Qiao is cool headed, smart, responsible and resourceful; good qualities to have when your boyfriend is a gangster. When Bin, her man, gets into trouble, Qiao gets him out of it. She fades into the background when Bin needs to take the spotlight. Qiao even takes a fall for Bin when he needs her in a pinch. And that is when he forgets her. Qiao emerges from five years in prison to cold indifference. To Bin, it is as if she did not exist. "People should keep their emoti find out more...

Two girls embark on a road trip of destruction after being brutally raped. No longer interested in the consequences of their actions this at times plays like Thelma and Louise on crack, but while the imagery is slick and the scenes of sex and violence are some of the most graphic you'll ever legitimately see, 'Baise-Moi' is ultimately more fascinating for it's controversy than it is as a film... leaves you gasping on occasion mind. find out more...

Recently widowed Arvilla is at a crossroads; her stepdaughter Francine has threatened to sell Arvilla's Idaho home unless she agrees to inter her late husband's ashes with his first wife, even though he had wished them scattered to the seas. That the story becomes a road trip is pretty tenuous, but the great cast makes this a sweet natured, post menopausal ‘Thelma and Louise'-esque journey of discovery that is both poignant and upbeat. find out more...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

In the eyes of many (read all but the privileged few), Liz Gilbert was a woman who had it all; a loving husband, a great career, and a second home; but one day Liz realizes that she’s just ‘existing’, that her world is ‘hollow’, ‘meaningless’ and with that thought divorces her husband, takes a year off and travels to Italy, India and Bali to ‘find’ herself. An adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling memoir. find out more...

Anya Taylor-Joy gives a wonderful performance in the title role of this Jane Austen adaptation as a well-meaning but proud young woman who enjoys playing match-maker without proper concern for the feelings of those involved. Bill Nighy plays Emma's father to perfection. Fans of the book will be pleased.

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Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the A find out more...

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women, one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn. A road movie for the whimsical of heart, Patagonia is a film of intimate moments that play out against the sweeping panoramic landscapes, complemented by a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack. find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...

In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meet find out more...