We are delighted to welcome David Frankel for a Q&A session after the Thursday night screening. Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of... More
OPENING FILM We are delighted to welcome director Robert Guédiguian to the first screening. In 2009, acclaimed French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian brought his gripping wartime thriller THE ARMY OF CRIME to... More
Notable Iranian director Habib Bahmani found success at Russia's Golden Minbar festival (2011) and at Cannes this year with his social drama SIB O SALMA, a story which uses the... More
CAMP 14 is a hard-hitting documentary about Shin Dong-Huyk, one of the many victims of the inhuman North Korean regime, giving a rare first-hand account of being born and raised... More
Formentera is a small island not far from Ibiza, and to a good swimmer it may seem as if one can simply swim over to the bigger island’s shore. Young... More
An unlikely, brilliant and compelling David vs Goliath story, in this case seventy two year old Father Peter Kennedy vs the might of the Catholic Church. Father Peter believes in... More
*Producer of BLACK BREAD still in Catalonia, we're looking into arranging a Skype Q&A - TBC* Spain’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is the first film in the Catalan... More
"In the old days, the local copper would tap on the window if a girl was showing too much ankle, now the girls deal coke from their cubicles." Louise and... More
Thrilling, emotional, and full of twists and turns, THE PLEASURE GARDEN (based on the novel by Oliver Sandys) is a fascinating overture to Hitchcock’s later features – which were to... More
When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s, following the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the history of a whole society... More
We're delighted to welcome director Monika Treut to the Friday 14th screening. THE RAW AND THE COOKED is a culinary journey around the gourmet’s paradise, Taiwan. In the island’s capital, Taipei,... More
Jordà was a well-established internationally renowned documentary maker, but he made a short foray into the world of fiction with this exceptional thriller. Set deep in the woodlands of Catalonia,... More
Following the acclaimed premiere of THE PURPLE FIEND at last year’s Festival, Cambridge-based indie filmmakers Project Trident return with another explosive collection of shorts. This weird and wonderful collection of no-budget... More
Screening with SANTA SANGRE Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.... More
Screening with UN CHANT D'AMOUR. "Recognised as one of the greatest horror films of all time, SANTA SANGRE is a terrifying and psychedelic experience, where circus horrors cross over into everyday... More
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