Second Run

Hungarian drama co-written and directed by Miklós Jancsó. In 1919, with Hungary in disarray following the fall of communist rule, former Hungarian Red Army soldier István Cserzi (András Kozák)...

Slovakian documentary written and directed by Dusan Hanák. The feature follows nine people living in the remote and forgotten villages of the Tatra mountains as they struggle with dire poverty and...

Yorgos Lanthimos directs this experimental Greek drama. The film follows the local police detective of a run-down coastal town as he enlists the help of a photographer and a hotel maid to try and get...

Czech historical comedy combining live action and animation directed by Karel Zeman. The film follows Petr (Petr Kostka), a young farmer who is forced to fight during the Thirty Years' War in...

Filipino historical drama directed by Raya Martin. During the American invasion of the Philippines in the early-20th century, a mother and her son take refuge in the middle of the jungle, where they...

Surreal Czechoslovakian drama directed by Juraj Jakubisko. The film follows three adult orphans, Martha (Magda Vásáryová), Andrej (Philippe Avron), and Yorick (Jirí Sýkora), who live together in...

Documentary about Indian film archivist and scholar P.K. Nair. Having founded the National Film Archive of India in 1964, Nair sought to source and preserve Indian cinema for the sake of its cultural...

Polish award-winning existential drama directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. The film follows a young physicist (Stanislaw Latallo), who, feeling disappointed with the lack of answers to how he should live,...

Classic Czech sci-fi directed by Jindrich Polák. Set in the year 2163, the film follows the crew and passengers of the Ikarie XB-1 spaceship which is on a journey to the Alpha Centauri solar system...

Iranian drama following one woman forced to contend with societal attitudes after an incident leaves her facially disfigured. Composed of a series of vignettes set in different locations, each...

Polish drama following young doctor Bazyli (Tadeusz Lomnicki), whose compulsive womanising has left him tired and all but immune to the charms of the girls who attempt to seduce him. However, when he...

Malayalam-language drama following the life of a young revolutionary in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The story of Kunjunni (Vishwanathan)'s life in many ways reflects and represents the story...

Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó directs this socialist paean depicting the rise and fall of a peasant revolt. Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, the film -...

Spanish-language drama in which an old sailor takes some overdue shore leave and heads to visit the relatives he has neglected so badly. Farrel (Juan Fernández) lives his life at sea, working in...

Czech filmmaker Jiri Menzel directs this comedy drama set in a labour camp in 1950s Communist-run Prague. The film tells the stories of the various characters interned in the labour...

Double bill of documentaries from Marc Isaacs. 'All White in Barking' (2007) examines the attitudes the white citizens of Barking have towards the immigrants living in the area. These attitudes...

Andrzej Monk directs this 1950s Polish film which explores less conventional means of heroism. Set during World War II, the feature is comprised of two separate tales. The first, entitled 'Scherzo...

Jan Nemec, enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, directs this starkly surrealist drama telling the brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp...

Jan Nemec, enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, directs this starkly surrealist drama telling the brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp...

Chinese drama directed by Xei Fei. After being released from prison, ex-con Li Huiqian (Jiang Wen) arrives back in his native Beijing to face the harsh realities of life. With no family, friends or...

Collection of three documentaries by the filmmaker Marc Isaacs. After working as an assistant to the renowned filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, Isaacs has created three films that each capture a part of...

Two films about the status of women in modern Iran by Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kim Longinotto. 'Divorce Iranian Style' provides a portrait of several weeks in an Iranian divorce court and gives a unique...

The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in Lahore...

Expressionist documentary telling the story of Hughes de Montalembert, a French artist and filmmaker living in New York who was blinded during a violent assault in 1978. Filmmaker Gary Tarn...

1981 film from Indian director, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, telling the tale of a feudal lord in Kerala. Unni is the lazy, narcissistic head of his family which comprises himself and two siblings. Unable...

Hungarian drama in which orphaned teenager Juli (Zsuzsa Czinkoczi) and her grandparents return from exile in Russia to Budapest after World War II. Unfortunately Juli's hopes of happiness in her...

Miklos Jancso's classic film is a starkly atmospheric tale of friendship in the final days of World War II. Joska (Andras Kozak) is a young Hungarian making his way home, through countryside full of...

Powerful political documentary shot in the occupied territories of Palestine, drawing a parallel between the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and the ancient myths of Samson and Masada.

Based on the novel by Nobel winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, this epic tale of Poland and Prussia in the Miiddle Ages focuses on the plight of the Polish knight Jurand as he and his family are tormented by...

The last film of Polish director Andrzej Munk, who was killed in a car crash during filming, this Holocaust drama was completed by Munk's colleagues and went on to win awards at Venice Film Festival...

Nicolas Philibert is one of the world's leading documentary makers and is the winner of a BAFTA and a Cesar. The protagonists in this documentary are the patients and staff at the La Borde...