A Useful Life (PG)

A beguiling romantic comedy for cinema lovers, like The Artist this droll tale rejoices in the beauty of black and white and pastiches silent films, m…
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Amigo (15)

Sayles’s typically intelligent, thought-provoking film is set against the backdrop of the
Philippine-American War of 1900, when the US was ‘liber…
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AnDa Union: From the Steppes to the City (PG)

A fascinating music doc that cuts between AnDa Union’s extraordinary live performances, the band members lives in Hohhat, the concrete city, and their…
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Breathing (15)

A searching examination of a young man’s troubled passage into adulthood, this subtle slice of social realism resists spiralling into bleakness thanks…
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Las Acacias (12A)

This story of a man trying to rebuild his life has a slow-burning charm that requires a little patience but will reward you with an enchanting, uplift…
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Mysteries of Lisbon (PG)

Storytelling of breathtaking scale and grandeur, this huge film weaves a spell-binding profusion of stories into a magical tapestry of one man’s life.…
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Old Dog (PG)

Beautifully shot in the wilds of Tibet, this is a droll tale of conflict between a shepherd and his son over their old mastiff. When ne’er-do-well Gon…
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Position Among The Stars (PG)

A funny, touching, amazingly intimate portrait of one Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta whose hopes for a better life are invested in bright…
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Robert Mugabe . . . What Happened? (PG)

A complex, compelling film that interweaves the story of Zimbabwe’s first 30 years with the personal journey of Robert Mugabe. From much-admired, brig…
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Surviving Life (15)

Master surrealist animator Svankmajer’s most imaginative, visually arresting and subversive film since his fabulous Alice is about an office drone who…
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Tales of the Night (PG)

This enchanting, strikingly beautiful film from world famous animator Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur and Asmar: The Prince’s Quest) …
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The Eagle Hunter’s Son (PG)

Like Cave of the Yellow Dog and The Story of the Weeping Camel, this fine family adventure is set amid the fabulously beautiful Mongolian wilderness. …
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The Forgotten Space (PG)

Striking images and intelligent interviews illuminate this discursive essay about the state of the world. Through a thorough examination of the ‘forgo…
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Think Global, Act Rural (PG)

Screening for the first time in the UK, this radical, exhilarating documentary not only digs into the problems of industrialized agriculture, quizzing…
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This is not a Film (U)

In December 2010 Jafar Panahi, award-winning director of The White Balloon, The Circle, Crimson Gold and Offside, was sentenced to six year’s in jail …
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Turksib (U)

With the Bronnt Industries Kapital trio performing live.

Prepare to be amazed by an astounding combination of glorious images and a sparkling sound…
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When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (PG)

Less widely-known in the West than his great contemporaries (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa) Naruse is an unflinching realist whose films often portray a hu…
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Where Do We Go Now? (15)

Genuinely funny comedy about the religious divisions in the middle East, even rarer one with the zest and joyful panache that Nadine (Caramel) Labaki …
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Window on Africa (PG)

Three delightful and insightful documentaries about women and children from Ethiopia, Uganda and Zambia.

Unearthing The Pen, 12′, by Carol Salter (…
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