• 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen.

Off screen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina’s romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl, Kathy Selden.

With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided that Don and Lina’s new film should be turned into a ‘talkie’ and a musical at that.

The only problem is Lina’s voice, which mere words cannot describe.

Thus, Kathy is brought in to dub her speaking and singing in secret, and Don’s on top of the world.

But then Lina finds out...

There’s a rare chance to see musical movie classic, Singin’ in the Rain, at Southampton’s Harbour Lights Picturehouse on Sunday at 1pm.

  • In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot, Yoni (Stephen Dorff), is shot down over Beirut and taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp.

Among the captors is ten-year-old Fahed, whose father obsessively tends to his prized, but sickly olive tree, refusing to replant it until they return to their ancestral land.

Despite his hatred for Yoni, Fahed realises he can use him to get past the border and into “Palestine” to plant his father’s olive tree.

The two embark on a harrowing journey in Zaytoun from The Phoenix film society latest offering.

See it at Union Films at the University of Southampton on Wednesday at 7.30pm.