14 December 2026 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Four Mothers – (15) Eire 2024. Directed by Darren Thornton. Based on Gianni Di Gregorio’s Mid-August Lunch, the Thorntons’ bracing comedy concerns a writer who, over the course of a trying weekend, must attend to the needs not only of his own frail mother but three other […]
10 May 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Souleymane’s Story – (12A) France 2024. Directed by Boris Lojkine. An asylum seeker from Equatorial Guinea sleeps at one of the shelters in Paris, but spends his days delivering food orders and learning his speech for the immigration board. In forty-eight hours he is to have his […]
19 April 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season I Am Cuba – (PG) Cuba/USSR 1964. Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. Granted uncommon access and resources after the success of Castro’s revolution, Soviet director Kalatozov filmed four distinct episodes depicting life in Cuba before the fall of the old regime. Part agitprop, part appeal on behalf of […]
5 April 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season The President’s Cake – (12A) Iraq/Quatar/US 2025. Directed by Hasan Hadi. In 1990s Iraq a nine year-old girl earns the dubious honour of baking President Saddam’s birthday cake, but the country is in such a parlous state she has trouble finding ingredients. Facing punishment if she should […]
22 March 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Bernie – (12A) US 2011. Directed by Richard Linklater. Based on a true-life crime story from small-town Texas, Linklater’s black comedy deals with a caring mortician (Jack Black) who offers a supporting arm to elderly widows. When he meets Shirley Maclaine, however, he encounters his most challenging […]
8 March 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Santosh – (15) India 2024. Directed by Sandhya Suri. Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a girl’s body is found, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of a charismatic feminist inspector. […]
22 February 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season In A Lonely Place – (PG) US 1950. Directed by Nicholas Ray. A Hollywood screenwriter with a reputation for violent behaviour is treated as a murder suspect by police, but defended by his neighbour, who then has second thoughts. Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame star in this […]
1 February 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season The Farewell – (PG) US/China 2019. Directed by Lulu Wang. The family of a dying grandmother keeps the truth from her but plans to use a forthcoming wedding to celebrate her life. Wang’s film offers humour and poignancy but also examines how native and host cultures sometimes […]
18 January 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Annie Hall – (AA) US 1977. Directed by Woody Allen. Our second tribute presentation is for Diane Keaton, whose partnership with Woody Allen more than any other provided an outlet for her considerable gifts as a comedienne. Allen, who continues to make films at 90, here negotiates […]
4 January 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog – (A) UK 1927. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Celebrating the centenary of this, Hitchcock’s first foray into material he would make his own. As Ivor Novello seeks lodgings in the midst of a spate of murders of blonde women, […]
