In addition to these features, there will be a selection of shorts by Julia Parks
Safety Last! and Hero
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Will Sharpe; Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch)
Biopic of the famous painter of wide-eyed cats.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert; Writer: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert; Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis)
A science fiction action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman who can't seem to finish her taxes.
Hero (Ying Xiong)
(Country: China/Hong Kong; Year: 2002; Director: Zhang Yimou; Writer: Li Feng, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin; Stars: Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Daoming, Donnie Yen, Man-Yuk, Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tian Yong, Quin Yan)
Visually ravishing fable of maverick warriors in ancient China.
The Lego Movie
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2014; Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller; Writer: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller; Stars: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Will Forte)
A Lego man joins a quest to save the universe.
Let The Canary Sing
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alison Ellwood; Stars: Cyndi Lauper)
A documentary portrait of musician and activist Cyndi Lauper.
Everything Everywhere All At Once and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Parasite
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2019; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Jin-won Han; Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Lee Jeong-eun, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myeong-hoon, Ji-so Jung, Hyun-jun Jung, Keun-rok Park, Yi-Seo Jung, Jae-myeong Jo, Ik-han Jung, Kyu-baek Kim)
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
(Country: US, Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado; Writer: Tommy Swerdlow, Tom Wheeler, Paul Fisher; Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney)
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. He sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore them.
Safety Last!
(Year: 1923; Director: Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor; Writer: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan; Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred David, Bill Strother)
A boy from Big Bend moves to the city to try to make his fortune and ends up resorting to desperate measures to convince his sweetheart that he's a success.
Scrapper
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Charlotte Regan; Writer: Charlotte Regan; Stars: Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Ambreen Razia, Olivia Brady, Aylin Tezel)
Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Out of nowhere, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
