Tag: 2023 Season

Licorice Pizza (15)

December 7, 2023 @ 8:00 PM – 10:15 PM

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).

£7 Guest Membership

Ditchling Film Society

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Ditchling Village Hall

18 Lewes Road
Ditchling, Hassocks, East Sussex BN6 8TT United Kingdom + Google Map
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The Farewell (12A)

November 2, 2023 @ 8:00 PM – 9:40 PM

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).

£7 Guest Membership

Ditchling Film Society

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Ditchling Village Hall

18 Lewes Road
Ditchling, Hassocks, East Sussex BN6 8TT United Kingdom + Google Map
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Pina (PG)

October 5, 2023 @ 8:00 PM – 9:50 PM

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).

£7 Guest membership

Ditchling Film Society

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Ditchling Village Hall

18 Lewes Road
Ditchling, Hassocks, East Sussex BN6 8TT United Kingdom + Google Map
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Aftersun (12A)

September 7, 2023 @ 8:00 PM – 9:40 PM

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).

£7 Guest Membership

Ditchling Film Society

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Ditchling Village Hall

18 Lewes Road
Ditchling, Hassocks, East Sussex BN6 8TT United Kingdom + Google Map
View Venue Website

Free tickets for Ukrainian refugees and their hosts – all welcome

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Our next film on Thurs 2nd February, is Olga, is a Ukrainian film about a talented gymnast exiled to Switzerland..

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 Ukrainian refugees and their host families. Please contact info@ditchlingfilm.org.uk