfection, the company’s owner, Blanco, races against time to solve employee issues, crossing numerous boundaries.
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Mami Wata
Audience Rating: 6.50
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Sorcery
Audience Rating: 6.70
On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organization of sorcerers.
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The Origin of Evil
Audience Rating: 7.65
A woman on the verge of financial collapse attempts to impersonate her imprisoned lover and con her wealthy, estranged father and his new family.
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The Promised Land
Audience Rating: 8.30
18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen), a proud and ambitious but impoverished war hero, aims to cultivate a barren land, build a colony for the King, and gain a noble title. Joined by a couple fleeing ruthless nobleman De Schinkel, Kahlen faces natural challenges and bandits. As a community forms, De Schinkel vows…
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My Favourite Cake
Audience Rating: 8.20
70-year-old Mahin has been widowed for 30 years and her two children live abroad. She is living a lonely life in Tehran. But one day, she decides to join her friends for the afternoon tea and finds a new spark in her heart. She meets someone who makes her feel alive again, and the evening…
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Crossing
Audience Rating: 7.84
Lia, a retired teacher, made a promise to find out what happened to her long lost niece Tekla. When Lia learns from Achi, a neighbour, that Tekla might be living in Turkey, they set off together to find her. In Istanbul they discover a beautiful city full of connections and possibilities – but looking for…
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In The Mood For Love
Audience Rating: 6.6
Set in Hong Kong, 1962, a newspaper editor moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, they spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle…
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The Echo
Audience Rating: 7.82
A darkly rich natural imagery and crystalline sound combine to create a poetically forceful impression of the small Mexican village that gives the film its name. Between the landscapes we see and the sounds we hear – of galloping hooves, bleating animals and distant thunder – human narratives wriggle in, highlighting the role of women…
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All We Imagine As Light
Audience Rating: 7.40
This film dramatizes many of the challenges faced by single women living in Bombay, and underscores their resiliency. All of the women here are nurses at the same hospital, but there the resemblance ends as each has her own particular set of problems and, one could say, solutions. Desire, fear, regret and stolid patience are…