Independent Cinema for Everyone

Audrey Diwan’s outstanding Venice Golden Lion winner could not be more timely or urgent. Based on Anne Ernaux’s memoir.

A selection of archive films from the collection at The Box, Plymouth to coincide with the current exhibition, Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945.

Writer-director Laura Wandel’s extraordinary debut has won multiple awards. Intimately immersing you in the lives of its brilliantly naturalistic young performers, this is bold, lucid and gripping.

Director Eliza Kubarska follows a Sherpa family who must decide if they will break a cultural taboo to climb Khumbakarna, the most sacred of their mountains.

Alexander, a serious, young teenager, auditions at a prestigious Berlin music school. The vote is split, but Anna Bronsky stands up for him, insisting she can train him.

Hive is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who has lived with fading hope and grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo.

Enveloped in music, humour and emotion, Ali & Ava is a heartfelt contemporary love story written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Clio Barnard.

A package of keepsakes from 1980s wartime Beirut arrives in contemporary Montreal. Teenager Alex covertly goes through her mother Maia’s box of journals, audio tapes and photographs.

Following an accident that leaves him homeless in London, former soldier Tomaz is brought to the rotting home of Magda, a lonely woman in desperate need of help as she looks after her dying mother.

An impeccable film from one of the UK’s finest directors – bittersweet, rich with Hogg’s typically incisive understanding of people and filled with moments of joy.