Once again, we will be offering the best of world cinema over 16 fortnightly Friday nights with all tickets bookable online from The Hive’s website. Printed copies of the brochure will soon be available from The Hive and other outlets but meanwhile you can download it here. We are also pleased to announce that we will be holding our ticket price at only £6 for all. We will continue to limit the capacity of the auditorium to 65 seats so that social distancing will be maintained.
Friday 20 September 2024
Fallen Leaves
12 | Finland | 2023 | Finnish, Arabic, subtitled | 78 mins
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Included in Main Season
A gentle, hopeful and ultimately uplifting love story from Aki Kaurismaki, the Finnish master of deadpan comedy. Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
Friday 4 October 2024
Cairo Conspiracy
12 | Egypt | 2022 | Arabic, subtitled | 120 mins
Director: Tarik Saleh
Included in Main Season
When the Grand Imam at Egypt’s most prestigious university suddenly dies, a ruthless power struggle develops and new student Tarik becomes a pawn in the power-play
Friday 18 October 2024
The Eight Mountains
12 | Italy | 2022 | Italian, Nepali, subtitled | 147 mins
Director: Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
Included in Main Season
In the remote Italian Alps, a childhood friendship between two boys blossoms into a life-long brotherhood, and is tested as the men take different paths, then finally reunite.
Friday 1 November 2024
Mr Klein
12 | France | 1976 | French, subtitled | 119 mins
Director: Joseph Losey
Included in Main Season
Joseph Losey’s gripping political thriller, set in Paris in 1942, stars Alain Delon in one of his best roles as an art dealer whose opportunistic business unravels when a dopplegänger appears.
Friday 15 November 2024
Totem
12 | Mexico | 2023 | Spanish, subtitled | 95 mins
Director: Lila Avilés
Included in Main Season
Lila Avilés, director of “The Chambermaid”, creates a richly textured, deeply compassionate portrait of Mexican family life centred on a birthday party that is also a farewell ceremony
Friday 29 November 2024
Uzak
15 | Turkey | 2002 | Turkish, subtitled | 110 mins
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Included in Main Season
A fashionable photographer in Istanbul has his life upended by the arrival of his dopey country nephew. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan develops a beautiful, gentle drama about human dreams and longings.
Friday 13 December 2024
The Holdovers
15 | USA | 2023 | English | 127 mins
Director: Alexander Payne
Included in Main Season
Our Christmas film is this hugely entertaining and enjoyable comedy drama, set in a New England boarding school in 1971 over the holiday break when all but a handful of staff and pupils have departed.
Friday 3 January 2025
No Bears
12 | Iran | 2022 | Persian, Turkish, subtitled | 106 mins
Director: Jafar Panahi
Included in Main Season
An Iranian director tries to make a film about his own country by directing a cast and crew just over the border in Turkey by remote control. Suspicions and traditions provide quite a challenge.
Friday 17 January 2025
Godland
12 | Iceland | 2022 | Danish, Icelandic, subtitled | 143 mins
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Included in Main Season
In the middle of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote Icelandic outpost to establish a church. He faces physical, spiritual and social challenges in carrying out his mission.
Friday 31 January 2025
Dragon’s Return
12 | Slovakia | 1967 | Slovak, Czech, subtitled | 81 mins
Director: Eduard Grecner
Included in Main Season
A reclusive potter returns to his mountain village after years of exile and encounters a wide range of reactions in this beautifully poetic reflection on the essentials of life in a world governed by superstition.
Friday 14 February 2025
Past Lives
12 | Korea/USA | 2023 | Korean, English, subtitled | 101 mins
Director: Celine Song
Included in Main Season
Two Korean childhood friends reunite in New York as adults for just one fateful week. Their reflections on love, destiny, and life-choices make for a compelling drama.
Friday 28 February 2025
1976
15 | Chile | 2022 | Spanish, subtitled | 95 mins
Director: Manuela Martelli
Included in Main Season
Three years after General Pinochet’s coup, his opponents are being hunted down. When one is given refuge by a stranger, both of their lives develop along unforeseen paths.
Friday 14 March 2025
Still Walking
U | Japan | 2008 | Japanese, subtitled | 114 mins
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Included in Main Season
A moving portrait of the day in the life of a Japanese family, focusing on tensions between its members and the changing values of the different generations as they confront the past.
Friday 28 March 2025
The Seventh Seal
PG | Sweden | 1957 | Swedish, subtitled | 92 mins
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Included in Main Season
This is the definitive “art house cinema” film - endlessly discussed, widely cited, but rarely shown on the big screen. Don't miss this chance to see Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece.
Friday 11 April 2025
R.M.N
15 | Romania | 2022 | Romanian, Hungarian, German, English, French, Sinhalese, subtitled | 125 mins
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Included in Main Season
The local baker in a Transylvanian village close to the Romania-Hungary border hires migrants to supplement her local workforce, setting off a troubling set of consequences that soon absorb all the locals, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Friday 25 April 2025
Rye Lane
15 | UK | 2023 | English | 82 mins
Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Included in Main Season
A romantic comedy set in South East London, this is the story of two strangers, a chance encounter, and an entertaining series of adventures. An uplifting end to our season!
(a) romance bursting with wit, grit and charm - Mark Kermode
