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Program
- 182
Sunday 8 March 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
DJ AHMET tells the story of a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yörük village in North Macedonia who finds freedom and solace in music. Torn between his father’s strict expectations, a deeply traditional community and a first love that’s already been promised to another, Ahmet must carve out a space for himself in a world that leaves little room for dreams.
Directed by: Georgi M. Unkovski
Screenplay: Georgi M. Unkovski
Cast: Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Aksel Mehmet
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Language: Turkish, Macedonian
Run time: 1 Hr. 39 Min,
Rating: Not yet rated
Review
By Lisa Giles-Keddie
In a delightfully entertaining look at tradition verses modernity, debut feature filmmaker Georgi M. Unkovski’s DJ Ahmet uses the universal language of popular western music to compare seemingly rigid cultural norms of a rural North Macedonian village, with the youth’s desire to be present in the 21st century. It cleverly and unapologetically uses humour to challenge the dominant religious mindset that frames the patriarchal society, including that of arranged marriage. Ultimately, DJ Ahmet is a coming-of-age tale of budding young love, under threat before it is allowed to flourish.
- 209
Sunday 22 February 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
The Summer Book follows young Sophia and her wise, eccentric Grandmother spending a summer on a remote Finnish island with Sophia's father, navigating their quiet grief over the recent death of Sophia's mother through exploration, nature, and poignant, understated moments, learning to love and accept life's cycles as the summer ends and the Grandmother finds peace. Based on Tove Jansson's novel, the film by Charlie McDowell is a meditative drama focusing on intergenerational bonds, life, loss, and the beauty of the natural world, rather than high drama or plot.
Directed by: Charlie McDowell
Writers: Robert Jones, Tove Jansson
Cast: Emily Matthews, Glenn Close, Anders Danielsen Lie
Genre: Drama
Language: English, Finnish
Run time: 1h 35m
Review
By Leo Brady
As an Irish-Catholic, I know a bit about things left unsaid - about conversations held back until the substance fades away. If there was a fight that morning, by afternoon, we'd simply act like it never happened. That's how we handle conflict. In The Summer Book, the newest film from director Charlie McDowell, that same tension lingers in the air - a persistent sense that something needs to be said. Yet, within that unease lies beauty: trees with golden leaves, cool blue water, and the simple joy of a child. Immersed in this world, we watch love and maturity grow, revealing a story about family and the importance of expressing our feelings.
- 248
Sunday 8 February 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
Sleeping rough on the streets of London, Mike seems unable to escape the chaos of his impulsivity and substance abuse. He's intelligent and charismatic, but when his addiction results in an act of unprovoked violence, he's quickly arrested.
Directed by: Harris Dickinson
Written by: Harris Dickinson
Cast: Frank Dillane, Amr Waked, Megan Northam
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run time: 1 Hr. 39 Min.
Rating: 14A
Review
By Peter Bradshaw
Harris Dickinson makes a terrifically impressive debut here as a writer-director with this smart and compassionate picture about homelessness. It is engaging, sympathetically acted and layered with genuinely funny moments, mysterious and hallucinatory set-pieces, and challenges the notion of the haves who fear the contagious risk of coming into contact with the have-nots.
Frank Dillane is Mike, a guy who has spent five years living on the streets in London: begging, stealing, eating at charity food trucks. Dillane’s performance shows Mike’s nervy, twitchy, livewire mannerisms have been cultivated over what feels like a lifetime of abandonment: he has a kind of suppressed pleading quality as he asks passersby for the spare change that fewer people carry in these post-Covid times. His open smile has a learned survivalist determination, but what he has is not exactly charm. He is slippery and unreliable, but also intelligent and heartbreakingly vulnerable.
- 234
Sunday 25 January 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
Nouvelle Vague is a 2025 comedy-drama film directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, it follows the shooting of Breathless, one of the first feature films of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema, in 1959.
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Screenplay: Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson
Cast: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Jodie Ruth-Forest
Genre: Comedy, drama
Language: French, English
Run time: 1h 46m
Rating: PG
Review
By Peter Bradshaw
Breathless, deathless … and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 1960 classic À Bout de Souffle, that starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as the star-crossed lovers in Paris. Linklater’s homage has credits in French and is beautifully shot in monochrome, as opposed to the boring old colour of real life in which the events were actually happening; he even cutely fabricates cue marks in the corner of the screen, those things that once told projectionists when to changeover the reels. But Linklater smoothly avoids any disruptive jump-cuts.
- 296
Sunday 11 January 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. Nora turns it down, but soon discovers he's given the part to an eager young Hollywood star.
Director: Joachim Trier
Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning
Screenplay: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Runtime: 132 minutes
Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, English
Rating: R
Review
By Bradley Gibson
As for the house, we often liken such integral environments to characters in a script, but in this case, the house is a mute witness to a family trying to thrive while battling demons of their own design. Despite their struggles, life is shown in languid movements and the comforting familiarity of cozy spaces. Beautiful cinematography and music frame the drama without interfering with it, making the viewer a voyeur of the world Trier creates.