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2001: A Space Odyssey
Kubrick and Clarke's quest to the stars.

 Baby Mama
Two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives.
Before The Rains
A sweeping period romance set in Colonial India.

 Cargo
A trafficked boy is saved from his fate, but is the alternative any less bleak?
The Cottage
When wannabe big-time crooks kidnap a gangster's daughter and hole up in a remote cottage, they find there are scarier people out there than the mob.

 Couscous
The head of a Tunisian immigrant clan tries to realise his dream of opening a couscous restaurant.
Eden
The disintegration of a marriage.

 Fermat's Room
Someone wants four mathematicians out of the equation.
Idiots And Angels
Story of a relunctant angel turns into a flight of the imagination.

 Last Time In Clerkenwell
Birds go bonkers.
Let The Right One In
A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.

 Lioness
Women soldiers in Iraq.
Lou Reed's Berlin
Concert film of Lou Reed's live rendition of his song cycle album.
Man On Wire
Documentary about tightrope walker Phillippe Petit's attempt to cross between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

 The Milky Way
A trip to buy milk is a real drama.
Milky Way Liberation Front
Black comedy adventure about a screenwriter whose personal and professional world is falling apart.

 Mister Lonely
Celebrity lookalikes get to know one another whilst a crazy old priest takes nuns flying.
My Life Inside
Documentarian tracks an illegal Mexican immigrant as she is tried for murder.

 My Winnipeg
"Docu-fantasia" blurring fact and fiction.
Redbelt
A martial arts instructor who has avoided prize-fighting to maintain his ethical code, finds debt may force him into the ring.

 Savage Grace
Accomplished telling of a real life upper class family's disturbing meltdown.
The Second Line
Cleaning the filth after Hurricane Katrina.

 Sikumi (On The Ice)
An Inuit hunter inadvertantly witnesses a murder.
Somers Town
A boy heads to London to seek his fortune and finds friendship.

 Speed Racer
Family values versus corporate dirty tricks in futuristic motor racing spectacular.
Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris' documentary on the infamous photographs at Abu Ghraib prison.

 Strangers
Romance blossoms between an Israeli and a Palestinian - but will wider conflicts halt it in its tracks?
The Wackness
A teen drug dealer swaps spliffs for psychiatry in the long, hot New York summer of 1994.

 War Child
A rising hip-hop star uses his music to raise awareness about his homeland’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.
War, Love, God & Madness
A disturbing journey into Iraq, documenting the making of Ahlaam.

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