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Program
- 54
Sunday 31 May 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis - La Venue de L’Avenir (Colours of Time)
In 2024, a family inherits an abandoned house and is plunged back to 1895 when four of them, Seb, Abdel, Céline and Guy, discover the existence of Adèle, their ancestor who left her native Normandy for Paris. This confrontation between the two eras will call into question their present.
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cast: Vincente Macaigne, Julia Piaton, Suzanne Lindon, Paul Kircher
Genre: Drama/comedy
Language: French
Run Time: 2 hours 6 minutes
Awards: Audience award for Best Film at the American French Film Festival
Review
by Filipe Freitas
Colours of Time is an absolutely delightful and mesmerizing impressionistic tale, packed with history and an invigorating sense of adventure and discovery. Co-writer and director Cédric Klapisch (The Spanish Apartment, 2002; Rise, 2022) knows how to draw out charm through a compelling narrative structure, well-chosen environments, and bright, luminous visuals.
- 66
Sunday 17 May 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
Father Mother Sister Brother is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchette, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Waits
Genre: Drama/comedy
Language: English
Run Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Rating: R for mild profanity
Awards: Director Jim Jarmusch won the Golden Lion, Venice International Film Festival 2025
Review
By Adam Graham
In "Father Mother Sister Brother," veteran filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers a warm story of family and all its inescapable quirks, and the emotional holes our family members leave behind when they're no longer with us.
- 61
Sunday 26 April 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
Floria, a dedicated nurse, navigates the relentless pace on a surgical ward with unwavering dedication, infusing humanity and warmth into her patient care even though the shift is understaffed. As the day intensifies, LATE SHIFT transforms into a gripping race against time, culminating in a riveting climax.
Director & Writer: Petra Volpe
Cast: Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Alireza Bayram
Genre: Drama
Language: German
Run time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Rating: 12A
Awards: Director Petra Volpe won the Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival
Review
By Filipe Freitas
Drawing inspiration from a detective novel by Madeline Calvelage, a young German nurse, Swiss screenwriter and director Petra Volpe delivers one of the most frighteningly believable, powerful, and necessary medical dramas in recent memory. Late Shift—a love letter to all nurses with heart—offers an enthralling experience that breathes authenticity and leaves you emotionally drained by its end.
- 62
Sunday 12 April 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
When Helen's beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge. Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own. A record of a spiritual journey, H IS FOR HAWK is a story about memory and nature and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Cast: Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Denise Gough
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1 hour 55 minutes
Language: English
Rating: PG-13 for themes of grief and sadness, strong language
Awards: Claire Foy won the Golden Eye Award for her body of work at the Zurich Film Festival
Review
By Tom Meek
- 99
Sunday 29 March 2026, 3:30 pm
Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
Genre: Drama/mystery
Language: Persian, English
Run time: 1 hour 46 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for mature content, coarse language, violence
Awards: Winner of the Palme d’Or, Cannes 2025
Review
By Rio Theatre