2024 - 2025 SEASON
The Horsham Film Society presents the following selection of films from around the world for the 2024-2025 season! All are shown in the original version (with English subtitles for foreign language films).
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All films are shown on a Monday evening at The Capitol, Horsham, and begin at 8.00pm.
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Click to access the voting results for each film of the season.
9 Sept 2024
The Taste Of things Official trailer here
Original title: La Passion de Dodin Bouffant
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France, 2023, 135 min, Cert 12A, Drama, History, Romance
​Director: Anh Hung Tran
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger
Language: French
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Eugenie is an esteemed cook who has worked for Dodin, a gourmet, for 20 years. Their mutual bond grows into a romance that gives rise to mouthwatering dishes that would impress the world’s top chefs. When Eugenie is reluctant to commit to him, Dodin, he starts cooking for her.
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23 Sep 2024
La Chimera Official trailer here
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Italy, 2023, 133 min, Cert PG, Drama, Comedy
​Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato
Language: Italian, English
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Everyone has their own chimera, or impossible dream. Arthur is a lovelorn Englishman recently let out of prison and adrift in Italy. He joins a group of gravediggers seeking Etruscan artefacts, hoping riches will change his life. But when he is drawn to the former maid of his dead girlfriend’s mother, past and present become intertwined.
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14 Oct 2024
Fallen Leaves Official trailer here
Original title: Kuolleet Lehdet
Finland, 2023, 81 min, Cert 12A, Drama, Comedy
​Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Starring: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen
Language: Finnish
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In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar and try to form a relationship. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism and a charming stray dog. A winsome, deadpan reflection on our increasingly impersonal and industrial age.
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28 Oct 2024
Anatomy Of A Fall Official trailer here
Original title: Anatomie d'une Chute​
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France, 2023, 151 min, Cert 15, Crime, Drama, Thriller
​Director: Justine Triet
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner
Language: French, English, German
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When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet in the French Alps, Sandra becomes the main suspect. But what starts as a murder investigation soon becomes a gripping journey into the depths of a destructive marriage.
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11 Nov 2024
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry Trailer here
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Georgia, Switzerland, 2023, 110 min, Cert 15, Drama
​Director: Elene Naveriani
Starring: Eka Chavleishvili, Temiko Chichinadze, Lia Abuladze
Language: Georgian
Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, never wanted a husband. Unexpectedly she finds herself falling passionately in love with a man and is suddenly faced with the decision to pursue a relationship or continue to live happily and independently on her own.
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9 Dec 2024
Perfect Days Official trailer here
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Japan, Germany, 2023, 123min, Cert PG, Drama
​Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakanoim
Language: Japanese, English
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Hirayama lives a life of blissful contentment, spending his days balancing his job as a caretaker of Tokyo’s public toilets with his passion for music, literature and photography. But his structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that gradually reveal a hidden past and force him to reconnect with it.
13 Jan 2025
Forbidden Games Official trailer here
Original title: Jeux Interdits
Our Classic presentation
France, 1952, 86 min, B&W, Drama, War
​Director: René Clément
Starring: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
Language: French
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Paulette, a young Parisian girl orphaned in a German air attack runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with the realities of death. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
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27 Jan 2025
Io Capitano Official trailer here
Italy, Belgium, France, 2023, 121 min, Cert 15, Drama
​Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo
Language: Wolof, French, Arabic, English
Two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa, leave Dakar to travel to Europe in pursuit of freedom and a better life. On a harrowing journey neither could have imagined, they face the dangers of the desert and the perils of the sea in an epic coming-of-age tale that offers a brutal but deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis.
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10 Feb 2025
Four Daughters Official trailer here
Original title: Les Filles d’Olfa
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Tunisia, France, 2023, 107 min, Cert 15, Documentary
​Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Starring: Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui
Language: Arabic, French, English
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The facts and fictions of a Tunisian family’s history blur in this unique hybrid documentary. Director Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama employs a mix of professional actors and real members of a Tunisian family to re-enact the painful events that preceded the two elder daughters leaving to join ISIS and tore the family apart.
10 Mar 2025
The Teachers' Lounge Official trailer here
Original title: Das Lehrerzimmer
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Germany, 2023, 98 min, Cert 12A, Drama
​Director: Ilker Çatak
Starring: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
Language: German, Turkish, Polish, English
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Carla Nowak is a dedicated sports and maths teacher, starting her first job at a secondary school. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she tries to mediate between angry parents, pupils and staff, but soon her idealism unravels.