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I Dream In Photos and Opponent
7 Keys
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Joy Wilkinson; Writer: Joy Wilkinson; Stars: Emma McDonald, Pete Postlethwaite)
When Lena learns Daniel has the keys to every place he’s ever lived, she wants to use them. But what starts as a romantic tour soon takes a sinister turn.
Am I Irvine Welsh
(Year: 2023; Director: Paul Sng)
Documentary about the Trainspotting author.
Asog
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2023; Director: Seán Devlin; Writer: Seán Devlin, Jaya, Arnel Pablo; Stars: Jaya, Arnel Pablo, Ricky Gacho Jr)
All roads lead to the Ms. Gay Sicogan pageant! Rey toils away in mediocrity after their career as a comedian comes to a grinding halt due to a super typhoon devastating Tacoloban. They set their sights on winning the pageant cash prize. Joined by former student Arnel, searching for some semblance of the family he lost when his mother died in the typhoon, they embark on a journey, navigating trauma, transphobia, colonialism, climate change, grief, and ultimately, resilience.
Baby Assassins 2: Babies
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Yugo Sakamoto; Writer: Yugo Sakamoto; Stars: Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Oto Abe, Tatsuomi Hamada, Junpei Hashino, Joey Iwanaga, Atom Mizuishi, Tsubasa Tobinaga, Nakai Tomo, Tetsu Watanabe)
The kick-ass assassins with slacker tendencies are back.
Banel & Adama (Banel Et Adama)
(Country: Mali, Senegal, France; Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy; Writer: Ramata-Toulaye Sy; Stars: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Moussa Sow, Binta Racine Sy)
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
The G and The Wizard Of Oz
The Battle Of Chile
(Country: Chile; Year: 1979; Director: Patricio Guzmán; Writer: Patricio Guzmán, Pedro Chaskel, Jose Bartolome; Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet)
A three part documentary charting the Chilean struggle which led to the fall of Salvador Allende and the rise to power, by means of a coup, of Augusto Pinochet.
The Beast (La Bête)
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Bertrand Bonello; Writer: Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit, based on the novel by Henry James; Stars: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay)
In the near future a woman decides to purify her DNA in a machine that takes her into her past lives. Then she meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had always known him.
Bill Douglas - My Best Friend
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Jack Archer)
An elegiac tribute to the hugely influential Scots filmmaker featuring contributions from the life-long friend who knew him best, Peter Jewell, as well as directors Lynne Ramsay and Lenny Abrahamson.
Black Dog
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: George Jaques; Writer: Jamie Flatters, George Jaques; Stars: Jamie Flatters, Keenan Munn-Francis, Nicholas Pinnock, Paul Kaye, Ruby Stokes, Hattie Morahan, Amrita Acharia, Jason Flemyng, Leanne Best, Liv Hill, Flynn Allen, Joe Hughes, Marc Wesley DeHaney, Chicho Tche, Jamie Smelt)
Two teenagers' lives collide when one is mugged, leading to an unexpected road trip.
The Contestant
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Clair Titley; Writer: Clair Titley; Stars: Tomoaki Hamatsu, Toshio Tsuchiya)
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
Elaha and Bill Douglas - My Best Friend
The Dead Don’t Hurt
(Country: Mexico, Canada, Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Viggo Mortensen; Writer: Viggo Mortensen; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, W. Earl Brown, Danny Huston, Shane Graham, Rafel Plana, Alex Breaux, Jason Clarke, Arturo Coronado, Marc Dennis, John Getz, Atlas Green, Angela Lentz)
Feminist-focused Western that centres on a Danish carpenter and his French-Canadian wife as they strive to settle in a corrupt Nevada town.
Down Terrace
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley; Stars: Julia Deakin, Michael Smiley, David Schaal, Tony Way, Mark Kempner, Gareth Tunley, Kali Peacock, Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Kerry Peacock), Trailer
Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.
