David Brent: Life on the Road

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite with their Ain’t Them Bodies Saints director David Lowery for this haunting and whimsical tale. Caught between a romance and an exploration of our emotional metaphysical state in the afterlife, Lowery’s film opens with a tragic accident before collapsing time to detail the strength of one couple’s bond. It remains playful while occasionally […]

‘The German invasion of England took place in July 1940 after the British retreat from Dunkirk. Strongly resisted at first, the German army took many months to restore order. But the resistance movement, lacking outside support, was finally crushed. Then, in 1944, the resistance movement reappeared.’ That is what happened when history was rewritten. Nazi […]

Året är 1942 i Lescun, en liten by på sluttningen av Pyrenéerna. Under sin dagliga syssla med att valla får gör den unge pojken Jo en farlig upptäckt. På en bondgård hålls flertalet judiska barn gömda i syfte att smugglas ut ur det naziockuperade Frankrike, över bergen till Spanien. Jo och hans farfar ansluter sig […]

Att veta för mycket är fullkomligt livsfarligt… Duval har blivit arbetslös efter att ha bränt ut sig av all stress. När han får ett erbjudande om ett lite mer stillsamt jobb – att transkribera avlyssning – tackar han ja utan att göra någon större efterforskning om organisationen som anställer honom. Duval tar sig stoiskt an […]

Fleeing to America after escaping her Nazi sympathiser husband, Hedy Lamarr then conquered Hollywood. Executive produced by Susan Sarandon, this is the ultimate portrait of Hollywood wild-child, Hedy Lamarr. Known as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’, she was infamous for her marriages and affairs with everyone from Spencer Tracy to JFK. This film […]

1980s Detroit, riven by racial tension and suffering a crack epidemic. Step into frame Rick Wershe (Richie Merritt): hustler, drug kingpin and FBI informant, all before the age of 16. Yann Demange (’71) directs Matthew McConaughey, Bruce Dern and Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) as Rick’s family of small time crooks in […]

Winner of the Grand Prix award at Cannes 2022 and selected as the Belgian entry for the 2023 Academy Awards, Close is an elegant, poetic and empathetic study of youth from acclaimed writer-director Lukas Dhont. Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi are inseparable; they spend every waking moment together, racing each other on their bikes, playing in […]

I manusförfattaren Kata Wéber och regissören Kornél Mundruczós senaste samarbete får vi en triptyk av historier som utspelar sig under olika tidsepoker men alla i skuggan av andra världskriget och förintelsen