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SUMMER OF HOPE

SUMMER OF HOPE SEASON

The David Lean Cinema has partnered with YourScreen to deliver their online streaming films as part of the Summer of Hope season. During this part of the year when we are preparing for opening in October, much depends on cooperation with the council and their willingness to work with us. There is a lot of work going on in the backgound but there are costs involved in this. Films streamed by you via our website, which are promoted as part of the Summer of Hope season, have the potential to create extra funds for us as the distributors will donate all ticket income to the David Lean Cinema once sales have reached a certain point. You can help us in this respect by choosing to stream films via links on our website and those that are part of this particular initiative are highlighted as such.

We have been closed since the middle of March 2020 and during this time our income has been minimal. Meanwhile continuous efforts have been made to keep all our equipment in working order. This included replacing our sound system which was exhibiting intermittent faults and sounding rather tired overall. More improvements are planned for next year so your help with this steaming income is very welcome.

Thank you…………………….

CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER

CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER
2019 | Dir Mickey Reece | 82 mins |

Two sisters, Alma and Elizabeth, along with a dog who’s described as a “philosopher,” have come to Alma’s remote house to reconnect with Wesley after twenty years. Alma is recently divorced, Elizabeth is a workaholic in Washington, D.C., while Wesley lives in Paris dealing with a wife recently struck with a fatal disease. When the three come together for dinner it has all the makings of a lovely adult melodrama about loneliness, and the desire to connect and share our lives with someone… but we must add to the mix one otherworldly piece of information: Wesley could be a vampire.

The David Lean Cinema receives a share of the ticket price when purchased via links on this page.

Distributor: Bulldog Films, Vimeo account required, create account or login.

CALAMITY

N/C PG CALAMITY
2020 | Dir Rémi Chayé | 85 mins | France | Denmark

1863, the Oregon Trail. 11-yr-old Martha Jane accompanies her two younger siblings and widowed, impoverished father on a wagon train way out West. Discontent to simply gather firewood and cook, her rebellious, unfeminine behaviour outrages the group’s leaders. “Control your daughter”, they admonish, but when her father is injured in an accident Martha Jane rises to the occasion, donning men’s clothes, cutting her hair and generally taking control of the family’s wagon and the situation. When simmering resentment of this snub to authority leads to an accusation of stealing, she sets out solo on horseback to track down whom she believes is the real thief. French with English subtitles.

As a thank you for supporting us, you will get 25% off each ticket purchase. Just enter DLYS at checkout. You will also be supporting the David Lean Cinema as we get a share of every ticket sold using this promo code. Participating in the Summer of Hope Season.
Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: YourScreen – create account or login.
Film run ends on 12 September 2021.
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Winner in Annecy, the second feature from Rémi Chayé is a gorgeous, feminist coming-of-age western set in the American Far West – Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa

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TIME FOR LOVE

N/C 12+ TIME FOR LOVE
2020 | Dir Miguel J. Vélez | 83 mins | Poland

What would you do for love? Mikołaj barely hesitates before he abandons his highly-rewarding job as an on-platform snowball and hops on a train in pursuit of the woman of his dreams (who has just walked by). Once aboard, we’re met with a wryly amusing and sometimes surreal series of loosely connected encounters and incidents, involving such as a pair of lost children, a tyrannical ticket inspector, a man with a child’s coffin, a compartment full of tough nuts and a runaway mouse. Will Mikołaj’s bold hopes meet with the reward they deserve, or does fate have something else in store? Polish with English subtitles.

As a thank you for supporting us, you will get 25% off each ticket purchase. Just enter DLYS at checkout. You will also be supporting the David Lean Cinema as we get a share of every ticket sold using this promo code. Participating in the Summer of Hope Season.
Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: YourScreen – create account or login.
Film run ends on 19 September 2021.
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THOSE WHO REMAINED

N/C 15+ THOSE WHO REMAINED
2019 | Dir Barnabás Tóth | 83 mins | Hungary

Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year-old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been absent in their lives. As they grow closer and closer, the joy in both of their lives slowly returns. But as the Soviet Empire rises to power in Hungary, their pure and loving father-daughter relationship is misunderstood and frowned upon. A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary. Hungarian with English subtitles.

