GOD’S OWN COUNTRY/ CANCELLED

GODS OWN COUNTRY       Francis Lee              105min/England/2017         15

CANCELLATION NOTICE:

We are cancelling this screening due to concerns around the coronavirus. Our cinema is a small, intimate venue – this means social distancing is not possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused but we feel this is the right choice – the health and wellbeing of our community is the most important thing to us. Thank you for your understanding. Take care everyone. We look forward to seeing you again as soon as possible. 

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A captivating and broodingly beautiful film with a bracingly open heart set in rural Yorkshire. Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. But when a handsome Romanian migrant worker (Alec Secareanu) arrives to take up temporary work on the family farm, Johnny suddenly finds himself having to deal with emotions he has never felt before. As they begin working closely together during lambing season, an intense relationship starts to form which could change Johnny’s life forever.

This screening is part of the season THE WORKED EARTH curated in dialogue with SIDE Gallery’s exhibitions Otherwise Unseen by Tessa Bunney and Waiting for Winter by Rena Effendi both of which explore human relationships with the land. We have drawn films from the Ukraine, Loas, Turkey, France, Italy and England that each expand the conversation around this work. The extraordinary films ask questions about time, humans relationship with the environment and our role within fragile ecosystems. We will also be exploring the tensions between rural and urban environments and the relationships that are grown both in harmony with the land and in opposition.

Each screening will be followed by a facilitated conversation with members of the Amber Collective, invited guests and the audience.