Elaha
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Milena Aboyan; Writer: Milena Aboyan; Stars: Bayan Layla, Hadnet Tesfai, Derya Durmaz, Nazmi Kirik, Slavko Popadic, Armin Wahedi Yeganeh, Cansu Leyan, Beritan Balci, Homa Faghiri, Réber Ibrahim, Ferman Alkasari, Mehmet Daloglu, Derya Dilber, Taies Farzan, Lennart Gottmann)
A German-Kurdish woman tries to decide whether to cover up the fact that she is no longer a virgin in the run up to her wedding in this poignant exploration of cultural pressure and self-determination.
Female Trouble
(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: John Waters; Writer: John Waters; Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey)
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home to pursue her dreams, getting pregnant along the way.
Four Little Adults
(Country: Finland; Year: 2023; Director: Selma Vilhunen; Writer: Selma Vilhunen; Stars: Alma Pöysti, Vilhelm Blomgren, Eero Milonoff, Oona Airola, Peter Kanerva, Pietu Wikström, Altamimi Wahab, Joni Sailamaa)
Exploration of a polyamorous relationship that develops after a woman discovers her priest husband has been having an affair for more than a year
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and Milk Teeth
Frank Capra: Mr America
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Matthew Wells; Writer: Matthew Wells; Stars: Frank Capra, Tom Rothman)
Profile of the It’s A Wonderful Life director using previously unseen archive material to explore his rise from childhood poverty in Sicily to become one of the world’s most celebrated filmmakers.
The G
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Karl R Hearne; Writer: Karl R Hearne; Stars: Dale Dickey, Romane Denis, Roc Lafortune, Bruce Ramsay, Jonathan Koensgen)
After a corrupt legal guardian ruins her life, a gran sets out for revenge.
Happy Together (Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit)
(Country: Argentina / Hong Kong; Year: 1997; Director: Wong Kar Wai; Writer: Wong Kar Wai; Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Chang Chen)
Exploration of the breakdown of a gay relationship.
High & Low - John Galliano (High And Low - John Galliano)
(Country: France, US, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Kevin Macdonald; Stars: John Galliano)
Documentary about controversial fashion designer John Galliano.
Hoard
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Luna Carmoon; Writer: Luna Carmoon; Stars: Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires, Deba Hekmat, Cathy Tyson)
1984, London: 7 year old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
Sometimes I Think About Dying and The Old Man And The Land
The Home Game
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Smari Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson)
A man becomes determined to realise his dad's dream of taking their small-town football club to the Icelandic FA Cup and playing a home game.
In Flames
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Zarrar Kahn; Writer: Zarrar Kahn; Stars: Ramesha Nawal, Omar Javaid, Bakhtawar Mazhar, Mohammad Ali Hasni, Adnan Shah)
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
Io Capitano
(Country: Italy, Belgium, France; Year: 2023; Director: Matteo Garrone; Writer: Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Ceccherini, Andrea Tagliaferri, Nicola Di Robilant, Chiara Leonardi; Stars: Affif Ben Badra, Hichem Yacoubi, Joseph Beddelem, Bamar Kane, Oumar Diaw, Mariam Kaba, Princess Erika, Taha Benaim, Seydou Sarr, Flaure B.B. Kabore, Beatrice Gnonko, Jackie Zappa, Emilie Adams, Bidar Abdelahad, Observateur Ebène)
Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.
I Don’t Know Who You Are
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: MH Murray; Writer: Mark Clennon, Victoria Long, MH Murray; Stars: Mark Clennon, Anthony Diaz, Nat Patricia Manuel, Deragh Campbell, Victoria Long, Kevin A Courtney, Michael Hogan, Grace McDonald, Radcliffe Goldbourne, Randy Davis, Cheryl Wagner, Chris Wong, Lawrene Denkers, Peyton McLean, Ilgi Bodan)
A musician finds himself in a race against time to raise cash for HIV preventative treatment after a sexual assault.
I Don't Know Who You Are
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: MH Murray; Writer: Writers Mark Clennon, Victoria Long, MH Murray; Stars: Mark Clennon, Anthony Diaz, Nat Patricia Manuel, Deragh Campbell, Victoria Long)
A gay musician spends his weekend trying to find the money for HIV-preventive treatment after being sexually assaulted by a stranger.
