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Thanks to funding from BFI Film Hub Midlands we are able to offer a special project between June 2026 and March 2027.
Promoters who are part of our Big Picture Show film network can select any of the titles below to screen in their community at a special subsidised price.
The current menu of films below is for bookings from June 2026 - September 2026.
To find out more about this project please email [email protected]
This feel good British film tells the true story of Liz Evans from Carmarthen, Wales, who campaigned to save the Lyric Cinema in 1993. Cert: 12A | 1h 49m | Stars: Samantha Morton, Adeel Akhtar, Jonathan Pryce | Director: Sara Sugarman
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This Oscar nominated film tells the story of a young teacher from Bhutan is sent to teach in Lunana, one of the most remote villages in the Himalayas. Initially resistant, he gradually forms deep connections with the villagers and his students, rediscovering purpose and the value of community. Cert: PG | 1h 50m | Stars: Sherab Dorji | Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
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National Year of Reading: England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Cert: PG | 1h 53m | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne | Director: Isabel Coixet
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National Year of Reading: Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy's frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond inthis riveting documentray by oscar nominated filmmaker, Kim A. Snyder. Cert: 15 | 1h 32m | Director: Kim A. Snyder
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This documentary follows passionate sea swimmer turned reluctant activist, Exmouth-based Jo Bateman, as she takes on one of the UK's biggest water companies in a David and Goliath battle to protect our waters from devastating sewage pollution. Cert: PG | 1h 17m | Director: Pip Piper
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A poetic journey along the entire Atuel river in Argentina, bearing witness to a pressured ecosystem and the stories and solutions that the people who live along it share. Cert: PG | 1h 15m | Director: Ben Cook
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National Year of Reading: Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit. Cert: PG | 1h 36m | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Andrew Scott, Rafe Spall | Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
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National Year of Reading: Laurie Lee's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War. Cert: 12 | 1h 30m | Stars: Timothy Spall, Samantha Morton, Georgie Smith | Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
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In this award winning documentary, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism. Cert: 12A | 1h 30m | Director: Ella Glendining
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In this documentary, Māori tribal leader Ned Tapa takes a group of friends and family on a canoe trip down the Whanganui River in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the first river in the world recognized as a legal person. Cert: PG | 1h 28m | Director: Petr Lom
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National Year of Reading: A disillusioned Englishman who goes to work in a school in a divided Argentina in 1976 finds his life transformed when he rescues an orphaned penguin from the beach. Cert: 12A | 1h 51m | Stars: Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce | Director: Peter Cattaneo
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