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AE FOND KISS (103 mins)
 

AE FOND KISS (103 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: KEN LOACH

Cast: ATTA YAQUB, EVA BIRTHISTLE

**WINNER! Ecumenical Jury & German Art House Cinemas Prizes, Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: A romantic drama set in Glasgow's south side.


 
 
THE ALZHEIMER CASE (DE ZAAK ALZHEIMER) (120 mins)
 

THE ALZHEIMER CASE (DE ZAAK ALZHEIMER) (120 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: ERIK VAN LOOY

Cast: KOEN DE BOUW, WERNER DE SMEDT, JAN DECLEIR

**Belgian OSCAR entry **Toronto Film Festival / A gripping and stylish police thriller.


 
 
ANTONIA'S LINE (105 mins)
 

ANTONIA'S LINE (105 mins) ( 1995 ) Cert:

Director: MARLEEN GORRIS

Cast: WILLEKE VAN AMMELROOY, DORA VAN DER GROEN, ELS DOTTERMANS

**WINNER! OSCAR, Best Foreign Language Film / Synopsis: In an anonymous Dutch village, a strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of time.


 
 
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (112 mins)
 

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (112 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: GURINDER CHADHA

Cast: PARMINDER NAGRA, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS, ANUPAM KHER, ARCHIE PANJABI, SHAZNAY LEWIS, FRANK HARPER, JULIET STEVENSON

**GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION (Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy) **WINNER! Prix du Public, Locarno Film Festival **WINNER! Special Jury Prize, Marrakech Film Festival **WINNER! Audience Award, Dinard Film Festival **WINNER! Audience Award & UIP Prize, Sydney Film Festival **Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: Two girls chasing the same dream of playing professional soccer encounter opposition from their parents. However, when they both fall for their coach their friendship comes under threat. A worldwide smash hit.


 
 
BORN ROMANTIC (96 mins)
 

BORN ROMANTIC (96 mins) ( 2000 ) Cert:

Director: DAVID KANE

Cast: CRAIG FERGUSON, IAN HART, JANE HORROCKS, ADRIAN LESTER, CATHERINE MCCORMACK, JIMI MISTRY, DAVID MORRISSEY, OLIVIA WILLIAMS

/ Three young men, cursed with two left feet, pursue three beautiful women against a background of Salsa, Latin and easy-listening tunes.


 
 
BREAD & ROSES (110 mins)
 

BREAD & ROSES (110 mins) ( 2000 ) Cert:

Director: KEN LOACH

Cast: ADRIEN BRODY, PILAR PADILLA, ELPIDIA CARRILLO

**WINNER! UIP Award, Rio Film Festival **Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: A story about the most marginalised of LA communities who dare to take on their corporate bosses against all odds.


 
 
CARO DIARIO (100 mins)
 

CARO DIARIO (100 mins) ( 1994 ) Cert:

Director: NANNI MORETTI

Cast: NANNI MORETTI, RENATO CARPENTIERI, ANTONIO NEIWILLER

**WINNER! Best Director, Cannes Film Festival / Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in this wry look at life.


 
 
CHILDREN (BÖRN) ( 93mins)
 

CHILDREN (BÖRN) ( 93mins) ( 2006 ) Cert:

Director: RAGNAR BRAGASON

Cast: GISLI ORN GARDARSSON, NINA DOGG FILIPPUSDOTTIR, OLAFUR DARRI OLAFSSON, ANDRI SNAER HELGASON, MARGRET HELGA JOHANNESDOTTIR

"Compelling viewing" Variety **Iceland's Official OSCAR Entry **WINNER! Special Jury Prize, Noir In Fest, Italy San Sebastian Film Festival / Synopsis: A gripping and moving journey, CHILDREN is the independent first part of twin features by Ragnar Bragason and production company Vesturport exploring the roles of children and parents. Vesturport is also a renowned theatre production company whose latest Metamorphosis (by Kafka) will be staged at the Lyric in London, is co-directed by CHILDREN’s Gísli Örn Gardarsson and features an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.


 
 
CLEAN (110 mins)
 

CLEAN (110 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: OLIVIER ASSAYAS

Cast: MAGGIE CHEUNG, NICK NOLTE, BEATRICE DALLE

**WINNER! Best Actress, Cannes Film Festival **Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: Estranged from her partner’s family for some years, Emily is desperate to earn their trust and regain custody of her young son. But can they overcome the hurt of the past and learn to forgive..?


 
 
A COCK AND BULL STORY (2005) (92 mins)
 

A COCK AND BULL STORY (2005) (92 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM

Cast: STEVE COOGAN, ROB BRYDON, KEELEY HAWES, SHIRLEY HENDERSON, DYLAN MORAN, DAVID WALLIAMS, JEREMY NORTHAM, NAOMIE HARRIS, KELLY MACDONALD, IAN HART, GREG WISE, STEPHEN FRY, GILLIAN ANDERSON

**WINNER! Golden Tulip & FIPRESCI AwardS, Istanbul Film Festival **WINNER! FIPRESCI Award, Panorama of European Cinema, Athens **Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: Set in both the modern day and the 18th century, ‘A Cock and Bull Story’ is a comic take on the creation of a film inspired by Laurence Sterne’s classic novel ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’. The Film takes us on a wickedly funny journey into the impassioned world of filmmaking. US Distributor: Picture House


 
 
CODE 46 (92 mins)
 

CODE 46 (92 mins) ( 2003 ) Cert:

Director: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM

Cast: TIM ROBBINS, SAMANTHA MORTON

**Venice Film Festival **Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: Set in the near future, Code 46 is a compelling tale of forbidden love.


 
 
COME INTO THE LIGHT (ALLA LUCE DEL SOLE) (90 mins)
 

COME INTO THE LIGHT (ALLA LUCE DEL SOLE) (90 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: ROBERTO FAENZA

Cast: LUCA ZINGARETTI, ALESSIA GORIA, CORRADO FORTUNA

**WINNER! Best Actor, Karlovy Vary Film Festival **WINNER! Youth Prize, Mons Film Festival, Belgium / Synopsis: The true story of Father Pino Puglisi’s plight to help the large number of underprivileged children in Palermo, Sicily. But in his battle against widespread corruption, and his determination to find justice, he drew attention to himself, leading ultimately to his brutal murder by the local Mafia.


 
 
CONGORAMA (105 mins)
 

CONGORAMA (105 mins) ( 2006 ) Cert:

Director: PHILIPPE FALARDEAU

Cast: OLIVIER GOURMET, PAUL AHMARANI, JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL

**WINNER! Genie Award, Best Original Screenplay **WINNER! Jutra Awards (Won 6 Awards: Best Picture / Best Director / Best Screenplay / Best Actor x 2/ Best Supporting Actor) **Closing Night Gala, Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: When Michel discovers that he was adopted as a baby he heads to Montreal from Belgium to trace his natural parents. Along the way he experiences a series of coincidences which sets into motion an intricately woven jigsaw. Comic and moving in turns, this charming film keeps the viewer guessing right up to the very end.


 
 
THE CRYING GAME (108 mins)
 

THE CRYING GAME (108 mins) ( 1991 ) Cert:

Director: NEIL JORDAN

Cast: STEPHEN REA, MIRANDA RICHARDSON, FOREST WHITAKER, JIM BROADBENT, RALPH BROWN, ADRIAN DUNBAR

**WINNER! OSCAR for Best Screenplay / Synopsis: Set in the bizarre but vibrant underworlds of the killing fields of Northern Ireland and the seedy twilight zone of contemporary London.


 
 
THE DANCE (87 mins)
 

THE DANCE (87 mins) ( 1998 ) Cert:

Director: ÁGÚST GUDMUNDSSON

Cast: PÁLÍNA JÓNSDÓTTIR, DOFRI HERMANNSSON

1913 – a remote island in the Atlantic hosts a wedding. The colourful guests dance the rhythmic and hypnotic Faroese dance, only breaking from their merriment for a shipwreck, looters, a close encounter with the devil and the disappearance of the bride.


 
 
DANCE OF THE WIND (85 mins)
 

DANCE OF THE WIND (85 mins) ( 1997 ) Cert:

Director: RAJAN KHOSA

Cast: KITU GIDWANI, BHAVEEN GOSAIN, B.C. SANYAL

**Venice Film Festival / Synopsis: Set in contemporary New Delhi, Dance of the Wind follows a young singer whose successful profesional life comes to a sudden halt at the death of her mother/teacher.


