The Room Next Door (12A) Monday Night Film Club
- RBC Film Theatre Mill Road Dumfries, Scotland, DG2 7BE United Kingdom (map)
Click on film title below for more info.
Related Content:
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 rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse. The Turn Horse, originally released in 2011, is being shown in tribute to Hungarian director Béla Tarr who died in January aged 70. As with every black and white Hungarian film shown for Monday Night Film Club a member of the McMorran family will introduce the film, this time Dr Connor McMorran. In Hungarian and German with English subtitles.
A remote German farm harbours generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls. In German with English subtitles.
★★★★★ "It’s a cliché to say that a film will stay with you long after you leave the cinema. This one could haunt you to the grave." — Time Out.
A 15-year-old Yuruk boy from a remote Macedonian village escapes into music amid parental expectations, societal conservatism and forbidden love for a promised girl. In Macedonian, Turkish, English, with English subtitles.
“Music-soaked, delightfully humorous and unpretentiously stylish… a revelation”– Variety
“Luminous…ever so watchable” – Sight and Sound
“Beautiful landscape cinematography combined with authentic locations immerses you in the world” – ★★★★ Film Threat
