Date & Time: Saturday Sept 3rd / 1.30pm

Location & Tickets: The Gate Cinema

Details: Costa-Gavras/ France / 1965 / 105 mins

Starring: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

“A powerful, emotionally compelling film, Playground captures with enormous force the very velocity with which children lose empathy when thrown into the jungle of the playground.” – The Financial Times.

“A remarkable achievement” – The Observer.

Date & Time: Saturday Sept 3rd / 4pm

Location & Tickets: The Gate Cinema

Details: Audrey Estrougo / France / 2021 / 102 mins

Starring: Théo Christine, Sandor Funtek, Félix Lefevbre

Synopsis: France, early nineties. As the violence escalates between police and youth in the city projects, hip-hop culture spreads as the best means to express revolt. Two boys, JoeyStarr and Kool Shen, become the voice of a generation and the biggest French rap group ever: Suprême NTM.

“Authentik, Audrey Estrougo’s crowd-pleasing and galvanizing biopic of rap duo Suprême NTM, offers a dynamic reconstruction of a moment in hip-hop’s global explosion.” – Lincoln Centre, New York French Film Festival.

Date & Time: Saturday Sept 3rd / 6.15pm

Location & Tickets: The Gate Cinema

Details: Emmanuel Carrére / France / 2021 / 107 mins

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hélène Lambert, Louise Pocieka

Synopsis: Famed journalist Marianne goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of cleaning people in the north of France, eventually landing a job on a ferry. As she learns more about the plight of these workers on the margins, Marianne grows closer to her new female comrades while simultaneously beginning to harbour concerns that she’ll be complicit in their exploitation when she returns to Paris and writes a book about her experiences.

Based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’ bestselling non-fiction work, Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.

“It’s an incendiary, scene-dominating turn from newcomer Hélène Lambert that gives the picture its jagged, furious energy” – The Observer.

Date & Time: Saturday Sept 3rd / 8.30pm

Location & Tickets: The Gate Cinema

Details: Bruno Dumont / 133 mins

Starring: Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay

Synopsis: Paris, today. France de Meurs is a star journalist running between a television set, a distant war and the hustle and bustle of her busy family life. Her frantic high-profile world is suddenly turned upside down after a traffic accident. This unexpected disruption of reality calls everything into question. As France attempts to slow down and retreat into a simple anonymous life, her fame continues to pursue her until a mystified love affair comes her way. Director Dumont questions the hypocrisy of creating glamorous news and a media circus that walks a thin line between exploitation and information.

“Big ideas – modern media and its manipulations; immigration and income inequality; privacy and voyeurism – bubble around in this tasty and nutritious bouillabaisse of a film” – The Washington Post.