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Directed by: Wang Xiaoshuai
Southwest China, 1975, in what will turn out to be the final year of the Cultural Revolution, eleven year-old Wang Han (Liu Wenqing) lives with his sister and parents in a tiny apartment in a remote town. Giving chase after his brand new white shirt is stolen, Han finds himself face to face with a man wanted for murder…. Read more
Directed by: Karl Markovics
Nineteen year-old Roman (Thomas Schubert) divides his time between the juvenile detention centre outside Vienna where he has been held for five years, and day-release jobs that he seems not to want to hold down. He is withdrawn, uncooperative and sullen, but more fearful than aggressive. He is shut in by more than walls, and appears to have liitle interest in release. But with another parole hearing approaching, he takes a job with the municipal undertakers. Read more
Directed by: Terence Davies
In post-war London, Hester (Rachel Weisz) is unhappily married to Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale), a much older man in thrall to his mother. She falls for Freddie (Tom Hiddleston), a glamorous Battle of Britain fighter-pilot, but the romance is soon as faded as the one-room apartment they move into. As Freddie turns increasingly hostile, and William tries to get her back, Hester attempts suicide, but is unsuccessful in every respect. Read more
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Handsome executive Brandon (Michael Fassbender, looking more than ever like a young Christopher Plummer) can attract beautiful women with ease, but does not enter into relationships, preferring one-night stands, hookers and porn. He avoids contact with his only relative, fragile sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan), and is increasingly distracted at work. Read more
Directed by: Jonathan Sagall
Two old friends, Lara (Clara Khoury) and Inan (Nataly Attiya), both living in London, meet after a long separation. Over the course of a day, and with numerous flashbacks to earlier stages of their lives, we learn how something about how they reached this point. Read more
Directed by: Marco van Geffen
Ewa (Dagmara Bak) arrives from Poland to work as an au pair for Peter (Guy Clemens) and Ilse (Rifka Lodeizen) and their toddler, Stijn. Difficult to communicate with, she seems reluctant to go out, and becomes increasingly eccentric in her behaviour, despite making friends with another Polish au pair, Aga (Natalia Rybicka). Eventually, she is dismissed by Peter and Ilse and returns home. Read more
Directed by: John Madden
Flipping between the mid-1960s and 1997, The Debt tells the story of the capture and killing by a Mossad team (Stefan, Rachel, David) of a Nazi war criminal, Dieter Vogel, the “Surgeon of Birkenau” – and the aftermath of that mission. Read more
Directed by: Angelina Nikonova
Marina (Olga Dihovichnay, who co-wrote the story), a beautiful, middle-class social worker with a moderately unhappy marriage, is raped by three policeman after she seeks help when her bag is stolen. Combined with all the cruelty she sees at work, and the petty nastiness she perceives in friends and strangers alike, she experiences a kind of catharsis – but exactly what kind is it? Read more
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