Two travellers, running from a group of fur trappers in Oregon in 1820s Northwest USA, dream of striking it rich. However, their fragile plan to make their fortune on the frontier relies on somebody else’s dairy cow.
Year: USA 2019
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Toby Jones
Language: English
Duration: 122 Minutes
Cert: 12
Nominated for an Oscar, this film follows
Agnes Varda and street artist JR as they travel through rural France taking photographic portraits of local people and pasting them to buildings. Their unlikely friendship and collaboration produces surprisingly moving results.
Year: France 2017
Director: Agnes Varda, JR
Cast: Amaury Bossy, Yves Boulen
Language: French, Spanish
Duration: 90 Minutes
Cert: 12
Eve is good at her job, attends adult education classes and leaves her son with a neighbour while she works. This debut film by former actor Lila Avilés is a beautifully quiet exploration of a hotel chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.
Year: Mexico 2019
Director: Lila Avilés
Cast: Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sanchez
Language: French, Spanish
Duration: 98 Minutes
Cert: 15
Breathtaking cinematography and production design as Welsh journalist Gareth Jones risks his life to break the news in the western media of the devastating famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Year: UK 2019
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard
Language: English
Duration: 114 Minutes
Cert: 15
Maryam, a young female Saudi doctor, stands as a candidate in her city’s municipal elections. She initially sees the election as a way to repair the muddy road in front of her clinic, but her campaign slowly gathers a broader appeal.
Year: UAE 2021
Director: Haiffa Al Mansour
Cast: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali
Language: Arabic
Duration: 104 Minutes
Cert: PG
Cassie is a 30-year-old medical school dropout who lives with her parents, while working at a coffee shop. She is smart, cunning, and lives a secret double life by
night. Now, an encounter is about to give her a chance to right the wrongs of the past.
Year: UK 2020
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Alison Brie
Language: English
Duration: 115 Minutes
Cert: 15
Glaswegian girl Rose-Lynn has a burning ambition. She wants to go to Nashville and fulfil her dream of becoming a Country music star. She does have an amazing talent but she is also a single mother of two, has a problem with drink and drugs and has just got out of prison! Music rings throughout a rousing movie that promises to set hearts and heads pounding.
Year: UK 2019
Director: Tom Harper
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo
Language: English
Duration: 98 Minutes
Cert: 15
After losing everything in the 2008 recession a woman embarks on a new life travelling through the American west picking up odd jobs and meeting others on the same journey. Life on the road has never been so tenderly captured.
Year: USA 2020
Director: Chloé Zhao
Cast: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn
Language: English
Duration: 108 Minutes
Cert: 12A
The Father presents a devastating yet empathetic portrayal of dementia. Hopkins delivers an award-winning performance as an ailing patriarch with a favourite daughter and nowhere to stay.
Year: UK 2020
Director: Florian Zeller
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman
Language: English
Duration: 97 Minutes
Cert: 12A
An artist arrives at a remote Breton castle tasked with making a portrait of the owner’s daughter for her upcoming marriage. The gorgeous cinematography and poignant story-line make the film itself a work of art.
Year: France 2019
Director: Céline Sciamma
Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel
Language: French
Duration: 121 Minutes
Cert: 15
