Wokingham Film Society
See schedule below
Whitty Theatre, Luckley House School, Luckley Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 3EU
Formed in 2013 to bring independent cinema back to Wokingham, Wokingham Film Society usually screens on the 2nd Thursday each month, at:
The Whitty Theatre, Luckley House School, Luckley Road, Wokingham RG40 3EU. (How to get there)
WOKINGHAM FILM SOCIETY
2022 FILM PROGRAMME:
| DAY DATE TIME | FEATURE FILM | DESCRIPTION |
| Thursday 28th Apr 7.30pm | Supernova (15) | Starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. Sam and Tusker, partners for 20 years take a journey in their camper van to visit people and places in the north of England. Tusker has been diagnosed with early onset dementia. The pair must make the most of their remaining time together. |
| Thursday 12th May 7.30pm | Ali and Ava (15) | This BAFTA-nominated film from Yorkshire auteur Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) is a delightful mildly comedic love story. Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage. |
| Thursday 26th May 7.30pm | Nightmare Alley (15) | Spanish auteur Guillermo del Toro's follow-up to his Oscar-winning Sound of Water is another triumph of cinematic design and rightly received both Oscar and BAFTA nominations for production design, costume design and cinematography. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Willem Dafoe star in this noir-ish tale of a grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychiatrist bent on exposing him. Full of lush costume and moody art deco interiors. |
| Thursday 16th June 7.30pm | Flee (15) | In association with Reading Refugee Centre our presentation for Refugee Week is a highly original Oscar and BAFTA-nominated animated documentary from Danish writer/director Jonas Poher Rasmussen. It tells the true story about a man's need to confront his past in order to truly have a future. Amin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, at 36, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-term partner. A secret he has been hiding for over 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built for himself. For the first time, he is sharing his story with his close friend. (Includes panel Q&A after the film.) |
| Thursday 14th July 7.30pm | King Richard (12A) | Will Smith pulls no punches in his powerful, Oscar-winning performance as Richard Williams, father and coach of tennis stars Venus and Serena, who is forced to transcend seemingly insurmountable odds to achieve his lofty ambitions for his daughters. Inspiring. (Free for all WFS members.) |
| Thursday 4th August 7.30pm | Drive My Car (15) | Best International Feature Oscar winner this year. Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami from his collection "Men Without Women". After his wife's unexpected death, a renowned stage actor and director, Yusuke Kafuku, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya. As the production's premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the cast and crew. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins - with the help of his driver - to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind. (This film will include a 15 min interval.) |
| Thursday 15th September 7.30pm | After Love (12A) | Joanna Scanlan rightly won a Best Actress BAFTA for her performance as Mary Hussain who following the unexpected death of her husband, discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais…. The film picked up five British Independent Film Awards including Best British Independent Film, Best Director another Best Actress award for Joanna Scanlan. |
Tickets are competitively priced at £6.50, £4 for members (see website for details of how to join) and can be booked online at wokinghamfilmsociety.com/coming-soon.
More information: wokinghamfilmsociety.com.
