21 Feb 2018 Director: Asghar Farhadi Iran, France, Italy 2013 130 min In this intricate drama, Marie attempts to resolve difficulties with her estranged husband. Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his French wife’s request, in order to finalise their divorce procedure. During his brief stay, Ahmad discovers the… Continue reading The Past
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Omar
16 Mar 2016 Director: Hany Abu-Assad Palestine 2013 96 min Omar is a charismatic and thoughtful young baker who lives in the West Bank. He climbs routinely over the separation wall to visit friends including the beautiful Nadia. Less out of political conviction than as a way to regain some power in their powerless lives,… Continue reading Omar
Ida
3 Feb 2016 Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Poland, Denmark 2013 82 min In the 1960s, novitiate nun Anna is about to take her vows in the Catholic Church when the Mother Superior insists that she must visit her aunt Wanda, who reveals that Anna’s real name is Ida. It is the first in a chain of… Continue reading Ida
Tian Zhu Ding – A Touch of Sin
21 Jan 2015 Director: Jia Zhangke Jia China 2013 133 min This film tracks four citizens of modern China. Each one tries to find peace and purpose in this enormous nation as outside forces conspire to grind them down. Dahai is a miner who is tired of local worthies enriching themselves. Zhou San is an… Continue reading Tian Zhu Ding – A Touch of Sin
La Jaula de Oro – The Golden Dream
18 Feb 2015 Director: Diego Quemada-Diez Mexico 2013 102 min A Mexican ballad, La Jaula De Oro, tells of the despair of immigrants who have actually made it into the USA. They find it a “golden cage” because America accepts illegals’ cheap labour without allowing them the proper residency papers they need to rise beyond… Continue reading La Jaula de Oro – The Golden Dream
The Selfish Giant
07 Jan 2015 Director: Clio Barnard UK 2013 91 min The Selfish Giant tells the tale of Arbor and Swifty, two young boys growing up in Yorkshire. Struggling to fit in at school, and each facing their own challenges at home, the two friends find their seemingly directionless lives given dubious purpose when they meet… Continue reading The Selfish Giant
All Is Lost
04 Feb 2014 Director: J C Chandor USA 2013 106 min Robert Redford plays an experienced solo yachtsman facing an ordeal in an increasingly desperate situation. He begins the drama asleep in his 39-foot craft when he is awoken to find that a huge metal container unit has fallen from one of the massive ships… Continue reading All Is Lost
Wakolda
04 Mar 2015 Director: Lucia Puenzo Argentina, France, Spain, Norway 2013 93 min Lilith and her family move to Patagonia where her parents are taking control of a lakeside hotel. Coinciding with their arrival in the town is a visiting doctor, Helmut Gregor, from Germany who moves into the hotel while he waits for his… Continue reading Wakolda
Of Horses and Men
01 Apr 2015 Director: Benedikt Erlingsson Iceland, Germany 2013 81 min Iceland’s Oscar submission and theatre director Benedikt Erlingsson’s debut, Of Horses and Men is a dark, inventive and very distinctive film set in a quirky horse-riding community in stunning rural Iceland. Pondering the relationship between man and horse (the direct translation of the original… Continue reading Of Horses and Men
The Lunchbox
24 Sep 2014 Director: Ritesh Batra India, France, Germany, US 2013 104 min The Lunchbox combines vivid, bustling scenes of daily life in the teeming city of Mumbai with an unashamedly old-fashioned romantic story. Saajan is a soon-to-retire and world-weary office worker whose daily routine includes a lunchbox delivered to his desk by one of… Continue reading The Lunchbox