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The Desert of Forbidden Art Amanda Pope, Tchavdar Georgiev, USSR, 2010

Like a modern Robin Hood of the arts, penniless artist Igor Savitksy made an audacious decision during the Soviet Regime. He courageously saved 40,000 illicit art works, which would have otherwise...

The Desert of Forbidden Art Amanda Pope, Tchavdar Georgiev, USSR, 2010

Like a modern Robin Hood of the arts, penniless artist Igor Savitksy made an audacious decision during the Soviet Regime. He courageously saved 40,000 illicit art works, which would have otherwise...

You, The Living Roy Andersson, Sweden, 2008

YOU, THE LIVING follows a similar approach to Andersson's previous SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, but takes a slightly lighter tone in presenting a wry series of tragi-comic vignettes from modern...

A Swedish Love Story Roy Andersson, Sweden, 1970

A Swedish Love Story marked Roy Andersson's feature film debut and was an enormous international success, winning several awards at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1970. The film takes...

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Daniel Alfredson, Sweden, 2009

The final part of Stieg Larsson?s Millennium trilogy, based on the best-selling books, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS? NEST continues the story of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, as the...

The Girl Who Played with Fire Daniel Alfredson, Germany, 2009

Hot on the heels of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO comes its sequel, which sees Lisbeth Salander (Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Nyqvist) once again caught up in a brutal...

GravyTrain April Mullen, Canada, 2010

Climb aboard the GRAVYTRAIN for the next comedy from the team behind 2007 Festival hit ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE WAY OF THE TOSSER. Until now Gypsy Creek’s #1 cop Charles GravyTrain (Doiron) has...

GravyTrain April Mullen, Canada, 2010

Climb aboard the GRAVYTRAIN for the next comedy from the team behind 2007 Festival hit ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE WAY OF THE TOSSER. Until now Gypsy Creek’s #1 cop Charles GravyTrain (Doiron) has...

The Gruffalo Max Lang, United Kingdom, 2009

Recently voted the nation's favourite bedtime story, the magical tale of a plucky mouse who takes a walk through the woods in search of a nut is brought to enchanting life in an all-star adaptation...

The Battle of the Rails (La Bataille du Rail) Rene Clement, France, 1946

We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hey) Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico, 2010

The horror genre continues to be redefined in this new film about a poverty-stricken family with unusual dietary requirements. When a middle-aged man dies in the street, his widow and three...

Hoi Polloi Present HUGH HUGHES: HOW I GOT HERE Hugh Hughes, United Kingdom, 2010

Artist, comedian and story-teller Hugh Hughes (the energetic alter ego of Shon Dale-Jones) has captivated audiences the world over with his stage shows, Floating, Story of a Rabbit and 360. Now, in...

World's Greatest Dad Bobcat Goldthwait, United States, 2009

A thoughtful but outrageous comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, WORLD’S GREATEST DAD is a story about a man that learns that the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and...

Police, Adjective Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2009

The playful POLICE, ADJECTIVE presents a slow and steady story of surveillance and sesquipedalias* set in the Romanian town of Vaslui. A martyr to the bureaucratic pettiness of low-level police...

Slade in Flame Richard Loncraine, United Kingdom, 1975

Light the Rock n' Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame. Set in the hardships of North England's seventies...

Harvest Marc Meyers, United States, 2010

Asking important questions about life, death and dysfunction, HARVEST is a work of tremendous candour and compassion. As three generations come together around Siv (Loggia), the dynamic patriarch...

The Hillside Crowd (Ceux de la Colline) Berni Goldblat, Switzerland, 2009

A makeshift gold mine on the remote Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has attracted a swarm of gold-diggers and dynamite blasters, healers and dealers, vendors and prostitutes, children, holy men and...

The Passing of the Third Floor Back Carl Theodor Dreyer, United Kingdom, 1935

Book into this fascinating blend of magical parable and documentary realism adapted from the stage play by Jerome K Jerome. The mood changes when a mysterious stranger (Veidt) rents a room in a...

The Messenger Oren Moverman, United States, 2010

A powerful exploration of the effects of war on its casualties, and on those who are left behind. Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a US Army Staff Sergeant re-assigned after injury to the Casualty...

Garbage Dreams Mai Iskander, United States, 2009

GARBAGE DREAMS tells the story of three young boys living on the outskirts of Cairo in the world’s largest ‘garbage village’, the home of some 60,000 Zaballeen or ‘garbage people’. The...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Luc Besson, France, 2010

Who else could unleash a pterodactyl swooping above the boulevards of pre-First World War Paris! Set your imaginations to soar with French director Luc Besson?s return to the big screen with his...

