From the team behind Fisherman’s Friends, Mother’s Pride is a comedy about a failing pub, a divided community and a grieving family whose lives are changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards. Starring Martin Clunes.

Director: Nick Moorcraft
Starring: Martin Clunes, Mark Addy
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 50mins

Based on the true story of a gulag survivor, a Stalinst lawyer discovers to his cost the lengths the establishment will go to in order to protect the status quo. A darkly humourous and disturbing exploration of the absurdities of totalitarianism.

Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic state lawyer (Alexander Kuznetsov) pushes past the prison's leery authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik (Aleksandr Filippenko).

Determined to expose the miscarriages of justice that landed the man in confinement, the lawyer finds the eye of the state turned on him instead, as an ever-tightening net encircles his investigation.

Set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Starring: Alexander Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Beliy & Aleksandr Filippenko
Year: 2025
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
Country: Germany / Latvia / Ukraine
Running time: 1hr 58mins

Buster's back at the Palace, this time in three excellent comedy classic shorts accompanied on piano by the peerless Lillian Henley! 

We begin behind the scenes to meet the cast in BACK STAGE (1919), a chance to see young Buster as a team player in Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's troupe before he began to try his hand behind the camera himself the next year.

Next up it's an unexpected journey to the skies in the wonderful THE BALLOONATIC (1923) in which a hopeful young man tries his hand at various things before coming across the launch of a hot air balloon, offering to help and then, well... don't try this at home, kids.

We close with relentlessly inventive and perfectly brilliant THE BLACKSMITH (1922), in which our man discovers that he has many talents, few, alas, directly relating to those of a traditional blacksmith.

Director: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, Roscoe Arbuckle
Starring: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Phyllis Haver
Year: 1919-1923
Language: Silent with live piano accompaniment
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 20mins

François Ozon’s (Frantz, 8 Women) luminous adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novel is a gripping account of human absurdity and murder in 1930s French-colonised Algeria.

Meursault (Benjamin Voisin), a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie (Rebecca Marder), a work colleague, and quickly slips back into his usual routine.

However, his daily life is soon disrupted by his neighbour, Raymond Sintès (Pierre Lottin), who draws Meursault into his shady dealings.

Shot with a muted palette and featuring understated performances, Ozon superbly captures Meursault’s stillness, passivity and lack of compassion, making us witnesses to his sociopathy.

Director: François Ozon
Starring: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin & Denis Lavant
Year: 2025
Language: In French and Arabic with English subtitles
Country: France
Running time: 2hrs 1min

Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Father Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch (Paterson, Dead Man).

Funny, tender and astutely observed, this is an intimate exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.

Told in the form of a triptych divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, each story concerns the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

Blending remarkable performances from its ensemble cast with Jarmusch’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life, the iconic indie director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers, but you can’t choose your family.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett & Vicky Krieps.
Year: 2026
Language: In English with some subtitled French and Italian
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 50mins

A triumph! A spectacle! A fuzzy wuzzy cuddle puddle! CatVideoFest is all that and more. The world’s favourite family-friendly cat-themed film event leaps joyfully in through the Palace cat flap for this year’s Festival of Cats for a special event which could feature YOUR cat, too! 

Cats being sneaky, cats being reckless, cats being acrobats, cats climbing on things they maybe shouldn’t, cats being helpful about the house… CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos selected from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. Now in its 10thyear, it’s a joyous communal experience for cat fans that’s only available in cinemas.

Reaching paws across the oceans, it has screened at hundreds of venues across the US and Europe, raising over £110,000 since 2019 for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities and animal welfare organisations; 10% of every ticket sold for this event goes to the Festival's chosen charity, Cats in Crisis Thanet. 

FAQ: Can I bring my cat? 

No, no you can’t, we’re afraid. BUT if you email one favourite hi res photo of your cat (jpeg, png) to us at info@thepalacecinema.co.uk by Sun 26 April then we'll add it to a special Palace showreel of local cats on the big screen before the show starts! 

Director: Various (mostly humans)
Starring: Cats, cats and more cats!
Year: 2026
Language: English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 15mins

Making his directorial debut, National Treasure and Succession actor Brian Cox stars alongside Alan Cumming as two estranged brothers reunited in their idyllic Scottish hometown, bound by the traditions of their family’s whiskey distillery.

After 35 years in Chicago, Donal (Alan Cumming - Eyes Wide Shut) reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy (Brian Cox - Succession). Sandy needs Donal to take over the family’s whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the family’s legacy. But their reunion forces the brothers to confront the past and the real reason Donal left Glenrothan.

Director: Brian Cox
Starring: Brian Cox, Alan Cumming & Shirley Henderson
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 40mins

A sharp, off-kilter comedy starring romantic newly weds head-over-heels until the groom (Robert Pattinson - Tenet) discovers his wife has done something truly unforgivable - and no it's not an affair but something much worse...

