• DIRECTED by BAFTAwinning filmmaker and journalist John Pilger, an extraordinary film about Utopia, a vast region in northern Australia that is home to the oldest human presence on earth, is beamed to 30 cinemas across the UK, including Southampton’s Harbour Lights Picturehouse, on Monday.

One of the world’s best kept secrets is revealed against a background of the greatest boom in mineral wealth. Has the ‘lucky country’ inherited South African apartheid? And how could this happen in the 21st century?

As Pilger draws on the people and places he first filmed 28 years ago during his long association with the indigenous people of his homeland, the evidence he produces is often deeply moving and shocking.

Utopia is both a personal journey and a universal story of power and resistance, of those who conform and those who do not.

Also enjoy a satellite Q and A with John Pilger live from Picture House Brixton.

  • IN 1960s Paris, Jean- Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria.

Through Maria, Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth floor, the servants’ quarters.

He befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids, refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there’s more to life than stocks and bonds.

Les Femmes du 6eme Etage (The Women on the 6th Floor) is being screened during The Phoenix’s latest season at Union Films Cinema at the University of Southampton on Tuesday.

  • FROM the future in which machines rule comes a rippling robot who terminates opponents with extreme prejudice. There’s another chance to see The Terminator at Harbour Lights Picturehouse tomorrow night. His goal is to kill a woman destined to bear the child who will become the great freedom fighter of the future. Fortunately she has a champion in the shape of another time traveller, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s all-toohuman opponent. The gladiatorial arena is set, with vulnerable flesh and cunning versus a leviathan who can rebuild himself.