Reel on the River

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations...

Asghar Farhadi's elegant melodrama marked a milestone when it became the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Winner of numerous honours and awards, Asghar Farhadi's elegant melodrama marked a key transition in Iranian cinema, as...

One of the highest grossing non-English language films of all time, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s The Intouchables has become a worldwide sensation. Nominated for nine Césars (France’s equivalent to the Academy Awards) and winning the Best Actor prize for its...

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a...

Winner of the Audience Award in the documentary category at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Senna is a riveting look at Brazilian Formula One legend Ayrton Senna, one of boldest and most exciting race car champions of all time. Senna was a TV star and pin-up, a...

Veteran director Philippe Falardeau's drama about an Algerian refugee who becomes a substitute teacher in a Montreal elementary school is one of the most acclaimed Québécois films of the last decade. Directed by veteran filmmaker Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar is...

British acting talent Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a fascinating look at the disenchanted world of espionage and treachery. Unglamorous but certainly not unexciting, the film is the anti-James Bond where gadgets and girls are replaced drab duds and anonymous office...

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.