Bracknell Film Society
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
15th Oct 2026 at 19:00
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In the night skies near his Muncie, Indiana, home, power-line repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter with what he believes is extraterrestrial life sets into motion an extraordinary chain of events as he becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about what he witnessed.
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ON THE BIG SCREEN
Director Steven Spielberg, USA, 1977, 135 minutes
With :Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffault, Teri Garr
Spielberg makes the unknown feel mysterious, frightening, and beautiful all at once – ROTTEN TOMATOES
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Bracknell Film Society, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Ish
3rd Nov 2026 at 19:30
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Set and filmed in Luton, Ish follows 12-year-old best friends, Ish (Farhan Hasnat) and Maram (Yahya Kitana) who are navigating childhood against a backdrop of political tension and personal loss. After a police stop and search, where Maram is searched and Ish manages to run away, they wrestle to hold onto their friendship.
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Director Imran Perretta
With: Farhan Hasnat, Yahya Kitana, Joy Crookes, Sudha Bhuchar, Avin Shah
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Bracknell Film Society, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
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Rosalie
09-07-2024 at 19:30
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1870s, Northern France: Rosalie has a secret she has concealed all her life. Her perspective changes when an indebted bar owner, unaware of her secret, marries her for her dowry. Will her husband be able to love the real her? What might happen if she were to reject concealment and go public?Additional Info
Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto, France/Belgium, 2023, 115 minutes, French with subtitles
with: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
A very watchable, offbeat slice of period drama HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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Rosalie, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Made In England
10-07-2024 at 19:00
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The work and legacy of Powell and Pressburger, these two extraordinary filmmakers is discussed with passion and authority by Martin Scorsese in this richly enjoyable documentary, featuring a dazzling array of film and archive footage.Additional Info
Director David Hinton, UK, 2024, 133 minutes, with Martin Scorsese, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
An engrossing celebration of two of British cinema’s most distinctive voices, and their creative harmony OBSERVER
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Made In England, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
A Matter Of Life And Death
24-07-2024 at 19:00
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A British pilot who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with a radio operator. Technically brilliant, this truly timeless romance presents a tantalising exploration of fate and mortalityAdditional Info
Directors Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1946, 104 minutes, starring David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring
An utterly unique, enduringly rich and strange romantic fantasia GUARDIAN
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A Matter Of Life And Death, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Rose
13-08-2024 at 19:30
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Two sisters take a coach trip to Paris. Inger, lives with schizophrenia in a psychiatric clinic where she receives care from staff and coddling from her mother. Ellen sees the trip as a chance to bond with her sister, whom she believes could benefit from more independence.Additional Info
Director: Niels Arden Oplev, Denmark, 2022, 106 minutes, Danish with subtitles
With: Sofie Gråbøl, Lene Maria Christensen, Anders W Berthelsen, Søren Malling
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Rose, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Snow Leopard
12-12-2024 at 19:30
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A majestic but deadly snow leopard has been attacking sheep and dividing opinions in a rural community about what they should do.
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Director Pema Tseden, China, 2023, 109 minutes, Tibetan and Chinese with English subtitles
Jinpa, Ziqi Xiong, Tseten Tashi
A poignant call for harmony and empathy between humans and wild animals, and a striking investigation into the tensions between traditional values and contemporary dynamics in pastoral Tibet - BFI
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Snow Leopard, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Black Box Diaries
11-02-2025 at 19:30
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In 2017, journalist and writer Shiori Itô publicly accused a prominent TV journalist of raping her. Reporting her assault to the police she was told it was a ‘black box’ – having happened behind closed doors, considered ‘unprosecutable’. This raw, remarkable documentary unfolds like a thriller.
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Director Shiori Itô, Japan/UK/USA, 2024, 103 minutes, Japanese with subtitles.
A tough but important watch GUARDIAN
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Black Box Diaries, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
A Real Pain
11-03-2025 at 19:30
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Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
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Director Jesse Eisenberg, USA/Poland, 2024, 89 minutes
With Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe
A real treat, a tender, funny treatise on family jealousies and our relationship to the past - EMPIRE
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A Real Pain, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Flow
13-05-2025 at 19:30
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Flow, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
When Fall is Coming
10-06-2025 at 19:30
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In a quaint Burgundy village, longtime friends and neighbours Michelle and Marie-Claude enjoy a quiet post-retirement lifestyle. Michelle looks forward to spending the summer with her grandson, Lucas, but his stay is cancelled when Michelle accidentally serves his mother poisonous mushrooms. Initially dejected, Michelle begins to feel less lonely when Marie-Claude's son returns home from prison
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Directed by Francois Ozon. with Helene Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Pierre Lottin, Sophie Guillemin.
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When Fall is Coming, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
A New Kind of Wilderness
08-07-2025 at 19:30
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Englishman Nik and his Norwegian wife Maria attept to forge a new life and live sustainably on a farm in Norway. When tragedy strikes Nik's resolve to continue is severely challenged and the 'nornal' world comes knocking.
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Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Norway, 2024, 84 minutes
Beautiful, heart wrenching and ultimately hopeful - Guardian
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A New Kind of Wilderness, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Unmoored
14-10-2025 at 19:30
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A high-profile couple’s life tips into chaos when he is accused of sexual impropriety. Initially fleeing the resulting media firestorm together, an unexpected confrontation subsequently causes Maria to travel alone to isolated Exmoor where she becomes physically and mentally unstuck.
