Families collide in Kiss Me Before It Blows up, an adventurous but slightly uneven rom com about an Israeli woman bringing home her German girlfriend Kiss Me Before It Blows Up is the debut feature from writer/director Shirel Peleg. Israeli Shira is certain she has met ‘the one’ after a …
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Sensitive and painfully honest, Cicada is the story of two men confronting their traumas and their love for one another Cicada is a film from two multi-talented individuals; Matt Fifer is co-director, co-writer and star playing the character of Ben, Sheldon D. Brown takes on the roles of co-writer and …
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan get cosy in Victorian romantic drama Ammonite, the closing film of the 2020 BFI London Film Festival Ammonite is the second feature film from British writer/director Francis Lee. His first film God’s Own Country won awards and hearts all over the world, making Ammonite one …
A forbidden romance flourishes on a Soviet air base in lush Cold War drama Firebird 1977 on an Estonian Soviet air force base and conscripted private Sergey is counting down the days to the end of his service and his return home. When handsome pilot Roman arrives on the base, …
Two killer nurses stalk the patients of an ICU ward in Argentine thriller The Dose – but are they really dispensing mercy? Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is a dedicated ICU nurse of twenty years working in a rundown regional hospital. His life looks utterly depressing, drudging between his dilapidated apartment and …
A trans teen fights for her right to education in powerful Brazilian drama Valentina Valentina and her mother Marcia move to a new city hoping to start fresh after Valentina had been forced to drop out of her previous school. They hope to keep the fact that Valentina is a …
A rookie drag queen spends time with his ailing grandmother in Jump Darling, one of the great Cloris Leachman’s final films Reeling from a painful break up failed actor turned aspiring drag queen Russell runs from his apartment in the city to take refuge in his grandmother’s house in the …
Two girls bond in a lush, isolated oasis in dreamy Aussie coming of age drama My First Summer 16 year old Claudia has been raised in complete isolation by her mentally ill mother in a house in the leafy countryside. She has never left their land for any reason and …
Musings on grief are given a supernatural edge in contemplative Aussie drama The Greenhouse Living in an isolated house with her mother Ruth, Beth has struggled to move on since the death of her other mum Lillian some years previously. One night she wakes from an odd dream and walks …