Io Capitano and Solo
I Dream In Photos
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2023; Director: Ollie Aslin, Gary Lennon; Stars: Cathal McNaughton)
A documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Cathal McNaughton.
Jericho Ridge
(Country: UK, Kosovo; Year: 2023; Director: Will Gilbey; Writer: Will Gilbey; Stars: Nikki Amuka-Bird, Zack Morris, Chris Reilly, Simon Kunz, Michael Socha, Solly McLeod, Philipp Christopher, Zachary Hart, Capital T., Aidan Kelly, Olivia Chenery, Alex Tate, Ian Virgo, Lucy Thackeray, Pippa Winslow)
A lone officer with a broken ankle fights for survival at a police station.
Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger
(Year: 2024; Director: David Hinton)
Documentary about the directors.
Making Of
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Cédric Kahn; Stars: Jonathan Cohen, Emmanuelle Bercot, Denis Podalydès, Stefan Crepon, Emilia Derou-Bernal, Riad Gahmi, Matilda Kime)
A director tries to shoot a movie about factory workers rights.
Mandoob
(Country: Saudi Arabia; Year: 2023; Director: Ali Kalthami; Stars: Mohammed Aldokhi, Hajar Alshammari, Mohammed Alttowayan, Sarah Taibah)
An overworked delivery app driver in Riyadh tries to branch out into bootlegging, in Ali Kalthami’s dark comedic feature debut set in the rarely seen, ultra-modern world of Saudi nightlife.
High & Low - John Galliano and Tentigo
Martinez
(Country: Mexico, France; Year: 2023; Director: Lorena Padilla; Writer: Lorena Padilla; Stars: Humberto Busto, Francisco Reyes, Martha Claudia Moreno)
An ageing office worker on the cusp of retirement discovers there’s more to life than he thought after the death of his neighbour.
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
(Year: 2023; Director: François Nemeta)
Profile of the filmmaker.
Milk Teeth (Milchzähne)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Sophia Bösch; Writer: Sophia Bösch, Roman Gielke, based on the book by Helene Bukowski; Stars: Mathilde Bundschuh, Susanne Wolff, Viola Hinz)
Trouble brews for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community.
Mountains
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Monica Sorelle; Writer: Monica Sorelle, Robert Colom; Stars: Atibon Nazaire, Sheila Anozier, Chris Renois)
Xavier works in demolition and dreams of buying a bigger house for his family, while his adult son, caught between two cultures, struggles to find a place for himself.
The Old Man And The Land
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Nicholas Parish; Writer: Nico Mensinga; Stars: Rory Kinnear, Emily Beecham, Roger Marten)
As the old man goes about his day to day toil on the land, his children squabble over its future.
Jericho Ridge and Happy Together
Only The River Flows (He bian de cuo wu)
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Shujun Wei; Writer: Chunlei Kang, Shujun Wei, Hua Yu; Stars: Yilong Zhu, Chloe Maayan, Tianlai Hou, Tong Lin Kai, Han Chen, Chunlei Kang)
A detective on the trail of a serial killer begins to lose his mind.
Opponent (Motståndaren)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Milad Alami; Writer: Milad Alami; Stars: Payman Maadi, Marall Nasiri, Björn Elgerd, Ardalan Esmaili, Arvin Kananian)
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
Origin
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Ava DuVernay; Writer: Ava DuVernay, based on the book by Isabel Wilkerson; Stars: Jon Bernthal, Connie Nielsen, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Victoria Pedretti, Donna Mills, Niecy Nash, Finn Wittrock, Audra McDonald, Blair Underwood, Leonardo Nam, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Jessica Fontaine, Gissette Valentin)
An exploration of the roots of racism as experienced in the US.
