Winter Film Festival August 2024 at Huonville Library

Come in from the cold, relax and let us entertain you with a different movie each week. Discover a new film or revisit an old favourite. Enjoy large HD TV screens, warm spaces, dimmed lights, a hot drink and a snack!

With movies available at Glenorchy, Huonville, Bridgewater, Kingston, New Norfolk and Rosny Libraries, you're bound to find a location and time to suit.

These films are brought to you in partnership with Beamafilm.

With your Libraries Tasmania membership, you can watch movies and documentaries at home. Simply download the Beamafilm app to your device or log in through the Libraries Tasmania website on any computer. Talk to a friendly staff member if you need any help.

The program

Lucky Grandma

Wednesday 7 August

2:00pm

Comedy Drama (M) 2019 Subtitles

1h27mins

A dark comedy about immigrant life, the vulnerabilities of ageing, and an unexpected friendship. Set in alleyways and underground mahjong parlours with a cast of richly drawn characters, this is a love letter to Chinatown and a homage to all the badass elderly women who inhabit it.

Faces Places

Wednesday 14 August

2:00pm

Documentary (M) 2017 Subtitles

1h29mins

A heart-warming journey through rural France and the unlikely, tender friendship that formed along the way between film director Agnes Varda and the iconic photographer/muralist JR.

The Comedian’s Guide to Survival

Wednesday 21 August

2:00pm

Comedy drama (M) 2016

1h32mins

Struggling comedian James Mullinger (James Buckley, The Inbetweeners) has come to a crossroads in his life; no one wants to see him perform, his wife is fed up and his boss has given him an ultimatum.

England is Mine

Wednesday 28 August

2:00pm

Drama (MA) 2017

1h30mins

Steven Patrick Morrissey wants to write and sing. But being young, his voice goes no further than the NME letters page and his dead-end office walls. When the punk scene explodes, Steven embarks on a journey to become himself in a world that's trying to make him like everybody else.

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