Author: Roger Dodger
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THE MAN STANDING NEXT
THE MAN STANDING NEXT (2020)
Dir Woo Min-ho | 114 mins | 
South Korea
It is 1979, and South Korea has been under the absolute domination of President Park’s dictatorship for 18 long years. Kim Gyu-pyeong (Lee Byung-hun), the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), has asserted his loyalty to the president despite having his doubts about the leader’s intentions. When the former director of the KCIA flees to America with a time-bomb of government secrets, Kim is sent on a mission to stop the truth in its tracks.
As the government’s web of lies continues to be spun, tensions build, alliances crumble, and the once impenetrable leadership must face the fact that all men, no matter how powerful, must die.
The South Korean nomination for the 2021 Academy Awards, The Man Standing Next is based on an acclaimed novel and charts the knife-edge political machinations which played out during one of the darkest periods of the country’s political history.
English, Korean, French, Japanese with English subtitles.
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Distributor: Blue Finch Films – No account required.
“A complex quadrille of alliances and betrayals, performed mostly in darkened, panelled rooms, as the soundtrack provides a constant percussive beat spelling doom for several figures” Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian
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IT MUST BE HEAVEN
IT MUST BE HEAVEN (2019)
Dir Elia Suleiman | 102 mins | 
France | 
Qatar | 
Germany
ES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew with English subtitles.
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Distributor: New Wave Films – No account required.
‘Stylishly made with a distinctive signature.’
‘For Suleiman, comedy is a kind of rhetorical non-violence…it points you in the direction of a political situation…’ Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian
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AHEAD OF THE CURVE
AHEAD OF THE CURVE
2021 | Dir Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow | 98 mins | 
USA
With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine ever published. AHEAD OF THE CURVE traces the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early ‘90s to the present day through the story of Franco’s founding of Curve magazine. Decades later, as her legacy faces extinction and she reassesses her life after a disabling injury, she sets out to understand work being led by queer Women of Color today. The film features Andrea Pino-Silva, Kim Katrin, Denice Frohman, Amber Hikes, Jewlle Gomeez, Melissa Etheridge, and Lea DeLaria, and the score is composed by the legendary Meshell Ndegeocello.
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Distributor: Together Films – No account required.
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BANK JOB
BANK JOB
2021 | Dir Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell | 87 mins | 
UK
An indebted filmmaker, his artist wife and their local community take on the world of debt by setting up a bank, printing their own money and blowing up a million pounds. A roller coaster ride towards a future in which money works for us all.
Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell’s latest feature is an insightful and humorous investigation into the dark world of debt, exploring how a community in Walthamstow, London comes together to create their own currency, examine how money and debt is created in our economy, and to ask important questions about how the system of money creation might be altered in their favour.
Distributor: Dartmouth Films – Create account or login
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END OF SENTENCE
END OF SENTENCE
2019 | Dir Elfar Adalsteins | 94 mins | 
Iceland | 
Ireland | USA
After being widowed, Frank Fogle (John Hawkes) reluctantly embarks on a journey to honour his wife’s last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son Sean (Logan Lerman) along for the trip. As Sean steps out of prison the last thing on his mind is a foreign road trip with his alienated father when what he needs is a fresh start in California.
Unfolding across the stunning landscape of Ireland, End of Sentence is a hilarious and touching father and son road-trip from director Elfar Adalsteins that premiered to acclaim at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Distributor: Blue Finch Films – no account required.
“A masterclass in understated acting” Phuong Le in The Guardian
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