Maldon Film Club's season continued in February with the screening of Honeyland, which received two Oscar nominations, and Official Secrets, which is based on the true story of a British whistleblower.

The club meets at Maldon Town Hall, doors open at around 7.30pm and films begin at 8pm prompt.

The programme for 2021/22, which covers a wide variety of themes with films from different regions of the world, continues until 25 May and our films will be shown fortnightly on Wednesdays until the end of the season.

The next three films to be shown are Parasite, which received four Oscar awards, the BAFTA-nominated Sorry We Missed You and Sweet Country.

Parasite, to be screened on 2 March, was the first South Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and Bong Joon-ho became the first Korean director to ever win a Golden Globe.

The film tells the story of the relationship between two families - the Kims and the Parks.

The Kims are a poor family living in a cramped half-basement apartment in a busy lower working-class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr and Mrs Kim, literally smell of poverty.

Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by - and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required.

The main themes of Parasite are class conflict, social inequality and wealth disparity, and it is greed and class discrimination which threatens the newly formed symbolic relationship between the destitute Kim clan and the wealthy Park family.

Later, on 16 March, the film to be shown will be Sorry We Missed You, directed by Ken Loach.

The film tells of Ricky and his family, who have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Our film on 30 March is Sweet Country, which is set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory in Australia and is based on true events.

It tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society in the interwar period in Australia.

Details of the films to be screened from April until the end of the season are listed below:

- 13 April: Knives Out - one Oscar nomination

- 27 April: Taste of Honey - winner of one Golden Globe award

- 11 May: Pain and Glory - two Oscar nominations

- 25 May: Yesterday - winner at Montclair Film Festival 2019 The membership fee from January to May is just £20 which entitles members to free admission to all films. In addition, members may bring one guest at a cost of £3 per film and there are a limited number of places for junior members aged 16-18 in full time education and training at the reduced cost of £15. Membership is open to all and new members are always very welcome. So why not join now and then enjoy the remaining seven films for free! For further details and an application form please check out the website here, visit the Maldon Visitor Information Centre (open from 11am to 4pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays) or contact me, John Salisbury, on 07905971608. READ MORE: - Maldon Town Council's plans to spend £4,000 on Queen's tree-planting scheme challenged

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