Electric Medway Cinema Club
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Bird
26-03-2025 at 19:00
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The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan, Saltburn) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski, Passages), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold’s latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.
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Bird, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
The Quiet Girl
30-04-2025 at 19:00
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Colm Bairéad’s beautifully understated feature debut finds a young girl coming to terms with loss and the importance of family in rural Ireland.
Nine-year-old Cait (Catherine Clinch) is neglected by her pregnant mother, boorish father and louder siblings. At school, she feels ignored. But things change when her father takes her to live with in-laws for the summer. Eibhlín (Carrie Crowley) and her farmer husband Seán (Andrew Bennett) take Cait in to alleviate her parent’s financial woes. At first, Cait feels a little intimidated by her new environment, though she soon finds freedom in this new world along with the attention she so desperately needs. But even as this new home becomes an idyll for her, Cait senses that something is plaguing her new foster parents. There is unspoken grief that exists in the house, one that Eibhlín and Seán never discuss, but which Cait’s youthful curiosity begins to uncover.
An adaptation of Claire Keegan’s acclaimed short story ‘Foster’, Bairéad’s Irish-language film is understated in both its visual style and the subtlety of the unfolding drama. The pastoral backdrop is a verdant playground for Cait, while Stephen Rennick’s wistful score not only accentuates the beauty of this world but also the secrets that lay hidden within it. At its heart lies an astonishing performance by Clinch. She quietly draws us into Cait’s world, her gestures allowing us to witness the lives of adults through her innocent yet understanding eyes.
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The Quiet Girl, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Hard Truths
28-05-2025 at 19:00
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Hard Truths, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
My Favourite Cake
25-06-2025 at 19:00
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A beautifully delicate and nuanced concoction of a film, My Favourite Cake, co-written and directed by Iranian filmmakers Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, explores themes of love, regret and second chances with nuance and grace. It’s set against the backdrop of a country with strict rules and restrictions, especially when it comes to the rights and freedoms of women.
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Programme
18:45 Doors open
19:00 B-movie experience
19:20 Break
19:30 Main event
21:15 End (approx.); Informal post-movie discussion
About Cinema Club
Founded in Spring 2025, bringing the best of indie cinema and more to Medway, Electric Medway Cinema Club is chance to catch the movies that may have passed you by, or you would never have considered seeing!
Cinema Club events may start with an XR short - such as a film, virtual reality or augmented reality experience - all commissioned by Electric Medway and from local creators. You'll get an idea of both the work we do and the talent in the area. There will be opportunity to discuss the feature film afterwards.
🍿🥤 A limited number of soft drinks and popcorn will be available to purchase, so please also feel free to bring your own!
Stay and Chat
After the screening, we invite you to join a relaxed post-film discussion at local craft beer pub Wolfe & Castle. Share your thoughts on the story, performances, cinematography or whatever aspect of the film resonated with you. It's a casual opportunity to connect with fellow film enthusiasts and exchange perspectives. No film analysis expertise required – just bring your impressions and experiences!
Acknowledgement
This event is funded by BFI Film Audience Network and Medway Lottery Community Fund, with partner support from Huguenot Museum and Cinema for All.
Location
My Favourite Cake, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Flow
30-07-2025 at 19:00
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Wunderkind director Gints Zilbalodis has taken the animation world by storm with his beautifully crafted sophomore feature Flow, which has received a multitude of awards and nominations to date, including two nominations for both BAFTA and the Academy Awards, the latter of which it won for Best Animated Feature.
The mystical world he creates in Flow is in peril. There are traces of human inhabitants, but they are now nowhere to be seen as water begins to flood the landscape. The story begins following a small, solitary cat as the shoreline rises and the home where it once lived is submerged underwater. Forced to flee, he happens upon a refuge boat containing a calm and unperturbed Capybara who seems amenable to his presence, and the two begin a journey on the water towards higher ground. Along the way they cross paths with a lemur, obsessed with collecting shiny objects, a boisterous and excitable dog and a stoic, mysterious secretary bird. Together, as they traverse the landscape on their fable-like quest, the ragtag team of animals must learn to trust each other and work together to survive.
Flow pushes the boundaries of animation, immersing audiences in a world before unseen.
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Location
Flow, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Didi
24-09-2025 at 19:00
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In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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Didi, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
The Ballad of Wallis Island
26-11-2025 at 19:00
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Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer + McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together.
His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island!
Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig!
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19:00 Doors open
19:05 B-movie experience
19:20 Break
19:30 Main event
21:10 End (approx.), followed by informal (and optional) post-movie discussion at Wolfe & Castle, 44 High Street, Rochester
After the screening, we invite you to join a relaxed post-film discussion at local craft beer pub Wolfe & Castle. Share your thoughts on the story, performances, cinematography or whatever aspect of the film resonated with you. It's a casual opportunity to connect with fellow film enthusiasts and exchange perspectives. No film analysis expertise required – just bring your impressions and experiences!