Dancing Dreams Rainer Hoffmann, Anne Linsel, Germany, 2010

Revel to the power of dance as the world-class choreographer Pina Bausch prepares a group of youngsters for a performance of her work Kontakthof. Bausch was one of the leading figures in German...

Dancing Dreams Rainer Hoffmann, Anne Linsel, Germany, 2010

Revel to the power of dance as the world-class choreographer Pina Bausch prepares a group of youngsters for a performance of her work Kontakthof. Bausch was one of the leading figures in German...

Round Ireland with a Fridge Ed Bye, United Kingdom, 2010

Based on the biographical book from comedian Tony Hawks, ROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE sees television director Ed Bye (MY FAMILY) continue his journey into the world of feature filmmaking. It tells...

Soul Boy Hawa Essuman, Germany, 2010

Nairobi, Kenya. 14 year-old Abila lives with his parents in Kibera, one of the largest slums in East Africa. One morning the teenager discovers his father ill and delirious. Someone has stolen his...

Nenette Nicolas Philibert, France, 2009

Nenètte is the senior orangutan kept in the Jardin des Plantes, one of the oldest zoos in Paris. We see her daily routine: interacting with her co-inmates, taking her afternoon tea, and moving...

Brilliantlove Ashley Horner, United Kingdom, 2010

From its opening shot Ashley Horner's second feature exposes all. Love on screen is rarely this physical, or poetic, or intense. Manchester (Brown) and Noon (Landry) live out of a garage happily...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Niels Arden Oplev, Sweden, 2009

Based on the first instalment of Stieg Larsson's hugely successful Millennium Trilogy, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO introduces us to a world of buried secrets, family tragedy and simmering...

Cross-Channel (105m)/Discrepancy (10m) Ron Peck, United Kingdom, 2010

An Englishman travelling by ferry to meet his lover in France becomes increasingly suspicious of two of his fellow-passengers, two brothers, who he suspects are criminals on their way to a...

Empire State Ron Peck, United Kingdom, 1987

EMPIRE STATE follows the fortunes of twenty characters as they hustle the streets of late eighties London for hard cash... rent boys, City businessmen, yuppies, lonelyhearts, boxers, petty thieves...

Stephen Fry: Wagner and Me Patrick McGrady, United Kingdom, 2010

Follow Stephen Fry across Europe in this documentary as he explores his love for the music of composer Richard Wagner. But this is not just a journey of appreciation. Being of Jewish descent, with...

The Miracle of Leipzig(Das Wunder von Leipzig-Wir sind das Volk) Sebastian Dehnhardt, Matthias Schmidt, Germany, 2009

Leipzig, autumn 1989. What began in St Nicholas? church as prayers for peace develops within just a few weeks into the immensely powerful Monday demonstrations with thousands of East Germans taking...

The Miracle of Leipzig(Das Wunder von Leipzig-Wir sind das Volk) Sebastian Dehnhardt, Matthias Schmidt, Germany, 2009

Leipzig, autumn 1989. What began in St Nicholas? church as prayers for peace develops within just a few weeks into the immensely powerful Monday demonstrations with thousands of East Germans taking...

Henry of Navarre (Henri 4) Jo Baier, Germany, France, Spain, 2010

France, 1563. Protestants and Catholics are fighting for land and power, invoking their religion as justification. At the head of the Protestants stands Henry of Navarre, leading his men against...

A Town Called Panic Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubiert, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, 2010

Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems too. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead....

My Afternoons With Margueritte (La Tete en Friche) Jean Becker, France, 2010

This is the uplifting story of one of those chance encounters that can radically change the course of your life. Germain (Depardieu) is a large, unmarried and almost illiterate man in his fifties....

Beggars of Life with acc. from The Dodge Brothers William A Wellman, United States, 1928

In this special live performance by the Dodge Brothers, we combine their exuberant skiffle sound with William Wellman's 1928 melodrama BEGGARS OF LIFE, an early sound film featuring Louise Brooks...

Enter the Void Gasper Noe, France, Germany, Italy, 2009

Relentlessly challenging to the moral and physical sensibilities, ENTER THE VOID is a triumph of technological invention that appeals to the sensual, not to the intellectual. Noé recreates the...

