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Our current screening schedule is below. You can book directly from here or select film title for full details, reviews and trailer. Our policy on refunds/exchanges and late arrivals can be viewed via links at the bottom of this page.
Hearing loop facilities (T-Position) are available for some screenings.
AMAZING GRACE – Thursday 20 June 2019
Book Now for 2.30pm low availability
Book Now for 7.00pm sold out
Extra evening screening on Wednesday 03 July 2019
T-Position facilities 2.30pm only. Documentary concerning singer Aretha Franklin’s performances at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. Full details. Presented in association with the Rhythm & Views Film Festival.
TEDDY PENDERGRASS – Saturday 22 June 2019
Book Now for 7.00pm (Via R&V)
Love films, enjoy music? Then, rock & come in! This event is hosted by R&V Film Festival and The David Lean Cinema is not handling sales.
The inspiring story of Teddy Pendergrass, who was poised to be the greatest soul singer of all time. Full details. Presented by the Rhythm & Views Film Festival. Followed by a Q&A session with the director (Olivia Lichtenstein).
A Kenyan drama in which two young women face the hostility of their community when they fall in love with each other. Full details. In association with Croydon Pride and The Batty Mama. Swahili with English subtitles. Preceded by a spoken word performance by former Barbican Young Poet, Remi Graves.
A taut moral thriller of our times – a woman, alone at sea, encounters a vessel full of refugees. Full details. The 7.30pm screening will include a short Q&A session with the BRIT filmmaker of the included short.
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation. Full details.
Documentary concerning singer Aretha Franklin’s performances at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. Full details. Extra screening presented with thanks to the Rhythm & Views Film Festival.
ROCKETMAN – Thursday 04 July 2019
Book Now for 2.30pm (subtitled)
Book Now for 7.30pm low availability
T-Position facilities 2.30pm only. A musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Elton John’s (Taron Egerton) breakthrough years. Full details. The 2.30pm screening is subtitled for people with hearing loss.
Documentary concerning singer Aretha Franklin’s performances at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. Full details. BabeInArms Screening.
From the team behind the genre-defying ‘Embrace of the Serpent’, comes an equally audacious saga centred on the Wayúu indigenous people during a crucial period in recent Colombian history. Full details. Wayúu, Spanish and English with partial subtitles.
An ageing 80 year old drag queen forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity & mortality. Full details. In association with Croydon Pride and The Batty Mama. Swahili with English subtitles. Preceded by a Spoken Word performance.
T-Position facilities 2.30pm only. Alan (Bill Nighy) is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. Full details.
From the acclaimed award-winning director of ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’, comes ‘Diego Maradona’. Full details.
T-Position facilities 2.30pm only. Julianne Moore is perfect as the title character in a coming-of-age story focused not on youth, but on middle age. Full details.
A selection of the newly dead arrive in the afterlife to be told that they must choose one special memory to last them for all eternity. Full details. Japanese with English subtitles.
LATE NIGHT – Thursday 25 July 2019
Book Now for 2.30pm (subtitled)
Book Now for 7.30pm
7.30pm only
In this crowd-pleaser of a film, we see a late-night talk show host (Emma Thompson) fear that she may soon be losing her long-running show as she loses her grip on cultural relevance. Full details. The 2.30pm screening is subtitled for people with hearing loss.
Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, this film follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences. Full details. Followed by Q&A with Art Director TBA.
T-Position facilities 2.30pm only. Halla, a woman in her forties, declares war on the local aluminium industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. Full details. Icelandic with English subtitles.
At a time of intense public activism both at home and across the globe, this film explores the varied and fascinating history of public protest in the UK. Full details.
Written by Dame Eileen Atkins, this is the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf. Full details. The 2.30pm screening is subtitled for people with hearing loss.
T-Position facilities 2.30pm only. After a freak global event, a struggling musician realizes he is the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles. Full details. The 2.30pm screening is subtitled for people with hearing loss.
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