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The Ditchling Film Society was started over a quarter of a century ago by local film buff residents. A committee of keen volunteers select the films and organise the monthly screenings as well as the occasional talks and other film-related events.

Films are usually shown on the first Thursday of every month in the Ditchling Village Hall starting at 8 o'clock (Ample free parking). Membership of the society normally guarantees you a seat, but visiting guests are welcome for the minimal entrance fee of £4. Tea and coffee are served and, on special occasions, something stronger! Check out the Ditchling Film Society's next film below.

Why not consider joining the Ditchling Film Society? The committee work hard to select a really interesting range of films from both mainstream and 'alternative' film sources.

Annual membership of the Ditchling Film Society is £25, available at the entrance to the monthly film.

The Band's Visit [12] - Thursday 1st July
In this charming film we join the Alexandria Police Band on tour as they take the wrong bus and end up marooned in a small Israeli town. Grudgingly, they accept the sanctuary of kind-hearted bar-owner, Dina, and resolve to spend a single strange night in this desolate nowhere-town. As the Egyptians struggle to make themselves discreet, an almost-relationship beings between Dina and the band's irascible leader, Tawfiq, symbolic of the idea that there is a potenital for political and cultural detante if we can just make it over that first, awkward hurdle.
Director: Eran Kolirin, Israel 2007, 83 mins

The next season of films of the Ditchling Film Society begins in October 2010.

If you have a query about any of the screenings of the Ditchling Film Society please contact us.


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