Ventnor Film Society returns next week (Tuesday 26th September) with a new season of recent, acclaimed films from around the world. This season, we will be showing our films fortnightly on Tuesdays.
We are pleased to confirm that following our successful introduction of matinee screenings in the spring, we shall now be showing all our films at both 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets remain at £6 each.
No need to be a member
Everyone is welcome; there is no need to be a member of Ventnor Arts Club to come to our films and we are really looking forward to seeing some new faces in the afternoons.
The bar will be open for drinks, teas and coffees and Wendy, the Arts Club manager, will be selling ice-creams to make for a real afternoon treat!
Films from around the World
This season, we have selected films set in South Korea, Morocco, Iran, Italy, Iceland and Tunisia. With family drama, romance, crime thrillers and historical adventures, we hope to have a programme that everyone will enjoy, shown in the original languages with subtitles.
See Events OnTheWight for the listings.
What to expect
The first film of the season is The Blue Caftan from Morocco, which picked up numerous film festival nominations for Best Film. A husband and wife run a caftan store and hire a talented young man as an apprentice. A romantic triangle develops between the two men and the ailing wife in this sensitive and moving tale. This is screening on Tuesday 26th September.
Danish
Our next film is Godland, set in Iceland at the end of the 19th century.
A young Danish priest is sent on a perilous journey to a remote part of Iceland to build a church, but, as his health and mind begin to unravel, he makes a series of dangerous decisions. This is screening on Tuesday 10th October.
Italian
Naples is the setting for Nostalgia, as Felice returns to his home city after 40 years.
Haunted by a killing in his past, he tracks down an old friend, only to find he has become a brutal Camorra mobster. This is screening on Tuesday 24th October.
South Korea
In Return to Seoul, Freddie, a headstrong 25-year-old woman who was adopted and raised in France, returns to South Korea to track down her biological parents.
What she discovers will leave her struggling to come to terms with her identity and floundering in a culture she finds alien. This is screening on Monday 6th November
Tunisia
We travel next to a sun-dappled fig orchard in a rural Tunisian village. Small dramas unfold as the workers chat, bicker and flirt together. In Under The Fig Trees, we peer through the branches to watch courtship rituals play out away from watchful adult eyes, quarrels spark and friendships and enmities run their course. This is screening on Tuesday 21st November
Iranian
Our final choice is set in Iran with Holy Spider, a tense, but graphic true-crime thriller, which takes us into the dark underbelly of the holy city of Mashhad, as a journalist investigates the brutal serial killings of sex workers by the so-called Spider Killer, who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
This is screening on Tuesday 5th December.
Where and when
Ventnor Film Society meets in Ventnor Arts Club, 13 High Street, Ventnor. To be sure of a place, please book a seat by emailing [email protected].
Evening screenings take place on Tuesdays at 7.30pm prompt and matinees at 2.30pm. Entrance is £6, payable at the door, (cash only).
Our Website has full details of all films and links to reviews and trailers. Please check the dates carefully.
The bar will be open, so please arrive in good time if you would like to buy drinks. We look forward to seeing all our regulars again, but if you have never been before, please come along and enjoy.
News shared by Linda on behalf of Ventnor Film Society. Ed
