As the devoted community embarked on the building of Ireland’s first Tibetan Buddhist temple, a letter surfaced accusing their beloved leader, Sogyal Rinpoche, of serious misconduct. As the community grappled with the shocking allegations, and the ensuing investigation, Peter feared for the unravelling of everything he has dedicated his life to. Maurice O’Brien (The Artist and the Wall of Death) sensitively dissects this complicated history, to provide a meditative portrait of a fragile dream.

The Palme d’Or-winning Anora is the uproarious new comedy-drama from acclaimed filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project). The film mixes farce and sharp class commentary to giddy effect – solidified by Mikey Madison’s magnetic lead performance.

Cannes Film Festival 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Awards:

Palme d’Or (Best Film) - Cannes Film Festival 2024

“Anora is both thrilling and heartbreaking, both boisterous and shatteringly sad.” - Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com

“Playing Anora called for both an emotionally rich inner life and a breathtakingly kinetic physicality… And at every moment, Madison is mesmerising.” - Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

“★★★★★ No purer entertainment has come our way this year.” - Donald Clarke, The Irish Times

118 minutes, United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar, 2023, Cert: 12A

Director: Farah Nabulsi

Language: Arabic / Hebrew

Cast: Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Stanley Townsend

Palestinian schoolteacher Basem lives alone following the tragic death of his teenage son and the breakdown of his marriage. When one of his students is murdered, Basem and volunteer worker Lisa try to prevent the boy’s younger brother from seeking revenge. At the same time, Basem’s support for political resistance embroils him in a hostage situation involving an American soldier.

 

Once top of his class as a child, M now wastes his days gaming and lives off his mother. When his cousin Mui inherits a large fortune after dutifully caring for their ailing grandfather, M decides to become carer for his maternal grandmother. She has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and he hopes to be rewarded once she passes away.

Despite his usual indifference to his family, M’s selfishness begins to dissipate in the face of his grandmother’s vulnerability and failing health. What follows is at times a greedy family farce, but also a feel-good, sunny, gracious portrait of family life. It’s a sentimental journey to redemption that is inspired by a true story. Don’t forget to bring your tissues!

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“Pat Boonnitipat’s touching debut feature is an irresistible tearjerker, championing family ties and the notion that anything worthwhile requires time and commitment.’’

-Allan Hunter, Screen International

“The filmmaker showcases the apathy of the younger generation and the sardonic wit of the older one through frequent hilarious exchanges between the protagonists.”

- Alex Saveliev, Film Threat

Acclaimed author Ingrid (Julianne Moore) learns her old friend Martha (Tilda Swinton) - a successful war correspondent - has cancer. Ingrid visits Martha in hospital and the pair reestablish their dormant friendship. As they reflect on the past and learn more about each other, a dying Martha asks her friend for one final favour - to be in the room next to her when she takes her own life. It’s a request that tests their friendship and Martha’s emotional resolve.

 

Almodóvar has lost none of his trademark directorial flair in his first English language feature. With a tremendous pair of lead performances from Moore and Swinton, The Room Next Door is a compassionate, frank and darkly humorous study of end-of-life.

Venice International Film Festival 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Winner - Golden Lion, Best Film, Venice International Film Festival 2024

“The movie is all about death, yet in the unblinking honesty with which it confronts that subject, it’s powerfully on the side of life” - Owen Gleiberman, Variety

“The Room Next Door employs a light, intimate touch for its meditation on mortality, bolstered by tender yet calculated performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton” - Natalia Keogan, The AV Club

“★★★★ It’s a lovely, mordant, tender affair; a lush September song in duet, performed with aplomb by Swinton and Moore” - Xan Brooks, The Guardian

Nurses Prabha and Anu share an apartment in Mumbai. Prabha’s husband moved abroad years previously and no longer contacts her. Despite that, she remains loyal to him and rejects the romantic advances of a friendly doctor working in her hospital. Outgoing Anu, meanwhile, is in a passionate relationship with Shiaz - a relationship she keeps secret as it’s socially taboo for her to date a Muslim. When Prabha and Anu travel to a coastal village to help a friend relocate, their experiences there spark moments of discovery and revelation.

Payal Kapadia’s remarkable fiction debut is a poetic portrait of two women’s lives in contemporary India. This is a film that overflows with empathy and respect for its characters.

