Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Forest Row Film Society’s new 2012-13 programme will contain another great range of new releases, classics, and even something a bit funny.

We have a good range of very recent releases, kicking off with Even the Rain, scripted by long-time Ken Loach collaborator, Paul Laverty, and which the committee all loved when we saw it in preview. Then, towards the end of the season Nostalgia for the Light is a special and very moving documentary, meditating on space, searching and the past, and especially on the Chilean people who disappeared under Pinochet.

There is a strong thread of lightness and humour this season too: as well as our usual silent comedy programme, we have the Czech comedy The Firemen’s Ball, Almodovar’s great farce Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, plus the new release The Fairy, and the delightful Les demoiselles de Rochefort.

Our strand of great repertory cinema continues too with 1958 Palme d’Or winner The Cranes are Flying, plus Dreyer’s Day of Wrath, and Cairo Station, a wonderful neo-realist melodrama from 50s Egypt directed by Youssef Chahine, one of the giants of African cinema, and a film never released in the UK.

Thank you to everyone who has given us suggestions. Let us know what you think of our choices, and we look forward to seeing you in the autumn.