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Lamia, a young girl from Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes, is chosen to bake a cake celebrating Saddam Hussein’s birthday, which she must do or face the consequences. A moving portrait of love, friendship and the resilience of a people caught between authoritarian rule and injudicious US imperialism. In Arabic with English subtitles.
From debut Iraqi director Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake is a beautiful tale of love, friendship and resilience told from the perspective of a child growing up under Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime. It was the first Iraqi film to feature at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered in the Directors' Fortnight and won both the section's Audience Award, as well as the festival's prestigious Camera d'Or.
From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. The film stars BAFTA and Academy Award winning Jessie Buckley as Agnes.
1580 England. Impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare meets free-spirited Agnes, and the pair, captivated by one another, strike up a torrid affair that leads to marriage and three children. Yet as Will pursues a budding theatre career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strikes, the couple’s once-unshakable bond is tested, but their shared experience sets the stage for the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
We're bringing SENTIMENTAL VALUE back for a final screening as it won Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards and Best Film Not in the English Language at the BAFTAs. It’s also one of our favourite films of the last twelve months and well worth watching on the big screen.
Joachim Trier’s drama follows actress Nora (Renate Reinsve) and her sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) as their eccentric and charismatic father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), suddenly reappears in their lives after a long absence. Once a renowned film director, Gustav now offers Nora the lead role in his new film, but working with her father is the last thing she wants. In Norwegian, English, and French with English subtitles.
Ryan Coogler's horror movie Sinners won 4 awards at this year's Academy Awards including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Bets Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
"Dynamic and sexy, Sinners is a genre-defying masterpiece that pulsates with energy and life and pitch perfect performances. More please. Five stars." - The Echo (Ireland)
Crime 101 finds three lives collide in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles, a master jewel thief eyes the score of a lifetime—his final job, if he plays it right. An insurance broker, disillusioned and desperate, is looking for a way out before the system grinds her down. And a relentless detective, haunted by unfinished business, is closing in. As their fates converge in the lead-up to a multimillion-dollar heist, the line between hunter and hunted blurs. One wrong move, and it won’t just be diamonds on the line—it’ll be their lives.
A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
Experience Peter Jackson's epic adaptations of author J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy adventures on the big screen over successive weekends, the very first time the extended versions have been shown at the Robert Burns Centre.
LOTR: The Two Towers is showing on Saturday 28 March and the extended version of LOTR: The Return of the King on Saturday 4 April.
One Battle After Another received 13 nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, winning six including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Pean. Paul Thomas Anderson's magnificent film also won six BAFTAs, including Best Film and Best Director.
Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption. The Secret Agent was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Wagner Moura, Best Casting and Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards®. In Portuguese, German and English with English subtitles.
Our young programmer Erika chose this film for the RBC and said it was the best film at last year's ICO Screening Days (where independent cinemas are given to chance to watch several upcoming films released in 2026) - 'by far my favourite one here, it's sharp, tense and driven by a great performance.'
A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption. The Secret Agent was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Wagner Moura, Best Casting and Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards®. In Portuguese, German and English with English subtitles.
Our young programmer Erika chose this film for the RBC and said it was the best film at last year's ICO Screening Days (where independent cinemas are given to chance to watch several upcoming films released in 2026) - 'by far my favourite one here, it's sharp, tense and driven by a great performance.'
When Helen's beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge. Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own. A record of a spiritual journey, H IS FOR HAWK is a story about memory and nature and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.