CFS: The Promised Land

Chester Film Society is committed to showing the best of recent films from World Cinema, showcasing films that may have been missed or not shown at the cinema at all. In conjunction with Picturehouse, Chester Film Society’s Film Programing Group has put together a diverse programme that showcases the very best of cinema from around the globe. Film Society membership is only £10 for the whole season and members can then buy tickets for each film for just £5. As always, non-members are still welcome with tickets at the full standard Picturehouse price.

In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the uninhabitable Danish heath in the name of the King. But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel, who believes the land belongs to him, swears revenge when the maid Ann Barbara and her serf husband escape for refuge with Kahlen. From BAFTA nominated writer and director Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), this powerful Nordic western stars BAFTA nominee Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Another Round), Amanda Collin (Raised by Wolves), Simon Bennebjerg (Borgen), Kristine Kujath Thorp (Sick of Myself) and Gustav Lindh (The Northman).