Fish Tank: Ventnor Film Society

Mia is a troubled 15 year-old Essex girl at war with everything: her family, her school, the girls on her estate.

Her one release is dancing, a passion that she practices in secret. To complicate matters, Mia is attracted to her mother's new boyfriend, Connor.

But whilst Mia has issues with the notion of family, Connor's are more complex: his secrets are shabbier and more poisonous than Mia or her mother could have realised.

What makes the relationship between Mia and Connor so transgressive is not their sexual attraction for each other but their delusional longing to be father and daughter.

There are visually stunning views of the Essex countryside in what is eventually a film of tenderness and hope.

Dir: Andrea Arnold UK 2009 124 mins Cert: 15 Cast: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbinder, Rebecca Griffiths

Prices Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens Single Ticket: £4.50 (£3.50 Concessionary) Concessionary tickets are available to students, senior citizens and the unwaged.

All VFS presentations (apart from special events) take place on Tuesday evenings and start at 7.30pm. There is a bar in the building and guests may take drinks into film presentations. All are welcome; you do not have to belong to the Society in order to attend.