Rose

Rose, Nordisk Film

5 Mar 2025 Director: Niels Arden Oplev Denmark 2023 106 min Best known for directing the original film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev teams up with another Scandi screen star, Sofie Grabol, for his most personal film to date. A story of two sisters, it’s based on his own… Continue reading Rose

Io Capitano

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

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

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

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

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

Y Sŵn

13 March 2024 Wales 2023 Director: Lee Haven Jones 89 minutes In the heart of 1970s Wales, a passionate struggle for cultural identity ignites when Margaret Thatcher’s government breaks a promise to establish a dedicated Welsh language channel, leading to a wave of civil disobedience. With one man, Gwynfor Evans, pledging to die for the… Continue reading Y Sŵn

The Grave Digger’s Wife

1 November 2023 Finland/Germany/France/ Somalia/Qatar 2021 83 Minutes Director: Khadar Aydreus Ahmed Winner of Best Film at the African Movie Academy Awards, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife is set in Djibouti City, where Guled (Omar Abdi) works hard to support his wife and son. The deaths of others provide him with a living as… Continue reading The Grave Digger’s Wife