Award Winning Independent Cinema

Joe Castleman is being given the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he and wife Joan couldn’t be happier. But from the moment the couple arrive in Stockholm, tensions rise.

Pawel Pawlikowski wowed Cannes (and picked up a Best Director prize) with this gorgeously crafted love story of a pair of mismatched musicians shuttling back and forth across the Iron Curtain.

Lenny Abrahamson (Room) directs this unsettling film, set in a declining country house after the Second World War. Adapted from the novel by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger is a potent gothic horror.

One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. A faithful Chekhov adaptation, the film confirms Saoirse Ronan’s versatility and star status.

Simón’s debut is an evocative and profoundly affecting depiction of childhood and family lost and found, marking the arrival of a major new voice in world cinema.

Screening to complement Summer 1993, Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s.

Chloé Zhao’s award-winning impressionistic drama casts real-life wrangler Brady Jandreau as a South Dakota cowboy struggling to chart a new course after a terrible injury sustained in the saddle.

The latest film from Xavier Beauvois (Gods and Men) is a powerful drama depicting a mother and daughter’s struggles to keep the family farm together during the Great War.

Desiree Akhavan follows up Appropriate Behaviour with this tremendous drama about a teen sent off to a 'gay reform camp' that scooped the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.