A selection of Movies on Monday at 6.30pm doors open 6.20pm for refreshments in Tollcross Community Centre.

Admission is free so please come early to avoid disappointment.

Buena Vista Social Club by W.Wenders (Cuba)
Monday 18th February

A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some in their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder, the American musician, for this film and we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music.

A Nos Amours (To those we love) – Maurice Pialat (France 1983)
Monday 25th February

The film tells the story of Suzanne, a 15 year old girl, who seeks happiness without knowing how to love and it describes her relationship with a family that does not understand her.

Le Notti Bianchi (White Nights) – L. Visconti (Italy 1957)
Monday 3rd March

In this romantic drama, an adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story, a man meets a woman waiting for the return of her lover and finds himself involved in a weird, dreamlike series of events

Abouna (Our Father) – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Sudan, France, Chad, Netherlands 2002)
Monday 10th March

From a dusty village in the Republic of Chad, two brothers, Amin and Tahir, set out in search of their father.

Movern Callar – Lynne Ramsay (Scotland 2002)
Monday 17th March

One morning Morvern finds a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor. Extraordinarily, she doesn't tell anyone. Her subsequent choices propel her on a journey that transforms her life.

Monday 24th March No film - Holiday - Centre Closed.

Time Of The Gypsies – Emir Kusturika (Yugoslavia-Serbia 1988)
Monday 31st March

Fantastical Yugoslavian drama about teenager coming-of-age among gypsy thieves in Italy. Art-house devotees looking for complex characters, dreamy imagery, will be enthralled, though mainstream viewers may find it overly bizarre.

Aguirre, Wrath Of God – Werner Herzog (Germany1972)
Monday 7th April

This film tells the story of a little-known 16th-century conquistador who leads his followers through the Andes in the search for the golden city known as El Dorado. But plot isn't necessarily the point; what is most remarkable about Aguirre is its portrayal of the natural environment of the warriors.

Bicycle Thief – Vittorio de Sicca (Italy 1948)
Monday 14th April

An unemployed workman is robbed of the bicycle he needs for a new job,and he and his small son search Rome for it.

Monday 21st April No film - Holiday - Centre Closed.

Little Miss Sunshine – Valeria Fadis and Jonathan Milton (US 2006)
Monday 28th April

When a podgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams.

Monday 5th May No film - Holiday - Centre Closed.

Red – K. Kieslowski (France 1994)
Monday 12th May

Irene Jacob forms an unusual friendship with a bitter old man.

Monday 19th May No film - Holiday - Centre Closed.

Metropolis – Fritz Lang (Germany 1927)
Monday 26th May

In the year 2000 the workers live underground, their unrest quelled by the saintly Maria, but a mad inventor creates an evil Maria to incite rebellion.

Ivan’s Childhood – A. Tarkovsky (Soviet Union 1962)
Monday 2nd June

A vengeful 12-year-old escapes from a concentration camp and joins the partisans after his family is killed by the Nazis.

La Vie En Rose – Olivier Dahan (France 2007)
Monday 9th June

Biography of the French chanteuse Edith Piaf.