Our next film
7.30 Tuesday 21st April
The President's Cake
(Cert 12A) Subtitles
​ Iraq, 1991: 9-year-old Lamia lives in poverty with her grandmother, in a marshland village of rush-built homes. Disaster strikes when she is selected by her school to make a cake for Saddam Hussein’s birthday. Against the odds, she sets out on a determined journey through the big city in search of ingredients. A compassionate, tragicomic film balances light and dark in its child’s eye view of the moral collapse resulting from poverty and authoritarianism.
A warm welcome to
Stafford Film Theatre at
The Gatehouse- showing critically acclaimed films on the big screen.
We aim to show films from the UK and world cinema that you might not otherwise have a chance to see in Stafford. All are welcome, subject to the age certificate of the film.
We are now showing films on every Tuesday evening (except 28th April) until 19th May. Click below for our varied programme
Coming up
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7.30 Tuesday 5th May
I Swear (Cert 15)
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​ This funny, heartfelt and emphatically moving film dramatises the true story of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson. It chronicles his quest to live normally in a world that insisted on calling him different. Diagnosed at aged 15, John’s Tourette’s made him the target of bullying and violence. He subsequently became one of the UK’s most passionate advocates for greater awareness of this syndrome for which he received an MBE.
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