TWO OF US

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TWO OF US
2019 | Dir Filippo Meneghetti | 99 mins | France | Belgium

A complex but delicate love story about two older women who have hidden their relationship for years until one of them becomes ill.
This remarkable feature debut tells a deceptively complex love story while presenting a rich acting showcase. Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine have kept their relationship secret for years – everyone thinks they are just neighbours, while in fact they come and go between their apartments across the shared landing. But their intimacy is threatened when Madeleine becomes ill and her daughter (Léa Drucker) can’t understand why the nice old lady from next door is so concerned with her mother’s welfare. Nina, however, is not going to give up on her love, whatever it takes.
French with English subtitles.

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“Surprisingly tense lesbian love story is powered by stunning performances by Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier” – Cath Clarke in The Guardian

 

 

JUMBO

JUMBO
2020 | Dir Zoe Wittock | 93 mins | France | Belgium

Jeanne, a shy young woman, lives at home with her uninhibited bartender mother and works the graveyard shift as a cleaner at an amusement park.
Her mother wants her to meet a man, but Jeanne prefers tinkering in her bedroom with wires, light bulbs, and spare parts, creating miniature versions of theme park rides. During her late-night shifts she begins spending intimate time with the alluring new Tilt-A-Whirl ride that she decides to call Jumbo.
Finding herself seduced by “his” red lights, smooth chrome, and oily hydraulics, Jeanne concludes that the thrilling new relationship she wants to pursue is with Jumbo.
French with English subtitles.

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Distributor: Anti-Worlds – No account required.
Film run ends on Friday 10 September 2021.

“Jumbo has personality, and that’s a major feat accomplished entirely through the film’s visual language”. Carlos Aguilar – RobertEbert.com

When I was still living in the United States, I stumbled upon an article describing the incredible story of Erika Labrie, an Olympic goldwinner in archery, who got married to the Eiffel tower in 2004 and became Erika Eiffel. She was said to suffer from the “Objectum sexual” condition. It struck me as the most improbable story, but it encouraged me to think further: How did she become like that? What draws her to objects? How does she experience her love? When did she know? So I contacted her… Only to realize she was one of the most grounded people I had ever met. The contrast was fascinating.
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MARTIN EDEN

MARTIN EDEN
2019 | Dir Pietro Marcello | 129 mins | Italy | France

Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli), comes from Naples’ working class, but his fate is changed forever when he defends a young boy from a beating by a security guard on the docks. The boy repays him for his kindness by inviting him into his bourgeois home, and it is there that Martin meets Elena (Jessica Cressy), the daughter of an upper-crust industrial family. It is love at first sight for Eden, seduced by her education and refinement. Martin’s dream of becoming an accomplished writer is now something he hopes will elevate him to the family’s social standing and marriage with Elena. He proves himself quickly as an autodidact, but grapples with politics under the influence of a left-wing journalist, Russ Brissenden (Carlo Cecchi), who guides him deeper into socialist circles. It results not only in a political reawakening, but also to a split with Elena and her elite world.
However, his eventual success as a writer leads him into new problems.
Italian with English subtitles.

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Martin Eden is a sad story of a sad man who lacks the capacity for happiness and who is astonished to find that artistic success is as compromised as any other kind. But there is a kind of thrill in tracing his progress from rags to riches to annihilation. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian

LADY BOSS

LADY BOSS – THE JACKIE COLLINS STORY
2021 | Dir Laura Fairrie | 96 mins | USA | UK

We take an immersive journey through the trailblazing life of Jackie Collins. Spinning together fact and fiction, this feature documentary tells the untold story of a ground-breaking author and her mission to build a one-woman literary empire. Narrated by a cast of Jackie’s closest friends and family, the film reveals the private struggles of a woman who became an icon of 1980s feminism whilst hiding her personal vulnerability behind a carefully crafted, powerful, public persona.
With more than 500 million copies of her 32 novels sold in 40 countries around the world, several of which were turned into popular movies and television specials, Jackie Collins rose to the very top rungs of Hollywood celebrity with her tales of glamourous lives, fabulous wealth, sensational scandals, and, always, powerful women calling the shots.  Defining her own brand of feminism, and seizing the zeitgeist of 1980s success and power, Jackie defended her racy rhetoric from culture and literary critics, while carefully tending an enormous, faithful, and ardent base of fans.  Her personal life was, at turns, more ordinary and sometimes darker than her fans may have expected. She was a devoted mother of three who made lunches, took her kids to school, and cared for her ailing mother.  She also endured the tragic deaths of three loves, all the while discovering her own power and chronicling her amazing stories.  The last chapter of her life was ‘written’ in near secret.  Jackie lived with breast cancer for more than six years, sharing her terminal diagnosis only with her beloved daughters, until mere days before her death.  Her final letter to fans was both a thank you for their devotion and a clarion for their vigilance about their own personal health.
Film run ends on Friday 10 September 2021.

“A lively tribute to a woman who player by her own rules. This is an engrossing, fast-moving package full of visual interest…” Hollywood Reporter
“Watchable, with some stinging rebukes for the male snobs…” Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian

WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC

WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC
2019 | Dir Gio Arlotta | 88 mins | Czech | Italy | Zambia

The film follows the twenty-first century formation of WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) Zambia’s most popular rock band of the 1970s and leaders of the ground-breaking ‘Zamrock’ movement. Lead singer, Jagari, whose name is an Africanisation
of Mick Jagger’s, guides us through the band’s awakening to the sounds of the The Rolling Stones and the British Invasion bands of the 60s, which would see Jagari and the band develop their own unique blend of heavy psychedelic rock and African rhythms taking them to the pinnacle of Zambia’s music scene.
After an arrest, prison sentence and religious conversion Jagari ends up leading the
quiet life of a countryside quartz miner until a reunion and performances in front of adoring crowds on his first ever European tour, 40 years after his last album was released.
Soundtracked by WITCH’s distinctive sound, WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc features band members Emmanuel ‘Jagari’ Chanda, Patrick Mwondela, Victor Kasoma and Groovy Joe Kunda, along with young contemporary psychedelic musicians Jacco Gardner and Nik Mauskoviç.

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Distributor: Modern Films – No account required.

“The history of Zamrock, Africa’s great forgotten rockers” – Steve Rose in The Guardian

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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“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

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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‘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

AHEAD OF THE CURVE

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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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BANK JOB

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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