With award season kicking into high gear, the Brock University Film Society (BUFS) is launching its winter season with the first English-language feature film by legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.

In The Room Next Door, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton play old friends who are reunited when one receives a terminal cancer diagnosis and asks a complicated favour. The story is adapted from the novel What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez.

The film received the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, in September, and Swinton was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.

For more than four decades, BUFS has been bringing the best in independent and art house cinema to the Niagara region with support from the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The Room Next Door screens Thursday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Film House in downtown St. Catharines. Tickets for all screenings are available at the Film House. General admission is $10 or $8 for Film House members, plus tax. Learn more about this and upcoming screenings on the BUFS website.