Sherborne International Film Festival – in aid of The HALO Trust

Your chance to catch up with some of the best foreign films. There is a mixture of drama, action, comedy, thriller and tragedy, sometimes many found in one movie. The Festival not only provides the community of Sherborne with the opportunity to see foreign films which would not otherwise be shown locally, but also to raise funds for charity.

All films will be shown at The Powell Theatre, Abbey Road Sherborne DT9 3AP, and we are indebted to Sherborne Boys School for allowing us access to this wonderful facility again this year.

Tonight we are showing two films.

5.00pm – A Femme Nikita (1990) 15 France

Anne Parillaud plays Nikita, a nihilistic punk who is given a life sentence for killing a policeman. Without warning she is transferred to a secret training centre where the mysterious Bob (Tchéky Karyo) transforms her into a ruthless government assassin. Directed by Luc Besson.

Sponsored by Orchard Estates

7.30 pm  Parasite (2019) 15 South Korea

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft.

Sponsored by The Grange at Oborne

Films at £8.00 each.

Tickets are available either online via the website  rcsc.org.uk/our-key-events/shiff/ ,  or at Winstone’s Bookshop Cheap Street Sherborne (Cash Only)