Les Triplettes de Belleville 15 Dec 2004 Director: Sylvain Chomet France, Belgium, Canada, UK 2003 77 min A unique, stylish and exquisitely executed animation from France. Champion, under the care of his grand mother Madame Souza, enters a rigorous training regime in order to one day enter the Tour de France. But Champion is kidnapped… Continue reading Belleville Rendezvous
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Wondrous Oblivion
5 Jan 2005 Director: Paul Morrison UK, Germany 2003 106 min Set in the 1960’s, 11 yr old David Wiseman loves cricket. He has the outfit but has no ability. His game is so bad his schoolmates make fun of him. Then a Jamaican family moves next door and builds a cricket net in the… Continue reading Wondrous Oblivion
Dirty Pretty Things
16 Feb 2005 Director: Stephen Frears UK 2002 97 min A thriller set in the world of illegal immigrants. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a kindly Nigerian doctor, lives with a Turkish asylum seeker, Senay (Audrey Tautou). During the day he works as a taxi driver and, at night, as a porter at a shady hotel run… Continue reading Dirty Pretty Things
Kneecap
19 Feb 2025 Director: Rich Peppiatt Ireland, UK 2024 105 min An Irish rap group rails against British imperialism in Rich Peppiatt’s riotous, unruly comic docudrama Kneecap. An exhilarating origin story for the real-life Belfast-based band combining fact and a liberal helping of fiction, it’s enthusiastically performed by the rappers themselves backed by Irish actors… Continue reading Kneecap
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
The Elvermen
20 Nov 2024 Director: Isla Badenoch UK 2021 14 min As the sun sets on the banks of the River Severn on the outskirts of Gloucester, a group of men gather in a race to catch a vanishing and valuable creature; the elusive elver. Isla Badenoch’s atmospheric view of this moonlit community shows how a… Continue reading The Elvermen
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 White Crow
19 Feb 2020 Director: Ralph Fiennes UK 2018 122 min The White Crow is a thrilling, ambitious biopic of the virtuosic Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev whose defection from the USSR to the west stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. Starring Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko as Nureyev in his screen debut,… Continue reading The White Crow
The Party
19 Dec 2018 Director: Sally Potter UK 2017 71 min Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed to a key ministerial position in the shadow cabinet – the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) are celebrating with a few close friends when the party takes an unexpected… Continue reading The Party