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A Caribbean Dream

Zavvi - the home of pop culturea caribbean dream is a re-imagining of william shakespeare’s romantic comedy, a midsummer night’s dream.set in modern day barbados, theseus and hippolyta are returning nationals.

Iona

A young woman and her teenage son flee glasgow seeking refuge from a violent crime. they travel overnight to her birthplace, the isle of iona after which she is named, and attempt to live among the religious community she left behind.

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Zavvi - the home of pop culturefor some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. for others it means, quite simply, losing their home.

Looking For Love

Zavvi - the home of pop culturea no holds barred take on 21st century love, sex, and emotional baggage..

Star Men

Four exceptional astronomers celebrate 50 years of work and friendship on a road trip in the southwestern united states, recapturing youthful adventures and recounting each other's influences on the most exciting period in astronomy's history. filmed in california, arizona, new mexico and utah in the usa, and cambridge, england, the storytelling marries first-person narration, humor and beauty to produce a deeply moving portrait of life and friendship as the men visit telescopes, pause at the grand canyon, and re-take a hike that nearly defeated them when they were young.

Couple In A Hole

After their isolated house is destroyed by a wildfire, john (paul higgins) and karen (kate dickie) take refuge in the nearby forest and eke out a feral existence, staying away from the villagers in the valley below. as the couple’s backstory unfolds, the reasons for their self-imposed isolation and their deep grief become apparent.

A Change In The Weather

In an attempt to revisit a creative collaboration and revive his marriage, a theatre director brings together a group of performers to spend a week with him and his wife in an isolated, mountainous part of southern france. as the work progresses, fiction and reality become blurred and there is a constant tension between the characters emotional lives and the nature of the work - an investigation into the changing nature of love.

New Town Utopia

New town utopia is a feature documentary film about utopian dreams and concrete realities... the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the british new town of basildon, essex.

Even When I Fall

Zavvi - the home of pop culturesheetal and saraswoti met as teenagers in a kathmandu refuge, survivors of child trafficking to corrupt indian circuses and brought back across the border to a nepal they could barely remember. even when i fall traces their journey over 6 years as they confront the families that sold them, seek acceptance within their own country and begin to build a future.

A Syrian Love Story

Zavvi - the home of pop culturecomrades and lovers amer and raghda met in a syrian prison cell 15 years ago. when mcallister first meets their family in 2009, raghda is back in prison leaving amer to look after their 4 boys alone; but as the arab spring sweeps the region, the family s fate shifts irrevocably.

The British Guide to Showing Off

Zavvi - the home of pop cultureandrew logan. british artist.

Story of Lover's Rock

Zavvi - the home of pop culturethe story of lovers rock is a feature length documentary that tells the story of a genre of reggae that was created in the uk. it was influential and very successful in the 70s and 80s and still lives on today.

Tis Autumn - The Search For Jackie Paris

Documentary chronicling the mysterious life of the late jazz vocalist jackie paris, who is regarded by many as one of jazz's greatest unsung heroes. after an impressive debut, paris went on to face a series of ups and downs in his career, private tragedies and eventual obscurity.

Copying Beethoven

Cuckoo

Zavvi - the home of pop culturein one of his darkest roles, richard e. grant plays an ageing professor obsessed with his star student, polly (fraser).

Straightheads

Zavvi - the home of pop culturewhen adam is invited by a beautiful, confident older woman (alice) he has just met to accompany her to a lavish party in the country he knows he is going to have the best night of his life. following mind-blowing sex, the pair speed away from the party down a wooded and desolate road in alice’s car.

Vidal Sassoon The Movie

Vidal sassoon is more than just a hairdresser – he’s a rock star, an artist, a craftsman who ‘changed the world with a pair of scissors’. with the geometric, bauhaus-inspired hair styles he pioneered in the 1960s and his ‘wash and wear’ philosophy, sassoon revolutionised the art of hairstyling, leaving an indelible mark on popular culture.

Mother and Child

Zavvi - the home of pop culturefrom writer-director rodrigo garcia (nine lives) and executive producer alejandro gonzalez inarritu (babel, 21 grams) comes the moving story of three women (annette bening, naomi watts and kerry washington) and the power of the unbreakable bond between mother and child.annette bening is karen, a bitter, unhappy spinster coping with the death of her mother and the lifelong feelings of loss and regret over the child she gave up for adoption when she was 14.

Suspension of Disbelief

Martin is a successful writer whose wife suddenly disappeared. during a film shoot fifteen years later, martin meets angelique, who disappears the same night.

Kelly and Victor

Zavvi - the home of pop culturekelly + victor is a haunting, candid depiction of a young couple embarking on a passionate and transgressive love affair, from the acclaimed novel by niall griffiths.when kelly (antonia campbell-hughes - 'bright star') meets victor (julian morris - '24', 'once upon a time') on the dance floor of a liverpool nightclub, the attraction is instant.

