Hounds15

Directed by Kamal Lazraq | Morocco | 2023 | 1h 34m | Moroccan Arabic w/ English subtitles | Starring Ayoub Elaid, Abdellatif Masstouri, Mohamed Hmimsa, Abdellatif Lebkiri, Lahcen Zaimouzen

A father and son carry out small trafficking jobs for the local mafia in the working class suburbs of Casablanca. One night, the man they were supposed to kidnap dies accidentally in their car, leaving them with an even more dangerous task on their hands. Kamal Lazraq’s gritty thriller offers an uncompromising portrait of Morocco’s underworld pushed to the margins of crime, violence, and murder.

Reviews

“There are hints of Quentin Tarantino, Nicolas Winding Refn and Alejandro González Iñárritu in this punchy, scrappy film whose two lead characters are all too obviously less important to the criminal overlords than the actual dogs in their macho contests.’
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Book tickets

Monday 8 July

8.30pmBook tickets
Tuesday 9 July

6.15pmBook tickets

What else is on?

Tomorrow (Sunday 7th July)

15:15

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 12A
1h 33m | Arabic & German w/ English subtitles
A German widow faces the prejudice of her friends and neighbours after a friendship with a young Moroccan man becomes romantic in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's homage to classic Hollywood melodrama All That Heaven Allows.

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17:30

Freud's Last Session 12A
1h 49m
Anthony Hopkins stars as Sigmund Freud receiving a visit from Oxford don and author C.S. Lewis during the early days of the Second World War in this thought-provoking drama adapted from an award-winning stage play.

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20:00

Green Border 15
2h 32m | Polish & Arabic w/ English subtitles
Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) returns with this complex, immersive, and humane narrative of migrants from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the EU through the forests of Belarus and Poland.

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Monday 8th July

18:00

Blow Out 18
1h 48m
A sound technician records evidence of a political assassination while working on a horror film and becomes entangled in a deadly conspiracy. De Palma's thriller reflects on paranoid politics and the art of filmmaking.

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20:30

Hounds 15
1h 34m | Moroccan Arabic w/ English subtitles
An attempted kidnapping goes horribly wrong for a father and son who carry out small trafficking jobs for the local mafia of Casablanca in Kamal Lazraq’s gritty and uncompromising thriller.

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Plan your visit

Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!