Questionnaire for the next season

Once again we seek members' views on the programme for next season, this time 2025-26. Please tell us up to seven items from this list that you would like to see, and bring your response to one of our sessions, or write just the numbers on the form below. This does not mean that season 2025-2026 will be entirely from this list – if a title goes to a streaming platform, we might not be able to book it.
  1. The Dead Don’t Hurt (8/24). Viggo Mortensen directs himself and Vicky Krieps in a 19th-century romantic drama set on the American frontier.
  2. Only the River Flows (9/24). Jiandong Province, the year is 1995. A police captain goes to a remote hamlet to investigate the death of an elderly woman. S/T
  3. The Echo (9/24). A village in Mexico. The rhythm of rural life, tradition and family – in short, a poetic docudrama. S/T
  4. Firebrand (10/24). Henry VIII (Jude Law) returns from another war in France to wife no. 6, Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander) . . . .
  5. Between the Temples (10/24). Comedy about a grouchy, widowed cantor who falls for a (much) older woman.
  6. Girls Will Be Girls (10/24). A boarding school in India and a budding romance – but taking him home to meet mum, might be a mistake. S/T
  7. My Favourite Cake (10/24). An Iranian 70-year-old meets a lonely taxi driver – the kind of story that results in a government censorship ban for the film, of course. S/T
  8. Lee (10/24). Kate Winslet plays legendary photographer Lee Miller; a conventional biopic that found a decent audience.
  9. Small Things Like These (11/24). Cillian Murphy, a devoted family man, is troubled by events at the local Magdalene laundry. 
  10. The Room Next Door (11/24). Pedro Almodovar’s English language debut. Martha (Tilda Swinton), terminally ill, spends time with her writer friend Ingrid (Julianne Moore). 
  11. All We Imagine as Light (12/24). This story of three women in modern-day Mumbai has garnered excellent reviews. S/T
  12. No Other Land (12/24). A documentary, filmed 2019-2023, that follows the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis in the Hebron Hills. Oscar nominated. S/T
  13. Blitz (12/24). 9-year-old evacuee George jumps from the train that is carrying him from danger and heads back to London and mum.  
  14. Juror #2 (1/2 25.) Clint Eastwood’s 40th feature as director: a juror in a murder trial begins to think that he might be the guilty party. 
  15. Hard Truths (1/2/25). Director Mike Leigh’s latest in which Marianne Jean Baptiste’s housewife Pansy takes on the world. 
  16. Vermiglio (1/2/25). Welcome to an Italian Alpine village during World War II, their community and its support for two deserters. S/T 
  17. Maria (1/2/25). Beginning in 1977 when her health was in decline, Angelina Jolie portrays Maria Callas as she looks back on her eventful life.
  18. Nosferatu (3/25). Robert Eggers’ (The Lighthouse) new take on the classic vampire story of Count Orlok. We showed the 1922 original many moons ago . . . .
  19. Here (3/25). Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite as a young (digitally enhanced) couple; just a speck of dust in the rich tapestry of history that unfolds.
  20. Bring Them Down (3/25). Irish story about two feuding families and how an appetite for revenge can grow unchecked.
  21. A Real Pain (1/2/25). Oddball character comedy in which two American cousins go to Poland on a family fact-finding visit. 
  22. Nickel Boys (1&2/25). A gentle Black teenager is arrested and sent to reform school. He and a friend then plan an escape. 
  23. The Astronaut:  An astronaut returning to Earth thinks that something else might also be aboard for the ride. Well, it could become very topical! TBC
  24.  William Tell:  A recent epic about the legendary hero of medieval Switzerland. No sign of Conrad Phillips or Willoughby Goddard, but we can’t have everything!
  25. Vindication Swim: Last year’s release about the first female Channel swimmers, and their rivalry, is available to book again. 

A GOOD WAY to find out more is via the BBFC website. Each entry has a synopsis, poster, trailer, and certification and is updated to include levels of adult content in a user-friendly way.

    Questionnaire 2025-26