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ETERNAL BEAUTY

ETERNAL BEAUTY
2019 | Dir Craig Roberts | 95mins | UK

When Jane (Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water, Blue Jasmine) is dumped at the altar, she has a breakdown and spirals into a chaotic world where love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide with both touching and humorous consequences.
From writer/director Craig Roberts (Just Jim), ETERNAL BEAUTY is a BAFTA Cymru/BIFA-nominated comic and moving drama with a stylish, unconventional edge, featuring an incredible performance from Sally Hawkins and a supporting cast including David Thewlis (Naked), Billie Piper (Doctor Who), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Alice Lowe (Sightseers) and Morfydd Clark (The Personal History Of David Copperfield).

“A clear-eyed compassionate view of schizophrenia…Hawkins is superb”. Ian Freer, Empire.

Watch at home now for £4.00. DLC receives a share of the ticket price. Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: Bulldog Distribution – Vimeo account required

BEYOND THE HORIZON

BEYOND THE HORIZON
2019 | Dir Delphine Lehericey | 90min| Switzerland | Belgium

The drought of 1976. Under the unforgiving sun, Gus (Luc Bruchez) is about to leave childhood behind. Nature withers, emotions swell, the family unit splinters; everything splits and cracks until the unthinkable occurs: the eagerly anticipated thunderstorms will sweep across the tired and worn countryside, washing a whole world away. A brilliant and merciless evocation of the once-in-a-century 1976 heatwave and its consequences for one French farming family. French with English subtitles.

“The atmospheric picture is a rural coming-of-ager that manages to reinvigorate a decidedly overstocked cinematic subgenre.” – Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter

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Watch at home now for £7.49 (with discount code above). DLC receives a share of the ticket price. Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Film run ends on 06 December 2020.

IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS

IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS
2020 | Dir Maya Newell | 84min | Australia

Ten-year-old Dujuan (played by himself) is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages. As he shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him we see his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic. We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures, shares his truths and somewhere in-between finds space to dream, imagine and hope for his future self.

“White people educate our kids in the way they want them to be
educated. But I want them to learn their language. So they can carry
on their language. I want my children to grow up learning in both
ways.” Carol Turner, Dujuan’s Grandmother and Collaborating Director.

Watch at home now for £10.00 – DLC receives a share of the ticket price. Stream available for 72 hours after play started.
Film run extended to 04 January 2021.

NORTHERN WIND

NORTHERN WIND
2019 | Dir Walid Mattar | 91min | France

North of France. Hervé’s (Philippe Rebbot) factory is relocated. The entire workforce takes industrial action, except Hervé – he is the only worker to resign himself because he pursues another destiny: to become a fisherman and to transmit this passion to his son. Suburbs of Tunis, where the factory is relocated. Foued (Mohamed Amine Hamzaoui), unemployed, finds himself hired to work at the same pattern-stamping machine as had Hervé, and thinks there is a way to cure his mother and especially to seduce the girl he loves. The trajectories of Hervé and Foued are similar and answer to each other. French/Arabic with English subtitles.

“A clever and captivating tale of two continents.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

Watch at home now for £7.49 (with discount code above). Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Film run ends on 29 November 2020.

TV Connections

Streaming films to your TV

Streaming films to your laptop or mobile device is fine if you’re out and about and needing to kill time but if you’re at home, it’s best to connect your device to your TV via a cable or wifi. Nick Shepherd, David Lean Cinema’s Technical Assistant, has written a comprehensive guide on this subject to assist you with achieving this so you can enjoy our select streaming films at their best and on as big as screen as possible given the fact that we can’t show films in our auditorium at the moment.
This is quite a technical subject if you consider all the different possibilities although if you have HDMI connections on both your laptop and TV, the process is fairly simple. The guide attempts to explain different options in easy terms and we hope it will help you understand the process. We cannot enter into any discussions regarding individual installations but if you are really stuck with something that we can answer with a one sentence reply then visit our Contact Form to get in touch with us.
Read how to stream films to your TV.

When viewing streamed films, ensure that you select full screen mode! The controls for this vary depending on the platform; examples for YouTube are near bottom right (icon on the right and for Vimeo also near bottom right and also to the right – other platforms are similar.

You can practice and test streaming content from this page.

If you wish to use wifi to stream from a mobile device or laptop, the David Lean Cinema recommends a Chromecast (£30) for streaming films from your mobile device or laptop to a TV for best enjoyment of films promoted by us. However, the easiest option for a laptop remains an HDMI cable connection between device and TV. Streaming of films is heavy on battery use so have your charge nearby or keep your device on charge throughout the film.

