Steve15

Directed by Tim Mielants | Ireland/UK | 2025 | 1h 33m | Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson. Tracey Ullman, Little Simz, Jay Lycurgo

A defining day unfolds for a headteacher and his students at a last-chance reform school. As he struggles to save the school from closure and preserve its integrity, he must also confront his own mental health battles. Set in the mid-1990s, this moving adaptation of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller ‘Shy’, starring Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy and directed by the director of Small Things Like These.

Reviews

‘A drama suffused with gonzo energy and the death-metal chaos of emotional pain, cut with slashes of bizarre black humour… Murphy himself gives one of his most uninhibited and demonstrative performances.’
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘A profoundly moving and superbly acted diamond in the rough, “Steve” is better than anything the streamer has pushed for best picture to date.’
Peter Debruge, Variety

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Today (Friday 11th September)

15:30

Bitter Christmas 15
1h 51m | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film is a sun-dappled exploration of life, art and storytelling, as two filmmakers’ lives intertwine in a playful meditation on memory, creativity and the blurred boundaries between reality and fiction.

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18:00

Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Mias 15
1h 52m
Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) unleashes a bloody, bewildering meta-horror, as a young director and a reclusive scream queen descend into a delirious world of queer desire, fear and blood-soaked obsession. Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

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20:30

Bitter Christmas 15
1h 51m | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film is a sun-dappled exploration of life, art and storytelling, as two filmmakers’ lives intertwine in a playful meditation on memory, creativity and the blurred boundaries between reality and fiction.

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Tomorrow (Saturday 12th September)

11:00

Making Cars PG
Free Screening + Intro
54m
Five-part Channel 4 series telling the history of Cowley's Morris Motors and Pressed Steel factories through the voices of the workers themselves. Long thought lost, now rediscovered, join us for FREE screenings of episode one for Oxford Open Doors weekend.

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15:00

All About My Mother 15
35mm Presentation
1h 41m | Spanish w/ English subtitles
A grieving mother goes out to find the father of her deceased son, and unexpectedly becomes the heart of a makeshift family. Pedro Almodóvar’s vivid, Oscar-winning meoldrama is a tender exploration of the meaning of motherhood. Presented on 35mm film.

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17:45

Bitter Christmas 15
1h 51m | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film is a sun-dappled exploration of life, art and storytelling, as two filmmakers’ lives intertwine in a playful meditation on memory, creativity and the blurred boundaries between reality and fiction.

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20:15

Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Mias 15
1h 52m
Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) unleashes a bloody, bewildering meta-horror, as a young director and a reclusive scream queen descend into a delirious world of queer desire, fear and blood-soaked obsession. Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

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