Ditchling Film Society

Barbie - The Movie (12A)
2024-01-11 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Ditchling Village Hall, 18 Lewes Road, Ditchling, Hassocks, East Sussex, BN6 8TT, United Kingdom
Yes! It’s about Barbie the Mattel doll! A riotously entertaining candy-coloured confection that manages simultaneously to celebrate, satirise and deconstruct its (apparently) happy-plastic subject.

Some call it a feminist fable and it definitely plays on stereotypes, both male and female. You will recognise them! It’s very pink. It’s very funny. And you know there’s some quite serious stuff in there as well.

(2023) 114 mins. English. Dir Greta Gerwig

Licorice Pizza (15)
2023-12-07 20:00 - 22:15
With audacity and insight, the filmmaker fuses a comedic romp of romance and self-discovery with a sharp debunking of classic Hollywood myths and heroes.

Set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970’s it is a partly autobiographical , pugnaciously romantic coming of age story for a teenage actor and a hectic trip of self-discovery for a twentysomething dreamer.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson. (2021).

English

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

The Farewell (12A)
2023-11-02 20:00 - 21:40
A Chinese-American film that captures the push and pull between the bonds of blood and the ties of culture as they are explored with a light touch and a perceptive eye in this family story. A hastily convened wedding provides the cover story to bring the extended American- living family back to China to say farewell to their elderly matriarch who is the only one not to know she is terminally ill. A film about balance, a yin and yang of roots and identities, humour and pathos that comes together in a bittersweet drama. Director Lulu Wang. (2019).

English, Japanese, Mandarin.

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

Pina (PG)
2023-10-05 20:00 - 21:50
Pina is a documentary about German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. Directed by Wim Wenders.

With Pina’s sudden death during filming of the documentary Wenders cancelled the production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to go ahead with the film.

Bausch was a leading exponent of “dance theatre” and this documentary shows her legendary approach to choreography and to her dancers. The dancers talk about Pina and perform some of her best-known pieces inside the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Wenders also filmed the dancers’ personal tributes to her in locations around Wuppertal bringing together dance, cinematography and the most fabulous music.

German. This is the 2D version.

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

Aftersun (12A)
2023-09-07 20:00 - 21:40
This extraordinary debut by director Charlotte Wells tells the poignant story of a father-daughter relationship . Understated, deceptively simple it is a tale of memory, love and loss. Featuring Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio it is about a holiday for a recently divorced father and his eleven year old daughter in Turkey that is a summer break but also a kind of farewell. (2022)

English.

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

Hit the Road (12A)
2023-07-06 20:00 - 21:40
An Iranian family (including ailing dog) travel in their car through remote northwest Iran towards the Turkish border. Funny and devastating with a strong political message. The father of this first-time director is in prison for criticizing the Iranian government and the film was made covertly. (2021)

Farsi

Doors open from 7:30 pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

Utama (12A)
2023-06-01 20:00 - 21:30
An elderly Quechuan couple living in the highlands of Bolivia have a quiet tranquil life for years until a drought changes it. Genuine poignancy and stunning visuals. (2022)

Spanish

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

Limbo (PG)
2023-05-18 20:00 - 21:45
Explores the lives of four asylum seekers who are staying on a remote island in Scotland, including young oud-playing new arrival as they attend cultural awareness classes. Cannes film festival selection and nominated for several awards. (2020)

English

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

The Duke (12A)
2023-04-06 20:00 - 21:40
The final film of director Roger Michell stars the British character actor Jim Broadbent as the funny, scheming miscreant who believes crime is justified if it serves a greater purpose when he steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington. A sweet natured and genial comedy. (2020)

English

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership £50 (11 films).

The Quiet Girl (12A)
2023-03-02 20:00 - 21:40
A young girl from a dysfunctional family in rural Ireland is sent to live with a distant relative and discovers a new way of living.(2022).

Irish

£50 for season membership of all 11 films during 2023.

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Olga (15)
2023-02-02 20:00 - 21:30
Talented Ukrainian gymnast exiled to Switzerland dreams of OlympicGold. Given fierce new focus by the war now. (2021)

February will mark the 1 year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Ditchling FIlm Society are offering free tickets to this film for local Ukranian refugees and their host families. Please contact info@ditchlingfilm.org.uk

Ukrainian

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Season membership £50 for all 11 films during 2023.

Belfast (12A)
2023-01-12 20:00 - 21:45
Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film as a young boy in sixties Belfast as tensions grow and violence kicks off. (2021).English

Doors open from 7:30pm for wine and soft drinks.

Annual membership is £50 for all 11 films in the 2023 season.

Love Actually (15)
2022-12-01 19:15 - 22:15
Mince pies and mulled wine from 7:15, film starts at 8pm.

The ultimate romantic comedy:
From the makers of Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes this blockbuster film including a fantastic all-star cast and an outstanding soundtrack.
The hilarious Love Actually explores the ups and downs of relationships in the weeks building up to Christmas. Boyfriends & girlfriends, husbands & wives, fathers & sons and rock stars & managers all combine to make Love Actually not just one story but ten very different ones.
Because if you look hard enough you will find love actually is all around.
