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14 Events
on Monday the 18th of February, 2008
John Pilger, the celebrated veteran film-maker and human-rights campaigner, introduced the press screening of his first documentary made for the cinema as ‘possibly the most optimistic film’ he’s ever made and one which represents ‘the ...
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Autumn Ball is a new Estonian film that talks about six inhabitants of Soviet-era tower blocks whose lives touch together, and who are all united by a feeling of loneliness. The young writer, Mati, lurks outside the window of his ex-wife and ...
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Rohmer meets Bergman in this sophisticated and supremely intelligent drama about three generations of a family coming together – and coming apart – at their vacation home in the lovely Uckermark region of Germany. When Anna, Robert and their ...
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The Brig USA / 1964 / 68 minutes / Black & White / 16mm The Brig, written by a veteran who survived incarceration in a U.S. Marine Corps prison during the 1950’s, is a chilling portrait of the ...
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Balabanov having put his idiosyncratic stamp on the perverse art-movie (Of Freaks and Men) and and the populist gangster film (Brother 1 & II) turns to to the horror genre in this provocation, set in a grimy industrial town in Kazakhstan ...
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If you’re reading this, the chances are that you spend more time than is necessarily healthy sitting in dark auditoria revelling in the communal experience of watching movies. You will love this film. Directed by Uli Gaulke, Comrades ...
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As a student, director Neasa Ní Chianáin first encountered Irish poet, Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Writing in her native Irish, the charismatic figure of Ó Searcaigh cast a spell on her: his poetry spoke of the land, the pain of lost love, and ...
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Tom Kalin’s long-awaited new feature is based on the award-winning book of the same title, and like his earlier (and highly influential) Swoon, draws its material from a real life crime story tinged with sexual undertones. Beginning ...
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Director Marcos Jorge directed one of the most acclaimed short-features from Brazil: purSuit (2002). His works have received more than 50 festival awards. His video installations were exhibited in Europe and Japan and he is also responsible for ...
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Anna (Kathryn Worth) is a woman in her mid-40s, who arrives alone at the Italian holiday home of an extended bourgeois family. She’s the old school friend of matriarch Verena (Mary Roscoe), but is soon distracted from ‘the olds’ and drawn ...
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The Grammy-winning Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour takes us on a musical journey in the footsteps of slaves. Guided in his mission by his friend, the blind pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N’Dour travels across the click to read more)
This rollicking story of a rich kid whose wildly successful bid for popularity has him playing drug-distributing shrink to an entire high school boasts pitch-perfect faceoffs between upstart Anton Yelchin and alcoholic principal Robert Downey ...
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This chilling first feature by Juan Antonio Bayona plays with Victorian ideas of fantasy and moral punishment, while stitching in contemporary concerns: child abuse, feminist guilt and the impact of surveillance technology figure prominently. ...
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Li Yang’s intense psychological drama was one of the stand-outs at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Portraying the kidnapping of a young female student by a peasant family – who force her to be their only son’s bride – the film grips with ...
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