Roycroft Film Society- Picnic at Hanging Rock- October 11, 2026 at 4pm at the Roycroft Power House, 39 South Grove, East Aurora. Tickets are $8.

Based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, the story takes place in the early 1900s, at a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine’s Day, the school’s typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, several of the girls venture off. It’s not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have mysteriously disappeared.