Friday 14 February - The Kitchen Brigade (1hr 37m) France 2022

Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children’s lives.

Director: Louis-Julien Petit Starring: Audrey Lamy, Francois Cluzet, Chantal Neuwirth, Fatou Kaba

Friday 14 March - Romulus My Father (1hr 44m) Australia 2009

It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Director: Richard Roxburgh Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Martin Csokas

Friday 11 April - The Holdovers (1hr 32m) USA 2023

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

Director: Alexander Payne Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

Friday 9 May - Muriel’s Wedding 1hr 46m Australia 1994

Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to ABBA and dreaming of her wedding day. A slight problem is she never had a date. She steals money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down. Director: P J Hogan Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Jeanie Drynan, Dan Wylie, Sophie Lee, Daniel Lapaine

Friday 13 June - The Outfit 1h 45m UK 2022

Leonard (Mark Rylance), a master English tailor who’s ended up in Chicago, operates a corner tailor shop with his assistant (Zoey Deutch) where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Director: Graham Moore

Starring: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Simon Russell Beale

Friday 11 July - Much Ado About Nothing 1hr 51m UK 1993

Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.

Director: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean Leonard

Friday 8 August - Shayda 1hr 57m Australia 2023 A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women’s shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz). Director: Noora Niasari Starring: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Leah Purcell, Mojean Aria

**Friday 12 September - North By Northwest 1h 45m USA 1959 **A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Carey Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

Friday 10 October - Members’ Choice - Maggie Smith

Film to be advised following members’ voted choice of a film to honour the memory of the late, great, Maggie Smith (1934 - 2024)

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Friday 14 November - The Blue Caftan 2h 02m Morocco 2022

Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by his presence.

Director: DIr: Maryam Touzani

Starring: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui

Friday 12 December - Wild Rose 1h 41m UK 2018 A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star. Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville.

Director: Tom Harper Starring: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters