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It’s fair to say that the UK loves good drama and does good drama. From Shakespeare to Eastenders, drama is in our blood and Drama Queens is a glorious celebration of this fact. This year we’ve got for you Departure, a terrific little sci-fi short about two astronauts dreaming of the home they may not [...]
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The documentary movement is a cornerstone of British film history and arguably our greatest contribution to world cinema. During the 1940s the British Council was an enthusiastic commissioner of short documentaries designed to showcase Britain to the rest of the world. Largely unseen for nearly 70 years, the collection is currently being digitised and contains [...]
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This is what Peeping Tom might look like if it were directed by Michael Haneke. Loner Sylvain’s beloved arthouse cinema, which is also his home, is about to be closed down. As obsessed with films as he is with blood, every night after the cinema closes Sylain unleashes his anger in acts of extreme violence. [...]
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Red Psalm, which won director Miklos Jancso the Best Director Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, is an astonishing film in which Jancso’s technical and conceptual virtuosity are at their peak. Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike only to face increasingly harsh reprisals for [...]
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At times both very funny and deeply strange, Finisterrae is the highly original film debut by Sergio Caballero, co-director of the famous Sónar Music Festival in Barcelona. It’s an oddball, phantasmagoric fantasy following the wanderings of two ghosts through the Camino of Santiago to Finisterre, the end of the world. They encounter speaking animals and [...]
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In The Divide, Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens delivers an incredible nightmarish portrayal of fear, paranoia, love and survival set against an apocalyptic backdrop. As nuclear bombs fall on New York eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their now destroyed apartment building, home to paranoid superintendent Mickey (a brilliant performance from The Terminator’s Michael [...]
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The highest grossing domestic Chinese release ever, this hugely entertaining comic Western is a brilliant deadpan satire set during the Warlord Era of the 1920s. Bandits, led by ‘Pocky’ Zhang, hijack a train en route to Goose Town with its new governor on board. When the train crashes, its lone survivors are the governor’s sleazy [...]
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A cult slice of American indie cinema with a macho sci-fi edge about friendship, flamethrowers, Mad Max, and getting your ass kicked by love. Two best friends, obsessed with modifying their car the Medusa and roaming the desert with flamethrowers ‘when the apocalypse comes’ are thrown into chaos when Woodrow falls in love with the [...]
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Breathing is a brilliantly nuanced portrayal of youthful rebellion and the struggle to build a constructive future from a disadvantaged start in life. 18-year-old Roman is serving time in a juvenile detention center and attempting to find gainful employment that could earn him release on probation. His chances are poor as he doesn’t have family [...]
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She Monkeys is an intense and taboo-challenging drama about the sexual awakening of Swedish teenagers with powerful, naturalistic performances by its young actors. When Emma tries out for the local voltige (horseback acrobatics) team she befriends the attractive and confident Cassandra, but feelings of jealousy, competetiveness and sexual attraction have them pushing each other to [...]
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