As a thank you for supporting us, you will get 25% off each ticket purchase. Just enter DLYS at checkout. You will also be supporting the David Lean Cinema as we get a share of every ticket sold using this promo code. Participating in the Summer of Hope Season.
Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: YourScreen – create account or login.
Film run ends on 30 September 2021.
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WINDOW TO THE SEA

N/C 12+ WINDOW TO THE SEA
2019 | Dir Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 106 mins | Spain | Greece

Faced with life changing news, Maria (Emma Suárez), a fifty-five year old Spanish woman from Bilbao, chooses to take a trip to Greece with her closest girlfriends against the advice of her son and doctors. A spontaneous decision leads her to the island of Nisyros, a tiny haven of peace and calm that immediately feels like home. While exploring the beautiful island and soaking in its hidden treasures, she meets Stefanos and finds herself falling in love against all odds. What seemed like a brief escape from reality soon turns into an unexpected chance at happiness, in a luminous story of a woman, who takes a leap of faith and dares to live for the moment on her own terms.
Spanish with English subtitles.

As a thank you for supporting us, you will get 25% off each ticket purchase. Just enter DLYS at checkout. You will also be supporting the David Lean Cinema as we get a share of every ticket sold using this promo code. Participating in the Summer of Hope Season.
Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: YourScreen – create account or login.
Film run ends on 05 September 2021.
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SUMMER SURVIVORS

N/C 15+ SUMMER SURVIVORS
2018 | Dir Marija Kavtaradze | 91 mins | Lithuania

An ambitious young research psychologist, Indre, who has reluctantly agreed to transport two patients from one psychiatric unit to another in
exchange for research privileges at her clinic, finds herself the leader of a rather rag-tag band on the long journey to the sea. Outgoing Paulius is a young man whose manic stage of his bipolar disorder stands in great contrast to the introvert Juste whose wounds are hidden from sight, but they both struggle to fight the inner battles that define them. As they all navigate the survival process together, what looks like a carefree summer ride with friends sharing laughs from the outside, could actually be the beginning of healing in this bittersweet story that — just like summer — is full of hopes, surprises and the promise that anything is possible.
Lituanian with English subtitles.

As a thank you for supporting us, you will get 25% off each ticket purchase. Just enter DLYS at checkout. You will also be supporting the David Lean Cinema as we get a share of every ticket sold using this promo code. Participating in the Summer of Hope Season.
Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: YourScreen – create account or login.
Film run ends on 19 September 2021.
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THE OUTSIDE STORY

N/C 12+ THE OUTSIDE STORY
2020 | Dir Casimir Nozkowski | 85 mins | USA

Brian Tyree Henry takes on his first big screen lead role as Charles Young, a broken-hearted video editor. Perceiving a betrayal of trust as a sign his girlfriend Isha (Sonequa Martin-Green) is leaving him, Charles preemptively blows up his relationship and sequesters himself at home. The fates do not comply and Charles locks himself out of his apartment. Stumbling into a transformational, timely odyssey exploring his community, Charles meets a dynamic ensemble of previously avoided neighbours (including Sunita Mani, Olivia Edward and Asia Kate Dillon) who show him everyone’s got issues and it never helps to keep them all locked up inside.

As a thank you for supporting us, you will get 25% off each ticket purchase. Just enter DLYS at checkout. You will also be supporting the David Lean Cinema as we get a share of every ticket sold using this promo code. Participating in the Summer of Hope Season.
Stream available for 48 hours after play started.
Distributor: YourScreen – create account or login.
Film run ends on 22 August 2021.
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POLICIES

David Lean Cinema Policies

Our policies on various subjects are in development and those in final stage are available, listed below.

Refunds and Exchanges Policy 2022 (PDF)

Health and Safety Policy (PDF)

Email Address Policy – internal circulation only (PDF)

THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT

THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (2021)
2021 | Dir Julien Faraut | 100 mins | France

‘The Witches of the Orient’ are former players of the Japanese women’s volleyball team, named so because of their seemingly supernatural powers on the courts. Now in their 70s, Julien Faraut’s gripping and playful documentary tells the story of this legendary squad, who, inspiring legions of fans and a whole cult genre of manga comics and anime shows, have left a unique sporting and cultural legacy.
Featuring striking 16mm colour reels of the team in training, together with previously unseen archive footage produced by the Japanese Olympic Committee in 1964, alongside a montage of vintage manga and TV material, Faraut’s compelling film also brings together contemporary interviews with four of the original ‘witches’. It charts the formation of the unstoppable all-female squad in the late 1950s as a worker’s team at a textile factory in Post-War Osaka, who, with their notorious coach Hirobumi Daimatsu, trained through the night, rising to become world champions in 1962, before their sensational triumph at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
English, French and Japanese with English subtitles.

“The final Olympics sequence keeps viewers on the edge of their seats, despite us knowing the outcome”. Phuong Le in The Guardian

Distributor: Modern Films – No account required.
Film run ends on Friday 10 September 2021.

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