In the middle of the Second World War teenage Alyosha is commended for destroying two German tanks, but, rather than take a medal, he requests a four day pass to visit his mother. Ballad of a Soldier is about this journey and the life enhancing encounters therein. Nominated at the 1962 Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, this classic of post-war Soviet Realism won many international film awards on its release, most notably a BAFTA Award for Best Film. find out more...

Everything is Illuminated tells the story of a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a quest to piece together one family's story under absurd circumstances turns into a meaningful journey with a powerful series of revelations - the importance of remembrance, the perilous nature of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the meaning of friendship. A flawed but refreshingly quir find out more...

Once long ago, during a bloody battle fought between the warring Liang and Wei states, two armies fought themselves to a bloody standstill. One of the only two survivors, a Liang, hopes to achieve his freedom by abducting the other, a young Wei general, and taking him on a long journey to present him to the Liang leadership.
This highly entertaining tale starts more like a comedy road trip, but becomes more reflective as the two combine to survive various interludes, bears, bandits, bad g find out more...

A willful young boy follows his equally obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war. A stunning piece of work that shifts the focus from the national strife, which most post-Iraq films focus on, to a more personal and highly affecting level. find out more...

 

Freddie Quell, is a troubled Navy veteran who arrives home to post-WWII America shaken, disillusioned and fearful of the future. A raging alcoholic, Quell cannot begin to make sense of his deeply-rooted inner torment, let alone surmount it. When he meets Lancaster Dodd, the 'master' of a cult called The Cause, an intense and ambiguous relationship develops between the two men. But do Dodd's teachings hold the p find out more...

An action movie that also plays as a satire on the double standards of the Allies during the Gulf War; in particular the plight of the Kurds. A group of American soldiers go AWOL in search of a stash of hidden gold and find themselves doin' good for a band of refugees desperate to escape from Iraq. 'Three Kings' is an enjoyable if slightly confused movie, you can't help wishing they had gone for either action or satire, rather than attempting to squidge the two genres together. But, nevertheless find out more...