Food on Film

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FIRST COW + INTRODUCTION + TASTER BOX (12A)

Tue 18 Oct 2022 Dir. Kelly Reichardt2019 | 122 mins | US Award-winning director Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) delivers First Cow, a gripping and glorious story of friendship and petty crime on the harsh frontier of the Pacific Northwest. In 1820s Oregon, two loners team up to seek their fortune through a scheme […]


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THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS + INTRODUCTION (12A)

Tue 25 Oct 2022 Dir. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw.2020 | 84 mins | Italy, Greece, USItalian with English subtitles Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle—which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation. […]


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TAMPOPO (18) + INTRO

TUE 31 JAN 2023 Dir. Juzo Itami1985 | 114 mins | JapanJapanese with English subtitles How far would you go for the perfect ramen? Guided in her quest by scrappy truck drivers Gun and Gorō, Tampopo strives to create the best ramen around to serve from her roadside shop. In the process she is run through […]


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COME BACK ANYTIME + INTRO

+ RAMEN SUPPER CLUB TUE 07 FEB 2023 Dir. John Daschbach2021 | 89 mins | JapanJapanese with English subtitles The story of a master who created a community in Tokyo, one bowl of ramen at a time. Ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko have run their tiny Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than […]


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BLIND AMBITION (12A) + INTRO

Dir. Robert Coe2022 | 90 mins | Australia Joseph, Marlvin, Pardon and Tinashe form a unlikely team of Zimbabwean refugees turned sommeliers, who turn the international wine establishment of privilege and tradition on its head in this inspiring documentary. Having escaped starvation and tyranny in their homeland of Zimbabwe, the team of four have conquered […]


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BIGGEST LITTLE FARM + ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (PG)

TUE 12 JUL 2022 Dir. John Chester2018 | 92 mins Who hasn’t fantasised about swapping their city life for a simpler one in the country, eating your way through nature’s fruit basket? For one LA couple, and their beloved dog Todd, this fantasy became a reality as they traded in their one bed apartment for an […]


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MINARI (12A) + INTRO & PRE-SCREENING TASTING TABLE

TUE 05 JUL 2022 A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, played by Youn Yih-jung who scooped an […]


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FERMENTED + BREAD SHAPING + CHEESE TASTING

TUE 03 MAY 2022 Dir.  Jonathan Cianfrani, USA SHOWING TIMES: Join us for an evening of fermentation as we take a closer look at the processes and production of fermented products and their benefits. Before the screening of Edward Lee’s fascinating documentary audiences are invited to join us at the Sidwell Street Bakehouse for a bread shaping workshop. […]


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DELICIOUS + INTRODUCTION (12A)

TUE 26 APR 2022 Dir. Eric Besnard2021 | 112 mins | FranceFrench with English subtitlesGrégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Benjamin Lavernhe Ahead of the French Revolution one man sparks his own culinary one and ignites the birth of the restaurant in this amusing, tasty and inspiring period drama, fresh out of the French Film Festival. France, 1789 […]


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HIVE (15)

FRI 01 APR 2022 – THU 07 APR 2022 £8* Standard | £5* Student / Under 25s Based on a stirring true story comes an award-winning tale of resilence and hope from an emerging voice in world cinema, director Blerta Basholli. Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo, and along with their […]


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