Monday Cinema – The Old Oak

Trail & District Arts Council’s MONDAY CINEMA presents The Old Oak at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail on Monday, November 4 at 4 pm.

Ken Loach’s final feature takes place in and around a pub in a northern English village, where not all of the locals are welcoming to newly arrived refugees from Syria.

The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times.

When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, local residents fueled by prejudice, take out their anger and resentment on the community’s newest inhabitants. But the an unexpected friendship between the pub owner and a young Syrian woman opens up new possibilities for the divided village in this deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope.

Loach, who is 87 years old, has announced that The Old Oak will be his final film.

“As with all Loach’s issue-led film-making – I, Daniel Blake’s condemnation of austerity; Sorry We Missed You’s attack on the gig economy – there is a clear, black-and-white moral framework. But there is also a plea for open-hearted compassion, even for bilious racists. The final message of hope is resolutely upbeat and desperately needed.” – Wendy Ide, The Guardian

Director: Ken Loach / Featuring: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson / UK, France / English, Arabic / 113 minutes / Rating: 14A

Content advisory: depictions of racism; violence; coarse language

The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.
All films begin at 4:00 pm.

Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm.
Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.