Monday Night Cinema: Autumn/Winter 2025

Golden Bear Nominee, Berlin Film Festival 2024Winner, Best Performance by an Actress, German Film Awards 2025

Berlin: 1942, Hilde and Hans, German resistance fighters with an anti-fascist group, fall madly in love. When the couple are arrested by the Gestapo, Hilde is eight months pregnant and faces the birth of her baby alone, in prison. Based on real events, Andreas Dresen's film is about resilience, inner strength and doing the right thing, no matter what.

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The Ballad of Wallis Island

Mon 22 Sep, 5pm & 8pm

English | Cert: PG | 2025 | 100mins

Young Mothers (Jeunes mères)

Mon 29 Sep, 5pm & 8pm

French | Cert: Club | 2025 | 105mins

Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a shelter for young mothers in Belgium. The intersecting lives of these five teenagers hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies forms the subject of this beautiful and poetic film from the Dardenne Brothers. A true-to-life portrait of the struggles faced by these young women living on or near the margins of society.

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Sorry, Baby

Mon 6 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

English | Cert: 15A | 2025 | 104mins

When old college roommates Agnes and Lydie reunite for a short break, it’s a joyous occasion — but Lydie is also one of the only 
people Agnes can speak to about her past trauma.

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Dreams (Drømmer)

Mon 13 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

Norwegian | Cert: 15A | 2024 | 111mins

Johanne, 17, becomes infatuated with her charismatic French teacher, exploring her confusing feelings by writing them down as a novella. When Johanne’s protective mother and more liberal grandmother read the manuscript, the three generations of women each contemplate their hopes, dreams and sexuality.

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Christy

Mon 20 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

English | Cert: 15A | 2025 | 94mins

Brendan Canty’s debut feature is a love letter to his native Cork, with flashes of pure joy and fun that break through its bleaker moments. 

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Deaf (Sorda)

Mon 27 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

Spanish | Cert: 15A | 2025 | 99mins

Ángela, a deaf woman, and Héctor, her hearing partner, are in a loving, solid relationship. They use sign language and lip reading to communicate. When their first daughter, Ona, is born, it is revealed she can hear - forcing Ángela to come to terms with raising a daughter who may not share her experience of the world. 

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Friendship

Mon 3 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

English | Cert: 15A | 2025 | 99mins

Marketing executive Craig lives a mundane suburban life, but everything changes when he meets charismatic new neighbour Austin. Their new friendship swiftly deteriorates, however, as Craig’s desperate urge to be liked leads to some increasingly erratic, ill-judged behaviour…

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Late Shift (Heldin)

Mon 10 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

German | Cert: 12A | 2025 | 91mins

Leonie Benesch (The Teacher's Lounge) stars as Floria, a nurse who clocks in for a late shift in a busy but understaffed ward. As the evening wears on the pressure begins to get to Floria —  and a simple but potentially grave error pushes her over the edge.

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The Kingdom (Le Royaume)

Mon 17 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

French & Corsican | Cert: 15A | 2025 | 111mins

Corsica, 1995: 15-year-old Lesia seems like any regular teenager. However, Pierre-Paul, the father she adores but only sees occasionally, is actually the head of one of the island’s mobs and a long-time fugitive. When violence escalates over her summer break from school, the reality and horrors of her father’s world are finally fully revealed to Lesia.

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Dying (Sterben)

Mon 24 Nov, 3.30pm & 7.30pm (note earlier start times)

German | Cert: 16 | 2024 | 182mins

Misericordia (Miséricorde)

Mon 1 Dec, 5pm & 8pm

French | Cert: Club | 2024 | 102mins

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Good One

Mon 8 Dec, 5pm & 8pm

English | Cert: Club | 2024 | 89mins

Sam, 17, heads off on a Catskills camping trip with her father Chris and his best friend Matt. After initially enjoying the strenuous but fun hike, Sam’s perspective shifts as the two men’s frustrations with life and relationships come to the fore by the nightly campfire.

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The Marching Band

Mon 15 Dec, 5pm & 8pm

French | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 103mins

A French comedy-drama that’s as funny as it is heart-warming. Thibaut, a successful conductor recently diagnosed with leukaemia, discovers he was actually adopted as a child. When he meets his secret biological brother, cafeteria worker Jimmy, the two discover a shared passion for music, and Jimmy’s workplace just so happens to have a marching band…