Oklahoma! (U)

Our Creative Blethers Friendly Film Club selection

Doors open 1.00pm, film starts 1.30pm / Studio Cinema (A) / Free – donations welcome

Creative Blethers are all-inclusive creative experiences for the elderly, carers, and adults with disabilities or mental health concerns. Organised by Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust, Creative Blethers are free, but donations are very welcome.

Oh, what a beautiful day! Join us for a singalong at this 70th anniversary screening of Oklahoma! A film so glorious that it deserves its exclamation mark! Come enjoy this classic musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein on the big screen.

Directors: Fred Zinneman

1955 (US) / 2 hr 25mins / U

I’m Still Here a wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule.

Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, I’m Still Here transports us to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s when Brazil’s dictatorship sought to exert its authority through detentions and disappearances. The latest from Walter Salles, director of the Oscar-nominated Central Station and the Oscar-winning The Motorcycle Diaries, focuses on Eunice Paiva, whose terrifying experiences transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.

Directors: Walter Salles

Dunoon Grammar School Film Club Premiere

Be first to see these new short films by local young people.

As part of a new filmmaking course being taught at Dunoon Grammar School, twelve young people have created four short films taking inspiration from Dunoon Community Development Trust’s ‘Grow Food Grow Dunoon’ project at Struan Lodge Residential & Daycare Centre.  

With the support of teacher, Meghan Tait, and film educator, Alasdair Satchel, the young people have developed new skills and are helping to share the story of local volunteer action on food growing and therapeutic garden development. Come along to see their films and hear about their experience.

Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, this feature documentary tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.

Born and raised in St Andrews, Barns-Graham was a member of the St Ives group of modernist artists, who lived in the Cornish seaside town from the Second World War onwards. The glacier paintings inspired by her experience in Switzerland were the breakthrough in her artistic career. Through a cinematic immersion into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.

Made with the support of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, the film delves into her archives, private notebooks and diaries from her 65-year career. Two decades after her death in 2004, the film represents a major reassessment of Barns-Graham’s life and work, and her place in 20th century art.

Winner of the Grand Prix Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2024

Director: Mark Cousins

**Join us in Dunoon Burgh Hall workshop space after the screening to play with colour and pattern inspired by the film (with tea and cake).

Winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2025, among many other awards  

12.45pm / Studio Cinema (A) / £3 / £7 **

Flow is a dialogue-free animated film about a cat who finds refuge on a boat with other animals after a flood destroys their homes.  

A mesmerising, wondrous example of animation’s potential and an adorable ode to four-legged (and two-legged) friends. No ebbs here: Flow is the real deal Empire Magazine

Oscar winning Flow is a timeless tale of survival to delight all cat lovers. Independent

Director: Gints Zilbalodis

2024 (Latvia) / 85mins

**Join us in Dunoon Burgh Hall workshop space after the screening to make your own capybara inspired by the film.

A compelling exploration of engineless sailing, shot on analogue film over three years.

With short film Sailing for Sport featuring yachts racing at the regattas during "Clyde Week"  

Wind, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation.

Journeying through rivers, coastlines, and open seas, spanning the UK, the Netherlands, and France, Wind, Tide & Oar creates a contemplative space, addressing themes of ecology, heritage, traditional skills, and maritime history. Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft, upended by the invention of mechanised power.

Through the film’s reveries, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with and responsibility to the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability, and our care for the world around us.

A light-hearted ensemble comedy about friendship, community, love and capitalism, Natja Brunckhorst’s Two to One is set in the long, hot East German summer of 1990.

As German reunification looms in the summer of 1990 three close friends in Socialist East Germany hatch an elaborate plan to make a fortune when they find a bunker full of soon-to-be-worthless currency. With the help of their friends and neighbours they tackle progress and capitalism head-on.

Director: Natja Brunckhorst

2024 (Germany) In German with English subtitles.

Join us for a special preview, a month before its official release, of the opening film from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard selection.  

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland, from one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. Una grapples with grief while harbouring a secret, unable to fully express her emotions, as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson

Winner of the Youth Award, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2024.  

Totone's carefree teenage life of drinking and dancing takes a turn when he must provide for his 7-year-old sister. Seeking income, he channels his energy into producing an award-winning comté cheese to claim a competition prize.

“Lovingly shot in warm natural light, and accompanied by a gentle, lilting soundtrack, Holy Cow is shot through with compassion for its rascally yet vulnerable protagonist” Screen International

Director: Louise Courvoisier

**with some FREE cheese

With short film Socks (Adv.PG)

Paying tribute to the late master of cinema, David Lynch

A wondrous journey which celebrates the magic of everyday life and the resilience of spirit, The Straight Story is David Lynch at his most gentle. A thoughtful portrayal on aging and celebration of life.

The first thing in director David Lynch's strange, tender film is a vast night sky winking with stars; but those stars died long ago. All we see now are fading memories, their light reaching us after a one-way trip along the cosmic interstate. Director David Lynch turns the true story of a geriatric road trip (on a lawnmower) into a gentle parable – and a classic, if unlikely, American road movie. The Guardian

Director: David Lynch

1999 (US) / 1 hour 52 mins

Socks (short film 8mins)

A comical / surrealist piece from Dunoon-based Sweet Adeline Films all shot in Glasgow. Introduced by Daryl Cockburn (Director) and Lead Actor Paul Kozinski.

Director: Daryl Cockburn

2024 (UK) / 8 mins