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Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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Hidden
(Caché)

Director – Michael Haneke – 2005 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 15 – 117m ***1/2 Covertly delivered VHS videotapes suggest to an upper middle class family that they are being watched, and begin to tease out guilt for an incident in the husband’s past – the closing film of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, […]

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Bring Them Down

Director – Chris Andrews – 2024 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 105m ** A feud between two neighbouring, Irish sheep farmers is made worse by toxic masculinity on both sides– out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, February 7th Two women in a car are being driven down an isolated country road. The […]

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Breakout Brothers
(To Yuk Hing Dai,
逃獄兄弟)

Director – Mak Ho-pong – 2020 – Hong Kong – 12 (Camden Council) – 90m **** Three prison inmates attempt to escape so that they can attend to various pressing, personal issues– online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2022 Making Waves from Friday, July 8th to Sunday, July 10th The generic […]