Told in three chapters we follow the young dreamer Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology silence and finally adult obligations and responsibility converge to dissipate his idealism and dreams. Beginning with the lyrical image of cherry blossoms falling at five centimetres a second, Makoto Shinkai paints a breathtakingly vivid tableau of you find out more...

Jorge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come from opposite worlds: he likes an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she prefers a more urban existence. He is Mexican and she is Italian, and she has decided to return to Rome with their five-year-old son, Natan. But before they leave, Jorge wishes to take young Natan on a trip, hoping to teach him about his Mayan origins in Mexico. So begins an affecting coming of age documentary with exquisite cinematography. find out more...

Jess Aarons is a shy, artistic, 5th grade boy and the fastest runner in school until new girl in town, outgoing Leslie Burke, busts his speed record. The two form a friendship thru' their love of storytelling and discover that the make-believe world they creat has come to life in a secret forest near their homes. Jess and Leslie's adventures in Terabithia, where they are crowned king and queen, help them face the challenges of growing up and appreciate the simple pleasure of true friendship. Bas find out more...

Set in Yokohama in 1963, this lovingly hand-drawn film centres’ on Umi and Shun and the budding romance that develops as they join forces to save their high school’s ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. From the legendary Studio Ghibli

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Every year New York City is host to a ballroom dancing competition that leaves all others in the shade, as the children from over sixty schools within the borough enter (with a breathtaking gusto and determination) the world of the Tango. Mad Hot Ballroom is a delightfully engaging documentary, witty, touching and utterly addictive. find out more...

Mixed up 10-year-old Vada lives with her widowed dad, oddball mortician Harry. When he takes up with an enticing young make-up artist, Vada gets her first taste of the pain of growing up, and only one person really understands, her painfully shy best friend Thomas J. Bittersweet drama. find out more...

Vada is now 13-years-old and reaching "that awkward stage". When she's given a school assignment to write about someone she's never met, she chooses her late mother. Her research leads her to Los Angeles, where she learns a few things she'd rather not know, and a lot more about herself. find out more...

Wolves have long evoked both fear and admiration as symbols of beauty and danger. Their image has changed drastically through the centuries – from creator and helper to symbol of evil, from predator to prey, from legend to icon. Director Raimo O. Niemi (The Blow-flower Boy and the Sky Mechanic) has mainly dabbled in television, but Mystery Of The Wolf, finally released in the UK after a four-year absence, offers a glimpse at this remarkable animal, along with its complex and ever-changi find out more...

Velvet (Liz Taylor) is the daughter of the Brown family, who live in an idyllic English countryside. One day Mi Taylor (Mikey Rooney), a young wanderer and opportunist, whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel, arrives at the Brown family estate. When Velvet wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National - England's greatest racing event, but who will ride this horse? find out more...

A coming-of-age chick flick told in retrospect as four childhood friends are reunited after twenty years and wonder what they ever had in common. But flashing back to the summer of 1970, when they were twelve, nostalgia flows as the events which changed them from girls to women unfold. find out more...