Events
While we fundraise to reimagine, refurbish, and reopen The Belmont Cinema, our team is committed to engaging our community and continuing to foster that love and appreciation for cinema through an exciting programme of events.
This page features details of our upcoming screenings, talks, quizzes, and fundraising events.
Friday 10 October, 7pm at Citymoves Dance Agency, Shoe Lane, Aberdeen, AB10 1AL
A classic of the Czechoslovak New Wave Cinema Presented by The Belmont Cinema in Partnership with Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival.
One of the best-loved films of the Czech New Wave follows the story of a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice at a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, who longs to liberate himself from his virginity.
A classic of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Jiří Menzel’s Oscar-winning directorial debut presents an absurd, comedic depiction of youth under occupation.
Set against the backdrop of rural, Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Closely Watched Trains follows Milos (Vaclav Neckar), a young apprentice train dispatcher, as he struggles to navigate his sexual insecurities alongside the stark realities of life during World War II.
Through the film’s weaving of coming-of-age narratives with grander acts of rebellion, Closely Watched Trains presents a tender portrait of adolescence, in all its frailty, anchored simultaneously in the banality of the everyday and in the most trying of circumstances.
Updating the Czech archetype of The Good Soldier Švejk, Menzel’s film serves as a deeply humanistic portrayal of the anxieties of growing up, which manages to simultaneously feel quotidian and singularly Czech.
Certificate: 15
Content notes: death, war violence, sexual content, nudity, suicide attempt
Wheelchair accessible | English subtitles | Pay-what-you-can tickets (£2–12)
Saturday 11 October, 7pm at Citymoves Dance Agency, Shoe Lane, Aberdeen, AB10 1AL
A powerful feminist manifesto at the intersection of war, displacement, gender roles, and social pressures presented by The Belmont Cinema in Partnership with Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival.
Certificate: 12A
Wheelchair accessible | English subtitles | Pay-what-you-can tickets (£2–12)