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...

Dickens classic novel is updated and shifted to modern America in this admirable adaptation by Mexican director Cuaron. Seen through the eyes of the grown-up Finn (Ethan Hawke), the story kicks off in 1970s Florida, with the orphan fatefully bumping into an escaped convict (Robert De Niro), and meeting the love of his life Estella (Paltrow), niece of batty old Anne Bancroft. Ten years later, the now successful Finn inhabits the elite New York art world, aided by his mystery benefactor, and conti find out more...

Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation. 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...

Gogol is a very strange name and somewhat of an embarrassment, as are his parents with their strange sub-continental ways, to a first generation Bengali American, but it is a name that will have relevance to his struggle to forge a personal identity. This charming film spans over three decades from the first fumbles of a successful arranged middle-class Calcutta marriage, through pain and gain, to a slow integration into an American immigrant identity. Not quite an epic, but a heart-warming tale find out more...

Based round extracts from his father's diaries and his mothers letters to relatives living in exile, Elia Suleiman recreates life, in four episodes, as an Israeli Arab from the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 until today.
Eloquent and dryly humorous. find out more...