Early in 2006 Swindon Film Society started screening a short season of films in Highworth on the fourth Friday of each month.
Venue: St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HF . Click on the postcode for a map ...
... or see map below for directions.
While we show films on the 35mm projector at Swindon Arts Centre, at Highworth and other locations we use our DVD equipment to show films.

28 September 2007
Little Miss Sunshine
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, USA 2006 (102 mins)
This year’s surprise Oscar winning film about a family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant is a bitter sweet comedy which radiates warmth and charm.
Distributor: Fox
Film website

26 October 2007
An Inconvenient Truth
Director: Davis Guggenheim, USA 2006 (97 mins)
Another Oscar winner! – Al Gore's ground-breaking documentary about his campaign to raise awareness about the cause and effects of global warming.
Distributor: UIP or Paramount
Film website

23 November 2007
Days of Glory (Indigènes)
In French and Arabic with English subtitles.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb, France/Algeria 2007 (124 mins)
This handsomely staged and well acted war movie tells the almost forgotten story of the gallant sacrifice made by indigènes, or native forces, from the French north African colonies in World War II.
Distributor: Metrodome
Film website

25 January 2008
The Painted Veil
Director: John Curran, UK/China 2007 (125 mins)
Visually stunning and beautifully acted, this slow-burning romance of love lost and regained against the backdrop of rural China in the 1920’s is based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
Distributor: Momentum
Film website

22 February 2008
Jindabyne
Director: Ray Lawrence, Australia 2007 (124 mins)
From the director of Lantana, this murder mystery cum psychological drama is set in the Australian outback, and stars Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne as a couple whose marriage is rocked after he discovers a dead body on a fishing trip.
Distributor: Revolver Entertainment
Film website

28 March 2008
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis A Personne)
In French with English subtitles.
Director: Guillaume Canet, France 2007 (130 mins)
An intricate, intelligent and very watchable French thriller, based on a Harlam Coban novel, about a doctor who is still grieving for his dead wife when he gets mysterious messages suggesting she may still be alive.
Distributor: Revolver Entertainment
Film website

25 April 2008
The Prestige
Director: Christopher Nolan, UK 2006 (130 mins)
Magic, mystery and intrigue combine in this film from Christopher Nolan set mainly in 19th century London, about the intense rivalry between two magicians. All this is reinforced by some spectacular physics experiments. Starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and Michael Caine.
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Film website

Membership and Admission
Membership: £2 for the season (this also gives you membership to films at other venues in the SFS 2006/07 programme)
Admission to each film:
Members £3.00
Guests £4.00