What's On
Nuisance Bear
Winner of the highly coveted Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, Nuisance Bear follows a polar bear through Churchill, Manitoba, where the town profits from bears as spectacle while treating their arrival as a problem.
The Promised Land
The Promised Land is a furous, dynamic, richly paradoxical epic of the Industrial Revolution and rampaging capitalism worthy of Zola or Dickens, a movie about three young entrepreneurs determined to get rich at any cost.
The Cycle of Love
In 1975 a Delhi street artist, PK, fell in love with a Swedish tourist, Lotta, and she with him. After a few weeks she returned home, but PK vowed to follow, purchased a bike, and headed north. This feelgood doc is the love story of the year.
Man of Marble
One of the towering achievements in Wajda's career, Man of Marble is a Polish, proletarian Citizen Kane, with a 70s student filmmaker unearthing the fate of a working class hero, a bricklayer celebrated in Stalinist propaganda films in the 1950s.
LJ & Van Django's Cool Yule + The Muppet Christmas Carol
Come partake of the feelgood show of the year: your favourite season tunes given a rogue gypsy jazz and swing treatment by Van Django and guest vocalist LJ Mounteney, followed by a screening of beloved Xmas classic, The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Rough Treatment (aka Without Anesthesia)
Scripted by Agnieszka Holland, Rough Treatment is a key film of "the cinema of moral anxiety" in Poland in the 1970s, a Kafkaesque account of the dissolution a TV correspondent's marriage, his career, and indeed, everything else by which he sets store.
Man of Iron
Forged in the furnace of the Gdansk shipyard strikes that propelled Poland's first union independent of the communist party, Solidarity, and its leader Lech Welesa, to the forefront of history, Man of Iron is an extraordinary follow up to Man of Marble.
The Maids of Wilko
This wistful tale finds jaded WWI veteran Wiktor (Daniel Olbrychski) returning to the summer estate he used to visit before the war, and to the Wilko farm, where five sisters remember him fondly. Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film
All of a Sudden
An eldercare manager (Virginie Efira) forms a life-changing bond with a terminally ill playwright (Tao Okamoto) in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden, a tender, philosophically rich meditation on mortality, care, and what we owe one another.