*SUSPENDED* Rafiki (Kenya, 2018) Details 31 March @ 8:00pm £5 (£3 full-time students). RFS members go free. https://www.richmondfilmsoc.org.uk/ A tender love story between two young women in Nairobi and the pressures they face from their families and society at large. Initially banned by the country’s film classification board (homosexuality is illegal in Kenya), the film became a cinematic cause célèbre in Kenya and internationally and went on to win multiple awards. Rating: 12A Directed by Wanuri Kahiu Written by Wanuri…

*CANCELLED* Details: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Wednesday 8th April 2020 Doors open 6:45pm | Film starts 7:30pm Run time 91 mins It's 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War, a suited middle-aged man called John J. Macreedy arrives in a remote, bleak town, Black Rock Arizona, looking for a Japanese-American farmer named Komoko. Greeted by suspicion and hostility, he learns that the town's leader, Reno Smith (played by Rober Ryan), holds the key to a…

*SUSPENDED* The Breadwinner (Ireland,2017) Details 14 April @ 8:00pm £5 (£3 full-time students). RFS members go free. https://www.richmondfilmsoc.org.uk/ Parvana is an 11-year-old girl living in Kabul under the Taliban. When her father is unjustly arrested, she decides to take drastic measures in order to support the family. Oscar- nominated for Best Animated film. Rating: 12A Directed by Nora Twomey Written by Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis, Runtime: 94 minutes Tickets Adults: £5 Full time students: £3 Free to RFS members. Non-Member…

*SUSPENDED* Can You Ever Forgive Me? (USA, 2018) Details 28 April @ 8:00pm £5 (£3 full-time students). RFS members go free. https://www.richmondfilmsoc.org.uk/ A biographical black comedy about how impecunious biographer, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), aided and abetted by her dissolute drinking buddy, Jack (Richard E. Grant), became a serial forger of letters from deceased authors and playwrights. Nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of 52 awards worldwide. Rating: 15 Directed by Marielle Heller Written by Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty…

Elena (Russia, 2011) Details 12 May @ 8:00pm £5 (£3 full-time students). RFS members go free. https://www.richmondfilmsoc.org.uk/ When Elena, a dutiful wife, discovers that her ailing husband intends to leave his considerable wealth to his daughter from an earlier marriage, she has to reassess how to help her feckless son and his family. Rating: 15 Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev Written by Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Runtime: 109 minutes Tickets Adults: £5 Full time students: £3 Free to RFS members. Non-Member Tickets…

Details: BlacKkKlansman (2018) Wednesday 13th May 2020 Rated 15 Doors open 6:45pm | Film starts 7:30pm Run time 135 mins Described as Spike Lee's vibrant return to form, this loosely based-on-real-life film features John David Washington in a wonderfully wry and nuanced central performance as Ron Stallworth, an afro-sporting idealist in a formerly all-white Colorado Springs police force. Stallworth answers a newspaper ad for the KKK, posing on the telephone as a budding white supremacist, aided by his Jewish colleague…

Thunder Road (USA, 2018) Details 26 May @ 8:00pm £5 (£3 full-time students). RFS members go free. https://www.richmondfilmsoc.org.uk/ A study of inconsolable grief.....pulled off in a tour de force performance by the maverick Jim Cummings. A Southern states cop whose work necessitates discipline and boundaries is emotionally unable to deal with his mother’s death and rejection by his daughter. Rating: 15 Directed by Jim Cummings Written by Jim Cummings Runtime: 92 minutes Tickets Adults: £5 Full time students: £3 Free…

Details: In A Lonely Place (1950) Wednesday 3rd June 2020 Doors open 6:45pm | Film starts 7:30pm Run time 93 mins When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbour (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. The emotionally charged In a Lonely Place is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful…