New season brings films from across globe to Perth
Perth Film Society has announced its upcoming programme of events, with films from across the world on the bill.
The society will be meeting regularly over the coming months at Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall to watch non-mainstream world films, often ones that have not been shown in larger cinemas.
This year’s programme will take film lovers to Argentina, Spain, France, the USA, Japan, Poland, Lebanon and Italy.
The first film to be shown by the society is ‘Everybody Knows’ on Thursday, September 12 at the Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre.
This film, which is in Spanish with English subtitles, stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and is set in Buenos Aires and Madrid.
Cruz plays a Spanish woman who returns to her hometown with her two children to attend her sister’s wedding, but the trip is upset by unexpected events bringing secrets out into the open.
Following on from that will be ‘Girl’ on Thursday, September 26, spoken in French and Flemish with English subtitles about a 15-year-old girl born in the body of a boy.
It will be shown in the NorieMiller Studio, Perth Concert Hall.
‘If Beale Street could talk’, the story of a young woman embracing her pregnancy while trying to prove her lover is innocent of a crime he didn’t commit, is on Thursday, October 10 in the Joan Knight Studio.
Palme d’Or winning drama ‘Shoplifters’ about a family of Japanese crooks will be shown with English subtitles on Thursday, October 24, again in the Joan Knight Studio.
A passionate love story set during the Cold War in Poland will then be shown on Thursday, November 7 in the Norie-Miller Studio.
On Thursday, November 21 the society shows ‘Capernaum’ about a child in Beirut who sues his parents for giving birth to him.
The film will be in Arabic and Amharic with English subtitles and will be shown in the Joan Knight Studio.
Finally, ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ will be shown on Thursday, December 5 in the Joan Knight Studio.
This Italian film looks at the class-divide between a smalltown peasant and a local aristocrat.
Each film starts at 7.45pm and tickets £6, concessions are £5.