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A LATE QUARTET (15)

Mon 20 May 7.30pm

A drama of musical passion and clashing personalities, following the members of a world-renowned string quartet as they struggle to stay together in the face of bereavement, competing egos and insuppressible desire.

A FILM LOVERS' FESTIVAL

Wed 22 May 7.30pm

A fantastic evening for cinema lovers and film buffs. Following last year’s hugely popular event, we are bringing together some of the best, funniest, most eye-catching short films around into an evening celebrating all things film.

MORRICONE IN CANNES (CANCELLED)

Sun 26 May 7pm

Due to unforseen circumstances, we regret that this event has been cancelled.

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (15)

Mon 27 May 7.30pm

Winner of the Best Actress Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence and Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA, this deliciously acted, smartly scripted film walks the line between comedy and drama.

CINEMA BAMBINO

Tue 28 May 10.45am

A film club for parents and carers with babies, aged up to and including 18 months. A chance to socialise and enjoy a worry-free film experience.

THE SPIRIT OF '45 (U)

Tue 28 May 7.30pm

An impassioned documentary about how the spirit of unity which buoyed Britain during the war years carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society in 1945, a pivotal year in British history.

THE PAPERBOY (15)

Thu 30 May 7.30pm

An atmospheric thriller in which Matthew McConaughey plays a reporter returning to his sultry Florida hometown in the summer or ‘69 to investigate a case involving the wrongful murder conviction of a death row inmate.

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (Den Skaldede Frisør) (15)

Sun 2 Jun 7.30pm

A hugely enjoyable romance with many comic moments from an Oscar winning. Ida, a hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair and then travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding and meets a handsome widower...

UNTOUCHABLE (15)

Mon 3 Jun 7.30pm

This BAFTA nominated French comedy drama was an international triumph. A heartwarming journey of companionship and optimism that has charmed the world.

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS BY RICHARD STRAUSS (LIVE THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Tue 4 Jun 7pm

The 2013 Festival opens with a new production of this compelling and intricately crafted collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

PROMISED LAND (15)

Wed 5 Jun 7.30pm

Matt Damon stars as a salesman who experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. A stellar team includes Frances McDormand and director Gus Van Sant.

THE LOOK OF LOVE (18)

Sat 8 Jun 7.30pm

Charting the changing moral tides of Britain, this charismatic romp features a stellar British cast including David Walliams, Chris Addison, Stephen Fry and Anna Friel.

I'M SO EXCITED (LOS AMANTES PASAJEROS) 15

Sun 9 Jun 7.30pm

Set almost entirely on a flight to Mexico City, the crew and passengers are forced to face up to what matters when it appears the end could be in sight.

SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (12A)

Mon 10 Jun 7.30pm

Winner of the Best Documentary Oscar, this uplifting story follows two South Africans who set out to discover what happened to the mysterious Mexican-American 70s rocker, Rodriguez who became as big as the Rolling Stones in South Africa.

TO THE WONDER (12A)

Wed 12 Jun 7.30pm

Neil (Ben Affleck) is a man who is torn between two loves: the European woman who comes to USA to be with him, and the old flame he reconnects with. Also starring Javier Bardem, this is a visually stunning and exquisite reflection on love, religion and the wonder of the Western world.

THE AUDIENCE (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Sun 16 Jun 7pm

For sixty years Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren, reprising her Academy Award winning role) has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age....

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (15)

Mon 17 Jun 7.30pm

From the director of the acclaimed Monsoon Wedding, here we follow a young Pakistani man who is chasing corporate success on Wall Street but soon finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

TRASHED (12A)

Tue 18 Jun 7.30pm

Oscar winner and environmental investigator Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around a world tainted by pollution. We are very lucky to be joined by Trashed director Candida Brady for a question and answer session following the film!

IN THE HOUSE (DANS LA MAISON) (15)

Wed 19 Jun 7.30pm

Adapted from a play, this clever and complex film starring Kristin Scott Thomas, follows a sixteen-year-old boy who insinuates himself into the home of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher...

THE AUDIENCE (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Fri 21 Jun 7pm

EXTRA SCREENING DATE ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!

FALSTAFF BY GIUSEPPE VERDI (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Sun 23 Jun 7pm

Throughout his long career, Verdi longed to find a good subject for a comic opera. Towards the very end of it he found that subject, in the vast and jovial shape of Shakespeare’s John Falstaff.

THE GREAT GATSBY (12A) 2D

Wed 26 Jun 7.30pm

The long awaited, richly opulent film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge) returns in grandiose, spectacular style to whisk us away to the fabulous and intriguing world of Jay Gatsby.

CINEMA BAMBINO

Thu 27 Jun 10.45am

A film club for parents and carers with babies, aged up to and including 18 months. A chance to socialise and enjoy a worry-free film experience.

THE GREAT GATSBY (12A) 2D

Fri 28 Jun - Sun 30 Jun 7.30pm

CAESAR MUST DIE (CESARE DEVE MORIRE) (12A)

Mon 1 Jul 7.30pm

In this fascinating documentary we follow a drama within a drama, as the inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Sun 14 Jul 7pm

Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro returns. The opera has particular significance, as it was the first ever to be performed at Glyndebourne in 1934, with festival co-founder Audrey Mildmay in the role of Susanna.

HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE BY JEAN-PHILLIPPE RAMEAU (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Tue 30 Jul 7pm

This is Glyndebourne’s first production of an opera by Rameau, and will strike audiences, as it did in Paris in 1733, with its richness of invention.

DON PASQUALE BY GAETANO DONIZETTI (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Sun 11 Aug 7pm

Donizetti’s diamond-bright wit and brilliance is demonstrated in this opera but it also has a distinctly dark side.

BILLY BUDD BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN (THEATRICAL SCREENING)

Sun 25 Aug 7pm

2013 marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten - his powerfully dramatic Billy Budd returns to Glyndebourne, with Jacques Imbrailo in the title role and Sir Mark Elder conducting.

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