 
 
DEADLINES (103 mins)
 

DEADLINES (103 mins) ( 2003 ) Cert:

Director: LUDI BOEKEN & MICHAEL ALAN LERNER

Cast: STEPHEN MOYER, ANNE PARILLAUD, OMID DJALILI

**WINNER! Best European Film Award, Avignon Film Festival **WINNER! Grand Jury Prize, Santa Barbara Film Festival **WINNER! Best Actress: Anne Parillaud, Festival du Film de Paris **Rotterdam Film Festival / Synopsis: Drawn from real life experiences, Deadlines is a gritty, fast paced tale of the danger, emotional entanglements and moral dilemmas encountered by war correspondents.


 
 
DEAD MAN'S SHOES (110 mins)
 

DEAD MAN'S SHOES (110 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: SHANE MEADOWS

Cast: PADDY CONSIDINE, GARY STRETCH, TOBY KEBBELL

**WINNER! Evening Standard British Film Award: Best Actor, Paddy Considine **WINNER! Golden Hitchcock, Dinard Film Festival / Synopsis: A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalised his mentally-challenged brother years ago.


 
 
DE ESO NO SE HABLA (I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT) (102 mins)
 

DE ESO NO SE HABLA (I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT) (102 mins) ( 1993 ) Cert:

Director: MARIA LUISA BEMBERG

Cast: MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, LUISINA BRANDO

A provocative tale about love set in a small South American town in the fifties.


 
 
DUST (127 mins)
 

DUST (127 mins) ( 2001 ) Cert:

Director: MILCHO MANCHEVSKI

Cast: JOSEPH FIENNES, DAVID WENHAM, ANNE BROCHET, ADRIAN LESTER, NIKOLINA KUJACA & ROSEMARY MURPHY

**Opening night gala, Venice Film Festival / Synopsis: New York meets the Wild West in a tale of love, loss and revenge.


 
 
EDWARD II (90 mins)
 

EDWARD II (90 mins) ( 1991 ) Cert:

Director: DEREK JARMAN

Cast: STEVEN WADDINGTON, ANDREW TIERNAN, TILDA SWINTON

** Best Actress, Venice Film Festival ** FIPRESCI Award / Teddy Award, Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: From the dungeon in which he is imprisoned, a despairing King Edward II recalls the train of events which led to his downfall.


 
 
GABRIEL & ME (87 mins)
 

GABRIEL & ME (87 mins) ( 2000 ) Cert:

Director: UDAYAN PRASAD

Cast: BILLY CONNOLLY, IAIN GLEN, SEAN LANDLESS, DAVID BRADLEY, ROSIE ROWELL

A contemporary coming-of-age story with a moving and surreal twist.


 
 
HIDEOUS KINKY (95 mins)
 

HIDEOUS KINKY (95 mins) ( 1998 ) Cert:

Director: GILLIES MACKINNON

Cast: KATE WINSLET, SAÏD TAGHMAOUI

Early 1970s – escaping grey London and a failed relationship, a beautiful young woman, Julia, and her two daughters take off for Morocco in search of peace, love and happiness.


 
 
HIMALAYA (CARAVAN) (110 mins)
 

HIMALAYA (CARAVAN) (110 mins) ( 1999 ) Cert:

Director: ERIC VALLI

Cast:

**OSCAR Nomination, Best Foreign Film / Synopsis: Visually stunning film which charts an odyssey of incredible hardship, as three distinctive characters take salt to trade to the lower valleys via the harsh, unforgiving landscape of the Himalayas.


 
 
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT (104 mins)
 

HOLD BACK THE NIGHT (104 mins) ( 1999 ) Cert:

Director: PHIL DAVIS

Cast: CHRISTINE TREMARCO, STUART SINCLAIR BLYTH, SHEILA HANCOCK

Youngsters Declan and Charleen, on the run from their lives, their families and the police, head for the remote Scottish Highlands. As well as becoming lovers, they lay to rest the ghosts of their past and learn to trust the world again.


 
 
IN MY COUNTRY (AKA Country of My Skull) (100 mins)
 

IN MY COUNTRY (AKA Country of My Skull) (100 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: JOHN BOORMAN

Cast: SAMUEL L. JACKSON, JULIETTE BINOCHE, BRENDAN GLEESON, MENZI ‘NGUBS’ NGUBANE

**Cinema for Peace Award, Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: In My Country charts the unfathomable depths of human cruelty and the redeeming power of forgiveness and love.


