Gaumont-British Films

12/12/2022

Next Screening at the Empire, Sandwich, Friday 16th 7,30, the startlingly beautiful Iranian film, Golnesa, by Iranian director Sattar Chamani Gol, illustrating the social facts at the heart of the rebellion in Iran today. Set in a traditional brick kiln in a remote region of Eastern Iran, about two refuges, a man and wife from Afghanistan. It shows the violent results of the cultural oppression of women, a man's psychic inadequacy to overcome the exaggerations of puffed up infantile pride, generated by his culture, and its destruction of his loyal and faithful wife at his side. An eastern Woyzeck of immense tragic power, painted upon a glowing canvas of red earth,
Starts at 7,30, film lasts 90 minutes. Not to be missed.

17/11/2022

First in a series of screenings of independent films by Gaumont-British at the Empire Cinema, Sandwich.
LEAVE NOW by Stephen Frost.
Plus STELLA ERRATICA at 7.00pm Short film shot on 8mm film. Features David Bowie's space suit from DARK STAR.

11/11/2022

Screening at the Empire Cinema, Sandwich, Leave Now directed by Stephen Frost. On Saturday November 19th, 7.30 pm. Tickets £5
A film of subtle artistry, with layers of experience and time, telling an engaging story of unlikely connections peoples lives, present and past.
A grief-stricken woman revisits an old seaside haunt where her chance meeting with a teenage boy re-opens channels of communication with the past. 1hour 52 mins.

Shot locally, around Kingsdown and Ramsgate

11/11/2022

Gaumont-British are doing a series of screenings of independent films in the art deco Empire cinema in Sandwich, Kent
If you would like to submit your film please send a link to [email protected]. Any enquiries write to us there.
We welcome the unconventional, we welcome the conventional.

01/12/2020

Are there any films without drums and violins?
Answers here please

01/12/2020

AT LAST SOMEWHERE TO SCREEN YOUR FILM!!

Are you an independent film-maker looking for a cinema for a screening?
We know its very difficult, and most cinemas either don't take independent films at all, or they set their hire prices at a forbidding level.
We are opening a small cinema that is devoted entirely to independent films. And our rate is such that you can take roughly double what you pay us, even if you only charge £8 per ticket (prices are up to you).
The cinema will be in FOLKSTONE, in Kent, and will seat around 50. It's small but its a start. We hope it will become a centre for first-showings, and even longer seasons oF independent films. We are especially interested in films that are entirely original, so dont be shy, book a slot for your film.

We have an open door policy to film-makers. We are not here to judge you. We will try to fit in as many as we can.

We are taking provisional bookings now for April onwards. Contact us now with date proposals, and a brief description of your film, and a little bit about yourself. Our rate is only £200 per screening, and no payment is necessary at this stage.
We have two slots per day, please let us know if you prefer afternoon or evening, 3pm, or 7.30pm.

[email protected]

Folkstone is 53 mins from London by train, and the cinema is 5 mins from the station. The last train is at 11pm. And the station is 997 meters from the cinema.

Eventually we hope to have larger cinemas where independent films can have longer runs and make a profit.

Gaumont-British was once one of the largest cinema chains in Britain, and had the biggest cinema, the 4000 seater Gaumont, in Kilburn. London.

01/12/2020