2026 - 2027 SEASON
The Horsham Film Society presents the following selection of films from around the world for the 2026-2027 season! All are shown in the original version (with English subtitles for foreign language films).
From September to December 2026, films will be screened at Drill Hall, Denne Road, Horsham, RH12 1JF.
From January to June 2027, films will be screened at The Capitol, Horsham.
All films begin at 8.00pm.
Click to access the voting results for each film of the season.
14 Sept 2026
The President's Cake Official trailer here
Original title: Mamlaket Al-Qasab
Iraq, Qatar, USA, 2025 105 min, Cert 12A, Drama
Director: Hasan Hadi
Starring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Language: Arabic
Set in rural Iraq during the Gulf War, the film follows a 9-year-old girl tasked with baking a birthday cake in Saddam Hussein’s honour. In a landscape of fear, crippling sanctions and the shortage of every basic ingredient, the quest turns into a bittersweet and gripping odyssey.
2025 Winner Directors' Fortnight Audience Award and Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival
12 Oct 2026
Kneecap Official trailer here
Ireland, UK, 2024, 105 min, Cert 18, Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Rich Peppiatt
Starring: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí
Language: English, Irish Gaelic
Of the 80,00 native Irish speakers, roughly 6,000 live in the North. In 2017, three of them formed the rap group Kneecap. A real-life story of how this raucous, anarchic Belfast hip-hop trio became the unlikely figureheads of a movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue and have it instated as an official language of Northern Ireland.
2025 Winner Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer, BAFTA
9 Nov 2026
Sirat Official trailer here
Spain, France Morocco, 2025, 114 min, Cert 15, Psychological drama, Thriller
Director: Óliver Laxe
Starring: Sergi López, Bruno Nuñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda
Language: Spanish, French, Arabic
The film follows a father who sets out with his son to search for his estranged teenage daughter after she disappears at a techno rave in the Moroccan desert. What begins as a party becomes a ritual and a modern myth about faith and loss. The title draws from a metaphorical bridge in Islam which one must cross in order to reach transcendence.
2025 Winner Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival
14 Dec 2026
The 400 Blows Official trailer here
Original title: Les Quatre Cents Coups
Our Classic presentation
France, 1959, 89 min, Cert A, B&W, Drama, Crime
Director: François Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier
Language: French
A landmark in modern cinema that launched the French New Wave. For Antoine, a young Parisian boy, life is beset with difficulty. Feeling misunderstood at school and at home, he plays truant with his best friend. Together they seek a better life but their best-laid plans go awry.
1959 Winner Palme d'Or and Best Director, Cannes Film Festival
11 Jan 2027
Colours of Time Official trailer here
Original title: La Venue de L'Avenir
France, Belgium, 2025, 124 min, Cert 15, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Starring: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne
Language: French
Late 19th-century Paris comes alive in this time-travelling period comedy. Four cousins, previously strangers, inherit an old house in rural Normandy. Together they retrace the steps of their ancestor, who moved to the capital in 1895 amid the heady atmosphere of the Belle Epoque.
8 Fev 2027
My Father's Shadow Official trailer here
Nigeria, UK, 2025, 94 min, Drama
Director: Akinola Davies Jr.
Starring: Sope Dirisu, Godwin Chiemerie Egbo, Chibuike Marvellous
Language: English, Pidgin English, Yoruba
Over a single day in 1993, the film follows two young boys who accompany their oft-absent father to the Nigerian capital Lagos. This is the same day that the country is holding a pivotal national election that promises a shift from ten years of military rule to democracy.
2026 Winner Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer, BAFTA
8 Mar 2027
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Trailer here
Belgium, France, Netherlands, 2024, 150 min, Documentary, Music
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Starring: Patrice Lubumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, Louis Armstrong, Nikita Khrushchev (archive footage)
Language: Dutch, English, Russian, French, Arabic
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the US State Department sends jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup.
2024 Winner World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival
12 Apr 2027
Two Prosecutors Official trailer here
Original title: Zwei Staatsanwälte
Russia, 2025, 118 min, Cert 12A, Legal Drama, Crime, History
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Starring: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Belyy
Language: Russian, Ukrainian
Soviet Union, 1937. Stalinism is at its peak. A young prosecutor attempts to seek justice for a prisoner trying to expose corruption within the regime’s secret police, only to embark on a Kafkaesque odyssey that increases the threat to his liberty with every step he takes. A darkly humorous but devastating account of life under totalitarianism.
2025 Winner François Chalais Prize, Cannes Film Festival
10 May 2027
The Secret Agent Official trailer here
Original title: O Agente Secreto
Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands, 2025, 161 min, Cert 15, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Starring: Robson Andrade, Wagner Moura, Rubens Santos
Language: Portuguese, German, English
Brazil, 1977. An academic is on the run from mercenaries after being targeted by a dictator amid a ruthless, political tumult. With help from the underground resistance, he tries to flee the country with his young son, but soon discovers that Recife during Carnival is not a safe haven.
2025 Winner Best Actor, Best Director, Cannes Film Festival
2026 Winner Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language, Golden Globe
21 June 2027
It Was Just an Accident Official trailer here
Original title: Yek Tasadof-e Sadeh
Iran, 2025, 103 min, Cert 12A, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
Language: Persian, Azerbaijani
Shot entirely in secret to avoid government censors, Panahi’s film follows a car mechanic on the outskirts of Tehran who believes a stranded motorist is the brutal guard who tortured him in prison. What begins as a minor accident sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events that expose the corruption and tyranny at the heart of Iran.
2025 Winner Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival