Tag: Vue Cinema

Hull Independent Cinema & SAFAR Film Festival present… RED PATH Dir Lotfi Achour | Tunisia, France | 2024 | 97 mins | Rating TBC | Arabic Watch the trailer on Youtube. In the shadow of Tunisia’s Mghila Mountains, 13-year-old Achraf endures a harrowing ordeal when jihadists attack him and his cousin, Nizar. Forced to carry […]

THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US! Dir Laila Abbas | Germany, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Netherlands, Lebanon | 2024 | 92 mins | Unrated | Arabic, EnglishIn Ramallah, estranged sisters Mariam and Noura reunite after their father’s death leaves a substantial sum in the bank. Under Islamic inheritance law, their absentee brother is entitled […]

OH MY GOODNESS! (JUSTE CIEL!) Dir Laurent Tirard | France | 2022 | 87 mins | Rated 12A | French When the local nursing home finds itself in dire straits and in danger of falling to pieces, it’s down to Mother Veronique and the five eccentric sisters of the convent of St. Benedict to find […]

SISTER MIDNIGHT Dir Karan Kandhari | UK, India, Sweden | 2024 | 110 mins | Rated 15 | Hindi, English An arranged marriage sees an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack. Cranky Uma does her best to cope with the heat and the nosy neighbours even though her expectations of life in […]

A STATE OF PASSION Dir Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi | Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan | 2024 | 90 mins | Unrated | Arabic, EnglishAfter 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find […]

SANTOSH Dir Sandhya Suri | UK, Germany, India, France | 2024 | 128 mins | Rated 15 | Hindi Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. What passes for work on the “women’s desk” is mostly an excuse to collect bribes from local people. […]

FOUR MOTHERS Dir Darren Thornton | Ireland | 2024 | 89 mins | Rated 15 | English In Dublin, Edward is an aspiring novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother. When he finally finds himself on the brink of literary success, with pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing […]

After the tragic death of his father, 18 year old Totone’s carefree life of drinking and partying is upended as he is thrust into the unexpected and very adult role of looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the beautiful Jura region of France. Struggling for income, he hears about the […]