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 generic, but nevertheless, reasonably good warts and all biopic of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G., from a drug dealing chilhood in a Brooklyn ghetto, through arrest, prison, his relationship problems, basic criminality and on to his success as a rap artist before his 1997 murder. 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...

One night in a bar an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs; every night the same number, and though he knows the immediate reason, which relates to the Israeli / Lebanese war of the early 1980s, he is no less haunted. Intrigued by his friend's riddle and tormented by his own lack of memory Ari embarks upon a quest to find all those involved in the battle; now spread across the world, to bring light to a dark and shameful event find out more...