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A heart-warming tale of Tom (Timothy Spall), a pensioner whose wife, Mary (Phyllis Logan), has just passed away, who travels from John O’Groats to his original home town of Land’s End, one local bus at a time, using his free bus pass, in order to fulfil his pledge to spread her ashes near their first home. He carries with him only a small suitcase, travelling the length of the country with it. Along the way, his adventures are recorded by the people he meets and helps, and by the end of his trip he has unwittingly become a social media celebrity.
Year: 2021
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Genre: Drama
Length: 86 minutes
A team of Ukrainian journalists from The Associated Press (AP) trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, a bombed hospital, and more. Drawing on Chernov’s daily news dispatches and personal footage of his own country at war, this film is a vivid account of civilians caught in the siege, as well as a window into what it’s like to report from a conflict zone. Won an Oscar in 2024.
Year: 2023
Certificate: 18
Language: Russian Ukrainian
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Genre: Documentary
Length: 95 minutes
Two neighbours live in a 1920s English seaside town: deeply-conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents start to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women, led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss and Rose might not be the culprit after all.
Year: 2023 (UK 2024)
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Thea Sharrock
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Length: 100 minutes
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s (Danielle Deadwyler) relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world.
Year: 2022 (UK 2023)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Length: 100 minutes
Chile, 1976, three years after Augusto Pinochet established a military dictatorship, Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) goes to her beach house to take some time for herself. When the local priest asks her to take care of Elías (Nicolás Sepúlveda), a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Year: 2022 (UK 2023)
Certificate: 15
Language: Spanish
Director: Manuela Martelli
Genre: Drama
Length: 95 minutes
Georgie (Lola Campbell) is a dreamy, resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working class suburb of London following the death of her mother, making money by stealing bikes with her best friend Ali (Alin Uzun). Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason (Harris Dickinson) arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant to his efforts. As they adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason find that they both still have a lot of growing up to do.
Year: 2023
Cerficate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Charlotte Regan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Length: 84 minutes
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
Year: 2023 (UK: 2024)
Cerficate: 15
Language: English
Director: Andrew Haigh
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Length: 105 minutes
Samuel is found dead in the snow outside the isolated chalet where he lived with his wife Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a German writer, and their partially-sighted 11-year-old son Daniel (Milo Machado-Graner). An investigation concludes “suspicious death”, perhaps killed, perhaps suicide. Sandra is indicted, and we follow her trial which pulls the couple’s relationship apart. Daniel is caught in the middle: between the trial and their home life, doubts take their toll on the mother-son relationship.
Year: 2023
Cerficate: 15
Language: French
Director: Justine Triet
Genre: Crime, Drama
Length: 151 minutes
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara [Ebla Mari] with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other?
Year: 2023
Cerficate: 15
Language: English, Arabic
Director: Ken Loach
Genre: Drama
Length: 113 minutes
After meeting as children over a series of summers in the Italian Alps, Pietro (Luca Marinelli) and Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) reunite as adults on the occasion of the death of Pietro’s father and bond again in realizing the late father’s dream to build a mountainside cottage and in their subsequent explorations of the awe-inspiring mountain range. The cottage becomes a site of both reflection and reconciliation while the purity of nature and the demands of society both threaten to drive the men apart.
Year: 2022
Cerficate: 12
Language: Italian, English, Nepali
Director: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Genre: Drama
Length: 147 minutes