Beijing Punk Shaun M. Jefford, USA, China, Australia, UK, 2010

What happens when 1.3 billion Chinese discover punk? Close to four decades on from the British musical movement of the early 70s, punk is exploding in the most unlikely of places—the underground...

The Weird World of Blowfly Jonathan Furmanski, United States, 2010

Singer-songwriter Clarence ?Blowfly? Reid has been rapping dirty since 1965, when he released what is widely believed to be the world?s first rap song. THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY follows the...

Monsters Gareth Edwards, United Kingdom, 2010

Almost indescribably director Gareth Edwards has managed to merge the indie road movie with tentacled abominations! After a space probe breaks up upon re-entry, Mexico has become a quarantine zone....

Dark Souls (Mørke Sjeler) Paul Gordon, César Ducasse, Norway, France, 2010

The ruthless greed and ecological devastation of the oil industry form the backdrop to DARK SOULS, a stylish horror which uses homage as a springboard for its original take on the genre. Lazy...

Superhero Me Steve Sale, United Kingdom, 2010

A documentary feature film about superheroes that could possibly save the world...or at least try.

Mr. Nice Bernard Rose, United Kingdom, 2010

It takes one pirate to play another in Bernard Rose’s adaptation of Howard Marks’ autobiography. Rhys Ifans skins up admirably depicting the Welshman’s progress from humble origins to global...

Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo Del Toro, Mexico, Spain, USA, 2006

A fairy tale for adults inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya and rooted, like THE DEVIL?S BACKBONE, in the context of war, this is del Toro?s most accomplished work in his own opinion. In...

Cronos Guillermo Del Toro, Mexico, 1993

Winner of the Critics' Week Prize at Cannes in 1993, CRONOS is an original, stylish and sophisticated reworking of the vampire themes of dread and desire. More than four centuries after it was...

The Devil's Backbone Guillermo Del Toro, Spain, 2001

As the Spanish Civil War draws to its close, ten-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is abandoned at a remote orphanage. Harassed by the boys there, Carlos starts to uncover the orphanage?s murky...

The Butcher's Son (La Soga) Josh Crook, Dominican Republic, 2010

Shot on the very meanest streets of the Dominican Republic, THE BUTCHER?S SON follows an inexorable arc from innocence to damnation, based on events from the writer's own life in Santiago. The...

Voices Unbound: The Story of the Freedom Writers Daniel Anker, United States, 2009

VOICES UNBOUND recounts the journey of a group of 150 at-risk youths from Long Beach California, who, in the mid-1990's, inspired by the Diary of Anne Frank, learned to rise above their...

From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann, United States, 1953

This impressive digital restoration of Fred Zinnemann's acclaimed drama FROM HERE TO ETERNITY premiered at Cannes 2010. Based on James Jones' best-selling novel of the same name, the film...

The Hunter (2010) Rafi Pitts, Germany, 2010

Iranian director Rafi Pitts cements his reputation from IT’S WINTER with this drama-cum-thriller targeted squarely at Iran’s rulers. Recently released from prison, Ali (Pitts) works the night...

Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones Rollin Binzer, United States, 1973

Recorded at the zenith of the Rolling Stones’ fame and creative potency, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... shows one of rock and roll’s most iconic bands at their very best. Using footage taken from two...

Beijing Punk (85m)/Kiss Bill (28m) Emelie Wallgren, Sweden, 2010

Beijing Punk With the passionate kind of crush that only 14-year-olds can muster, Angela and Arina dream themselves out of their Stockholm suburb to Berlin. Their goal: to see and touch their...

Rock and Roll Fuck'n'Lovely Josh Bagnall, United Kingdom, 2010

A twisted and sometimes surreal tale, following the rock band The Fuckin Lovelies through drugs, drinking, music and finally a mythical music festival. The making of the film required the forming...

Empire of Silver Christina Yao, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, 2009

EMPIRE OF SILVER offers us a detailed and often spectacular portrait of the world of a family of Chinese merchant bankers, set at the end of the 19th century. China is suffering a period of immense...

Thomas and Friends - Hero of the Rails Greg Tiernan, United Kingdom, 2009

During a daring race with boastful Spencer, Thomas discovers an abandoned engine from a far off place. Fearing ?Hiro? will be sent to the Smelters Yard, Thomas enlists his trusty engine friends to...

Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) Christian Carion, France, 2009

Director Carion brings together a magnificent cast (including Palme d'Or and Golden Bear winner Emir Kusturica) for this nuanced thriller, based on a true story. In Cold War Moscow, two years after...