 
 
THE INTENDED (110 mins)
 

THE INTENDED (110 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: KRISTIAN LEVRING

Cast: JANET McTEER, JJ FEILD, OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, BRENDA FRICKER, TONY MAUDSLEY, DAVID BRADLEY, PHILIP JACKSON, ROBERT PUGH

**Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: A couple’s arrival in an emotionally charged trading station deep in a remote jungle is the catalyst for a shocking chain of events.


 
 
IN THIS WORLD (89 mins)
 

IN THIS WORLD (89 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM

Cast: ENAYATULLAH, JAMAL UDIN TORABI

**WINNER! Golden Bear / Ecumenical Prize / Peace Prize, Berlin Film Festival **WINNER! BAFTA for Best Foreign language film **WINNER! BIFA: Best Achievement in Production / Best Technical Achievement - Editing **WINNER! South Bank Award, Best Cinema Award / Synopsis: A road movie documenting the journey of two Afghanis travelling from Peshawar, Pakistan to London.


 
 
JANICE BEARD 45 WPM (80 mins)
 

JANICE BEARD 45 WPM (80 mins) ( 1999 ) Cert:

Director: CLARE KILNER

Cast: EILEEN WALSH, RHYS IFANS, PATSY KENSIT

Glasgow born Janice Beard moves to London to raise money for a cure for her mother’s acute agoraphobia. Armed with only a pitiful typing speed, Janice soon manages to get herself mixed up in romance and industrial espionage…


 
 
KINI AND ADAMS (93 mins)
 

KINI AND ADAMS (93 mins) ( 1996 ) Cert:

Director: IDRISSA OUEDRAOGO

Cast: VUSI KUNENI, DAVID MOHLOKI, JOHN KANI, TATI NTHATI MOSHESH

**Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: Kini and Adams are best friends who long to move to the big city. When both are offered jobs and a steady wage, their dream seems to be within reach, but ambition is matched with rivalry - can the friendship survive?


 
 
LAND AND FREEDOM (109 mins)
 

LAND AND FREEDOM (109 mins) ( 1994 ) Cert:

Director: KEN LOACH

Cast: IAN HART, ROSANA PASTOR

**Prize of the Ecumenical Jury/FIPRESCI Award, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: 1936; a young unemployed man leaves Liverpool to join the fight against Fascism in the early days of the Spanish Civil War and finds himself torn between loyalty to the Communist party and his new-found love.


 
 
LA WITHOUT A MAP (106 mins)
 

LA WITHOUT A MAP (106 mins) ( 1998 ) Cert:

Director: MIKA KAURISMÄKI

Cast: DAVID TENNANT, VINESSA SHAW, JULIE DELPY, VINCENT GALLO

Richard has inherited his father’s undertakers business in the North of England and is headed for marriage. But he longs for something more exciting, more romantic. His dreams are answered when he meets a beautiful actress from LA…


 
 
LIAM (90 mins)
 

LIAM (90 mins) ( 2000 ) Cert:

Director: STEPHEN FREARS

Cast: IAN HART, CLAIRE HACKETT, ANNE REID, ANTHONY BURROWS

**WINNER! OCIC / Marcel Mastroianni Awards, Venice Film Festival / Synopsis: Set in 1930s Liverpool, this is a child's-eye view of a family's freefall into poverty during the depression, enriched by the ironic outlook of a small boy.


 
 
LOVE + HATE (86 mins)
 

LOVE + HATE (86 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: DOMINIC SAVAGE

Cast: SAMINA AWAN, TOM HUDSON, NICHOLA BURLEY, WAS ZAKIR

**WINNER! Grand Prix, Children and Young People's Film Festival Malmö (BUFF) **WINNER! International Award, Giffoni Film Festival **WINNER! New Voices/New Visions Award, Palm Springs Film Festival **Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: A passionate tale of young love set against a backdrop of racial tension. From the director of ‘Out of Control’, Winner of the Best New British Feature at the 2002 Edinburgh Film Festival.


 
 
A MAN'S GOTTA DO (93 mins)
 

A MAN'S GOTTA DO (93 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: CHRIS KENNEDY

Cast: JOHN HOWARD, REBECCA FRITH, ALYSSA McCLELLAND, GYTON GRANTLEY

**WINNER! Golden Zenith Audience Award, Montreal Film Festival / Synopsis: A charming Australian comedy featuring a regular family with very irregular goings on.


