A powerful documentary celebrating the liberating power of celluloid dreams. Director Ehsan Khoshbakht grew up in Iran after the 1979 revolution when…
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The sole directorial credit for the great actor Albert Finney, Charlie Bubbles is an oddball British cult classic, a surreal comedy building on the…
Continue readingElderly chapel keeper Rita is in constant competition with the other women at the church over who is the most saintly, but never seems to win.…
Continue readingCinema Laika is a beautiful documentary about a cinematic passion project. In a small village 45 miles north of Helsinki, the Finnish film director…
Continue readingCity of Wind is a beautifully nuanced coming-of-age story set in contemporary Mongolia. The film centres on Ze, a shy and studious 17-year-old about…
Continue readingStep into the streets of sixties Paris with a screening of Agnès Varda’s radical second feature on the giant outdoor screen on Millennium Square. An…
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