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
Tag: France
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
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
Alone in Berlin
20 Nov 2019 Director: Vincent Pérez France, Germany, UK 2016 101 mins Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson play an ordinary working-class German couple who quietly wage a personal campaign of anti-Nazi resistance. Uninterested in politics and content to keep to themselves, factory foreman Otto and his dutiful wife Anna are unlikely dissidents. When their son… Continue reading Alone in Berlin
The Guardians
04 Mar 2020 Director: Xavier Beauvois France, Switzerland 2018 138 min A quietly affecting human drama of love, loss, and resilience unfolds against the backdrop of World War I in this outstanding film from director Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and Men). Set in rural France in 1916, The Guardians details the lives of women and… Continue reading The Guardians
In the Fade
24 Oct 2018 Director: Fatih Akin Germany, France 2017 106 min Diane Kruger gives an astonishing performance as Katja, a loving, unconventional wife and mother, in this riveting thriller by Turkish director Fatih Akin. Katja’s life falls apart when a bomb attack in her home city of Hamburg robs her of everything she holds dear.… Continue reading In the Fade
Custody
21 Nov 2018 Director: Xavier Legrand France 2017 94 mins Carefully and sensitively directed with intense, restrained performances throughout, Xavier Legrand’s debut feature is an explosive family drama that is as gripping as it is authentic. Fans of the Dardenne brothers or the work of Maurice Pialat will recognise this film’s unsentimental realism in its… Continue reading Custody
Jeune femme
10 Oct 2018 Director: Léonor Serraille France, Belgium 2017 98 min In Léonor Serraille’s livewire character study and sensational feature debut, Laetitia Dosch explodes onto the screen as Paula, a chaotic, impulsive thirty one-year-old Parisienne. Without money and nothing but a cat to her name, Paula finds that doors close in her face now that… Continue reading Jeune femme
Welcome to the Sticks
18 Dec 2019 Director: Dany Boon France 2008 106 min Philippe Abrams is a post office director in Salon-de-Provence. His wife, Julie, makes his life unbearable and, in order to please her, Philippe tries to arrange a transfer to the Côte d’Azur. However, his plan backfires and he is transferred to a small town in… Continue reading Welcome to the Sticks