My Neighbour Adolf among the New Park films in Chichester

He realises he may be able to achieve one thing - forcing the city authorities to build the modest little children’s playground for which local mothers have been desperately petitioning and which he and his colleagues have been smugly preventing with their bureaucratic inertia.

In My Neighbour Adolf, Udo Kier steals the show in this bittersweet comedy about a Holocaust survivor and his enigmatic new neighbour who he becomes convinced is none other than Adolf Hitler. A universal story of a friendship between two lonely men who discover that they have more in common than they first believe.

We have four films from the French Film Festival including Jacques Demy’s wonderful musical melodrama A Room in Town. Set against the backdrop of a workers’ strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker. We welcome the star and director of Two of a Kind for a Q&A after the film on Friday. It’s a funny and touching comedy about the intertwining lives of two unlikely twins. Jane by Charlotte is a fascinating portrait of Jane Birkin by her daughter. In a series of soft-spoken, extremely personal mother-daughter conversations, they touch on Birkin’s extraordinary lives with her three partners – John Barry, Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Doillon.

Richard Warburton