It’s alive, it’s alive…

Memberships for the 2024/2025 season can be purchased here.

Our 2024-25 season starts on Thursday 19th September!
As we’ve previously announced, the Film Society is changing the way it screens its films. They will now all be hosted at Chester Picturehouse in their 136-seat Screen 2.
We’re splitting up the season into two parts – Part one will consist of five films, three weeks apart on the following dates (all Thursdays, at 7:30 pm)

19th September – The Promised Land
10th October – The Origin of Evil
31st October – Sorcery
21st November – Mami Wata
12th December – The Good Boss

The flyer for part 1 of the new season can be viewed here.

Part Two will start on the 9th of January 2025 with a further five films until the 10th of April, with a break in March when we will be holding the Chester International Film Festival back at Storyhouse (more on this later in the year!)

Splitting the season into two parts allows us to take advantage of obtaining more recent films from World Cinema, which remains the focus of our programme. We put together a Film Programing Group of film society members who meet to discuss and agree on our final shortlist of films. These are then submitted to Picturehouse’s Senior Film Programmer who obtains  the necessary screening licenses.

Membership and ticketing
As part of this new setup, Picturehouse will cover all the venue and film licensing costs. We will still operate a Film Society membership, but at only £10 for the whole season! This allows our members to buy tickets for each film directly from Picturehouse at just £5 a time. Non-members are still welcome, but they would have to buy tickets at the full standard Picturehouse price (currently £10 plus any online booking fee)

‘I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring,’

David Bowie, 1997.

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