Welcome to Keswick Film Club

While we take our summer break, the Alhambra will be aiming to screen an indie film each week. These films will be in the usual Film Club Sunday 5pm slot, but also a Friday matinee, and late evening slot on a Wednesday, to maximise opportunities for you to see this fabulous selection.

Each feature will screen Friday 2pm, Sunday 5pm, Wednesday 8pm (or thereabouts)

• Lola - from 5th May
• Kindling - from 12th May
• Close - from 19th May
• One Fine Morning - from 26th May
• Junk Head - from 2nd June
• Love According To Dalva - from 9th June
• Plan 75 - from 16th June

A family is making a tense, hot, uncomfortable road trip in a borrowed car through remote north-western Iran, heading apparently for the Turkey/Azerbaijan border. The elder son is at the wheel, a quiet young guy who says little but often seems in the grip of an intense, suppressed emotion. Pantea Panahiha is excellent as his mum, sitting in the front passenger seat, bantering drily with her husband in the back: a shambling, grumpy bear of a man with a broken leg in a plaster cast and a consistent need to smoke. Next to him is a wacky 8-year-old boy who gives a glorious performance...

 Great child acting is rare: so is great adult acting, and so is great directing of children and adults. But they all come together in this lovely, beautifully composed debut feature drenched in a subtle but urgent political meaning" – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.

You are very poor and desperate for more money. Your father is very ill – dying - and there is nothing you can do to help his suffering. A gangster on the run comes along and offers you money to hide in your isolated house for some time, but the deal is that he replaces your father... what would you do? This might have made a great story just like that, but director/writer Carolina Markowicz has gone one further by adding humour.

"Charcoal stands as an artistic character study, honed in on the imperfections that make people fascinating." - Josiah Teal, Film Threat

 “A sharp, specific thriller that also has a nice undercurrent of dark humor.” - Brian Tallerico, Rogerebert.com

A young woman attends the trial of another woman as research for her own project, but gradually comes unstuck as her own emotional chords are struck. "Documentarian Alice Diop's narrative debut 'Saint Omer' is a visually arresting courtroom set drama that explores the similarities (and distinct differences) between two young women of Senegalese descent living in France." -Marya E Gates, RogerEbert.com.

"The standard for ‘Best of 2023’ lists has already been set." - David Jenkins, Little White Lies