SKIPTON Film Club will screen the The Other Side of Hope at 5.15pm this Sunday at The Plaza in Skipton.

The 2017 Finnish comedy-drama film, directed by Aki Kaurasmaki, is the latest offering in a successful season by Skipton Film Club.

Film club member Paul Valentine said: “We have a terrific offering for all film fans this time – Finnish auteur Kauramaki’s clear- eyed, yet comic portrayal of the Syrian refugee crisis – The Other Side of Hope.

The film follows the hapless adventures of two men who have fled their home - one, Khaled (played by Sherwan Haji) is a Syrian asylum seeker who arrives in Helsinki as a stowaway on a coal freighter.

The second, Wikstrom (Sakari Kuosmanen) walks out on his alcoholic wife, wins a fortune at a poker game and buys a restaurant called the Golden Pint.

In a typical Kaurasmaki touch the bistro has cobwebs on its crockery and a cook who sleeps standing up – whilst smoking!

Paul said: “Following his characters through their trials Kaurasmaki poses the very human existential choice – to be kind or unkind. Not only does this apply to the refugee crisis, the film suggests, but a choice we all share, every day.

“The film therefore manages to be very topical yet offers a universal message we can all appreciate.”

Film club members and non members are welcome.