Fri 23 May
|Chandler's Ford
Film Night - The Old Oak
The Old Oak is a 2023 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty. It is a co-production between the United Kingdom, France and Belgium.
Time & Location
23 May 2025, 19:15 – 22:30
Chandler's Ford, Greenways, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh SO53 2LE
Guests
About the event
Pub landlord TJ Ballantyne, living in a previously thriving mining community in County Durham, struggles to hold onto his pub and keep it as the one remaining public space where people can meet in the town. Meanwhile, tensions rise when Syrian refugees are placed there, but Ballantyne strikes up a relationship with one of the refugees, Yara.
After its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2023, by StudioCanal. The film was nominated for Outstanding British Film at the 77th British Academy Film Awards.