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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Great artists tend to experience intense, emotional, visual recollections of earlier times in their lives, which they feed through their heightened imaginations and their heightened senses of awareness in order to forge their most powerful art.

Chico and Rita

This is an utterly seductive animated tale of historical accuracy, set in 1940s Cuba, Las Vegas and New York.

Submarine

Coming of age comedy drama adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne.

Senna

The first thing to say about Senna is that you don’t have to know, or care, about driving round and round in circles very fast to enjoy this terrific film.

Le Herisson

Adapted from Muriel Barbery’s international bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, writer-director Mona Achache’s first film follows three main characters, an 11 year old girl and two eccentric characters in her building.

XXY

Based on a short story by Sergio Bizzio, Puenzo’s first feature film follows the psychological journey that 15 year old intersex Alex (Efron) makes as she struggles to find her sexual and gender identity.

Las Acacias

New Argentinian cinema emerged after the Second World War with films that focused intently on the realities of Argentinian social and rural life, becoming political with the advent of social unrest in the late sixties and early seventies and succumbing temporarily to the seven years of suppression that followed military takeover in 1976.

Incendies

Canadian Nawal Marwan has just passed away.

Like Water For Chocolate

An adaptation of a novel by Laura Esquivel, ‘Como Agua Para Chocolate’ (Like Water for Chocolate) is a Latin American expression which refers to the near boiling temperature of water for use in the making of chocolate, and is, figuratively, a reference to passion.

Fire In Babylon

There is phenomenal cricket on show, but much more than that.

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