The Salt Path12A

Directed by Marianne Elliott | UK | 2024 | 1h 55m | Starring Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs, James Lance, Hermione Norris, Megan Placito

When a couple is evicted from their home and faced with devastating medical news, they make a radical choice: to walk England’s longest continuous coastal trail, stretching from Minehead to Poole. With just a tent, a few essentials, and each other, every step tests their resilience and hope. Starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, this moving adaptation of Raynor Winn’s best-selling memoir is a story of survival, healing, and the power of the human spirit.

Reviews

‘With understated performances from Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, as well as immersive land and soundscapes that enhance the thematic pull, this portrait of loss, humanity and rebirth makes it worth the emotional investment.’
Courtney Howard, Variety

‘This modestly scaled drama… makes genuinely important points about homelessness, and the middle-class horror of ever crossing that line.’
Tim Robey, The Telegraph

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We showed The Salt Path between June 13, 2025 and July 10, 2025.

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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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