O Lucky Man Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom, 1973

This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving...

Dirt Daniel Fawcett, United Kingdom, 2010

A new world of freedom and adventure opens up to Miles when he meets the somewhat eccentric Francis who inspires him to stop working and spend the last few weeks of the summer with him on his...

The Dispensibles (Die Entbehrlichen) Andreas Arnstedt, Germany, 2009

Childhood days are history for 10-year-old Jakob. His father Juergen and mother Silke are out of work and have long since surrendered to their alcohol problems. Violence and heated arguments...

True Legend (Su Qi-Er) Yuen Woo Ping, China, 2010

An important milestone for Chinese language film, with TRUE LEGEND Woo-Ping Yuen takes a step into the world of 3D. Beggar Su has retired from his life as a renowned general in order to pursue his...

Babies (Bébés) Thomas Balmes, France, 2010

In this touching documentary, Thomas Balmès (THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE PAPUANS, WAITING FOR JESUS) follows the lives of four babies for 400 days, tracking their journeys from birth to...

Winter's Bone Debra Granik, United States, 2010

Hailed as one of the first Oscar contenders of the year, and emerging from Sundance with the Grand Jury Prize, WINTER?S BONE is set in the rural American Ozark country, and tells the tale of Ree...

The Wildest Dream Anthony Geffen, United States, 2010

George Mallory was obsessed with becoming the first person to conquer the untouched Mount Everest. Last seen 800 feet below the summit in 1924, the clouds rolled in and he disappeared into legend....

Cambridge/ East Anglia Shorts (77m)/Common Ground (33m) Peter Harmer, United Kingdom, 2009

Three years in the making, Common Ground is Littleport?s Field theatre group?s most ambitious community project to date. Working alongside professional filmmaker Peter Harmer, Common Ground is an...

Two in the Wave (Deux de la Vague) Emmanuel Laurent, France, 2010

Documentary TWO IN THE WAVE focuses on the volatile relationship between the two men at the forefront of the highly influential French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. United by...

Plug and Pray Jens Schanze, Germany, 2009

Computer experts around the world strive towards the development of intelligent robots. Pioneers like Raymond Kurzweil and Hiroshi Ishiguro dream of fashioning intelligent machines that will equal...

Thorn in my Heart (L'épine dans le coeur) Michel Gondry, France, 2010

Visionary director Michel Gondry (THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) returns to his roots in France for perhaps his most personal film thus far, a documentary about his...

Countdown to Zero Lucy Walker, United States, 2010

During the Cold War, nothing loomed as large in the public mind as the bomb. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, the bomb became a symbol of another era. Naively we felt the danger had passed. In...

Made in Dagenham Nigel Cole, England, 2010

Once more British workplace politics forms the stuff of international movie hits! After what BILLY ELLIOT did for County Durham and THE FULL MONTY did for Sheffield, now Dagenham earns its time to...

Dark Souls (Mørke Sjeler) Paul Gordon, César Ducasse, Norway, France, 2010

The ruthless greed and ecological devastation of the oil industry form the backdrop to DARK SOULS, a stylish horror which uses homage as a springboard for its original take on the genre. Lazy...

The Secret of Kells Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, Belgium, 2009

The animated story of the boy behind the famed Book of Kells

The Secret of Kells Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, Belgium, 2009

The animated story of the boy behind the famed Book of Kells

'F' 2010 Johannes Roberts, United Kingdom, 2010

F tells the story of Robert Anderson, a burned-out alcoholic world-weary English teacher, a man who has to face his most terrifying demons. F is set in a huge sprawling U.K. comprehensive school,...

A Town Called Panic Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubiert, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, 2010

Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems too. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead....

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont, Canada, 2009

A fascinating cinematic portrait of one of the most renowned Canadian classical pianists of the 20th century. This documentary opens up the eccentric world of Glenn Gould using much never-before...

Human Terrain James Der Derian, David Udris, United States, 2010

In 2005, the US army formulated a controversial counterinsurgency plan which marked a radical shift in policy regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The Human Terrain initiative enlists experts...

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle Florin Şerban, Romania, 2010

Raw acting talent pulses through this latest addition to the Romanian new wave. Adapted from a stage play by author Andreea Vălean, non-professional actor George Piştereanu crackles with energy...

Neukölln Unlimited Agostino Imondi; Dietmar Ratsch, Germany, 2010

The 3 siblings Hassan, Lial and Maradona are successfull dancers and musicians. But their family is in danger of being deported out of Germany