This tender love story begins in Seoul, where Na Young and her childhood sweetheart Hae Sung are classmates. They lose touch when Na Young’s family emigrates to Canada and re-connect years later as adults via social media. Will their love survive the time and distance each has travelled?
The Night Of The 12th
A gripping and unnerving crime drama. An ongoing police investigation into who killed a girl on the 12th, highlights the misogyny in and outside the police force. A well-crafted engrossing thriller based on a real case.
Afire
In a holiday home on the German Baltic coast four young people come together including Leon, a tragi-comic figure who grumpily refuses all offers to join them swimming or sunbathing, insisting that he must work on his novel. Meanwhile forest fires are threatening to destroy their summer idyll.
Short Films Evening
93 mins inc a 5 minute break.
A specially selected mix of live action and animated short films. Twelve films spanning 20 years. Films from amateur film makers to famous actors and authors. With a mix of genres: Musical, horror, science fiction, romance, surreal, environmental and comedy.
Homeward
Home for Mustafa, an ethnic Tatar, means Crimea and it is where he wants to bury his soldier son, killed in battle. Thus begins a difficult, dangerous and emotional road trip from Kiev to Crimea in this powerful debut feature by a young Ukrainian director/screenwriter of Tatar origin.
Close
A lyrical and beautifully observed study of boyhood friendship. Thirteen-year-old Leo and Remi are inseparable, as close as brothers. However, the pressures of adolescence challenge their bond with unexpected and far-reaching consequences.
Fallen Leaves
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes and Finland’s submission to the Oscars, this quirky comedy which parodies Brief Encounter is set in a dystopian world of losers whose hopes are routinely crushed. The humour is offbeat and brutally deadpan with minimal dialogue
The Blue Caftan
A middle-aged man and wife run a tailoring business selling traditional handsewn caftans. . The arrival of a new apprentice and the onset of illness undermine the delicate balance of their relationship in this beautifully understated drama about the nature of love and desire.
How To Blow Up A Pipeline
A disparate group of climate activists gather in Texas to plan attacks on an unguarded section of a new oil pipeline. This fast-paced and critically acclaimed drama explores the individual participants’ backgrounds and motivations, their relationships within the group, and poses some moral and psychological questions about extreme environmental activism.
Dear Comrades!
Protests over rising food prices and cuts in wages flared up in the Russian industrial city of Novocherkassk in 1962. Seen through the eyes of a devout party activist, this film depicts the subsequent massacre of civilians hushed-up by the Soviet authorities. Despite the grim backdrop the fast-moving narrative is compelling.