Although many consider Chromecast a close competitor to the Fire TV Stick, the two work in a fundamentally different manner. While Fire TV makes it easy to watch Amazon and third-party content directly, without any other hardware, Chromecast is designed to be used alongside a smartphone, from which you ‘cast’ (hence the name) what you want to view on the large screen. This means you can skip a lot of the hoop-jumping to get your Fire TV Stick to play nicely with your smartphone.
However, its smartphone focus doesn’t put it entirely out of range of your PC. You can “cast” from any Chrome browser tab to a TV via the Chromecast device. Click the three dots at the end of the Chrome address bar and pick ‘Cast … ‘ from the menu. Chrome will search for available devices on your network, so make sure you’re on the same Wi-Fi connection as the Chromecast. If it can’t find your Chromecast, make sure your TV is switched on and tuned to the channel through which you watch Chromecast. As Chromecast connects using HDMI, it may not display its services across the network if it thinks that it doesn’t have a screen to output to.
Although the tab you’re browsing might not be a perfect fit for your TV if your PC and television screen are different sizes, Chromecast is clever enough to reformat the remote view – on your TV – to fit exactly when you’re streaming video content. Once it’s done this you can close the casting browser window on your PC as soon as you’ve set it running.

Further details on Chromecast are here.

THE BEST OF DORIEN B

THE BEST OF DORIEN B
2019 | Dir Anke Blonde | 107min | Belgium

Dorien (Kim Snauwaert) has everything to be happy: a successful husband, two adorable children and a booming veterinary practice. One day, everything falls apart. She discovers her mother’s long-running love affair, her husband appears to be very close to a colleague and she has this lump in her breast. She needs someone to talk to but no-one seems to listen. Is this truly the life she dreamt of? Dorien realizes it’s time to make some changes. A fast-paced, hilarious and sometimes acerbic examination of a middle-aged woman facing a multitude of challenges, THE BEST OF DORIEN B. is a comedy-drama about a woman who rediscovers herself amid the chaos. Dutch with English subtitles.

“Snauwaert is superb in a film which will tap into audience appetites for grown up, female-led drama. The low key domesticity of the story and clear-eyed observational approach means that it should work as successfully on a small screen as it does in a cinema.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International.

Watch at home now for £7.49 (with discount code above). Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Film run ends on 22 November 2020.

System Crasher

SYSTEM CRASHER
2019 | Dir Nora Fingscheidt | 125min | Germany

Can Benni’s (Helena Zengel) newly-appointed anger-management coach succeed where others have consistently failed? Benni is a wayward nine-year-old whom the “system” has almost given up on. She Is expelled from one foster home to the next for her wild and uncontrollable behaviour, but deep down there lies an enormous vulnerability. Asking some pointed questions about the care system, this compelling drama features a ferocious lead performance from tomboyish young actress Helena Zengel, a whirlwind of dayglo pink clothing and blond hair who simply explodes off the screen.

“There are times, when Zengel is performing with other children, especially younger children, when you get the strange sense that this isn’t acting – it is actually happening.” – Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian
German with English subtitles.

Watch at home now for £7.49 (with discount code above). Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Film run ends on 20 December 2020.

LILLIAN

LILLIAN
2019 | Dir Andreas Horvath | 130min | Austria

Lillian (Patrycja Planik), an emigrant stranded in New York City, decides to walk back to her native Russia. She resolutely starts out on the long journey. A road movie straight across the USA into the freezing temperatures of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow disappearance. An impressively photographed and enigmatic road movie based on the true story of Lillian Alling, who disappeared without trace in 1926 while attempting to walk home to Russia from New York. Marked by awe-inspiring images of natural beauty, a powerful soundtrack composed by the director and quirky, telling encounters. English with some subtitles.

“The more Lillian heads into the winter wilderness the more attractive the film becomes. Ultimately Horvath manages to find an epic grandeur in the simple story of a woman just trying to make her way home.” – Allan Hunter, Screen International.

Watch at home now for £7.49 (with discount code above). Stream available for 48 hours after play started. Film run ends on 19 November 2020.

Streaming at a Glance

STREAMING AT A GLANCE – Click on any film poster below for details of the film. Want to connect your device to your TV/Sound system? See this document written by Nick Shepherd (David Lean Cinema Technical Assistant). It’s the best way to watch our selection of films below until we can show them in our auditorium again. More information is available on this page.

A WHITE WHITE DAY

A WHITE WHITE DAY
2019 | Dir Hlynur Palmason | Iceland

He is a man, a father, a grandfather, a policeman, a widower.

In a remote Icelandic town, Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurdsson), an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife. Gradually his obsession for uncovering the truth endangers himself and those he loves.

Winner Cannes Critics Week Rising Star Award and Nominated for 12 EDDA Awards (Icelandic Oscars) A WHITE, WHITE DAY is a remarkable, elegant, yet errily gripping tale of love and loss. Icelandic with English subtitles.

“Rare to experience a film which is just so sorted in every respect”
★★★★★
Little White Lies

Watch at home now from £4.50 (DLC receives a share of ticket price, thanks for supporting us) – Vimeo registration required (free) or login with Vimeo account. Stream available for 72 hours after purchase.
Distributor: Peccadillo Pictures – Vimeo account required

A White,White Day from Peccadillo Pictures on Vimeo.