22 Nov 2006 France, Germany, Netherlands, Israel 2005 90 min Director: Hany Abu-Assad In the crushing poverty of the Palestinian West Bank City of Nablus, childhood friends Said and Khaled pass their time drinking tea and working in menial jobs as mechanics. One day they receive a message that sets in motion what might be… Continue reading Paradise Now
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Caché
Hidden Director: Michael Haneke 11 Oct 2006 France, Austria, Germany, Italy 2005 117 min The comfortable life of talk show host George, and his wife Anne is shattered when they receive a package containing footage shot of themselves and their family. Secretly filmed by an unknown sender they are soon followed by disturbing drawings and… Continue reading Caché
Marche de l’empereur
March of the Penguins 27 Sept 2006 France 2005 85 min Director: Luc Jacquet Every year, deep in the Antarctic, thousands of Emperor Penguins battle against the frigid stormy weather and cross the perilous continent. Here they will nurture a single egg and raise it to adulthood against all the trials this inhospitable place can… Continue reading Marche de l’empereur
Les Choristes
The Chorus 4 Apr 2007 Director: Christophe Barratier France, Switzerland, Germany 2004 96 min In January 1949, former music teacher Clément Mathieu arrives at a boarding school for orphans and troubled boys. There he finds a severe regime where the boys receive harsh punishment for their faults. When he sees that this treatment is not… Continue reading Les Choristes
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
21 Mar 2007 Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, UK 2006 127 min Director: Ken Loach Ken Loach’s uncompromising adaptation of Paul Laverty‘s story of the struggle for Irish independence in 1920. Damien is a promising doctor but is troubled by the brutality of the Black and Tans and his deep love and sense of duty… Continue reading The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Vera Drake
30 Nov 2005 Director: Mike Leigh UK, France, New Zealand 2004 125 min Vera Drake is a kind and selfless woman, in the 1950’s, who is devoted to and loved by her family. Her days are spent caring for sick neighbours and her elderly mother which she does with kind words and encouragement. However there… Continue reading Vera Drake
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel 16 Nov 2005 Directors: Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni Germany, Mongolia 2003 90 min This is a magical blend of drama and documentary set in the Gobi Desert of Southern Mongolia. A family of nomadic camel herders are faced with a dilemma when a mother rejects a newborn white camel,… Continue reading The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Station Agent
5 Apr 2006 Director: Thomas McCarthy USA 2003 88 min Finbar McBride has a learnt that isolation is best. With his only a friend dead, he takes up work in a rural town’s train depot. There he hopes to be left alone. However, he reluctantly finds himself enmeshed in the lives of his neighbours. He… Continue reading The Station Agent
Joyeux Noel
Merry Christmas 20 Dec 2006 Director: Christian Carion France, Germany, UK, Romania 2005 116 min On Christmas Eve in 1914 in the trenches of Northern France the the bloodiest war in human history is well underway. Soldiers from France and Germany have been fighting in trenches barely 100 metres apart. This day, however, witnesses a… Continue reading Joyeux Noel
Les Égarés
Strayed 8 Nov 2006 Director: André Téchiné France, UK 2003 95 min In June 1940 the German forces are advancing on Paris. There is widespread panic in the city; Odile, a recently widowed mother, succumbs to this and joins the exodus south with her two children. When a German plane attacks the refugees, Odile and… Continue reading Les Égarés