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Thu 4 Oct Doors open at 10am and films start at 10.45am.
Wed 17 Oct Doors open at 10am and films start at 10.30am.
At time of going to press the following films have audio description: Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Leave No Trace, Mary Shelley, BlacKKKlansman, The Little Stranger, The Wife, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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The Children Act
Leaning Into The Wind: Andy Goldsworthy
We are delighted that artist Andy Goldsworthy will join us for a short Q&A after the screenings on 2 Oct and 16 Nov. The screening on 2 Oct is in association with the local branch of the Art Fund. Public Bookings for 2 Oct will be available on 20 September. Local connection: Andy Goldsworthy has made his home in the region.
Climate Conversation Pop in during your lunch break to join our facilitated discussion about climate change during Climate Week Scotland. The purpose of this conversation is to ‘take the temperature’ of public views on climate change and on potential actions to tackle it, and to report findings to the Scottish Government. All welcome – please note you do not need any specialist knowledge, just a desire to have a constructive conversation. Welcome to bring your own packed lunch. Free teas and coffees served from 12noon. Free but ticketed. Please register your interest in advance.
Bikes vs Cars
Climate Week Scotland event. Followed by Climate Conversation.
BlacKKKlansman
Madame
The Guardians / Les gardiennes
Fri 12 & Tue 16 - Wed 17 & Tue 30 Oct
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Sing-Along
This time Sophie finds out more about her mother's past while seeking guidance on how to handle her pregnancy.
The Greatest Showman Sing-Along
Dementia Friendly Screening:
Sicilian Ghost Story
Goodnight Brooklyn - The Story of Death By Audio
In association with Dumfries Music Conference. Tickets £4.
C’est la vie! / Le sens de la fête
Cold War / Zimna wojna
The Big Bad Fox and other Tales / Le grand méchant renard et autres contes...
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Scratch ‘n’ sniff screening
Audiences will be given a special scratch card containing ten weird and wonderful odours that link to key scenes within the film. When prompted, viewers are invited to scratch and sniff!
Hotel Transylvania 3
Come along and dress up as your favourite movie character for the screening on Fri 26th October.
Relaxed Performance:
The Little Stranger
EVENT CINEMA: Die Walküre– ROH Live
Broadcast live from the Royal Opera House in London.
The Rider
Wed 31 Oct + Sat 3 Nov + Mon 17 Dec
Anna and the Apocalypse
Local connection: The film’s producer, Naysun Alae-Carew, grew up in Dumfries; the film is based on Ryan McHenry’s short film, ‘Zombie Musical’, which was filmed in the town in 2010. |
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As her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) flounders, eminent High Court judge Fiona (Emma Thompson) has a life-changing decision to make at work - should she force a teenage boy, Adam, to have the blood transfusion that will save his life? Her unorthodox visit to his hospital bedside has a profound impact on them both, stirring strong new emotions in the boy and long-buried feelings in her.
Come join other Movie Enthusiasts at our 
Coffee Club - 10.45am on Thu 4 October
An award-winning, globally celebrated artist, Andy Goldsworthy OBE is known for creating unique work that combines materials from everyday surroundings. Some of his pieces are monumental works of land art, others exist only briefly before being altered or erased by natural processes. The film follows Goldsworthy from his home in Dumfriesshire to France, Brazil and the USA as he creates stunning works of art from the world around him.
Activists fight for better cities, and refuse to stop riding bicycles despite the increasing number of riders killed in traffic. But will dominant economic interests allow bikes to change our way of life? From bike activists in Sao Paulo and Los Angeles fighting for safe bike lanes, to Copenhagen, where forty percent commute by bike daily, this film examines the struggle for cyclists in a society dominated by cars, and the revolutionary changes that could take place if more cities moved away from car-centric models.
Drama based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, who successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan - with the help of his Jewish police officer colleague (Adam Driver) - and become the head of the local chapter.
Rossy de Palma sparkles in this modern day Cinderella story, set in a fairytale Paris. Wealthy American ex-pats Anne (Toni Collette) and Bob (Harvey Keitel) are planning a sumptuous dinner. When the guest list becomes an unlucky 13, Anne insists that loyal maid Maria (de Palma) joins the table. Her instructions not to talk, laugh, eat or drink are impossible to obey, and soon she has charmed a British aristocrat.
France, 1915. The women of Paridier farm must grapple with the workload while the men are fighting at the front. The family matriarch reluctantly brings an outsider, a teenage orphan, to help her daughter. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred especially when the men return from the front on leave.
We return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA.
Back by popular demand!
Bring a baby - 10.30am on Wed 17 October
Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
From 2005 to 2014 Death By Audio served as an incubator for underground music, art and a non-traditional living environment. This documentary chronicles the origins and demise of one of Brooklyn's best DIY venues.
Max has run a catering company for 30 years. Today is Pierre and Helena’s big day. They are getting married in a sublime 17th-century château. As usual, Max recruited his team of waiting staff, cooks, and dishwashers. He advised the couple on a photographer, reserved the band: everything to make the party a success. But despite his meticulous planning, the wedding threatens to erupt into an utter nightmare. The dynamic duo behind the 2011 smash hit ‘Untouchables’ – Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache – reunite for this deliciously deadpan comic soufflé.
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. Pawlikowski (who also made ‘Ida’) won the Best Director Award for ‘Cold War’ at Cannes in 2018.
A charming and wonderfully silly animated film for young ones. Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it's a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas.
Wallace & Gromit’s glorious adventure about a plague threatening a village vegetable contest is enhanced with scratch ‘n’ sniff cards. In this Aardman classic, Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.
A pre-Halloween screening of the smashhit ‘Hotel Transylvania 3’. Drac takes a family vacation onboard a luxury monster cruise, and ends up falling in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka. But there’s more to this mysterious woman than meets the eye…
Summer, 1948, Dr Faraday, a country doctor, is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries but it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.
Antonio Pappano conducts an international cast in the second opera of Richard Wagner’s epic “Der Ring des Nibelungen”. Starring Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Emily Magee (Sieglinde), John Lundgren (Wotan), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) and Sarah Connolly (Fricka).
A once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a near fatal head injury. Back home, the rider finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, he undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Join us for a very special Halloween sneak preview of ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ (released on 30 Nov). At Christmas, a zombie apocalypse threatens the fictional Scottish town of Little Haven forcing teenage Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones.