VENTNOR Film Society has announced its spring season of films, starting on February 12.

The group has chosen a new programme of recent award-winning films from the UK and around the world.

Each film will be screened on two evenings, fortnightly on Tuesday and Wednesdays at Ventnor Arts Club.

Everyone is welcome to come along, as there are no membership requirements.

This season the society will be screening critically acclaimed films from the UK, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Bulgaria and Iran.

With tense thrillers, romance, family/crime drama, animation, historical drama and black comedy, the programme should suit many tastes. They will be shown in English and in the original languages with subtitles.

The first film is the BAFTA nominated Cold War, set in 1950s Poland. This epic romance is set against the backdrop of Europe divided by the Iron Curtain. Beautifully shot in luminous black and white, it tells the haunting story of a turbulent but ill-fated love affair.

The Guilty, from Denmark, is a taut, fast-paced thriller. A police officer enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

Iranian director Ali Soozandeh chose rotoscope animation in Tehran Taboo to critique the hypocrisy of modern Iranian society where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law.

Lovers of Nordic noir will enjoy Under The Tree, a dark and sometimes macabre black comedy from Iceland. What starts as a typical spat between suburban neighbours about a beautiful old tree unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Shoplifters is a Japanese film by one of the society's favourite directors, Hirokazu Kore-eda. When Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold, his wife agrees to take her in. Although the family barely survives through petty crime, they live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets.

With the historical drama Peterloo, Mike Leigh marks the 200th anniversary of the notorious Peterloo Massacre with an impassioned and unflinching depiction of the 1819 event, when a crowd of 60,000 gathered to demand Parliamentary reform, only to be fired upon by government forces in a defining moment of British history.

The final film is Glory, a satirical black comedy from Bulgaria about an honest railwayman who finds a bundle of banknotes on the tracks.

More information can be found on ventnorfilmsociety.wix.com/vfilms.

Reserve your seat by emailing ventnorfilmsociety@hotmail.com, or take a chance and turn up on the night.

Entrance is £6, or £3 for under 25s.