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Electric Picture House
Wotton-under-Edge

Showing from 9th March

Tuesday 9th March

7:45pm - Mugabe And The White African, Cert PG, 90 mins
               Zimbabwe, 2008: Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers still holding out against confiscation of his land under the violent ‘Land Reform' programme. In desperation, he takes Robert Mugabe and his government to court, charging them with racial discrimination and human rights violations. This covertly filmed documentary presents an intimate, moving and often terrifying account of one man and his family’s extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.

Wednesday 10th March

8:45pm - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Cert 15, 115 mins
               Biopic of Ian Dury (Andy Serkis) who, stricken with polio at a young age, defied expectations and became one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in the 1970s. Also starring Ray Winstone and Mackenzie Crook.

Thursday 11th March

2:00pm - Up In The Air, Cert 15, 109 mins
               Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate hatchet man who loves his life flying around the US sacking people and accumulating air miles. Having met a soul mate in fellow frequent flyer, Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga) and on the cusp of achieving his lifelong target of 10 million air miles, he finds his lifestyle and attitudes challenged by up and coming executive Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick).

7:45pm - The Road, Cert 15, 119 mins
               With nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against cannibalistic bands, the clothes they are wearing and a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food, a father and son struggle through a postapocalyptic American landscape.

Friday 12th March

7:45pm - Up In The Air, Cert 15, 109 mins
               Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate hatchet man who loves his life flying around the US sacking people and accumulating air miles. Having met a soul mate in fellow frequent flyer, Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga) and on the cusp of achieving his lifelong target of 10 million air miles, he finds his lifestyle and attitudes challenged by up and coming executive Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick).

Saturday 13th March

4:30pm - Princess and the Frog , Cert U, 97 mins
               Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) works two waitressing jobs, Naveen (Bruno Campos) is a lazy prince who is turned into a frog by a voodoo man (David). When frog-Naveen persuades Tiana to kiss him in the hope of transforming back, she too becomes an amphibian, and the pair set off on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.

7:45pm - Avatar 3D, Cert 12A, 166 mins
               Inhabiting the body of an alien‘avatar’, disabled ex-soldier Jake (Sam Worthington) has to question his loyalties when he finds himself in the middle of a battle between the native people of the planet Pandora and the humans who want to exploit its resources.

Sunday 14th March

2:00pm - Avatar 3D, Cert 12A, 166 mins
               Inhabiting the body of an alien‘avatar’, disabled ex-soldier Jake (Sam Worthington) has to question his loyalties when he finds himself in the middle of a battle between the native people of the planet Pandora and the humans who want to exploit its resources.

7:45pm -  Mugabe And The White African, Cert PG, 90 mins
               Zimbabwe, 2008: Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers still holding out against confiscation of his land under the violent ‘Land Reform' programme. In desperation, he takes Robert Mugabe and his government to court, charging them with racial discrimination and human rights violations. This covertly filmed documentary presents an intimate, moving and often terrifying account of one man and his family’s extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.

Tuesday 16th March

7:45pm - Up In The Air, Cert 15, 109 mins
               Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate hatchet man who loves his life flying around the US sacking people and accumulating air miles. Having met a soul mate in fellow frequent flyer, Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga) and on the cusp of achieving his lifelong target of 10 million air miles, he finds his lifestyle and attitudes challenged by up and coming executive Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick).

Wednesday 17th March

8:45pm - An Education, Cert 12A, 100 mins
               1960's London: 16-year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is pretty, naturally talented and hard working and her father is intent on grooming her for Oxford. But her life is turned upside down when she is introduced to the glamorous and sophisticated world of David (Peter Sarsgaard), a man more than twice her age. Romance soon blossoms but, as Jenny learns more about David, she begins to question whether this new exciting life really is better than the one she is leaving behind.