Alone on a seaside vacation, Leda (an outstanding Olivia Colman) becomes consumed with watching a young mother and daughter on the beach. Unnerved by their compelling relationship, Leda is overwhelmed by her own memories of the terror, confusion and intensity of early motherhood. An impulsive act shocks Leda into the strange and ominous world of her own mind, where she is forced to face the unconventional choices she made as a young mother and their consequences.
Schoolteacher Emi finds her reputation at risk after a sex tape is published online. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. A film in three loosely connected parts: a walk in the city of Bucharest, a playful essay on obscenities and an incendiary confrontation. A wildly funny and extremely graphic look at the collision between private and personal in the social media age.
On the east coast of England in 1555, community leader David agrees, for a fee, to shelter an Egyptian family who are awaiting a ship to escape persecution. At first the community accept the outsiders, until a mute young woman, Patience, starts an affair with one of them and is thrust into a vicious psychological battle with David, who sees her actions as a threat to his position of authority.
A couple living alone on a remote farm in Iceland find their quiet existence shaken by the astonishing discovery of a mysterious newborn amongst their sheep. They decide to raise the child as their own, but soon face the
consequences of defying the will of nature. An audacious, genre-defying mix of horror and folklore, featuring a career-best performance from Noomi Rapace, this is a disturbing and uniquely unsettling cinematic experience.
Renowned actor Yusuke, grieving the death of his wife, is offered a role directing at a Hiroshima theatre festival. There he meets Misaki, a taciturn young woman assigned as his chauffeur. As the play’s premiere approaches, Yusuke must confront some painful truths and, with the help of his driver, face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind. A haunting road movie of love and loss, adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story.
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. While exploring the woods nearby she meets a strangely familiar girl her own age. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with her loss. A delicate but powerful examination of grief from the maker of Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
On Mother’s Day 1924, house maid Jane takes a rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul. The fact that Paul is engaged to another woman is of no concern to them in the depths of passion, but soon events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever. Based on the novel by Graham Swift with a screenplay by the writer of Normal People and Lady Macbeth.
At Muzamil’s baptism, a holy man prophesises that he will meet an early death at twenty. As the years pass, his mother becomes overprotective, his father leaves home, and other villagers taunt him. Then he meets a filmmaker, who sparks in Muzamil a passion for cinema and existential ideas. How will he reconcile his values with these new interests – and will he have time?
In the (fictional) 1960s provincial French town of Ennui-Sur-Blasé, a maverick group of American writers put together a cultural newspaper supplement, The French Dispatch. Across an anthology of stories, the paper’s art critic tells the story of a convicted murderer whose prison guard is his muse and model; a political writer investigates the town’s revolutionary political scene and ends up having an affair with its leader; and a reporter recounts his attempt to interview the local police department chief (and chef), which ends up with him witnessing the kidnapping of the police commissioner’s son.
As usual with Anderson’s films, The French Dispatch is a whirlwind of meticulous period detail, striking design, pinpoint dialogue and a fabulous score, with a wonderful cast of big names in everything from lead roles to blink-andyou-miss-it cameos. A must-watch curtain-raiserfor our new season.
As the small town of Martino Bay is rocked by a series of vicious killings, film composer Lewis Kerwin finds himself at the centre of the investigation. Forced to team up with an unusual American detective, Kerwin battles to clear his name and bring the killer to justice.
Unique screening of the 40 minute minute film of 55ºN, 5ºE
On the night of 21st October 1904, out in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, Russian warships mistook a fleet of British fishing trawlers for enemy Japanese warships and opened fire. One of the fishermen killed that night was George Henry Smith, great-grandfather of Gareth Smith, the lyricist & artist behind Vanishing. ‘55°N, 5°E’ reawakens this history.
Performed on the 21st & 22nd October 2017 – the 113th anniversary of the disaster – in the dramatic outdoor amphitheatre of Stage@TheDock, Hull, the audio recordings are now given a full release on the 117th anniversary via the Outer Reaches label and special select screenings of the film made of 55°N, 5°E’ will be taking place around the UK.
Scored for electronics, saxophone, violin and spoken word, three musicians and three dancers shift through five movements in a cycle. The music is part Throbbing Gristle soundscape, part Vaughan Williams folksong, part John Cale drone. Febrile noise and drum machines, resplendent strings and expressive intonations surge and subside, capturing the brutality and havoc of the Dogger Bank incident. Smith communicates a fragmentary narrative; an account of catastrophe and aftermath; of voids carved into a community in which family members and strong presences have been erased.
In mirroring the sounds invoked, the three dancers reflect a fateful passage. Their movements transcend dance; instead representing a mercurial series of subtle instructions sent from an invisible source. Frozen hands weave messages with long pieces of rope. Their shadows flee backwards into the water.
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This humorous and melancholic portrait of a male voice choir begins when the filmmakers’ father, widower Ed, 90, sells the family home and arranges his own funeral. His only remaining solace is Tuesday night practice, but with an average age of 74 and suffering a haemorrhaging of the bass section his beloved choir is facing a crisis of its own.
Poland’s Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film 2021
Nominee for six Eagle Awards (Poland’s Film Awards)
Venice Film Festival 2020
Telluride Film Festival 2020
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Bold, beautiful, and mesmeric, NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN is this striking film from Malgorzata Szumowska and her longtime collaborator Michal Englert.
Featuring a hypnotic lead performance from Utgoff, this outstanding new film is both wondrous, compelling, and uplifting.
Poland’s Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film 2021
Nominee for six Eagle Awards (Poland’s Film Awards)
Venice Film Festival 2020
Telluride Film Festival 2020
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Douglas Fairbanks, the greatest swashbuckler of them all, shines as Robin Hood in this 1922 silent film classic.
One of the productions which shaped the adventure movie genre and the first film to receive a premiere, the acrobatic stunts and visual richness of Robin Hood still take the breath away almost a hundred years later.
Silent film pianist Jonny Best will bring the film to life with live, improvised piano music.
In partnership with Yorkshire Silents
Nicolas Cage stars in the thriller Pig, alongside Alex Wolff (HEREDITARY) and Adam Arkin (SONS OF ANARCHY).
A reclusive truffle hunter (Cage) who lives alone in the wilderness must return to his past in Portland, after his beloved foraging pig is stolen.
Edinburgh Intl Film Festival 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021
Oldenburg Film Festival 2021
Rakel (Kristine Kujath Thorp) lives life to the fullest. An avid beer drinker and regular party animal, she is less interested in a relationship than the odd enjoyable pickup; one of whom happens to be aikido instructor Mos (Nader Khademi). Weeks after a fun night together, Rakel’s friends notice her appetite has increased. As have the size of her breasts. And then there’s the noticeable change around her waist. It soon becomes clear that the precautions she and Mos took might not have been enough. And no sooner does she contend with the possibility of being pregnant, a concept that soon becomes a certainty, a growing, increasingly irritating animated character appears to her throughout her waking day.
Berlin Intl Film Festival 2021
SXSW 2021
Edinburgh Intl Film Festival 2021
Nominated for 11 Amanda Awards (Norway’s Film Awards)
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