World Cinema
The Last Sentence, Movie

The Last Sentence

In cinemas30th May 2013

Based on the life of Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt, this World War Two love story traverses Segerstedt's woeful romance with his friend's wife during his one-man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Want to see (6) 83%

Bekas, Movie

Bekas

In cinemas6th Jun 2013

Swedish-made drama based in early ‘90s Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s regime, following two young homeless Kurdish brothers who decide to journey to America after being inspired by Richard Donner’s Superman. But first, they need passports, money and a donkey called Michael Jackson.

Want to see (5) 80%

The Hunt, Movie

The Hunt

In cinemas13th Jun 2013

A Danish kindergarten teacher (Mads Mikkelsen, Best Actor winner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival) becomes the victim of his village’s collective paranoia when he is falsely accused of abusing a child. From writer-director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen).

Want to see (19) 95%

Camille Rewinds, Movie

Camille Rewinds

In cinemas13th Jun 2013

Bittersweet fantasy-comedy from French actress and director Noémie Lvovsky. She plays Camille, an emotionally distressed woman in her early 40s recently ditched by her partner of 25 years. Upon waking up one hungover morning, she is granted the opportunity to redirect her life when she is transported back to her 16-year-old self.

Want to see (3) 67%

Thérèse Desqueyroux, Movie

Thérèse Desqueyroux

In cinemas27th Jun 2013

Audrey Tautou stars in this French period drama as an unhappily married woman struggling to break free from suffocating social pressures and her boring provincial setting. Directed by the late Claude Miller, based on the 1927 literary classic Thérèse Desqueyroux.

Want to see (15) 73%

Tasting Menu, Movie

Tasting Menu

In cinemas22nd Aug 2013

Set in the idyllic cove of Costa Brava in the Mediterranean, this Spanish culinary comedy tells the story of a cross section of the food elite as come together for the closing of the “best restaurant in the world”.

Want to see (2) 50%

In the House, Movie

In the House

In cinemas5th Sep 2013

French, school room mystery-thriller from writer-director François Ozon (PoticheSwimming Pool) co-starring Kristin Scott Thomas, based on a Spanish play by Juan Mayorga. Best Film winner at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Want to see (10) 90%

Ernest & Celestine, Movie

Ernest & Celestine

In cinemas26th Sep 2013

Watercolour, hand-drawn animated tale, set in storybook Paris, about the unlikely friendship between a little mouse (destined for dentistry but yearning to be an artist) and a down on his luck bear (a poet and musician)...

Want to see (13) 85%

Fill the Void, Movie

Fill the Void

In cinemas14th Nov 2013

Israeli drama (and winner at Venice Film Festival 2012) following devout 18-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) - the youngest daughter of an Orthodox Hasidic family in Tel Aviv. When her older sister tragically dies in childbirth, Shira is pressured to marry the widower.

Want to see (7) 71%

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Movie

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

In cinemasUNDATED 2013

Japanese director Takashi Miike’s (13 AssassinsIchi the Killer) remake of the 1962 samurai classic. Centers on a poverty-stricken warrior discovering the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Want to see (28) 54%

The Other Son, Movie

The Other Son

In cinemasUNDATED 2013

Drama, set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following two young men from either side of the war whose lives hit a complicated crossroads when they discover that they were accidentally switched at birth. Best Director (for French helmer Lorraine Levy) and Grand Prix winner at the Tokyo Film Festival 2012.

Want to see (19) 79%

The Slut, Movie

The Slut

In cinemasUNDATED 2013

Israeli drama, from writer-director-lead actress Hagar Ben-Asher, following a 35-year-old single mother who struggles to restrain her sexual desires. Winner of the Best Director prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Want to see (13) 31%

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Movie

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

In cinemasUNDATED 2013

A "quasi-theatrical contrivance" (The Guardian), based on Jean Anouilh's 1941 play Eurydice, from French filmmaking veteran (89 years old at the time of making this) Alain Resnais.

Where the Condors Fly, Movie

Where the Condors Fly

In cinemasUNDATED 2013

Chilean film director Carlos Klein accompanies Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky during the shooting of his latest film ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, documenting the making of this ambitious film in a very personal way. 

Want to see (2) 50%