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Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths and The Son
The Banshees Of Inisherin
(Country: Ireland, UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Morse)
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Bardo, Falsa Crónica De Unas Cuantas Verdades)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu; Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio)
An epic comedy about journalism.
Decision To Leave
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Seo-kyeong Jeong; Stars: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-Pyo, Lee Jung-Hyun, Park Yong-woo)
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
Empire Of Light
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Sam Mendes; Writer: Sam Mendes; Stars: Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Monica Dolan, Toby Jones, Sara Stewart, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke)
A peek into the lives of staff at a cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Rian Johnson; Writer: Rian Johnson; Stars: Jessica Henwick, Ethan Hawke, Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Madelyn Kline)
Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.
Closing night
Living and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
(Country: US, Mexico, France; Year: 2022; Director: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro; Stars: Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, Ron Perlman, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Burn Gorman, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, David Bradley)
Stop-motion musical version of the tale of the puppet who wanted to be a real boy.
Living
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film by Akira Kurosawa; Stars: Bill Nighy, Tom Burke, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Colin Blyth, Daniel Eghan, Richard Cunningham, Ffion Jolly, Dan Robins, Grant Crookes, Oliver Smiles, Michael James, Stuart Whelan, Jamie Wilkes, Edward Wolstenholme)
In 1952 London, veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post-WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Matthew Warchus; Writer: Roald Dahl, Dennis Kelly; Stars: Lashana Lynch, Emma Thompson, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham, Noah Leggott, Alisha Weir, Sindhu Vee, Charlie Gordon, Serrana Su-Ling Bliss, Carl Spencer, Summer Jenkins, Charlie Hodson-Prior, Leon Ung, Rei Yamauchi Fulker, Lila McNamara)
Opening night
Tale of the imaginative little girl with the worst parents in the world who takes on a villainous headmistress.
She Said
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Maria Schrader; Writer: Jodi Kantor, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Megan Twohey; Stars: Samantha Morton, Carey Mulligan, Tom Pelphrey, Jennifer Ehle, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Adam Shapiro, Maren Lord, Elle Graham, Dalya Knapp, Anastasia Barzee, Angela Yeoh, Sean Cullen, Keilly McQuail)
Drama about a New York Times investigation into sexual harassment in Hollywood.
The Son
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Florian Zeller; Writer: Christopher Hampton, based on the play by Florian Zeller; Stars: Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie)
Peter's busy life with new wife Beth and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate comes to him with concerns about their teenage son, Nicholas.
The Banshees Of Inisherin and Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
Till
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Chinonye Chukwu; Writer: Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly; Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Gem Marc Collins, Diallo Thompson, Tyrik Johnson, Enoch King, Haley Bennett, Carol J. Mckenith, Elizabeth Youman, Keisha Tillis, Sean Michael Weber)
The story of Mamie Till-Mobley, the Chicago woman whose son, Emmett Till, was lynched while visiting cousins in Mississippi and whose body became an indelible image of the horrors of American racism.
The Whale
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Samuel D Hunter; Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins)
A reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
White Noise
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, based on the book by Don DeLillo; Stars: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa)
An Eighties American family attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
The Wonder
(Country: US, UK, Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Writer: Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue, Sebastián Lelio; Stars: Florence Pugh, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Elaine Cassidy, Tom Burke, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Algar, Toby Jones)
The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
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