2021-22 Archives

A Royal Night Out

Film posterAs part of the Jubilee celebrations TFS will be screening a ROYAL NIGHT OUT on FRIDAY 3rd JUNE at 7.30pm with a bar from 6.45pm
Entry is FREE there will be no reservations, just turn up at the door.

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Wild Rose

Film posterWild Rose 2018 UK 1hr 41min 

6th May 2022

Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer.

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A Month in The Country

Film posterA Month in The Country 1987 UK 1hr 36min

22nd April 2022

The film is set in the summer of 1920s rural Yorkshire following destitute World War I veteran, Tom Birkin (Colin Firth). Birkin has been employed by a village church to carry out restoration work on a medieval mural while coming to terms with the after-effects of the war.

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Fisherman's Friends

film posterFisherman's Friends 2019 1Hr 52 Mins  

Friday 27th August 2021

Topsham Film Society will screen Fisherman's Friends as part of Topsham Town Fayre week and in keeping with the Topsham Charter Day’s theme of FISH & SHIPS. All proceeds from these screenings will be donated to Topsham Community Association.

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White Crow

white crow posterThe White Crow 2016 UK 2hrs 2 mins

8th April 2022

The film follows Nureyev’s poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at the epicentre of western culture in Paris in the early 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget airport. 

 

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Parasite

film poster
Parasite 2019 South Korea 2hr 12 min

4th February 2022


Winner of four Oscars including Best Picture. A dark comedy exploring the symbiotic relationship between two very different families, where mishaps eventually lead to disaster. Chosen by TFS Members

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Bait

film posterBait 2019 UK 1hr 29min

4th March 2022

Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, holiday-homes and stag parties to his harbour village. 

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Rabbit Proof Fence

film posterRabbit Proof Fence 2002 Australia 1hr 34min

18th March 2022

Phillip Noyce's film is based on a book by Doris Pilkington, telling the story of the experiences of her mother, Molly, her aunt Daisy and their cousin Gracie. The young girls were torn from their families by government officials and transported some 1,000 miles to a training school.

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Woman at War

film posterWoman at War 2018 Iceland 1hr 41min

18th February 2022

Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But, behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain.”

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Transit

film posterTransit 2018 German/French 1hr 42min

8th October 2021

As fascism spreads, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying.

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The Shape of Water

film posterThe Shape of Water 2017 USA 2hr 3min

3rd December 2021

From master story teller Guillermo del Toro comes an other-worldly fable, set against the backdrop of the Cold War era. The film received many awards, including 13 Oscar nominations, winning Best Picture and 3 other Oscars.

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The Farewell

film posterThe Farewell 2019 USA/China 1hr 40min

19th November 2021

The Farewell is a funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie. Billi a headstrong Chinese-American returns to Changchun, when beloved grandmother Nai Nai has been given weeks to live, she struggles to cope with the family decision not to tell her

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Harriet

film posterHarriet 2019 USA 2hr 6min

5th November 2021

HARRIET tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroes.

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Beautiful Boy

film posterBeautiful Boy 2018 USA 2h 1min

22nd October 2021

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heart breaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. Starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan.

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The Peanut Butter Falcon

film posterThe Peanut Butter Falcon 2019 USA 1hr 37min

17th December 2021

A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, it tells the story of Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school.

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The Personal History of David Copperfield

film posterThe Personal History of David Copperfield 2019 UK 2hr

17th September 2021

The Personal History of David Copperfield is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Armando Iannucci, based on the 1850 Victorian era novel by Charles Dickens.

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