Cannes Film Festival 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Grand Prix - Cannes Film Festival 2024

“With exquisite delicacy, Kapadia has crafted a portrait of Mumbai and its citizens that is by turns precise and impressionistic.” - Arjun Sajip, Sight & Sound

“Kapadia has established her rare talent for finding passages of exquisite poetry within the banal blank verse of everyday Indian life.” - Jessica Kiang, Variety

“★★★★★ So fluent and absorbing… a glorious film.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo (60s) and his son Toshi (30s) receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child – Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps. The two men, along with Toshi’s wife Satsuki and young daughter Emi, eventually travel together to England from Tokyo to fulfl Akiko’s fnal wish. But Kenzaburo keeps losing himself in memories of Akiko as his relationship with Toshi becomes increasingly fraught. With little knowledge of where he is going and barely any English, Kenzaburo abandons his family in London and heads to the Lake District on his own with Akiko’s ashes. As he embarks on his quest, his memories of Akiko grow more painful. A lost and weary Kenzaburo stumbles onto the doorstep of a farmer, John, and his daughter Mary. With their help, Kenzaburo is fnally able to set course once again toward Lake Windemere. But his true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all.

After the death of their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, mismatched cousins David and Benji take a trip to visit her family home in Poland to honour her. Previously close, they have drifted apart due to the responsibilities and disappointments of adult life. The trip forces them to confront their own resentments and personal demons, with both humour and raw emotion.

Against the backdrop of immense generational trauma, actor/director Jesse Eisenberg explores the complications of familial bonds. Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin give devastating, funny performances as the characters grappling with their history and the ways their own lives have diverged. The deftly humanistic script - rooted in Eisenberg’s own family past - plus terrific performances give this film a powerful emotional kick.

Sundance Film Festival 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Belfast Film Festival 2024

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‘What’s most wonderful about the movie is its radiant generosity. Eisenberg’s performance is terrific, muted and hyperkinetic in all the right ways. But most often, he’s subtly directing attention to his co-star. Culkin is extraordinary.’

-Stephanie Zacharek, Time Magazine

‘‘…unpacking of generational trauma, a concept Eisenberg is able to mine not only for its rigorous drama, but its darkly humorous potential too.’’

-Siddhant Adlakha, indieWire

‘’ A frequently laugh-out-loud funny odd couple road trip movie whose emotional wallop sneaks up and floors you.’’

-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

1944. Towards the end of WWII in Vermiglio - a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps - the arrival of Pietro, a deserted soldier, disrupts the dynamics of a local family, changing them forever.

Pietro, a Sicilian, keeps mostly to himself. However, he establishes a mild flirtation with Lucia - the eldest daughter of Cesare, the much-respected village schoolteacher. Soon, Pietro and Lucia are falling in love. But their pairing sets in motion a series of events that pushes the family towards tragedy and shakes the entire village.

Told in four chapters, each set in a different season, Maura Delpero’s film is powerful and stunning. Beautifully photographed and filled with emotion, it’s a story of women, war and family.

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Toronto International Film festival 2024

Venice Film Festival 2024

Winner - Silver Lion, Grand Jury Prize, Maura Delpero; Venice Film Festival 2024

‘★★★★ It is wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers and plays an extravagant, almost shameless pizzicato on the audience’s heartstrings..’’

-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘‘The remarkable, raw-boned and ravishing Vermiglio takes place in the past but operates like a future family secret playing out in the present tense, a perspective that is not quite Godlike, but comes

from that which we might as well call God.’’

-Jessica Kiang, Variety

‘’Delpero masterfully captures the characters’ experiences and psychology through gesture, performance, and framing rather than dialogue. Krichman’s cinematography, perhaps the best of the year, invokes painting and theater.’’

-Lucia Ahrensdorf, The Film Stage

Present-day London. Middle-aged sisters Pansy and Chantal could not be more different. Chantal is cheerful and empathetic. Pansy, on the other hand, is argumentative, hypersensitive and full of anger, with her husband Curtley and grown-up son Moses bearing the brunt of her emotional outbursts. As Mother’s Day approaches, things are at breaking point, unless Chantal can somehow help her sister…

Acclaimed director Mike Leigh returns to contemporary London for this character-driven family drama. An exceptional cast, led by Jean-Baptiste (Oscar-nominated in Leigh’s Secrets & Lies), breathe life into the family’s characters, providing a dynamic that is complex, layered and nuanced. At turns tough, darkly funny and hugely compassionate, Hard Truths never feels contrived or melodramatic. Easily one of Leigh’s best.

Toronto International Film Festival 2024

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024

Belfast Film Festival 2024

Cork International Film Festival 2024

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“★ ★ ★ ★ ★ … a stunning film full of heart and compassion.” - BBC.com

“★ ★ ★ ★ Astutely getting under the skin of a complex family dynamic, Mike Leigh deploys his improvisational approach to create a remarkably involving comedy-drama that refuses to follow

storytelling rules.” - Shadows on the Wall

I’m Still Here is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.

Academy Awards - Best International Feature Film

Brazil’s Official Submission - 2024