When failing to fulfil a contract for the first time, hitman Milo escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village (Grosmont), the locals mistake him for the new baker. However, Milo soon discovers that you can't always have your cake and eat it. This gentle comedy was filmed in Cardiff, Barry and Grosmont and stars Damian Lewis, Michael Gambon and Kate Ashfield.
This examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, and holding his daughter. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life - sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humour. Killer of Sheep was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival. Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time
Adapted from an autobiographical comic book by Marjane Satrapi, this is a wonderfully inspiring and beautifully animated tale of a young girl's experiences of life in Iran under the Shah and coming of age during the Islamic revolution. Never too 'right on' or heavy handed with political beliefs, this film makes Hollywood's female roles look like ridiculous fluff. Here we have a real woman with passion and fortitude dealing with political oppression, depression, a failed marriage, separation from her family and death. Miraculously, despite all that, as the closing credits roll you are likely to feel this may have been one of the most optimistic and visually enthralling 96 minutes you've spent in a cinema.
This is the dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition. Soon after her birth her parents decide to leave Buenos Aires to make a home out of an isolated wooden cabin tucked away in the dunes of the Uruguayan shoreline. Alex´s parents receive a couple of friends and their 16-year-old son Álvaro from Buenos Aires. Álvaro´s father is a plastic surgeon who accepted the invitation because of his medical concern for their friend´s daughter. The inevitable attraction between both teenagers forces them all to face their worst fears…