Short Term 12

Told through the eyes of grace (brie larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, short term 12 is written and directed by destin cretton. passionate and tough, grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, mason (john gallagher jr).

Benny and Jolene

Jamie adams' feature debut stars craig roberts (submarine) and charlotte ritchie (fresh meat) as an up and coming folk duo. 19-year-old jolene is having trouble convincing her writing partner benny to become more commercial.

When Will I Be Loved?

A raunchy, erotic drama from james toback (tyson, fingers, black and white and two girls and a guy), when will i be loved offers a potent fusion of money, power and desire. vera (neve campbell, scream) is the lover of a fast-talking hustler, ford, (frederick weller, armageddon) who stands on the verge of a lucrative gambling score.

Code Name: The Cleaner

Cedric the entertainer stars as jake, a seemingly regular guy who wakes up in a hotel room with a bump on his head next to a dead body and a briefcase containing $250,000 in cash. as if that wasn't enough of a predicament, jake can't remember how he got there or who he is.

Four Last Songs

A comic drama set on a mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption..

The Arbor

Zavvi - the home of pop culturethe true story of playwright andrea dunbar who wrote about her upbringing on the notorious buttershaw estate in bradford. when she died, tragically at the age of 29, her daughter lorraine was just ten years old.

The Be All And End All

Zavvi - the home of pop culturerobbie (josh bolt) and ziggy (eugene byrne) think they'll be best mates forever, but when robbie collapses on holiday and is diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, forever suddenly seems a lot shorter. lying in the children's ward, robbie only has one thing on his mind: he doesn't want to die a virgin - and the only one who can help him achieve his goal is his best friend ziggy.

Talk To Me

Zavvi - the home of pop culturefeaturing a standout performance from don cheadle, talk to me offers a powerful account of outspoken media figure ralph 'petey' greene. a former convict turned washington dj, greene (cheadle, ocean's eleven, crash) talked his way onto the airwaves and emboldened by soul music became a figure of hope for the black community.

Don't Worry About Me

Zavvi - the home of pop culturethe film follows david (james brough), a twentysomething london lad who finds himself a fish out of water in liverpool following a one-night stand. attempting to win his fare back to the big smoke, david strikes up a rapport with demure betting shop assistant tina (helen elizabeth) and his plans suddenly change.

Happy Ever Afters

Zavvi - the home of pop culturesometimes the happiest day of all can be the most heartbreaking. freddie (tom riley) and maura (sally hawkins) are getting married, only not to each other.

Patagonia

The journeys of two women – one looking for her past, the other for her future. the film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the welsh springtime and the other east to west through the argentine autumn.

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Zavvi - the home of pop culturescott walker - 30 century man explores scott’s music and career, from his early days as a jobbing bass player on the sunset strip, to mega-stardom in britain’s swinging 60’s pop scene, and finally to his transformation into a composer of true genius; an uncompromising and serious musician working at the peak of his powers. the filmmakers of scott walker - 30 century man have been granted unprecedented access to scott and his musical process, the first such time the famously reclusive genius has allowed this level of contact with a film crew.

In the Dark Half

After a child dies in her care, a guilt-stricken teenager (jessica barden) feels threatened by a mysterious force..

My Brother the Devil

My brother the devil tells the story of two brothers tested loyalty as their paths collide amidst a violent world of drugs and gangs. mo is a young boy growing up in a traditional egyptian household, but beyond the front door of the family's modest london flat is a completely different world - the streets of hackney.

Breathing

Roman kogler (thomas schubert) is 19 years old and has lived all his life in institutions. abandoned by his mother as a young child and raised in an orphanage, he is now serving time in a juvenile detention centre having accidentally killed a boy of his own age in a brawl.

Sing Your Song

Harry belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great american lives of the last century. susanne rostock s sing your song lets us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the triumphs of this extraordinary icon.

The Fairy

A hotel clerk searches all over le havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing..

Shell

Shell is a 17-year-old woman who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate scottish highlands. apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel, and a few regulars who acknowledge and catch up with her, shell's only company is her reserved and softly spoken father pete (joseph mawle), to whom she is devoted.

Love Me Till Monday

Zavvi - the home of pop culturelove me till monday follows the story of an english girl trying to find love between the office and her home life. the film looks at how a generation of twenty-something's go in search of love.

Back to Berlin

Zavvi - the home of pop culturein 2015 , 11 jewish bikers travel from israel to berlin in order to light the torch at the maccabi games being held at the olympiastadion, the site of the 1936 olypmic games, where adolf hitler banned jewish athletes and spread nazi propoganda. as they journey thorugh europe, visiting the sites of various atrocities, including the warsaw ghetto and auschwitz, the riders tell the stories of family members persecuted by the nazi regime..