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Beast and Arcadia
Arcadia
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Paul Wright)
Archive study of Britain's relationship to the land.
Apostasy
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dan Kokotajlo; Writer: Dan Kokotajlo; Stars: Siobhan Finneran, Robert Emms, Sacha Parkinson, Steve Evets, Aqib Khan, Jessica Baglow, James Quinn, Molly Wright, Wasim Zakir, James Puddephatt, Poppy Jhakra, Lewis Fletcher, Peter Slater)
A Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister.
Beast
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Pearce; Writer: Michael Pearce; Stars: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle, Emily Taaffe, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Hattie Gotobed, Shannon Tarbet, Olwen Fouere, Tim Woodward)
A teenager finds herself torn between the control of her family and an outsider who is suspected of murder.
The Escape
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dominic Savage; Stars: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Frances Barber)
A dutiful wife and mother struggles to cope with her increasing frustration.
How To Talk To Girls At Parties
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: John Cameron Mitchell; Writer: Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell, based on a short story by Neil Gaiman; Stars: Alex Sharp, Elle Fanning, Ethan Lawrence, Abraham Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas, Joanna Scanlan, Tom Brooke, Stephen Campbell Moore)
Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world
Super November and Orphans
Ice Cold In Alex
(Country: UK; Year: 1958; Director: J Lee Thompson; Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms)
In the wake of the Siege of Tobruk, an ambulance crew makes a perilous trek across a desert.
Lean On Pete
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh, Willy Vlautin; Stars: Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Thomas Mann, Amy Seimetz, Charlie Plummer, Rachael Perrell Fosket, Justin Rain, Ayanna Berkshire, Lewis Pullman, Dana Millican, Curtis McGann, Frank Gallegos, Craig Kennedy)
A homeless teenager, whose only friend is a failing racehorse, sets out on a trek to find his only known relative.
Orphans
(Country: UK; Year: 1997; Director: Peter Mullan; Writer: Peter Mullan; Stars: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Rosemarie Stevenson, Stephen McCole, Ann Swan, Gilbert Martin, Jan Wilson, Lenny Mullan, Malcolm Shields, June Brogan, Paul Doonan, Linda Cuthbert, Lex Keith, Hugh Ferris, Joel Strachan)
Jet black comedy about family tribulations in the run up to a funeral.
Pin Cushion
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Deborah Haywood; Writer: Deborah Haywood; Stars: Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan, Loris Scarpa, Sacha Cordy-Nice, Bethany Antonia, Saskia Paige Martin, Sophia Tuckey, John Henshaw, Lennon Bradley, Aury Wayne, Charlie Frances, Isy Suttie)
Trouble brews after the unusually close bond between a mother and daughter is disrupted when they move to a new town.
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
(Country: UK; Year: 1969; Director: Ronald Neame; Stars: Maggie Smith, Celia Johnson, Gordon Jackson)
The story of an unconventional teacher working at a private girls' school in Edinburgh.
Which Way Up and Pin Cushion
Super November
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Douglas King; Writer: Josie Long; Stars: Josie Long, Sean Biggerstaff, Darren Osborne)
A happy couple find their lives turned upside down by political chaos and civil unrest.
Voyageuse
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: May Miles Thomas; Stars: Siân Phillips)
The director investigates her Hungarian mother-in-law's story and, through it, the story of the 20th century.
Which Way Up
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Proudfoot; Stars: John McLean)
A documentary about the artist John McLean and his experience of Parkinson's disease.
You, Me And Him
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Daisy Aitkens; Writer: Daisy Aitkens; Stars: David Tennant, Faye Marsay, Lucy Punch, Sarah Parish, David Warner, Sally Phillips)
A lawyer is anxious to have a baby but her artist girlfriend keeps putting it off. Then her neighbour gets involved.
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