In 1979, James Baldwin started to write Remember This House, a personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his friends-  Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.  He only completed 30 pages.  In his documentary, Raoul Peck envisions the book that Baldwin never finished. The result is a journey into Black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.

• Director: Raoul Peck
• Certificate: 12A
• Running time: 93 minutes
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In Loveless,  Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-yearold son Alyosha.  Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

• Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 128 minutes
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Master story teller, Guillermo del Toro gives us The Shape of Water,  an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War America 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she discovers a secret classified experiment and forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature held in captivity.

• Director: Guillermo del Toro
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 123 minutes
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Claire is a humane and helpful midwife, dedicated to her patients. Her hospital about to close and she does not want to work in the new modern
“baby factory” hospital; her student son Simon is starting to leave home.  At this stressful time, Claire’s late father’s former mistress, Béatrice,
reappears. She is Claire’s exact opposite in character, the last kind of person Claire needs to mix with.  But Béatrice suffers from brain cancer
and has nobody else to turn to.

• Director: Martin Provost
• Certificate: 12
• Running time: 117 minutes
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This is the story of three Palestinian women living in Israeli society who, because of their lifestyles, struggle to be accepted.  Lalia likes to party after work, Salma, faces a difficult time when coming out as gay and Nur, a college student who observes Islamic tradition and moves in with them to be
close to the university.  All three women must learn how to accept themselves in the face of mounting pressure from their loved ones.

• Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 103 minutes
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Set in the 1970s and based on the memoirs of  Liverpudlian Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) this is his love story with ageing Hollywood star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening). What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a
deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort when faced with events beyond her control.
Nominated for 3 BAFTA’s in 2018.

• Director: Paul McGuigan
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 105 minutes
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Frantz is a story of discovery  and growth set in post WW-1 Germany.  A young woman, whose fiancé was killed in action, discovers that a stranger is  putting flowers on his grave. She meets him, he is a Frenchman who knew Frantz when they lived in Paris. She introduces him to Frantz’s grieving
parents, with whom she lives. He is made welcome, but in a climate of post-war and resentment, his presence in the small town is contentious.

• Director: François Ozon
• Certificate: 12
• Running time: 113 minutes
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Halley lives with her daughter Moonee in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Disney World tourist clientele.
Halley, who survives largely on welfare, has little respect for people, especially those who cross her. Halley, Moonee and Moonee’s friends,
who live in the motel or others along the strip and who she often drags into her disruptive pranks, are the bane of the hotel manager’s existence.

• Director: Sean Baker
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 111 minutes
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