Keswick Film Festival

Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has offered victims and perpetrators of crime the opportunity to come together in a secure environment, supervised by professionals and volunteers. On their journey, there is anger and hope, silence and words, awareness and regained confidence – all captured in this César award-winning drama.

Thanks to French Film Festival

"Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" was voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound in 2022. Jeanne Dielman is a lonely young widow, living with her son Sylvain following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

"Jeanne Dielman is inescapably a woman’s film, consciously feminist in its turn to the avant garde. On the side of content, the film charts the breakdown of a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time prostitute over the course of three days; on the side of form, it rigorously records her domestic routine in extended time and from a fixed camera position. In a film that, agonisingly, depicts women’s oppression, Akerman transforms cinema, itself so often an instrument of women’s oppression, into a liberating force." Laura Mulvey, BFI

Additional Screening: Saturday 8th March 2pm - Alhambra Screen 2

Thanks to Sovereign

Set in the West Bank, Basem, a Palestinian schoolteacher, struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker, Lisa (Imogen Poots) and his emotional support for one of his students. The British-Palestinian director Nabulsi has stated that she "needed to make this film to cope with the injustice I've witnessed"

Thanks to Martin Myers

Young 17-year-old Maja is married against her will to fisherman Janne. Her life on the island of Stormskerry (Stormskär) is full of challenges and adversities: as a fisherman's wife, she has to cope with her husband's long absences at sea and take care of her family alone. However, Maja has grown into a strong-willed and independent woman, who is not afraid to tackle the barren archipelago. Maja and Janne have a strong love that has deepened over time as they face many challenges and upheavals.

Thanks to Picture Tree International GmbH

Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.

Thanks to Day for Night

Just arrived in Mumbai, living in a tiny shack with paper-thin walls, acerbic Uma (a terrific Radhika Apte) and soft-spoken Gopal (Ashok Pathak) are trapped in a very new, very awkward arranged marriage. At first, Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her lack of domestic skills, her bumbling spouse and their nosy neighbours, but the nocturnal world of the city changes her. Transformed into a disturbing and ruthless figure, Uma succumbs to her most feral impulses.

Thanks to Altitude