 
 
THE MIGHTY CELT (78 mins)
 

THE MIGHTY CELT (78 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: PEARSE ELLIOTT

Cast: ROBERT CARLYLE, GILLIAN ANDERSON, TYRONE McKENNA, KEN STOTT

**WINNER! Best International Actress (Gillian Anderson), Irish Film & TV Awards **Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: A 14 year-old boy is forced to grow up quickly when he is drawn into the underworld of dog racing.


 
 
MY NAME IS JOE
 

MY NAME IS JOE ( 1998 ) Cert:

Director: KEN LOACH

Cast: PETER MULLAN, LOUISE GOODALL

**Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: A Glasgow love story where choices are never, ever simple.


 
 
THE NAVIGATORS (96 mins)
 

THE NAVIGATORS (96 mins) ( 2001 ) Cert:

Director: KEN LOACH

Cast: DEAN ANDREWS, TOM CRAIG, JOE DUTTINE, STEVE HUISON, VENN TRACEY, SEAN GLENN

**In Competition, Venice Film Festival / Synopsis: When privatisation reaches British Rail, a gang of rail-track workers take their changes with redundancy cash and life as casual agency workers.


 
 
MY SUMMER OF LOVE (86 mins)
 

MY SUMMER OF LOVE (86 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI

Cast: NATALIE PRESS, EMILY BLUNT, PADDY CONSIDINE

**WINNER! Evening Standard Awards for 'Most Promising Newcomer Award' (Natalie Press and Emily Blunt) & 'Best Screenplay Award' **WINNER! Michael Powell Award, Edinburgh Film Festival **WINNER! London Film Critics’ Circle Award for 'British Newcomer of the Year' (Natalie Press) **WINNER! Directors Guild of Great Britain Award for 'Outstanding Directorial Achievement, British Film' **WINNER! Main Prize, Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival / Synopsis: Set in contemporary Yorkshire, My Summer Of Love is a vibrant tale of two sixteen-year olds spending one long hot English summer together. From the director of Last Resort. US Distributor: Focus Features


 
 
NO MAN'S LAND (98 mins)
 

NO MAN'S LAND (98 mins) ( 2001 ) Cert:

Director: DANIS TANOVIC

Cast: BRANKO DJURIC, RENE BITORAJAC, FILIP SOVAGOVIC, GEORGES SIATIDIS, KATRIN CARTLIDGE, SIMON CALLOW

**WINNER! ACADEMY AWARD, Best Foreign Language Film **WINNER! GOLDEN GLOBE, Best Foreign Language Film **WINNER! Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival **WINNER! César, Best New Director **Audience Awards at San Sebastian, Sarajevo, AFI & Rotterdam Film Festivals / Synopsis: This satirical look at war tells the bizarre tale of two enemy soldiers who find themselves stranded in No Man’s Land during the 1993 Bosnian conflict. US distributor: MGM


 
 
PRINCESA 2000 (95 mins)
 

PRINCESA 2000 (95 mins) Cert:

Director: HENRIQUE GOLDMAN

Cast: INGRID DE SOUZA, CESARE BOCCI, LULU PECORARI

Princesa is the story of Fernanda, a nineteen year old Brazilian transvestite, who arrives in Italy with two dreams: to become a woman and to find the love of a respectable man.


 
 
PRIVATE CONFESSIONS (131 mins)
 

PRIVATE CONFESSIONS (131 mins) ( 1997 ) Cert:

Director: LIV ULLMANN

Cast: PERNILLA AUGUST, SAMUEL FROLER, MAX VON SYDOW

**Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: The story of a woman stifled in marriage who has an illicit affair with a younger man. Although it makes her feel passionately alive, her happiness becomes her torment and she turns to her priest for help.


 
 
THE PROPOSITION (104 mins)
 

THE PROPOSITION (104 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: JOHN HILLCOAT

Cast: GUY PEARCE, DANNY HUSTON, RAY WINSTONE, JOHN HURT, DAVID WENHAM, EMILY WATSON

** WINNER! Australian IFA Awards: Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Production Design **WINNER! Australian Film Institute Awards: The Byron Kennedy Award for Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography. **WINNER! Bermuda Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature, Best Performances – Ray Winstone/Emily Watson **Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: Written by music icon Nick Cave, ‘The Proposition’ is a visually stunning tale of loyalty, betrayal, and retribution set in 1880’s Australia. US Distributor: First Look Studios


 
 
PURE (96 mins)
 

PURE (96 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: GILLIES MACKINNON

Cast: HARRY EDEN, MOLLY PARKER, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, DAVID WENHAM, GERALDINE MCEWAN, GARY LEWIS

**Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival **LVT Prize, Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: PURE is a story about innocence. Set in the East End of London, 10 year old Paul becomes the caretaker of his family and is determined to save his mother from self destruction.


