NEW: ticket prices are cheaper! On 30th November and 7th December, tickets will be either £7 or £5.

Join us on Saturday 7th December for a screening of Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men” (2010) – our final film screening of the 2024 season.

According to The Guardian… “Of Gods and Men strives for simplicity; cinema is usually about dynamism, attraction, ego, but this movie concerns the renunciation of these things, in art and life. But it is also about the question of how to act when this life is violently challenged.”

SUMMARY: “An order of Trappist monks whose members include Christian (Lambert Wilson) and Luc (Michael Lonsdale) live among the Muslim population in a quiet corner of Algeria. As the country is plunged into civil war in the mid-1990s, the men of God must decide whether to stay among the impoverished residents who have been their neighbors, or flee the encroaching fundamentalist terrorists. The situation that unfolds, based on actual events.” (Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

ORIGINAL TITLE: Des hommes et des dieux (French)

DIRECTOR: Xavier Beauvois 

WRITERS: Étienne Comar, Xavier Beauvois 

STARS: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale 

COUNTRY: France

LANGUAGE: French and Arabic – with English subtitles

RATING: 15

AWARDS: 20 wins & many nominations – including for Foreign Language Film of the Year winner at the London Critics Circle Film Awards

RUNNING TIME: 2h 2m

IMDB: 7.2

ROTTEN TOMATOES: 92%

(Sources: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes)

The Meeting House is the home of New Unity, a radically inclusive community of love and justice. This screening is part of New Unity's new arts programme, Arts on the Green. Arts on the Green exists to provide flexible space to radical arts practitioners bringing high quality culture to our community.

Ticket refunds are not available.