Fatherland

Fatherland opens at Hyde Park Picture House on Friday 23 October, and it's running through to Thursday 29 October. It's the new film from Oscar winner Paweł Pawlikowski, who follows it up after Ida and Cold War.

The story is set in the summer of 1949, right at the height of the Cold War, and it centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, an actress, writer and rally driver. After sixteen years of exile in the US, Mann returns home and takes her on a road trip across a ruined Germany, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. It's a historical drama and biography, shot in Poland, Germany and Italy, and the cast includes Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, with August Diehl also appearing. It runs 1 hour and 22 minutes and is rated 12A.

One thing that sets this run apart is the range of accessible screenings. There are free, Pay What You Can, toddler-friendly, autism-friendly, captioned and audio-described sessions, so there's a way to see it that works for you. The cinema itself is on Brudenell Road in Headingley, and it's been there since 1914, when it opened just as Britain stood on the brink of the First World War. It's survived talkies, radio, TV, video, multiplexes and the internet as a friendly, independent cinema. You'll find it at 73 Brudenell Road, Leeds LS6 1JD.