17th FEBRUARY

Tina (New Zealand)

Samoan music teacher Mareta (Anapela Polataivao) is plunged into grief after losing her daughter in the Christchurch quakes. Mareta takes a relieving role at an elite private school, where she inspires her students to perform at a big choral competition.

17th MARCH

The Eight Mountains (Italy)

It’s a bittersweet drama centring on two men who meet as children in the mountainous wilderness of northwest Italy. It’s about the innocence of youth giving way to the disappointments of adulthood, about the impact of overbearing fathers, about the struggle to find your own place in the world.

21st APRIL

The Teacher Who Promised the Sea (Spain) + Brewery Night

The buried memories of the Spanish Civil War are unearthed as a woman searches for the remains of her grandfather’s father and discovers the story of an idealistic young teacher from Tarragona.

19th MAY

The Last Daughter (Australia)

Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family. Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life. But the traumas of her past do not lie quietly buried. So, she goes searching for the foster family with whom she had lost all contact.

16th JUNE

Small Things Like These (UK)+ Brewery Night

Devoted father Bill Furlong, whilst working as a coal merchant to support his family, discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent- and uncovers truths of his own – forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

21st JULY

The Velvet Queen (Tibet)

In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, an award-winning photographer guides a writer in his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard.

18th AUGUST

Sami Blood (Sweden)+ Brewery Night

A young Sarni woman rebels against her traditional life and is forced to attend a state-run boarding school designed to assimilate indigenous children. There, she endures cultural erasure and strict societal conditioning, struggling to maintain her identity while facing the painful legacy of colonialism.

15th SEPTEMBER

The Farewell (China/US)

Billi, a Chinese/American women, FAREWELL learns her grandmother (referred to as Nai Nai) has only a short while left to live. Billi’s family has decided to expedite a family wedding before Nai Nai dies to enable her to see all the family one last time and not tell Nai Nai of her fatal illness. Billi rediscovers the country she left as a child & the strong binding ties.

20th OCTOBER

Goodbye Julia (Sudanese)+ Brewery Night

Follow the story of Mona, a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage, who is wracked by guilt after covering up a murder. To make amends, she takes in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, and her son, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo.

17th NOVEMBER

Divertimento (French)

Classical symphonic music everything for 17yo Zahia Ziouani and her twin sister, Fettouma. Nevertheless, living in underprivileged Parisian suburbs in 1995 with their Algerian background, they struggle arduously to approach their dreams becoming an orchestra conductor and a cellist. Driven by determination, passion, and courage, they create their own orchestra, Divertimento.

24th NOVEMBER

Christmas Party – venue TBC