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Founded in 1953 the Lincoln Film Society has continually offered the people of Lincoln and the surrounding area the chance to see some of the best films from around the world that otherwise might not be shown in Lincoln. The Society's regular season runs from September to May and consists of 18 films, 17 contemporary and 1 classic. We are also showing two additional films with the Lincoln Academy.

Membership for this year is full but a limited number of day memberships are available on the door priced at £2.50 and £2.00 concessions.

All shows start at 7.30pm on Fridays in the Bishop Greaves Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Longdales Road, Lincoln, except for Blame it on Fidel (12A), and Of Time and the City (12A), which are showing at the School of Architecture, University of Lincoln as part of the Lincoln Academy's season of events. Admission to these films is free.

Next Showing

November 28th
The Counterfeiters (15)
7.30pm
Sponsor: The Lincoln Academy

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort.
It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan: professional printers, fastidious bank officials and simple craftsmen all became members of the top-secret counterfeiter commando. They had the choice: if they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive, as first-class prisoners in a "golden cage" with enough to eat and a bed to sleep in. If they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them. For The Counterfeiters, it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well. more info

Cine Latino

Cine Latino season at the University of Lincoln
A short season of Mexican films will be showing at the University of Lincoln on Mondays throughout November. For more details of all the film showing download the Cine Latino pdf.
Venue map (pdf).
The films are showing in the Jackson Lecture Theatre in the Main Administrative Building (No.6 on the map)

Film at the Lincoln Drill Hall

Alongside Lincoln Drill Hall's year round programme of performing arts events, the venue also screens an occasional and eclectic film programme on DVD projection, that compliments the Film Society's programme and that of other venues around the city. The remaining film in the Autumn 2008 season is:
Heima
The full Drill Hall programme can be found at the Drill Hall website