 
 
THE REFLECTING SKIN (95 mins)
 

THE REFLECTING SKIN (95 mins) ( 1990 ) Cert:

Director: PHILIP RIDLEY

Cast: VIGGO MORTENSEN, LINDSAY DUNCAN, JEREMY COOPER, SHEILA MOORE, DUNCAN FRASER

Synopsis: A young boy growing up in 1950s Idaho retreats into a fantasy world after he father kills himself. Convinced that a local widow is a vampire, he tries to find ways of discouraging his younger brother from seeing her. But events take a turn for the darker and childish imaginings give way to a horrifying reality.


 
 
THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE (95 mins)
 

THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE (95 mins) ( 2003 ) Cert:

Director: DEEPA MEHTA

Cast: BRUCE GREENWOOD, EMILIA FOX, EDWARD FOX, CLAIRE BLOOM

**Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival / Synopsis: A warm-hearted love story that explores the issues facing the lucky and unlucky in love in the 21st Century. Based on the novel by Carol Shields.


 
 
RIVER QUEEN
 

RIVER QUEEN ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: VINCENT WARD

Cast: SAMANTHA MORTON, KIEFER SUTHERLAND, CLIFF CURTIS, TEMUERA MORRISON, ANTON LESSER, RAWIRI PENE, STEPHEN REA

**Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival** / Synopsis: Where the forest meets the river… In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between Maori tribes and the British colonial army. With darkness all around, and desperate to find her son, she discovers that only the heart can see…


 
 
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO (91 mins)
 

THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO (91 mins) ( 2006 ) Cert:

Director: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM & MAT WHITECROSS

Cast: RUHEL AHMED, ASIF IQBAL, SHAFIQ RASUL, RIZ AHMED, FARHAD HARUN, WAQAR SIDDIQUI, ARFAN USMAN

**WINNER! Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival **WINNER! BIFA, Best Documentary **WINNER! Independent Spirit Award, Best Documentary **WINNER! Best narrative feature & Best ensemble acting, Newport Film Festival / Synopsis: The story of four friends who set off from Tipton in the English Midlands in September 2001 for a wedding and a holiday. Two and a half years later three of them returned home. Their story is told through a mixture of interviews with the men, news archive and recreation of their ordeal.


 
 
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE (92 mins)
 

SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE (92 mins) ( 2006 ) Cert:

Director: ED BLUM

Cast: EWAN MCGREGOR, SOPHIE OKONEDO, EILEEN ATKINS, HUGH BONNEVILLE, TOM HARDY, DOUGLAS HODGE, ADRIAN LESTER, ANDREW LINCOLN, GINA MCKEE, CATHERINE TATE

Scenes Of A sexual Nature is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick and it seems that what makes us tick is complex, dark and very funny.


 
 
LA SECONDA VOLTA (THE SECOND TIME) (80 mins)
 

LA SECONDA VOLTA (THE SECOND TIME) (80 mins) ( 1996 ) Cert:

Director: MIMMO CALOPRESTI

Cast: NANNI MORETTI, VALERIA BRUNI TEDESCHI

**Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: Alberto has a chance encounter with a woman who tried to kill him in a terrorist attack 12 years previously, triggering a cruel mind game as he seeks answers to the questions that have obsessed him for years.


 
 
THE SECRET RAPTURE (96 mins)
 

THE SECRET RAPTURE (96 mins) ( 1993 ) Cert:

Director: HOWARD DAVIES

Cast: JULIET STEVENSON, JOANNE WHALLEY-KILMER, PENELOPE WILTON

The chronicle of long-term rivalry between two sisters, family loyalty, rifts with lovers and wildly attractive but deadly characters.


