Canterbury Cathedral Film Club

*MONTHLY* on a Sunday (until September), in the Cathedral Lodge AV Room

Please join us for our monthly film screenings. Films start at 14:00.

Visitors to the Cathedral, as well as Cathedral Lodge guests, are all welcome.

There is no charge for film club, but any donations are gratefully received.

For more information please contact Canon Andrew.

Screenings:

Sunday 12 May
Aftersun (2022) - 1hr 42mins | Rating: 12

Sunday 9 June
Poor Things (2023) - 2hr 21mins | Rating: 18

Sunday 14 July
Saint Omer (2022) - 2hr 2mins | Rating: 12

Sunday 11 August
Godland (2023) - 2hr 23mins | Rating: 12

Sunday 8 September
Neptune Frost (2021) - 1hr 45mins | Rating: 15

See film overviews below

Director and Writer: Charlotte Wells

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...

Run time: 1hr 42mins

Rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over) - infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, upsetting scenes

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Tony McNamara & Alasdair Gray

An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Run time: 2hr 21mins

Rating: 18 (Suitable only for adults) - strong sex, nudity, very strong language

Director: Alice Diop
Writers: Alice Diop, Amrita David & Marie N'Diaye

This French language file by director Alic Diop follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.

Run time: - 2hr 2mins

Rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over) - upsetting scenes, sexual violence references, infrequent strong language

Director and Writer: Hlynur Pálmason

Goldland is a Danish and Icelandic language drama, set at the end of the 19th century, about a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.

Run time: 2hr 23mins

Rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over) - moderate violence, sex references

Directors: Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams
Writer: Saul Williams

Neptune Frost is a sci-fi musical drama film in which a Rwandan coltan miner escapes to a futuristic village populated by hackers.

Run time: - 1hr 45mins

Rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over) - Strong language