Harrogate Film Society Presents the following two films as part of its core season - screened as always at Harrogate Odeon, screen 2 upstairs. Book via the website or turn up on film night and pay in the lobby.

Never Look Away | Germany | 2018 | Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 15 | 189 min | IDMb 7.7 | Subtitled

Young artist Kurt Barnert has fled to West Germany but continues to be tormented by the experiences of his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets student Ellie, he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and starts to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation - Oscar nominated. When two German art students fall in love, the girl's father vows to end their relationship, but their lives are already intertwined by a devastating secret. An epic intergenerational tale of art, love, tragedy, and politics. Provocative storytelling from the writer/director of the "The Lives of Others". Superb cinematography along with a lustrous, hypnotic score underpins a stunning masterpiece, one of the best films you may see this year.

You will die at Twenty | Sudan | 2019 | Dir. Amjad Abu Alala | 12 | 103 min | IDMb 7.1 | Subtitled

When searching for a blessing on the day of her firstborn child's naming ceremony, Sakina is instead given a curse. A travelling sheikh prophecies that her son, Muzamil would die at the age of 20. In what is now a coming-of-death tale, a devastated Sakina is sentenced to mourn her son while he lives - an endeavor her husband could not stand to bear. Growing up under the constant loom of death, Muzamil becomes increasingly curious about what it means to live beyond his mother's confines. Encouraged by local elders, the overprotective Sakina relents and allows her son to study the Quran with the other children his age. And in this newly found freedom, Muzamil finds friends, enemies, love, and tempters, though what he truly seeks is a sense of the present and a chance at the future.