 
 
SIX SHOOTER (25 mins)
 

SIX SHOOTER (25 mins) ( 2004 ) Cert:

Director: MARTIN McDONAGH

Cast: BRENDAN GLEESON, RUAIDHRÍ CONROY

**WINNER! OSCAR – Best Live Action Short **WINNER! British Independent Film Award, Best Short **WINNER! Best Short, Irish Film and TV Awards **WINNER! Best First Short, Cork Film Festival **WINNER Best Irish Short, Foyle Film Festival **WINNER! Grand Prix, Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival / Synopsis: On a train journey home through rural Ireland, a man encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball. His outlandish words and actions set in motion a chain of events that lead inexorably to the tale’s dark and dangerous conclusion. US Distributor: Magnolia Pictures


 
 
SUCH A LONG JOURNEY (113 mins)
 

SUCH A LONG JOURNEY (113 mins) ( 1998 ) Cert:

Director: STURLA GUNNARSSON

Cast: ROSHAN SETH, OM PURI, RANJIT CHOWDHRY

An intricately layered, wryly humorous story set in Bombay 1971. A hard working family man gradually sees his modest life unravelling when his routine is disrupted by political upheaval, a sick daughter and a rebellious son.


 
 
THE SUN (110 mins)
 

THE SUN (110 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: ALEXANDER SOKUROV

Cast: ISSEY OGATA, ROBERT DAWSON, KAORI MOMOI

**WINNER! National Film Critics and Film Press Awards, Moscow: Best Film, Best Director, Best Music **In Competition, Berlin film Festival / Synopsis: Set in occupied Japan during World War II, 'The Sun' portrays two men wrestling with the burden of history, culture and conflict in order to find a path to the future. From the director of ‘Father and Son’ and ‘Russian Ark’. The third film in a series of four – following on from ‘Moloch’ and ‘Taurus’.


 
 
SWEET SIXTEEN (106 mins)
 

SWEET SIXTEEN (106 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: KEN LOACH

Cast: MARTIN COMPSTON, MICHELLE COULTER, ANNMARIE FULTON, WILLIAM RUANE, GARY MCCORMACK, TOMMY MCKEE

**WINNER! Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival **WINNER! European Critics’ Award, European Film Academy **WINNER! BIFA, Best British Independent Film / Synopsis: A teenager runs into trouble trying to secure a new home in time for his mother’s release from prison.


 
 
THE TANGO LESSON (102 mins)
 

THE TANGO LESSON (102 mins) ( 1996 ) Cert:

Director: SALLY POTTER

Cast: SALLY POTTER, PABLO VERON

** Official Selection, Venice Film Festival / Synopsis: A female film-maker discovers the Tango in between bouts of writing a Hollywood screenplay. As the lessons proceed she and her tutor fall in love and strike a bargain… if he makes her a Tango dancer, she’ll make him a movie star.


 
 
TARA ROAD
 

TARA ROAD ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: GILLIES MACKINNON

Cast: ANDIE MACDOWELL, OLIVIA WILLIAMS, STEPHEN REA, IAIN GLEN, JEAN-MARC BARR

**Best Film nomination, Irish Film and Television Awards / Synopsis: Two women, two houses and two return journeys. Tara Road is a story about lives broken, changing perspective and the healing power of friendship and time. In Maeve Binchy’s words – ‘in my stories, the cavalry doesn’t come riding over the hill, there’s no magic solution to life’s problems – you have to rescue yourself’.


 
 
IL TEMPO DELL'AMORE (A TIME TO LOVE) (118 mins)
 

IL TEMPO DELL'AMORE (A TIME TO LOVE) (118 mins) ( 1999 ) Cert:

Director: GIACOMO CAMPIOTTI

Cast: CIARAN HINDS, JULIET AUBREY, NATACHA REGNIER, IGNAZIO OLIVA, NATALIA PIATTI, SERGIO RUBINI

A captivating tale of love’s evolution traced through three different couples in three different eras. Each story is unique, but all are entwined with the invisible thread that binds humanity more profoundly than tradition and history.


 
 
TICKETS (115 mins)
 

TICKETS (115 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: ERMANNO OLMI, ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, KEN LOACH

Cast: CARLO DELLE PIANE, VALERIA BRUNI TEDESCHI, SILVANA DE SANTIS, FILIPPO TROJANO, BLERTA CAHANI, SANIJE DEDJA, AISHE GJYRIQI, KLAJDI QORRAJ, MARTIN COMPSTON, GARY MAITLAND, WILLIAM RUANE

**Berlin Film Festival / Synopsis: Three highly acclaimed directors join together to direct three interwoven stories that take place during a journey from Central Europe to Rome. The characters connect through casual encounters and set forth a story of love, chance and sacrifice.


