Norden Farm: April/May films

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Norden Farm Centre for the Arts spring season is in full swing and the Maidenhead venue have just announced their latest film line up to see you through until June.

Film tickets are £10.50 | £9.50 conc. School Holiday Family Screenings are £9 | £7 under 16s| Family & Friends (4 people) £24. Event Cinema tickets £16.

The programme includes Bring Baby screenings (tickets are £5.50 include a tea or coffee | babies under 2 go free), Relaxed School Holiday Screenings and Open Captioned Screenings (providing a transcription of the audio and dialogue from a film on screen).

Not forgetting evening screenings where you can kick back and enjoy a movie on the big screen after a delicious meal or drink in the Café Bar - or out on the terrace in the sunshine as the evenings grow longer!

Perfect Days (PG) is the latest film from acclaimed writer-director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire). Set in Tokyo, the story celebrates the hidden joys of Japanese culture. Featuring a Cannes Best Actor award winning performance from Koji Yakusho.

Relaxed screenings as part of Norden Farm’s Spring holiday Quest Family Fest include a feathered family adventure with Migration (U); Disney’s latest musical-comedy Wish (U); and charming coming-of-age story Luca (U).

Bob Marley: One Love (12A) celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. The film stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary musician and Lashana Lynch as his wife Rita.

Documentary fans can catch Occupied City (12A) from Oscar and BAFTA winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen. Informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945, the documentary creates two interlocking portraits. One shows the city’s devastating Nazi occupation - the other is a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. Expect a mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present.

The epic, big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed bestseller continues with Dune: Part II (12A) on their big screen this April. This visually stunning film picks up as Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.

World cinema includes French drama Red Island (12A) - inspired by filmmaker Robin Campillo’s own childhood; Buenos Aires heist tale The Delinquents (12A); and Io Capitano (cert tbc) - following two Senegalese teenagers who leave Dakar to travel to Europe in pursuit of a better life.

Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in National Theatre Live screenings of Nye. This new play by Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris, is a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS.

Other upcoming Event Cinema screenings include Royal Opera House Live screenings of a sizzling new production of Bizet’s opera Carmen; spectacular dance-theatre show Message In A Bottle set to the iconic hits of Sting; and Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma – a critically acclaimed staging filmed at a custom built theatre space in London.

With over 25 films on the line up, a Café Bar serving drinks you can bring in with you, lunch and dinner menus, plus free parking on site – what better excuse to catch a movie at Norden Farm?