At 7pm on Wednesday 28th September Portsmouth Film Society will be hosting a special showing of The Survivalist (18) where they will welcome the writer/director Stephen Fingleton as a special guest.

As well as showing the film there will be a question and answer session with Fingleton.  The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2015 and won the Citizen Kane Award from the Sitges Film Festival, the Douglas Hickox Award at the Moet BIFAs for Best Debut and an IFTA (the Rising Star award).

The event itself takes place at the Eldon Building on Winston Churchill Avenue. For information on how you can be there and future Portsmouth Film Society events check out the website www.portsmouthfilmsociety.org.uk not to forget their Facebook and Twitter @portsmouthfilms accounts.

In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in the forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.