Mission Ulja Funk (6+) FOKUS Films from Germany
- RBC Film Theatre Mill Road Dumfries, Scotland, DG2 7BE United Kingdom (map)
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE 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.
Trier’s sixth feature film stars Renate Reinsve who previously collaborated with Trier for The Worst Person in the World (Academy Award nominee for Best Screenplay and Best International Feature) alongside Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning. It premiered In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2025 and was awarded the Grand Prix. In Norwegian, English, and French with English subtitles.
In 1950s New York, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is a fast-talking, street-smart optimist, caught in a dead-end job selling shoes in his uncle’s cramped apartment. But Marty has a plan: to become a champion table tennis player, and to turn the sport into a national phenomenon – and absolutely nothing is going to stop him. A young man with a dream no one respects, Marty goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Screened in partnership with Dumfries Table Tennis Club.
On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team's preparation base in Saipan, following a heated disagreement with the Irish manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan).
“At a game-length 91 minutes, Saipan smartly comes and goes with speed (for all of its anger, it’s also a breezy, funny time) but it’s the rare football movie that’s worth a replay.” - Guardian
Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following the Flying Dutchman, a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate, to the deepest depths of the deep sea.
Charting a century of German cinema, the 2026 FOKUS Films from Germany programme revisits moments of German history through the lens of women's changing roles and experiences.
In a suburb of Paris, Marianne a woman around thirty, surprises her husband Bruno with the spontaneous decision, that she wants to become separated in order to live alone together with their eight-year-old son. In the beginning Bruno raises no objections. His attempts to get closer to Marianne are not successful. She has given up her former lifestyle and her financial security und now begins to live her own life, marked by solitude and caution but firmly determined. In French and German with English subtitles. Tickets are £3.00 / £1.50.
Grow is an exuberant and thoroughly entertaining family film which fuses twisted humour and wild imagination with a stirring story of family healing, all set against the backdrop of an apparently sleepy Scottish town. When a tough-as-nails farmer takes in her rebellious niece, Charlie, she doesn’t expect her to shake up the town - or enter the fiercely competitive local pumpkin contest. But with a genetically engineered super-pumpkin, shady sabotage, and a town full of eccentric growers, Charlie’s got her work cut out for her. As she raises her pumpkin “Peter” from seed to superstar, she might just grow something even bigger: a new life, a community… and maybe a little love.
Heart-warming family comedy about ex-TV personality, Chris Masterman, who becomes stranded in a town outside Alice Springs (Mparntwe). There, he teams up with 12-year-old indigenous Australian girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote but stunning Outback community - an endeavour that proves to be life-changing for them both.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards®. In Arabic and English with English subtitles.
This sweet and uplifting Irish road movie packs in the laughs as it follows two music loving friends take a road trip across Ireland to save their struggling record shop.
Facing an unpaid rent bill and their vicious landlord Sadie (Derry Girls’ Tara Lynne O’Neill), who’s eager to get them out of her building, the pair stumble across a deal too good to be true: rare, vintage records of blues legend Robert Johnson for sale in Cork at a knock-down price. If they can make it to the other end of Ireland in time, then maybe they could get the rare vinyl, and save the shop….
Best known locally as the former Cream o’ Galloway ‘ice cream farm’, David and Wilma Finlay transformed Rainton Farm near Gatehouse-of-Fleet from a conventional family dairy farm to organic, regenerative, and now a pioneering cow-with-calf dairy system.
Filmed over two years, A Dairy Story shows how changing a farming system changes everything; from the lives of the animals to the wellbeing of the farmers, and perhaps even the future of dairy farming itself.
In late 2025 A Dairy Story won Best Documentary at the IndieCork Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Central Scotland Documentary Festival in Stirling.
- Tagged: pg, Family, January, Foreign Language
