Another Round (12A)

January 16 @ 8:00 PM 9:45 PM

Played by Mads Mikkelsen, Martin is a high school teacher in a mid life crisis. He and his three colleagues embark on an “study” to see what level of alcohol makes them better people.

Measuring social and professional performance they drink only during working hours. Intoxicating, very funny and sobering. The film won a Bafta for Best Film not in the English Language and an Oscar for best international feature.

Directed by Thomas Vintenburg. Danish with English Subtitles.

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Ditchling Film Society

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Fallen Leaves (12A)

March 6 @ 8:00 PM 9:25 PM

Two lonely souls connect in a rain-lashed Helsinki in this unexpectedly uplifting drama from the Finnish master of melancholy.


Meeting by chance the two look at last to have found love. However, various obstacles thwart their hopes and dreams – lost phone numbers, mistaken addresses, alcoholism and a charming dog. Won the Jury prize at Cannes. Tragicomic romance set in modern-day Helsinki.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Finnish with English Subtitles.

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Widow Cliquot (12A)

June 5 @ 8:00 PM 9:30 PM

A tale of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquo who defied French vintner patriarchy and survived calamities to create one of the world’s finest champagnes.

Underlying the movie is a love story told in flashbacks, but what prevails is a fascinating tale of a celebrated drink that, even with a certain conventionality, never loses its subtle charm and remarkable tastefulness.

Winning three major film awards.

Directed by Thomas Napper. English

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One Life (12A)

November 7, 2024 @ 8:00 PM 10:00 PM

Based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton. The film alternates between following Anthony Hopkins as a 79-year old Winton reminiscing on his past, and Johnny Flynn as a 29-year old Winton who successfully helps 669 predominantly Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II.

Directed by James Hawes.

1h49m, English

Ditchling Film Society

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The Eight Mountains (12A)

September 5, 2024 @ 8:00 PM 10:30 PM

This rich, beautiful, and inexpressibly sad film is about the friendship between two men who were best childhood friends growing up in the Italian mountains.   They now unite as grown men to build a shack in the valley which will be their special place.   It is set in the Italian alpine valley of Aosta with breathtaking photography as the two men try to talk about their feelings, rekindle their friendship and deal with the difficult past.

“A movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart”.

(2022). 147mins. Italian, English subtitles. Directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch.

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Ditchling Film Society

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