Category: Film

Wicked Little Letters – 17th May doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7.30pm

Tickets are available through Eventbrite by clicking on the image below.

WHERE

North Berwick Community Centre, Main Hall, 8 Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN

Cert 15, Comedy, History, Mystery & Thriller, 1h 42m

Starring  Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman , Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby

Directed by Thea Sharrock

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Movie Info When people in Littlehampton–including conservative local Edith–begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town’s women investigate. (IMDB).

What makes the film even more interesting is that it is based on true events!

Anatomy of a Fall – 19th April doors open at 6.30pm, film starts at 7pm

Tickets will be available through Eventbrite by clicking on the image below.

WHERE

North Berwick Community Centre, Main Hall, 8 Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN

Cert 15, Mystery & thriller, Crime, Drama, 2h 30m

Starring Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz

Directed by Justine Triet

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Movie Info For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel’s suspicious death is presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is not just an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel’s death but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.(Rotten Tomatoes)

One Life – 15th March

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WHERE

North Berwick Community Centre, Main Hall, 8 Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN

Cert 12A, History/Drama/Biography, 1h 49m

Starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Jonathan Pryce, Helena Bonham Carter

Directed by James Hawes

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Movie Info Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, ONE LIFE tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Johnny Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Alex Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Romola Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children before Nazi occupation closes the borders. Fifty years later, Nicky (Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until the BBC show “That’s Life!” re-introduces him to some of those he helped rescue that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he carried — all the while skyrocketing from anonymity to a national hero. (Rotten Tomatoes)

Surviving Translation – 22nd March

Free tickets for Surviving Translation will be available through Eventbrite by clicking on the image below.

WHERE

North Berwick Community Centre, Main Hall, 8 Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN

Surviving Translation Uncertificated, Documentary+ Q&A with Director Ling Lee and local film maker Tracey Fearnehough
Length: 48 mins + 30 mins Q&A, there’s time to mingle after
Country: UK, 2023

Director: Ling Lee
Based on Research by Charlotte Bosseaux
Producers: Ling Lee & Charlotte Bosseaux

If our words are mistranslated – our truth is not told.

Rejeen Musa was working as a subtitler on ‘Surviving Translation’ when the words she was translating began to unlock painful memories from her own past. As a female Kurdish migrant and a translator, Rejeen became the lens through which the film explores the trauma and life-altering consequences of mistranslation. 
In addition to Rejeen, the film captures testimonies from women who fled their homelands in the hope of building a new life in the UK. They speak candidly of the dangers and gender-based violence they suffered in their past and the arduous journeys they undertook to escape. They explain that – even after arriving in the UK – they need to communicate via an interpreter to secure medical care and apply for asylum; a process which causes them to relive past traumas and recurring unequal power dynamics. With their futures held in the balance – they must speak via a complete stranger who may or may not have their best interest at heart. 
To further illuminate this largely unexamined subject, the film also presents testimonies from interpreters, subtitlers and translators who describe the – sometimes harrowing – challenges that they themselves face. 
Raw testimony, poetic imagery, and academic research coalesce in this unique meditation on translation, isolation, and the meaning of ‘home’. 

http://www.lingleefilms.com

Surviving Translation © University of Edinburgh, 2023
Funded by an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (Grant number: AH/W000199/1)