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Director Caroline Ingvarsson, UK/Poland/Sweden, 2023, 93 minutes, Swedish/Polish with subtitles
With: Mirja Turestedt, Thomas W Gabrielsson, Kris Hitchen
A story that lingers, that makes you think – INDEPENDENT
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Unmoored, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Rocco & His Brothers
29-10-2025 at 19:00
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Recent arrivals in Milan with their mother, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new life. However, a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
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Director Luchino Visconti, Italy/France, 1960, 179 minutes, Italian with subtitles
With: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardo
[A] compelling 1960s tale of homesickness, aspiration, anguish and rage - GUARDIAN
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Rocco & His Brothers, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
The Marching Band
11-11-2025 at 19:00
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An acclaimed conductor strikes up a relationship with a previously unknown brother who is a trombone player in a marching band. Despite their differences, the two bond over a shared love of music and face illness and upheavals together.
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Director Emmanuel Courcol, France, 2023, 103 minutes, French with subtitles
With: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco
Two strong leads… make this heart-on-sleeve but unsentimental class drama a triumph in a minor key GUARDIAN
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The Marching Band, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Solo
09-12-2025 at 19:30
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Simon, a true innocent despite his outrageous performances in Montreal’s drag scene begins dancing on an edge when two bewitching figures (re)enter his life: his mother and Oliver, a fellow drag queen/collaborator/competitor.
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Director: Sophie Dupuis, Canada, 2023, 102 minutes, French with subtitles
With: Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Alice Moreault
A joyful yet heartbreaking story of a drag artist consumed by toxic relationships - GUARDIAN
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Solo, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found
13-01-2026 at 19:30
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I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck’s film is an intimate portrait of the photographer who paid the price for revealing the true horrors of apartheid in South Africa. Cole was South Africa’s first Black freelance photographer. His powerful record of the degradation of his people under Apartheid led to his exile. This poignant homecoming hymn restores his legacy and offers an essential story in the ongoing fight for equity and human rights.
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Director: Raoul Peck, USA/France, 2024, 106 minutes
With: LaKeith Stanfield (narrator)
Watching “Lost and Found,” you’re moved by a life that veered into tragedy, yet the place it lands lifts you up - VARIETY
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Ernest Cole, Lost and Found, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10-02-2026 at 19:30
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People gather for dinner at a woodland house. All ordinary and banal, except, repeatedly, the meal never happens. Something always interferes. Buñuel drags his characters through an escalating series of crises and surrealist set pieces, tethered loosely to reality and designed solely to prevent them politely sitting down to eat. Things it turns out are neither discreet nor charming!
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Director: Luis Buñuel, France/Italy/Spain, 1972, 97 minutes, French, Spanish & Latin with English subtitles
With: Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig
Outrageous, searing and at times blasphemous, Buñuel’s brilliantly bizarre satire remains as gleefully anarchic as ever - BFI
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Les Quatre Cent Coups
02-04-2026 at 19:02
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Truffaut introduces his enduring alter ego, Antoine Doinel – a misunderstood 12-year-old, neglected by his parents and mistreated by repressive schoolteachers, who seeks refuge in truancy, petty crime and, above all, cinema.
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Director François Truffaut, France, 1959, 95 minutes, made in b & w, French with subtitles
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier
François Truffaut's semi-autobiographical 1959 debut is one of the French new wave's most accessible and best-loved films - Guardian
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Les Quatre Cent Coups, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
The Secret Agent
14-04-2026 at 19:29
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1977 Brazil under a military dictatorship: Marcelo, an enigmatic man driving a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, arrives in Recife via an out of town petrol station where we are plunged straight into the world of corruption and violence from which Marcelo is trying to escape.
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Director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil/France/Germany, 2025, 158 minutes, Portuguese with subtitles
Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone
Visually and dramatically superb in every way - Guardian
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The Secret Agent, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Redoubt
09-06-2026 at 07:30
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In a small village, an eccentric farm worker begins fortifying his modest home into a collective haven from nuclear Armageddon. Compulsively gathering scrap metal, he envisions a fortress that will protect him and his neighbours.
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Director John Skoog, Sweden/Denmark, 2025, 85 minutes, Swedish with subtitles
With: Denis Lavant, Agnieska Podsiadlik, Livia Millhagen, Aron Skoog
The Cold War has never looked as stunning – BFI
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Redoubt, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
California Schemin'
14-07-2026 at 19:30
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This irresistible, high-energy directorial debut tells the stranger-than-fiction underdog story of Dundee rappers Gavin and Billy who pose as Californians in the hopes of making it big in the music world.
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Director James McAvoy, UK/USA, 2025, 107 minutes
James McAvoy, Samuel Bottomley, Seamus McLean Ross
[This] hip hop hoax biopic is an absolute treat – ROLLING STONE
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California Schemin', 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Kukuho
08-08-2026 at 19:00
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Nagasaki, 1964 – After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he dedicates himself to this traditional form of theatre. The two young men grow and evolve together—from acting school to the grandest stages—amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals... One of them will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
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Director Lee Sang-il, Japan, 2025, 174 minutess, Japanese with subtitles
Ryō Yoshizawa, Ryūsei Yokohama, Soya Kurokawa, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Ken Watanabe
Magnificent. Haunting and incredibly moving - ABC RADIO NATIONAL
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Kukuho, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Arco
11-08-2026 at 19:30
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Arco a boy from a peaceful future accidentally travels back to 2075 and finds a world in peril. Arco and new friend, Iris, set out to get Arco home.
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Director Ugo Bienvenu, France/USA/UK, 2025, 85 minutes, French with subtitles
Voices of Margot Ringard Oldra, Oscar Tresanini, Nathanaёl Perrot
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Arco, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA
Familiar Touch
13-10-2026 at 19:30
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An elderly lady comes to terms with having to give up her home and go into a care home.
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Director Sarah Friedland, USA, 2025, 92 minutes
Kathleen Chalfont, Carolyn Michelle Smith, Andy McQueen
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Familiar Touch, 35 Spinis, Bracknell, RG12 8XA