6 Nov 2024 Director: Matteo Garrone Italy, Belgium, France 2023 121 min From Matteo Garrone comes this searing tale of two young boys’ migration from Africa to Europe. Io Capitano is an odyssey traversing city, desert and ocean from West Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa, leave Dakar for Italy.… Continue reading Io Capitano
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Goodbye Julia
2 April 2025 Director: Mohamed Kordofani Sudan, Egypt, Germany, France, KSA, Sweden 2023 120 min Certificate TBC Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona, a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage, tries to make amends by taking the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia and her son Daniel into her home. Unable… Continue reading Goodbye Julia
Heart Valley
20 November 2024 Director: Christian Cargill UK 2022 19 min Heart Valley follows a day in the life of Wilf Davies, a shepherd from the small village of Cellan in West Wales. The film looks at the world through Wilf’s eyes, asking questions about what it is we should truly value as a society. We… Continue reading Heart Valley
Wilding
20 November 2024 Director: David Allen UK 2023 75 min At Knepp Castle in Sussex, conservation pioneers Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell abandoned industrial farming practices and allowed nature to ‘rewild’ their 3,500-acre estate with remarkable results. Based on Tree’s bestselling book of the same name, Emmy-award winning nature documentarian David Allen’s Wilding is a… Continue reading Wilding
Robot Dreams
9 October 2024 Director: Pablo Berger Spain, France 2023 102 min Dog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone so one day he decides to build himself a companion, Robot. Their friendship blossoms and they become inseparable, exploring together the sights and sounds of 1980s New York. But one summer night, Dog, with… Continue reading Robot Dreams
Anatomy Of A Fall
8 January 2025 Director: Justine Triet France, Japan 151 min When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed. The trial soon becomes not just an investigation but a psychological journey into… Continue reading Anatomy Of A Fall
The Quiet Girl
23 Oct 2024 Director: Colm Bairéad Ireland 2022 94 min Colm Bairéad’s debut feature is an intricately exquisite coming-of-age drama that delves into the many layers of family relations through the eyes of a young girl. The film follows Cáit as she is sent to live with distant relatives for the summer. She is welcomed… Continue reading The Quiet Girl
Kidnapped
4 Dec 2024 Director: Marco Bellochio Italy 2023 125 min Veteran director Bellochio brings to life an almost unbelievable true story from a shocking and turbulent period in Italian history. In 1858, six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, lived with his family in Bologna. Claiming that the boy was baptised by the family’s maid as a… Continue reading Kidnapped
Monster
25 Sep 2024 Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan 2023 126 min When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. As the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and… Continue reading Monster
Ama Gloria
5 Feb 2025 Director: Marie Amachoukeli France 2023 84 min Cléo lives with her widower Dad Arnaud and her nanny Gloria in Paris. She loves her father but Gloria is the emotional centre of her world. When Gloria must return to her home in Cape Verde to attend to her own family, she’s heartbroken and… Continue reading Ama Gloria