Core season - 11 March - Rocks | UK | 2019 | Dir. Sarah Gavron | 12A | 93 min | IDMb 7.4 | 7.30PM

We are thrilled to announce that Tony Kirkland (who plays the teacher) will introduce the film for us at the Odeon.

Shola or Rocks, as she's known, lives in a London council flat with her younger brother Emmanuel and their single mother. Mum is busy and stressed, leaving Rocks to spend all her free time with school friends. One day, she comes home to find her life radically altered: she is suddenly on her own with a child to take care of. Gavron could easily have steered Rocks into miserabilism but delivers instead a surprising portrait of resilience. Rocks is mercurial, impulsive, and deeply sensitive - not unusual for her age, she sometimes makes desperately poor decisions, for what look to her like good reasons. When her closest friend Sumaya tries to help, Rocks doesn't know how to accept it, blinded by Sumaya's two-parent household and relative comfort. BAFTA winning British Film.

Core Season - 25 March - The Quiet Girl | Ireland | 2022 | Dir. Colm Bairead | 12A | 95 min | IDMb 7.7 | Subtitled | 7.30PM

Rural Ireland 1981. This film tells the story of a quiet, neglected young girl, Cáit, who is sent away for the summer from her dysfunctional family to live with "her mother's people". These are Seán and Eibhlín Cinnsealach; a middle-aged couple she has never met. Slowly, in the care of this couple, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living, but in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Trivia - The first-ever film in the Irish language to be shortlisted for an Oscar (Best International Film).

We are pleased to present a double bill and include the first Oscar and BAFTA winning Irish short in 20 years.

An Irish Goodbye | Ireland | 2022 | Dir. Tom Berkeley & Ross White | 23 min | IDMb 7.2 |

On a farm in rural Northern Ireland, estranged brothers Turlough (Seamus O'Hara) and Lorcan (James Martin) are forced to reunite following the untimely death of their mother (Michelle Fairley). But when the pair discover an unfulfilled bucket list belonging to their late mum, their pained reunion takes an altogether different course.

Art Season film – 6 March - choose from a 2PM or 7PM screening - Exhibition on Screen: SUNFLOWERS

SUNFLOWERS FILM UNVEILS THE MYSTERY OF VAN GOGH’S GREATEST MASTERWORKS

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers are some of the most iconic paintings in the world. What many mistake for one masterpiece, are actually five paintings of sunflowers in vases scattered across galleries in Amsterdam, London, Munich, Philadelphia and Tokyo.

This extraordinary feature-length documentary film brings the spectacular series together on screen as never seen before. Working closely with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Sunflowers goes beyond a ‘virtual exhibition’, delving into the rich and complex stories behind each of the paintings to unveil the mysteries of the sunflowers. What did the flowers mean to Van Gogh, and why do they resonate so much with audiences today?

With a striking portrayal of the artist by actor Jamie de Courcey and fascinating insights from art historians, botanists and everything in between, the film offers a unique insight into Van Gogh’s life and artwork.

Classic Cinema - 20 March - To Have and Have Not | Director: Howard Hawkes | USA | 1944 | PG | IMDb 7.8 | 100 Minutes - B&W

To Have and Have Not has all the components required to make a great film. Two Nobel Prize winners combine for story and screenplay: Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Director, Howard Hughes, considered one of the greatest American Directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has a peerless cast to work with!

The action takes place during World War II in Martinique under the control of Vichy France. The story centres on an electric romance between Captain Harry ‘Steve’ Morgan, a freelance fisherman played by Humphrey Bogart and the young American drifter, Marie ‘Slim’ Browning, played by Lauren Bacall, against a backdrop of increasing French resistance to the Island’s collaborating rulers.

Bacall was a Howard Hawkes discovery and was making her sparklingly screen debut as the fast-talking ‘Slim’ who can hold her own with any man. She made a huge impact on the world of cinema as a whole and on her leading man in particular! You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together… and blow.