The Atlas Mountains 1981; 7-year-old Mehdi lives with his mother and granddad without their father, a school teacher who's been jailed for his political beliefs.
'Mille Mois' both paints a picture of village life in a traditionalist society grappling with modernisation and new ideas and is a wonderful evocation of life in Morocco. It also won Le Premier Regard award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. find out more...

Set during the 1980's in Belfast, we follow two uneasy business partners, one Catholic the other Protestant, as they attempt to corner the lucrative market in hairpieces with the help of a dangerously unstable wig salesman. An Everlasting Piece is a valiant attempt at offbeat but socially aware British comedy by the director Barry Levinson, better known for movies such as 'Rain Man' and 'Good Morning Vietnam'; Can't say he really hits the spot but the film is not without charm. find out more...

Based on the prize-winning novel by Monica Ali, this is the story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Nazneen's mother always told her she was a survivor, but feeling trapped in a loveless relationship with her husband, the middle aged Chanu, she struggles to accept her lot, a situation not helped by the arrival of hot-headed young Karim. Set against the changing backdrop of multi find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

This charming film tells the tale of an impoverished family trying to make a profit from the much anticipated 1988 visit of the Pope to their under developed village near the Brazilian border. Family head and small time smuggler Beto decides to build a first class pay latrine for the thousands of expected devotees to use. Gradually though we become aware of the risk that this idea leaves his family open to, and the desperation of his need to provide a better life for his family within the povert find out more...

Self-confessed in-it-for-life metaller Sam Dunn is narrator and guide in this erudite documentary about that most misunderstood and derided of musical genres, heavy metal. Dunn is an anthropologist and, as such, intends to challenge outsiders' perceptions about the clichés of satanism, spots and sexual confusion with an investigation of the realities inside the metal scene and its many sub-genres. Along the way he speaks to metallers of note Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maid find out more...

A wonderful tale of a girl's passage from childhood to adulthood, a time that coincided with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and his replacement by the tyranny of a fundamentalist theocracy. find out more...

Two children, one the shy son of a pious religious family and the other the trouble making latchkey runt of a disintegrated one, form an unlikely friendship. With the aid of a camera, the bravado of one, the artistic imagination of the other and inspired by the then action hit Rambo, they decide to make a film of their own. As the movie progresses both the film and their own lives seem less and less easy to control. The experience will change them forever. Highly recommended. find out more...

Tobe Hooper's installment of the Masters of Horror series is a grisly tale of a town cursed and one man's fight to protect his community and discover just what the 'damned thing' was that made his father brutally murder his mother when he was a child. find out more...

An artful documentary about the life of Daniel Johnson, singer/songwriter, artist, cartoonist and general artistic genius, but a man sadly afflicted with a severe mental illness that makes him totally self-delusional and an occasional danger to both himself and others. Daniel, raised in a Christian fundamentalist family in deepest West Virginia, amongst many of his fantasies, sees Devils everywhere, and with his overblown self-importance, not helped by his legions of admirers, vying with his low find out more...