A rivetting blend of cringe and dark wit peels back the fondant layers of modern romance to reveal the anxieties, ambitions, and absurdities hiding beneath the buttercream. Another edgy great film from A24 (Marty Supreme, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Moonlight)

Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zendaya
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 45mins

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in present-day Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family’s history. As they explore the house, left untouched since the 1940s, they delve into the life of their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink of an industrial and cultural revolution.

Through back-and-forth journeys between 1895 and 2025, the cousins cross paths with figures like Monet, Nadar, and Sarah Bernhardt, in a journey that helps them make sense of their own future.

Aptly titled “The Coming of the Future” in French, Colours of Time plunges us into a moment in time when Parisian creativity is at its apex… when not only electricity and technology, but photography and Impressionism in painting and music are creating a spark that’s about to erupt into a movement far beyond anyone’s expectations. Cédric Klapisch‘s (Call My Agent! ) endearing new comedy is nothing less than a soul-stirring, time-traveling – at times, hallucinogenic – trip for art lovers everywhere.

Director: Cédric Klapisch
Starring: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler
Year: 2025
Language: In French with English subtitles
Country: France
Running time: 2hrs 4mins

From the filmmaker of 'Bait'. When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn.

Young father Nick (George MacKay) and enigmatic newcomer Liam (Callum Turner) join captain Murgey (Francis Magee), and they head to sea. But when they return, satisfied with their haul, something is amiss — they’ve slipped back in time, and the villagers greet them as if they are the original crew.

Rose of Nevada is Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s hotly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to his BAFTA-award-winning first feature Bait (2019) and Enys Men (2022). Unique among British feature filmmakers for the analogue way in which he crafts his films, Jenkin once again serves as writer, director, director of photography, editor, sound designer and score composer.

‘A Cornish modern classic. Eerie, heart-breaking, wonderful.’ — Mark Kermode

Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: George MacKay, Callum Turner & Rosalind Eleazar
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 54mins

A bold Brazilian odyssey. A 75-year-old woman escapes surveillance and forced retirement, taking a boat through the Amazon to chase her dream of flight. A tender, defiant journey of resistance, rebellion, and self-discovery.

Tereza (Denise Weinberg), 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are brought to "enjoy" their final years, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on productivity and growth.

Tereza refuses to accept this imposed fate, instead embarking on a transformative journey through the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon to fulfil one last wish before her freedom is taken away—a decision that will change her destiny forever.

Political and unsentimental yet profoundly human, The Blue Trail is a transfixing hallucinatory journey you won’t easily forget.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Starring: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro & Miriam Socarras
Year: 2025
Language: In Portuguese with English subtitles
Country: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands
Running time: 1hr 26mins

A riveting political thriller following the rise to power of Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) through his relationship with a young, wildly out of his depth, media spin-doctor (Paul Dano).

The year is 2019. An American journalist (Jeffrey Wright) with a longstanding interest in Russian history is invited to the luxurious dacha of Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), once dubbed “the new Rasputin” for the 15 years he spent as a close advisor to Vladimir Putin (Jude Law).

Having retired from politics, Baranov looks back on his incredible life, from his university days in the immediate post-Soviet era — when he met the love of his life (Alicia Vikander) — to his tenure overseeing trashy television shows to his role in transforming a seemingly uncharismatic Federal Security Service chief into Russia’s glory-seeking president. The Chechen war, the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine, interference in foreign politics, the monopolization of power: these and other colossal events unfolded under Baranov’s watch, whether he approved or not.

Dano perfectly balances cynicism and a sense of wonder in his decades-spanning portrayal of Baranov,while Vikander renders opportunism indistinguishable from desperation. Law, meanwhile, exudes a ruthless performance that corrodes the soul. Chilling, fascinating, and eerily intimate.

Based on Giuliano da Empoli’s award-winning novel and inspired by real-life Spin-doctor Vladislav Surkov, from director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Irma Vep).

Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Jude Law, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright & Alicia Vikander
Year: 2025
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 2hr 16mins

Beloved children's classic, The Magic Faraway Tree gets a wonderful film treatment as it follows Polly (Claire Foy), Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their three children as they relocate from the city to the remote English countryside. 

As they adapt to their new lives, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface (Nonso Anozie), Silky (Nicola Coughlan), Dame Washalot (Jessica Gunning) and Saucepan Man (Dustin Demri-Burns). 

At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the family learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Ben Gregor
Starring: Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield, Jennifer Saunders, Rebecca Ferguson & Nonso Anozie
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 50mins

Three two-reelers of the finest silent comedy from Chaplin’s early years in Hollywood, with live piano accompaniment by Lillian Henley.

