Films

FILMS - Tetbury Film Society's season runs from September to April. We have found a great selection of films to share for the 2025-26 season - details below.

The programme is also published in the September edition of the Tetbury Advertiser. Watch out for it there, or here.

 

Films for the
2025-26 Season

10/09/25

September 5

2024 Germany, USA (English, German, Hebrew) ~95min  

Director: Tim Fehlbaum                         Cert 15

This film is based on events that took place during the 1972 Summer Olympics.  It  tells the story from the perspective of a television crew broadcasting live as the hostage crisis unfolds in front of them.  The screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.

08/10/25

How To Make Millions Before Gramdma Dies  

2024 Thailand (Thai) ~126min

Director: Pat Boonnitipat                    Cert 12A

This amusing, intense and heart-rending drama follows a college dropout who decides to care for his ailing grandmother in the hopes of winning her affection and ultimately her fortune.  It was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Film category.   

12/11/25

Radical                                  

2023 Mexico (Spanish) ~126min

Director: Christopher Zalla                Cert 12A

Based on the true story of an inspirational teacher, who was hired to transform the grades of students at an underperforming school.  This film achieved the Festival Favourite Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023.

10/12/25

The Penguin Lessons           

2024 Spain, USA, UK (English, Spanish) ~112min

Director: Peter Cattaneo                     Cert 12A

Based on an incredible true story, this film stars Steve Coogan as Tom Michell, a disillusioned teacher who, on moving to Argentina in 1976, finds himself responsible for a Magallanic penguin rescued from an oil slick.  The script is by Oscar nominee Jeff Pope, who worked with Steve Coogan on the films ‘Philomena’ and ‘Stan & Ollie’.   

14/01/26

The Ballad of Wallis Island   

2025 UK (English) ~100min

Director: James Griffiths                    Cert 12A

In this British comedy/drama, old tensions resurface when former band mates and lovers reunite for a private performance at the island home of an eccentric millionaire and ‘superfan’.  Based on a short film won an Edinburgh Film Festival award back in 2008, it involves many of the same team.

11/02/26

My Favourite Cake

2024 Iran (Persian) ~97min

Director: Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha Cert 12A

This romantic tragicomedy follows the life of Mahin, a seventy year old widow, who decides to revive her love life in Iran, where women’s rights are heavily restricted.

25/02/26

Memoir of a Snail

2024 Australia (English) ~95min

Director: Adam Elliot                              Cert 15

A dark and gritty antipodean fable about Grace Pudel, separated from her twin brother after her parent’s death.  This film has won 12 awards, including best film at last year’s London Film Festival.  It was also nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar this year against Wallace and Gromit’s latest adventure and the winner ‘Flow’.

11/03/26

Reality

2023 USA (English) ~82min

Director: Tina Satter                             Cert 12A

This gripping drama depicts the true story of whistleblower Reality Winner.  It is adapted from the 2019 stage play ‘Is This a Room’, with dialogue taken directly from the FBI interview.

25/03/26

*Hospice Fundraiser - Mr Burton

2024 UK (English) ~124min
Director: Marc Evans                           Cert 12A

The true story of how the poor son of a Welsh miner became one of the world’s greatest actors, with the help of an unlikely mentor.  It stars Toby Jones, Leslie Manville, and  Harry Lawley as the young man who would become Richard Burton. 

08/04/26

Last film of the season - Short AGM before the film

The Marching Band              

2024 France (French) ~103min                         

Director: Emmanuel Courcol                Cert 15

Conductor Thibaut discovers he has leukaemia and needs a bone marrow transplant.  Learning of his adoption, he finds his older brother who works in a factory.  Their reunion leads to a musical journey as the town faces the factory’s closure.

 

 

Nine of the best recent films, close to home and on the big screen to share, enjoy, debate and celebrate.

This whole season for £27. Join us.

 

The 2024-2025 season

 

18/09/24

Past Lives                             

2023 USA/South Korea (English/Korean) ~106min  

Director: Celine Song                          Cert 12A

This Academy Award-nominated semi-autobiographical film follows two childhood friends, Nora and Hae Sung, over the course of 24 years as they try to maintain their long-distance relationship. Nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars and Best Non-English Language Film at the 2024 BATFAs.

 

09/10/24

My Sailor, My Love               

2022 Ireland (English) ~102min

Director: Klaus Härö                            Cert 12A

A heart-warming drama about timeless love and forgiveness, set on the west coast of Ireland.   A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with the new housekeeper she engages to look after him.  Finnish Director Klaus Härö's first feature film in English.

 

13/11/24

Rose                                      

2020 Denmark (Danish, French) ~105min

Director: Niels Arden Oplev                Cert 12A

The story of two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris.  Fellow travellers are concerned when Inger reveals her struggles with schizophrenia.  In Paris, it becomes clear that, for Inger, the trip is more important than any of them imagine.

 

11/12/24

Vindication Swim                  

2022 UK (English) ~98min

Director: Elliott Hasler                           Cert PG

The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against not only the elements but also the oppressive society of 1920s England. Filmed on a small budget, mostly on location and with no special effects or studio water tanks. An impressive second feature from young British Director Elliott Hasler at the age of only 23.

 

08/01/25

Ama Gloria                            

2023 France (French) ~84min

Dir: Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq      Cert 12A

Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria. When Gloria has to return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, Cléo's safe world is upended and the two must make the most of their last summer together.

 

12/02/25

The Blue Caftan

2023 Morrocco (Arabic) ~123min

Director: Maryam Touzani                  Cert 12A

An exquisitely crafted love story, centring on skilled tailor Halim and his bitter-sweet love for his meticulous traditional craft, his ailing wife Mina, and his forbidden love.   

 

26/02/25

Hospice Fundraiser Film - Thelma

2024 USA (English) ~ 98min
Director: Josh Margolin                    Cert 12A
Fundraiser in aid of Longfield Hospice.
Tickets will be required for this film.

Thelma is 93. When she gets fooled by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on her mobility scooter to get her revenge.

 

12/03/25

Scrapper

2023 UK (English) ~84min

Director: Charlotte Regan                   Cert 12A

BAFTA nominated tale of 12 year-old Georgie, who is resourcefully looking after herself when her estranged and wayward father turns up unexpectedly, forcing them both to confront reality.

 

26/03/25

Driving Madeleine                 

2022 France (French) ~90min                           

Director: Christian Carion                     Cert 15

When Charles, a taxi driver, turns up to take Madeleine to a nursing home, they embark on a meandering ride around Paris which charts the story of her extraordinary life and changes his outlook forever.

 

09/04/25

Last film of the season (Short AGM before the film)
Save the Cinema

2021 UK (English) ~109min                           

Director: Sara Sugarman                     Cert 12A

When Liz Evans's local cinema in Wales is threatened with demolition, she tries everything she can to keep it open. Her idea of screening the new Jurassic Park movie leads to a conversation with "Mr Spielberg" - and an offer to host the premiere.