WIVELISCOMBE’S film society, Cinema Obscura is starting its new season of award-winning films on Sunday (September 17).

Established in 2000, Cinema Obscura was awarded Best New Film Society by British Federation of Film Societies.

The new season of eight films will include several films being shown for the first time in the South-West. It also promises to be just as entertaining and challenging as previous

seasons.

The season, which kicks off with award-winning Lion (PG) starring Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire and Marigold Hotel) and Nicole Kidman, is an excellent introduction to Cinema Obscura’s new season. A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of miles from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Based on the autobiography A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, it is an emotional rollercoaster of a film.

Screenings are at Wiveliscombe Primary School Hall in North Street on Sundays. Doors open at 7pm with the main feature at 7.30pm – light refreshments are available before the film. Full membership is £25 (eight films) with guest entry £5.

Eddie Gaines, Cinema Obscura’s chairman, said: “We have put together another season of great thought provoking and individualistic films, which members and their guests will remember and savour long after the end credits have run.”

The other films in the season are: October 15 –The Salesman (12); November 19 – The Other Side of Hope (12); December 10 – Las Amants Du Pont-Neuf (15); January 21 – After The Storm (PG); February 18 – Embrace of The Serpent (12A); March 18 – Mountains May Depart (to be confirmed); April 15 –

Neruda (15).

Full details of the new season of films is available from Eddie Gaines on 01984 624657 or Barry Witherden on 01984 629114.