2025 - 2026 SEASON
The Horsham Film Society presents the following selection of films from around the world for the 2025-2026 season! All are shown in the original version (with English subtitles for foreign language films).
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From September to December 2025, films will be screened on a Monday evening at The Capitol, Horsham.
From January to April 2026, the last four films will be shown on a Thursday evening at Slinfold Village Hall.
All films begin at 8.00pm.
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Click to access the voting results for each film of the season.
8 Sept 2025
How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies Official trailer here
Original title: Lahn Mah
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Thailand, 2024 125 min, Cert PG, Comedy, Drama
​Director: Pat Boonnitipat
Starring: Putthipong Assaratanakul, Usha Seamkhum, Sanya Kunakorn
Language: Thai
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A heartwarming comedy-drama about a college dropout who hatches a scheme to inherit his terminally ill grandma’s fortune but ends up forging a genuine bond with her. The first Thai film to be shortlisted for an Oscar, it also broke box office records across Southeast Asia.
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22 Sep 2025
All We Imagine As Light Official trailer here
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India, 2024, 118 min, Cert 15, Drama, Romance
​Director: Payal Kapadia
Starring: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
Language: Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi
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A sweeping drama that explores female friendship and captures the frantic pace, vibrant colours and heady atmosphere of nocturnal Mumbai plus the sense of dislocation felt among the low-paid migrant community. The first Indian film for 30 years to compete at Cannes in the main competition, and the first to win the Grand Prix since 1946.
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2024 Winner Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival
2024 Nominee Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival
2025 Nominee Best Film Not in the English Language BAFTA Film Award
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13 Oct 2025
I'm Still Here Official trailer here
Original title: Ainda Estou Aqui
Brazil, 2024, 137 min, Cert 15, Drama, History
​Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello
Language: Portuguese
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When former Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife Eunice and their children are left reeling – for decades – in this chilling Oscar-nominated true-life saga. Many years later, when Eunice had lost her memory, it emerged that he had been murdered by the junta. No body has ever been found.
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2025 Winner Best International Feature film Oscar
2025 Nominee Best Performance in a Leading Role (Fernanda Torres) and Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar
27 Oct 2025
Vermiglio Official trailer here
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Italy, France, Belgium, 2024, 119 min, Cert 15, Period Drama, History
​Director: Maura Delpero
Starring: Tommaso Ragno, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi
Language: Italian and Ladin dialect of Italian
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1944, Vermiglio, a remote Alpine village in the waning days of WWII. The arrival of a Sicilian soldier who has deserted the army and seeks to marry the daughter of the schoolmaster, a pillar of the community, disrupts the family dynamics and exposes a web of secrets and lies.
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2024 Winner Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize Venice Film Festival
2025 Nominee Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language, Golden Globe​
10 Nov 2025
Evil Does Not Exist Official trailer here
Original title: Aku wa sonzai shinai
Japan, 2023, 106 min, Cert 12A, Drama
​Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Starring: Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka
Language: Japanese
The film, with a cast of non-professional actors, is set in rural Japan where everyone lives in peace with nature. But that is threatened when a Tokyo-based company decides to set up a glamping site with no regard for the impact on the land, the water supply and the way of life.
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2023 Winner Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize Venice Film Festival
2023 Winner Best Film BFI London Film Festival
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8 Dec 2025
When Autumn Falls Official trailer here
Original title: Quand vient l'automne​
France, 2024, 114min, Drama
​Director: François Ozon
Starring: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Pierre Lottin
Language: French
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A mystery drama about a suspected mushroom poisoning in a quiet Burgundy village where two old friends are enjoying retirement. The implied horror mixes with charm and gentleness as we witness the loneliness of a woman, her secrets and regrets in the autumn of life.
2025 Nominee Best Actress (Hélène Vincent) César
8 Jan 2026
El Sur Official trailer here
Our Classic presentation
Spain, 1983, 95 min, Cert U, Drama, Mystery, Romance
​Director: Victor Erice
Starring: Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín
Language: Spanish
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Though best known for his haunting debut, Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Victor Erice’s rarely seen and incomplete follow up, El Sur, in which he uses childhood memories to explore the mental scars of the Spanish Civil War, is also hailed as one of the greatest Spanish films of all time.
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1983 Nominee Palme D'Or Cannes Film Festival
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12 Feb 2026
My Favourite Cake Official trailer here
Original title: Keyke mahboobe man
Iran, 2024, 97 min, Cert PG, Drama, Comedy
​Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Starring: Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoore Ilkhani
Language: Persian
A bittersweet romance from Iran, where such simple pleasures as walking in the park with a man are denied to respectable elderly widows like Mahin. Now 70, she sets out to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening, but they pay the price for stepping out of line when the morality police get involved.
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2024 Nominee Golden Bear Berli
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12 Mar 2026
Agent Of Happiness Official trailer here
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Bhutan, Hungary, 2024, 93 min, Cert 12A, Documentary
​Director: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
Starring: Sarita Chettri, Dophu Dem, Amber Kumar Gurung
Language: Dzongkha, Nepali
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In Bhutan, national progress is measured not just by GNP but also by GNH (Gross National Happiness). This quiet documentary follows two “happiness agents” as they visit remote Himalayan communities to gauge their satisfaction with life and help shape government policies.
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2024 Nominee Grand Jury Prize World Cinema – Documentary Sundance Film Festival
9 Apr 2026
Driving Mum Official trailer here
Original title: Á ferð með mömmu
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Iceland, 2022, 113 min, Cert 12A, Drama, Comedy
​Director: Hilmar Oddsson
Starring: Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hera Hilmar
Language: Icelandic
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Middle-aged Jón spends his days on an isolated farm in Iceland knitting and listening to the radio with his domineering mother. But his world is upended when she dies suddenly, leaving him to fulfil her last wishes. With Mum firmly strapped into his car and their dog Brezhnev in tow, he embarks on a strange odyssey to bury her in her birthplace.
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2024 Winner Best Film, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay of the year Edda Award, Iceland