11/08/2026
Wednesday 2 September 2026, (7.30pm)
Hamnet
2 hours Cert. 12A (UK/USA - 2025)
Oscar-winning film based on the hit novel by Maggie O’Farrell. In late 16th Century England, Agnes (Jessie Buckley), a healer sensitive to the world around her, builds a home and family with William (Paul Mescal) a local tutor and aspiring playwright. As his career takes off, their lives fracture and they are tested by distance, silence and grief.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 23 September 2026, (7.30pm)
Song Sung Blue
2 hours 10 minutes Cert. 12A (USA - 2025)
Based on a heart-warming, true-life story. ’Lightning and Thunder’, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their emotional musical journey together.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 14 October 2026, (7.30pm)
Wuthering Heights
2 hours 16 minutes Cert. 15 (UK/USA - 2026)
Based on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. A forbidden relationship unfolds between Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi), which develops from quiet longing to a dangerous pull of intense attraction, passion and increasing turmoil. Cathy and Heathcliff are at the centre of a dramatically escalating relationship whose emotional course is getting further and further out of control.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 4 November 2026, (7.30pm)
The Shepherd and The Bear (subtitles)
1 hour 40 minutes Cert. 15 (France/UK/USA - 2024)
A lyrically beautiful and visually stunning look at French rural life, as an aging shepherd struggles to find a successor and newly reintroduced bears prey on his flock. Meanwhile, a teenage boy becomes obsessed with tracking the bears presenting a clash of tradition and modernity.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 2 December 2026, (7.30pm)
The Invite
1 hour 47 minutes Cert. 15 (USA - 2026)
Music teacher Joe (Seth Rogan) and stay-at-home mom Angela (Olivia Wilde) are in a marital crisis in this romantic comedy. Despite Joe’s objections, Angela invites their relaxed and confident neighbours, Pína (Penélope Cruz) and Hawk (Edward Norton) over for dinner. They immediately step into the middle of a fight. The rest of the evening is a series of awkward attempts to recover, made worse by Pína and Hawk’s openness about their relationship and s*x, which exposes Joe and Angela’s mismatched expectations and resentments to their guests. Mulled wine & mince pies will be served before the film.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 6 January 2027, (7.30pm)
Tuner
1 hour 45 minutes Cert. 15 (Canada/USA - 2025)
A talented piano tuner Niki (Leo Woodall), who suffers from acute noise sensitivity, discovers an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down. Soon he's pulled into a series of heists by a criminal gang, and things grow even more complicated when he falls for a talented music student in this crime thriller.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 27 January 2027, (7.30pm)
Truth & Treason
2 hours Cert. 15 (USA - 2025)
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, teenager Helmuth (Ewan Horrocks) risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German in this gripping thriller.
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
Wednesday 24 February 2027, (7.30pm)
Madfabulous
1 hour 48 minutes Cert. 12A (UK- 2026)
A riotous, sumptuous, uncompromising celebration of ‘otherness’ inspired by the unlikely British aristocrat, Henry Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey, who smashed society's notions of class, gender and decorum, squandering the family millions, living fast, dying young. (All star cast)
WDFS Members: FREE / Non-members £6.50
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/athenaeum/
Please note; A limited number of guest tickets for films are available in advance online or from the box office. If the advance tickets sell out, more tickets may be available at the door on the day.
