Season 2018/19
Winter and Spring 2019
Cold War – 30 Oct 2019
A riot of folk dance and song, but also the pain of lost love and a homeland given up.
After the Storm – 31 Oct 2018
Washed-up Japanese novelist has an epiphany during a typhoon.
Happy End – 7 Nov 2022
Dysfunctional French family practice standing on one another’s toes!
A Fantastic Woman – 14 Nov 2018
A transgender woman living in Chile strives to define her place in the world.
Loveless – 21 Nov 2018
Wildly unhappy Russian couple drive their son to extreme measures.
Thelma – 5 Dec 2018
A Norwegian thriller, a horror film and a coming of age story all rolled into one.
Funny Cow – 19 Dec 2018
A comedienne builds her reputation on the northern club circuit.
Redoubtable – 9 Jan 2019
The legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard in the Paris of 1968.
Breathless – 9 Jan 2019 at 2030
Jean-Luc Godard’s first film broke all the rules and was an instant success.
The Road to Mandalay – 16 Jan 2019
Two Burmese kids head for the city in search of a better life.
Glory – 23 Jan 2019
A rail worker hands in cash found on the track, only to fall victim to bureaucracy.
Marlina, the Murderer – 6 Feb 2019
A well-crafted ‘western style’ revenge tale set in the vast plains of eastern Indonesia.
Marjorie Prime – 13 Feb 2019
An old woman has the story of her life retold to her by a holographic image of her dead husband.
120 BPM -20 Feb 2019
Gay activists poke the French government and ‘Big Pharma’ into doing something about HIV/AIDS.
Mountains May Depart – 27 Feb 2019
The story of a woman’s life is suggested by events she experienced at three different times.
Clash – 6 Mar 2019
Totally inside a police truck, protesters from various backgrounds have to co-exist amid turmoil in Egypt.
Félicité – 13 Mar 2019
A singer is in a great rush to raise money for her son’s treatment by chasing up loans and favours.
Lost in Paris – 20 Mar 2019
A Canadian backpacker comes to Paris in search of her aunt and gets into a series of comic scrapes.
I got Life! – 20 Mar 2019
Aurore meets an old flame and gets a new lease of life at fifty.
In Between – 27 Mar 2019
The adventures of three young Arab women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv.
A Gentle Creature – 3 Apr 2019
A gentle woman on a pilgrimage through the worst of Soviet Russia
A Woman’s Life – 10 Apr 2019
Maupassant’s tale of the experience of a young woman in 19th century France.
I am not a witch – 17 Apr 2019
Spilling a bucket of water has unimaginable consequences for a Zambian girl.
Hotel Salvation – 1 May 2019
A son takes his father to the holy city of Varanasi so that he can die and attain salvation.
The Shepherd – 8 May 2019
A reclusive herdsman comes under pressure from neighbours to sell his land to developers.
Western – 15 May 2019
In the frontier lands of Eastern Europe, a German construction worker’s mixing with local villagers raises issues of pride, prejudice and masculinity.
The 400 Blows – 22 May 2019 at 2035
A Truffaut classic in which a young teenager drifts into crime and solitude.