Modern Films

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed. riven by a commitment to document the impact of...

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called green border between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a...

20 pieces, 5 decades, 1 performance. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS features award-winning music from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Last Emperor, amongst other seminal scores and piano compositions,...

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village...

Based on the much-loved, best-selling children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and adapted for screen by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, KENSUKE'S KINGDOM tells of the epic adventure of Michael, a young boy,...

Based on the much-loved, best-selling children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and adapted for screen by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, KENSUKE'S KINGDOM tells of the epic adventure of Michael, a young boy,...

From acclaimed writer-director Carol Morley (Dreams of a Life, The Falling, Out of Blue), comes an imaginative, laugh-out-loud, and emotional road movie putting undiscovered real-life artist Audrey...

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding. Meiko is startled when she realises that the man who her best friend starts to have...

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in...

When British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to...

Academy Award and BAFTA nominee actor Viggo Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts that make up a modern family in his directorial debut, FALLING, an intimate drama about a son's relationship...

Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity,...

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce...

Romance is a business. Family, friends, followers. All available for hire. A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a twelve year old girl. Shot in Japan, with Japanese actors, in the...

Inseparable sisters raised in a small town on the Irish border, Lauren and Kelly's lives were shattered with the mysterious death of their mother. Left to pick up the pieces after her sister abruptly...

The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980's, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso...

Rubika Shah's energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by `music's biggest colonialist' Eric Clapton and his support of racist...

Documentary focusing on the life and work of Alice Guy-Blaché, considered to be the first female film-maker. Narrated by Jodie Foster, the film traces Guy-Blaché's career from witnessing the...

Julian Jarrold directs this biographical drama about a man coming to terms with the abuse he suffered as a child. After meeting Vanessa (Emily Beecham), city trader David Tait (Mark Stanley/Hugo...

Julian Jarrold directs this biographical drama about a man coming to terms with the abuse he suffered as a child. After meeting Vanessa (Emily Beecham), city trader David Tait (Mark Stanley/Hugo...

Film-maker Damon Gameau travels the world to investigate the ways that humans can help improve the outlook of planet Earth by the year 2040. Inspired by his young daughter Zoë, Gameau speaks to...

Haifaa Al-Mansour directs this drama about a female Saudi Arabian doctor who stands for election. The film follows Dr Maryam Alsafan (Mila Al Zahrani) as she stands in the local municipal election...

Documentary focusing on the career of American photographer Jim Marshall, who captured iconic images of rock musicians and the civil rights movement in the 1960s and '70s. The film chronicles...

Documentary which charts the history of HandMade Films, founded by George Harrison and Denis O'Brien to finance 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' (1979). Featuring interviews with film-makers and actors...

German drama written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film follows young painter Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) as he attends a Dresden art school and falls in love with fashion...

German drama written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film follows young painter Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) as he attends a Dresden art school and falls in love with fashion...

Sacha Polak co-writes and directs this drama starring Vicky Knight. The film follows single mother Jade (Knight) in the aftermath of an acid attack as she tries to come to terms with her...

Icíar Bollaín directs this biographical drama focusing on the life of Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta (Keyvin Martínez/Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez). The film follows Acosta from his formative...

Stage musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale featuring the CBeebies gang performing live at the Curve Theatre in Leicester. The story follows Gerda (Cat Sandion) as she...

Italian drama written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) is an adolescent peasant living in the isolated village of Inviolata, where he and his fellow workers in the tobacco...

Norwegian drama directed by Erik Poppe. The film follows Kaja (Andrea Berntzen), a young girl attending a political summer camp on the island of Utoya on the lake Tyrifjorden in Norway. Not long...

US drama co-written and directed by Crystal Moselle. The film follows Camille (Rachelle Vinberg), a New York teenager who defies her mother's wishes and gets involved with a group of girls brought...