Check out our line-up for Spring! (with trailers!)
24 April – Girlhood (FR, Céline Sciamma, 2014) Cert 15, 113 mins
Set among the mean streets of the Parisian banlieues, a young black woman tries to survive inside and outside of the street gangs and a life of crime in this highly much-admired film.
8 May – Macbeth (UK, FR, US, Justin Kurzel, 2015) Cert 15, 113 min.
Starring Michael Fassbender & Marion Cotillard. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. 4 STARS “Stylish and Inspired” The Guardian
22 May – Phoenix (DE, PL, Christian Petzold, 2014), Cert. 15, 98 min.
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
5 June – Theeb (AE, QA, JO, UK, Naji Abu Nowar, 2014), Cert. 15, 100 min.
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
19 June – The Assassin (TW, CN, HK, FR, Hsaiao-Hsien Hou, 2015), Cert. 12, 105 min
Voted the best film of 2015 by the BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine. An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in seventh-century China.
Films start at 6pm, tickets £5 on the door.
Worcester Arts Workshop
21 Sansome Street, Worcester, WR1 1UH
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