In the bombed-out ruins of Ypres in 1916, Captain Fred Roberts and Lieutenant Jack Pearson discovered a printing press. They used it to produce The Wipers Times - a humorous, satirical and subversive trench newspaper which proved hugely popular with soldiers - though not entirely with their superior officers.
Braving constant bombardment and bitter fighting, The Wipers Times survived the Somme and made it through to the end of the war. Roberts and Pearson were highly decorated - yet were unrecognised in their lifetime. The Wipers Times is a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.
Still Life is a poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife. Meticulous and organized to the point of obsession, John May is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to start living life at last.
It is a year since the death of Ivan, an inspirational theatre director and teacher, and his widow is struggling to come to terms with her loss. A group of close friends, many of whom are or were actors, come to spend the weekend with her to offer their support and to celebrate his memory in an entertaining and moving performance before they scatter his ashes in the garden. The events of the day trigger different responses from all of them and bring to the fore their dreams, disappointments and unfulfilled relationships; in coming together they attempt to find consolation and some kind of resolution to the complications of their own lives. BACK TO THE GARDEN is both an elegy to lost love and an acknowledgement of the uncertainties of present love and these themes are explored with humour and tenderness by the improvising cast.
‘Dumar’ Volume Two is the first instalment of a two part thriller. The story starts midway through with dumar a fund manager on a personal quest against his employer, a hedge fund CEO who has framed him for fraud.
Unknown to each other they both have ulterior motives which date back over 25 years.
Set in modern day Bristol, the arrival of a young girl into the life of a reclusive, ex-university academic, triggers a series of events, that forces the two them to address their troubled pasts, and move forward in a way neither has done before.
After a rude awakening, Mark Bishop's carefree and complacent lifestyle comes crashing back to reality, forcing him to make hasty plans to marry girlfriend, Denise. He turns to best mate Fitzy for advice only to be ridiculed. Mark’s life soon begins to unravel due to a web of lies and deceit, and before long, he learns that with complacency comes risk.
In 1966, an unknown back-up guitarist called Jimmy James left New York City for London, England. Twelve months later, he returned - as Jimi.
OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this biopic of the rock legend.
A girl arrives at her girlfriend's house after going missing for 5 years. She discovers that her girlfriend has become a prostitute and her clients are some of the newly elected Marxist Party leaders.
At first the girl's explanation for her disappearance seems impossible, but by the end of the film we realise her bizarre story might actually be true.
In French with English Sub-titles.
Kieran struggles to rejoin life after waking from a four year coma. Detached, he works the graveyard shift for a bank call centre, life happens to him. Nightly he slips into apathy until he receives a wrong number call for The Samaritans and an opportunity to save a stranger.