 
 
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (118 mins)
 

24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (118 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM

Cast: STEVE COOGAN, PADDY CONSIDINE, DANNY CUNNINGHAM, SEAN HARRIS, SHIRLEY HENDERSON, LENNIE JAMES, ANDY SERKIS, JOHN SIMM

**WINNER! BIFA, Best Achievement in Production **Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival **Karlovy Vary Film Festival **San Sebastian Film Festival / Synopsis: A wild and sexy tale of music, good times and the larger-than-life characters behind the spectacular rise and fall of Manchester’s infamous Factory Records and Hacienda nightclub. US Distributor: MGM (United Artists)


 
 
UNHITCHED (AKA THE BEST MAN) (95 mins)
 

UNHITCHED (AKA THE BEST MAN) (95 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: STEFAN SCHWARTZ

Cast: STUART TOWNSEND, AMY SMART, SETH GREEN

Olly meets the girl of his dreams. Only problem is - she is his best mate’s bride-to-be. Murray, Ollie’s flat-mate, sees only one course of action. But Olly is torn between moral duty and his love for Sarah.


 
 
VENT DE COLÈRE (ANGRY WIND) (92 mins)
 

VENT DE COLÈRE (ANGRY WIND) (92 mins) ( 1998 ) Cert:

Director: MICHAEL RAEBURN

Cast: PATRICK BOUCHITEY, CORALY ZAHONERO, ERIC BOUCHER

An eccentric, old fashioned farmer in the Alps clashes with his modern thinking daughter who dreams of travel and adventure.


 
 
VENUS ( 95mins)
 

VENUS ( 95mins) ( 2006 ) Cert:

Director: ROGER MICHELL

Cast: PETER O'TOOLE, LESLIE PHILLIPS, JODIE WHITTAKER, RICHARD GRIFFITHS and VANESSA REDGRAVE

**OSCAR NOMINATION: BEST ACTOR, PETER O'TOOLE **GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION: BEST ACTOR, PETER O'TOOLE **SPECIAL PRESENTATION, TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL / Synopsis: A wry, affectionate coming of very-old-age story, VENUS reunited the team behind both the award-winning film “The Mother” and the television series “The Buddha of Suburbia”: director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer Kevin Loader. UK distributor: Buena Vista International (BVI) US distributor: Miramax


 
 
WAH-WAH (99 mins)
 

WAH-WAH (99 mins) ( 2005 ) Cert:

Director: RICHARD E. GRANT

Cast: GABRIEL BYRNE, EMILY WATSON, JULIE WALTERS, NICHOLAS HOULT, MIRANDA RICHARDSON

**Opening Gala, Edinburgh Film Festival **Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival **Tribeca Film Festival / Synopsis: ‘Wah-Wah’ focuses on a family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule in 1969 Swaziland. A semi-autobiographical ‘coming of age at the end of an age’ story. US Distributor: Roadside Attractions


 
 
WHALE RIDER (104 mins)
 

WHALE RIDER (104 mins) ( 2002 ) Cert:

Director: NIKI CARO

Cast: KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, CLIFF CURTIS, RAWIRI PARATENE,VICKY HAUGHTON

**OSCAR Nomination, Best Actress **Audience Award, Toronto Film Festival **World Cinema Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival **Canal+ Audience Award, Rotterdam Film Festival / Synopsis: Set in a Maori community, Whale Rider is a contemporary story of love and rejection as a young girl fights to fulfil her destiny. Based on the book ‘The Whale Rider’ by Witi Ihimaera. A US box office hit. US Distributor: Newmarket Films


 
 
THE WHITE SUIT (BELO ODELO) (90 mins)
 

THE WHITE SUIT (BELO ODELO) (90 mins) ( 1999 ) Cert:

Director: LAZAR RISTOVSKI

Cast: LAZAR RISTOVSKI, RADMILLA SHCHOGOLYEVA, DRAGAN NIKOLIC, VELIMIR BATA ZIVOJINOVIC

**Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival / Synopsis: After receiving a telegram informing him that his mother has passed away, Savo embarks on a memorable train journey where he encounters a host of colourful, crazy characters looking to escape the reality of a country in turmoil.