Young English music hall star Charles Chaplin made his first appearance in a motion picture in early 1914. Two short years later he was on his way to becoming an international superstar, film companies queuing up to fund the creator of the ‘Little Tramp’ with any budget he required! These are three of the twelve wonderful short films Chaplin made for the Mutual Film Corporation 1916-1917. They’re every bit as much of a joy to watch today as they were when first released, showing film by film how his filmmaking genius developed as performer, writer, director and editor.  

We begin with The Pawnshop. Charlie is a shop assistant with questionable shop assisting skills, successfully driving his fellow shopworkers, his boss and customers up the wall. It’s only when he happens to be in the right place at the right time that he inadvertently saves the day, wins the gratitude of his boss and the heart of the boss’s daughter. 

Next up in Behind the Screen, we meet film industry characters including a young aspiring actress and Charlie, this time a junior stagehand shifting scenery about to the orders of his lazy boss. There’s lots of fun to be had with cameras, costumes, props, cast and crew until suddenly a strike shuts down production and Charlie and his assistant (the actress, disguised as a boy) are in danger!

We close with The Immigrant, which launches with tired and hungry immigrants aboard a ship bound for America, one of whom is Charlie. He meets a mother and her daughter aboard, and later, penniless but for the coin he’s just found on the street, re-meets the daughter by chance in a restaurant. He wrangles penury, beans and a very angry waiter before love wins the day.

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen. 

Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Year: 1916-1917
Language: Silent with live piano accompaniment
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 20mins

Music and power intertwine in Primavera, as Antonio Vivaldi teaches an orphan violinist how to imagine a new destiny for herself.

An astounding feature debut by acclaimed opera director Damiano Michieletto, Primavera is a fictionalised account of Antonio Vivaldi's time as resident composer and violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where he composed most of his major works, but told from the perspective of one of his most talented female students. 

18th Century, Venice. The Ospedale della Pietà is a refuge for orphaned and abandoned children. Here, girls study music, the most talented of which are placed in a special orchestra – renowned as one of the best in the world. They play for Venetian high society and wealthy patrons of the orphanage. While their showcases are used to raise money for the orphanage, they are also used to help secure marriage proposals for the women. Among this orchestra is 20-year-old Cecilia, an extraordinary violinist who is betrothed to a wealthy soldier when he returns from battle abroad. Though music has opened her mind, the doors of the orphanage remain closed until she is married. But her world is suddenly disrupted when a wind of spring awakens something within her with the arrival of a new teacher, composer and maestro di violino, Antonio Vivaldi. His tutelage and mentorship forever changes her, as she begins to imagine what her future could look like if she were able to take a different path and embrace her art.

Director: Damiano Michieletto
Starring: Tecla Insolia, Michele Riondino, Fabrizia Sacchi & Andrea Pennacchi
Year: 2025
Language: In Italian with English subtitles
Country: Italy, France
Running time: 1hr 51mins

The iconic – and iconically vicious – Editor-in-Chief of Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is watching the publishing world fall apart.

As her retirement nears, she finds herself facing off against Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt), her one-time assistant turned high-powered executive, who's sitting on advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.

To bring Runway back to life, her right-hand man Nigel (Stanley Tucci) turns to an unlikely new hire: Miranda's other former assistant, the once-unfashionable Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway).

Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in The Devil Wears Prada 2, the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon.

Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt & Stanley Tucci
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 53mins

Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate have been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures! Join us to discover them all, in person and on foot.

Cinema Walks explore and celebrate everywhere the towns have shown films, from converted sheds to glorious picture palaces, from buildings still standing to those of which all flickering traces are long gone. Taking in local characters and social history, archive images and film clubs happening next week, visit each town’s love for the sights, sounds and sensations of film from the 1890s to today.

Cinema Walk: Ramsgate Sun 7 June, 10:30-12:00.  Meeting point: Victoria Pavilion / Weatherspoons

Cinema Walk: Margate/Cliftonville Sun 14 June, 10:30-12:00.  Meeting point: TBC

Cinema Walk: Broadstairs Sun 28 June, 10:30-11:45.  Meeting point: Corner Victoria Parade / Queens Gardens

Routes - Cinema Walks are in the centre of each town: Broadstairs is smaller and flatter but Ramsgate and Margate include hillier streets. Please contact the Palace in advance to check if the route is suitable for you / your group. Free places are offered to carers accompanying those with a disability. 

Health & Safety - By agreeing to participate in a Cinema Walk, all customers are agreeing to listen to safety instructions and exercise due care and attention whilst walking. 

Bad weather - Cinema Walks do not offer any protection from the weather. In the event of weather bad enough to prevent a Walk taking place, participants will be given the choice of an alternative date or a full refund. 

Director: Palace Cinema
Starring: Broadstairs, Ramsgate & Marget
Year: 1896 - 2026
Language: In English
Country: Isle of Thanet
Running time: 1hr 30mins