The Ceremony15

Directed by Jack King | UK | 2024 | 1h 32m | Arabic, Kurdish, & Romanian with English subtitles | Starring Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu, Erdal Yildiz, Mo'min Swaitat, Liam Thomas, Mustafa Husseini

As night descends over the Yorkshire Dales, two undocumented Romanian men working at a local car wash are pulled into a spiralling moral crisis. Their contrasting beliefs and troubled pasts threaten to divide them, unless they can find common ground to survive what lies ahead. Bradford-born writer-director Jack King’s haunting and visually striking debut won the Sean Connery Award for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Tuesday 23 September

£6 for Members

6.15pmBook tickets
Wednesday 24 September

8.30pmBook tickets

What else is on?

Today (Monday 22nd September)

20:30

Caught Stealing 15
Deaf/HOH subtitles
1h 47m
Austin Butler and Matt Smith star in Darren Aronofsky’s (Black Swan) darkly comic 90s-set crime thriller. A burned-out ex-ballplayer agrees to cat-sit, then plunges into New York’s violent underworld, dodging gangsters in a chaotic fight for survival.

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Tomorrow (Tuesday 23rd September)

18:15

The Ceremony 15
£6 for Members
1h 32m | Arabic, Kurdish, & Romanian with English subtitles
Two undocumented Romanian workers in rural England face a moral crisis that could destroy their friendship. Jack King’s award-winning debut is a visually arresting, slow-burn drama about survival and finding common ground in desperate circumstances.

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20:30

Young Mothers 12A
£6 for Members
1h 46m | French w/ English subtitles
Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night) deliver an unflinching, empathetic portrait of teens raising babies in a state shelter. This Cannes-winning drama captures dignity, hardship, and hope in the face of systemic neglect.

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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!