Nineteen and sentenced to six years in prison, Malik el Djebena (Tahar Rahim) must learn fast to survive. After killing fellow prisoner Reyeb on the orders of Cesar Luciani (Arestup) he becomes his lieutenant. Read more
Films
This is an archive of all the films we've shown across all our seasons. You can also view the current Programme.
A Scanner Darkly
The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel. Read more
Animal Kingdom
A young man moves in with his grandmother, the head of a Melbourn crime family in the middle of a bitter turf war and a fight for survival in David Michôd’s multi-award winning modern gangster film. Read more
Badlands
He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. Read more
Bicycle Thieves
A young father is desperate for work in post-war ravaged Rome and finally manages to find work putting up film posters around the city. On his first day of work, the bicycle he needs to do his job is stolen and he must scour the city with his son (Enzo Staiola). If he fails, he will lose his job. Read more
Breathless
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl” said director, Goddard. A young French car thief goes on the run with his American girlfriend after he kills a policeman. A landmark film, it forever changed perceptions of cinema. Read more
Chico And Rita
An animated feature-length film directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. The story of Chico & Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Read more
Dead of Night
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives for a weekend party at the home of a potential client, and astounds the guests by claiming to have a recurring dream about the weekend which seems to be coming true. Read more
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
When a boy starts to communicate with an invisible new friend, his mother quickly enters a living nightmare. Produced by Guillermo del Toro, this Spanish horror film is as beautiful and touching as it is terrifying. Read more
Four Lions
Subversive satirist Chris Morris chooses the almost taboo subject matter of Jihadist terrorism for his directorial debut. However, “Four Lions” has more in common with a classic Ealing comedy than his biting television satires. Read more
