It's 1958, summer is over and the hormonally-charged seniors of Rydell High are reluctantly returning to school, ready to fall back in with old friends and trade stories of the previous months' conquests. Danny Zuko, leader of local greaser gang, the T-Birds, brags to his crew about nights of passion spent on the beach with a mystery girl. Elsewhere, sweet Sandy Olsson - the new girl in town - is taken under the wing of the no-nonsense Pink Ladies and shares fond memories of a brief romance with an unknown sweetheart.

When it turns out that Danny and Sandy's mismatched tales are about each other, Sandy is humiliated and Danny has to win her back. To do so, he'll have to negotiate all of the romantic rites of passage a teenager in America's golden age could imagine: jiving school dances, awkward drive-in movies, deadly drag-races and the looming threat of graduation.

Screening for Dementia Action Week: Our Dementia Friendly Screenings are designed for people living with Dementia and their carers, or for anyone who would benefit from a relaxed cinema environment, but all are welcome.

Providing a comfortable and welcoming environment, we turn the sound down a notch, keep the lights on low and encourage people to come and go as they want with unallocated seating.

Just out of jail and still searching for his late beloved Beniamina, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur (Josh O’Connor) reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up. Arthur isn’t interested in the artefacts, though; he’s seeking a legendary door to the underworld, and to Beniamina.

In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.

“A joyous, masterful work of folk magic.”

BFI

“Alice Rohrwacher makes movies like no one else.”

- Hollywood Reporter

"It made me eurphorically happy!"

- Greta Gerwig

Friends of the Forum members can claim a £5 ticket to any performance of La Chimera by simply booking with their membership.

We will be regularly offering selected films at the reduced cost of £5 to our members in the hopes of you discovering a new film, so be sure to check our website listings frequently to see what’s on offer.