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- 1h 41 min
- Drama
- Ken Loach
- Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Nikki Marshall
- Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier.
- 1h 15 min
- Documentary
- Askold Kurov
- August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine.
- 1h 33 min
- Drama
- Clio Barnard
- Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder
- “The Selfish Giant”, the fiction debut of filmmaker Clio Barnard (whose documentary “The Arbor” received much acclaim and showed at BNFF 2010) is a powerful and moving fable about friendship, greed and exploitation and likely to be compared with the compassionate drama of Ken Loach at his best. The film follows 13-year-old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas), who meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrap dealer – the ‘Selfish Giant’ of the title – and start collecting scrap for him using a horse and cart.
- 1h 41 min
- Comedy, Drama
- Ken Loach
- Siobhan Reilly, Paul Branningan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland
- Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
- 1h 41 min
- Comedy, Drama
- Ken Loach
- Siobhan Reilly, Paul Branningan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland
- Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
- 1h 52 min
- Drama
- Fernando León de Aranoa
- Magaly Solier, Celso Bugallo, Pietro Sibille, Sonia Almarcha, Fanny de Castro
- A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another. A young immigrant living on the outskirts of Madrid, Marcela struggles to keep her head above water.