About Cinema Club
Founded in Spring 2025, bringing the best of indie cinema and more to Medway, Electric Medway Cinema Club is chance to catch the movies that may have passed you by, or you would never have considered seeing!
Cinema Club events may start with an XR short - such as a film, virtual reality or augmented reality experience - all commissioned by Electric Medway and from local creators. You'll get an idea of both the work we do and the talent in the area. There will be opportunity to discuss the feature film afterwards.
Location
The Ballad of Wallis Island, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Brief Encounter
09-12-2025 at 19:00
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Celebrate the golden age of cinema with Brief Encounter (1945) as part of the BFI's Too Much: Melodrama on Film Season.
Too Much: Melodrama on Film - Invites audiences to follow their emotions and get swept away by the big screen experience.
🎞️ Starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, two married strangers living in pre-World War II England. Whose chance encounter at a railway station leads to a brief yet emotional affair disrupting their otherwise conventional lives.
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Programme
18:45 Doors open
19:00 Main Event
20:45 End (approx.)
Refreshments
Drinks and popcorn will be available for purchase.
To celebrate this film season, we'll have non-alcoholic mulled wine available for the audience to enjoy.
About Cinema Club
Founded in Spring 2025, bringing the best of indie cinema and more to Medway, Electric Medway Cinema Club is chance to catch the movies that may have passed you by, or you would never have considered seeing!
Cinema Club events may start with an XR short - such as a film, virtual reality or augmented reality experience - all commissioned by Electric Medway and from local creators. You'll get an idea of both the work we do and the talent in the area. There will be opportunity to discuss the feature film afterwards.
Acknowledgement: This event is funded by BFI Film Audience Network and Medway Lottery Community Fund, with partner support from Huguenot Museum and Cinema for All.
Location
Brief Encounter, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Comfort and Joy
17-12-2025 at 19:00
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Alan Bird thinks he has life pretty-well organized…Glasgow’s top DJ, with a nice apartment and the only red BMW Cabriolet north of
Manchester, he has little to worry about… UNTIL… his kleptomaniac girlfriend Maddy ditches him just before Christmas!
With his apartment and his life stripped bare, he stumbles across a furious vendetta between rival ice-cream families… Caught in the crossfire and looking for something meaningful in life, he decides to take things seriously and settle the dispute between these feuding mafiosi!
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About Cinema Club
Founded in Spring 2025, bringing the best of indie cinema and more to Medway, Electric Medway Cinema Club is chance to catch the movies that may have passed you by, or you would never have considered seeing!
Cinema Club events may start with an XR short - such as a film, virtual reality or augmented reality experience - all commissioned by Electric Medway and from local creators. You'll get an idea of both the work we do and the talent in the area. There will be opportunity to discuss the feature film afterwards.
Acknowledgement: This event is funded by BFI Film Audience Network and Medway Lottery Community Fund, with partner support from Huguenot Museum and Cinema for All.
Location
Comfort and Joy, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Breathless (À bout de souffle)
28-01-2026 at 19:00
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Michel is a small-time crook who fancies himself a movie-style gangster. After stealing a car and impulsively killing a policeman, he retreats to Paris to persuade his American girlfriend, Patricia, to run away to Italy with him. As the police close in, the duo navigates a series of philosophical conversations and narrow escapes. Jean-Luc Godard’s directorial debut remains a high-voltage, stylish explosion of cinematic cool.
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Location
Breathless (À bout de souffle), Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX
Bait
25-02-2026 at 19:00
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Simmering tensions between locals and newcomers in a modern-day Cornish fishing village reach boiling point in this hugely acclaimed British independent film.
Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.
Stunningly shot on a vintage 16mm camera using monochrome Kodak stock, Mark Jenkin’s Bait is a timely and funny, yet poignant film that gets to the heart of a community facing up to unwelcome change. (BFI)
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Stay and Chat
After the screening, we invite you to join a relaxed post-film discussion at local craft beer pub Wolfe & Castle. Share your thoughts on the story, performances, cinematography or whatever aspect of the film resonated with you. It's a casual opportunity to connect with fellow film enthusiasts and exchange perspectives. No film analysis expertise required – just bring your impressions and experiences!
About Cinema Club
Founded in Spring 2025, bringing the best of indie cinema and more to Medway, Electric Medway Cinema Club is chance to catch the movies that may have passed you by, or you would never have considered seeing!
Cinema Club events may start with an XR short - such as a film, virtual reality or augmented reality experience - all commissioned by Electric Medway and from local creators. You'll get an idea of both the work we do and the talent in the area. There will be opportunity to discuss the feature film afterwards.
Acknowledgement: This event is funded by BFI Film Audience Network and Medway Lottery Community Fund, with partner support from Huguenot Museum and Cinema for All.
Location
Bait, Huguenot Museum, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX