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Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed. Stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke.
Year: 2019 (UK 2020)
Certificate: PG
Language: French
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Genre: Drama
Length: 106 minutes
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family’s decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Year: 2019
Certificate: PG
Language: Mandarin, English
Director: Lulu Wang
Genre: Comedy Drama
Length: 100 minutes
“Corpus Christi” is the story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation in a Youth Detention Center. The crime he commits prevents him from applying to the seminary and after his release on parole he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop. However Daniel has no intention of giving up his dream and dressed as a priest he decides to minister a small-town parish.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 15
Language: Polish
Director: Jan Komasa
Genre: Drama
Length: 115 minutes
In 1987 Britain, Javed Khan (Viveik Kalra) is a British-Pakistani college arts student in Luton in a family with a domineering father (Kulvinder Ghir). Depressed by his oppressive family life and feeling he has no future in a hostile community, a newfound friend introduces Javed to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Touched by the rock star’s powerfully eloquent affinity of his own feelings, Javed is inspired to reach out for his own dreams with his own talents. However, although Javed finds friends he never expected in this personal quest, he also finds himself butting heads with his newly unemployed father who stubbornly refuses to understand his son’s new aspirations. In this conflict of values in a troubled time, Javed must decide what is truly important to him while his family struggles to understand what has changed and what remains with a new generation feeling born to run.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Length: 118 minutes
Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu unfolds on a remote island off the coast of 18th-century Brittany. There, young painter Marianne is commissioned to create a portrait of reluctant bride-to-be, Héloïse. She must do so in secret, however, posing as a lady’s companion because Héloïse refuses to sit for a portrait. As their hours together lengthen, Héloïse kindles a new flame in Marianne – one that time and circumstance will conspire to extinguish. This vividly shot and quietly turbulent film finds new possibilities in the age-old vein of forbidden love.
Year: 2019 (UK 2020)
Certificate: 15
Language: French
Director: Céline Sciamma
Genre: Drama, Romance
Length: 121 minutes
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Year: 2019 (UK 2020)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Taika Waititi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Length: 108 minutes
The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. This film which is filmed in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational Indigenous visual narrative that deeply impacts our behavior towards natural resources and the human condition.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 12
Language: Turkish, Macedonian
Director: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Length: 89 minutes
A morality tale for the 21st Century. Loved it! A morality tale for the 21st century, Official Secrets tells the true story of British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun who, during the immediate run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, leaked a top secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing smaller, undecided member states into voting for war. At a personal and professional risk, journalist Martin Bright published the leaked document in The Observer newspaper in London, and the story made headlines around the world. Members of the Security Council were outraged and any chance of a UN resolution in favour of war collapsed. But within days, Bush declared he no longer needed UN backing and invaded anyway. As Iraq descended into chaos, Katharine was arrested and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. Martin faced potential charges too.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Gavin Hood
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Length: 112 minutes
Jobless, penniless, and, above all, hopeless, the unmotivated patriarch, Ki Taek, and his equally unambitious family occupy themselves by working for peanuts in their squalid basement-level apartment. His family are the supportive wife, Chung Sook, his cynical twentysomething daughter, Ki Jung, and his college-age son, Ki Woo. Then, by sheer luck, a lucrative business proposition paves the way for an ingeniously insidious scheme, as Ki Woo summons up the courage to pose as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the affluent Park family. Now, the stage seems set for an unceasing winner-take-all class war. How does one get rid of a parasite?
Year: 2019 (UK 2020)
Certificate: 15
Language: Korean
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Length: 132 minutes
Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Ken Loach
Genre: Drama,
Length: 101 minutes