Radical
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Christopher Zalla; Writer: Christopher Zalla; Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Haddad, Jenifer Trejo, Mia Fernanda Solis, Danilo Guardiola)
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and maybe even their genius. Based on a true story.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Neo Sora; Stars: Ryuichi Sakamoto)
A concert film shot as Sakamoto battled cancer.
The Home Game and In Flames
Scenes Of Extraction (Sahnehaye Estekhraj)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Sanaz Sohrabi; Writer: Sanaz Sohrabi)
An archival constellation from the still and moving images of the British Petroleum Archives, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British geophysical expeditions that spanned across Iran in the early 20th century.
Sleep
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Jason Yu; Writer: Jason Yu; Stars: Kim Gook Hee, Yoon Kyung-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi)
A couple find their marriage deteriorating after a disturbing episode when the husband declares in his sleep, “Someone’s inside”.
Solo
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Sophie Dupuis; Writer: Sophie Dupuis; Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Vlad Alexis)
The story of Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
Sometimes I Think About Dying
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Rachel Lambert; Writer: Kevin Armento, Stefanie Abel Horowitz, Katy Wright-Mead; Stars: Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, Marcia DeBonis, Meg Stalter, Brittany O’Grady)
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
Sorcery
(Country: Chile, Mexico, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Christopher Murray; Writer: Christopher Murray; Stars: Valentina Véliz, Daniel Antivilo, Sebastian Hulk, Daniel Muñoz)
On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organization of sorcerers.
Origin and Baby Assassins 2: Babies
Sorry/Not Sorry
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Caroline Suh, Cara Mones; Stars: Jen Kirkman, Megan Koester)
A re-examination of the case of Louis CK, who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, exploring his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behaviour.
The Teacher
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Farah Nabulsi; Writer: Farah Nabulsi; Stars: Imogen Poots, Stanley Townsend, Saleh Bakri, Paul Herzberg)
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker and his emotional support for one of his students.
The Teachers' Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: İlker Çatak; Writer: İlker Çatak; Stars: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich)
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Tentigo
(Country: Sri Lanka, India; Year: 2023; Director: Ilango Ram; Writer: Ilango Ram; Stars: Kaushalya Fernando, Priyantha Sirikumara, Thusitha Laknath, Ranjith Panagoda, Chandani Seneviratne)
Absurdist comedy that sees a family try to cope after the patriarch dies with an erection that won't go away.
The Universal Theory (Die Theorie von Allem)
(Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Timm Kröger; Writer: Roderick Warich, Timm Kröger; Stars: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber, Imogen Kogge, Emanuel Waldburg-Zeil, Vivienne Bayley, Ladina von Frisching, Dirk Böhling, Marie Goyette, Paul Wolff-Plottegg, Peter Hottinger, Dana Herfurth)
1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain.
Yannick and I Don't Know Who You Are
The Wizard Of Oz
(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Victor Fleming; Writer: Noel Langley, based on the book by L Frank Baum; Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick)
Swept away to a magical land, young Dorothy sets out to find the wizard who can help her get home, meeting some unusual friends along the way. Out on IMAX reissue.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Wallace And Gromit In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
(Country: UK/US; Year: 2005; Director: Steve Box, Nick Park; Writer: Bob Baker, Steve Box, Mark Burton, Nick Park; Stars: voices of Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith, John Thomson, Mark Gatiss, Vincent Ebrahim, Geraldine McEwan, Edward Kelsey, Dicken Ashworth, Pete Atkin, Noni Lewis, Christopher Fairbank, James Mather)
A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.
Woken
(Country: Italy, Ireland; Director: Alan Friel; Writer: Alan Friel; Stars: Erin Kellyman, Maxine Peake, Ivanno Jeremiah, Corrado Invernizzi, Peter McDonald, Oscar Coleman, Derek Carroll, Jonathan Gunning, Sophia Adli, Angelica Pascoe, Joseph Palmer, Damien Revins)
A woman wakes up and can't remember anything, not even her husband.
Yannick
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne)
In the middle of a performance of The Cuckold, a very bad boulevard play, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take control of the evening...
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