(All these films will be in English)
25th September – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Cert 12)
Stephen Daldry directs this drama based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer about a young boy who is trying to find answers after his father's death.
Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is an intelligent nine-year-old boy with a unique outlook on the world. He has a close relationship with his father, Thomas (Tom Hanks), but Oskar and his mother, Linda (Sandra Bullock), suffer a huge loss when the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center claim Thomas's life. Two years later, Oskar finds a key hidden in the house. Believing that it leads to something his dad wanted him to discover, Oskar heads on a journey in search of the matching lock.
23rd October - Shine (Cert 12)
Pushed to the brink by his father and teachers, Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott (Alex Rafalowicz) has a breakdown during a performance of a Rachmaninoff concerto.
Years later, David (now played by Geoffrey Rush in Oscar-winning form) builds himself back up. Shine, which has been newly restored with director Scott Hick's supervision, is a moving tale about the power of the human spirit.
13th November - The Windermere Children (Cert 12)
One summer’s night in 1945, 300 children are in transit from Prague to the Lake District.
They are child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has all but wiped out Europe’s Jews – and for these particular children, their entire families too. They are some of the 1000 children the British government has granted refuge to, giving them a place where they can rehabilitate and grow strong after the devastation of the war.
This moving and ultimately redemptive story follows the children and the remarkable team who were responsible for helping these children rebuild their lives as they forge friendships that will become a lifeline to a better future.
4th December - Carla's Song (Cert 15)
George (Robert Carlyle) is a bus driver in Glasgow who befriends fare dodger Carla (Oyanka Cabezas).
After he finds her somewhere to live, she tells him that she is a refugee from war-torn Nicaragua. As he gradually falls in love with Carla, he arranges to travel with her to Managua in search of her lost boyfriend, Antonio - but this is 1987 and the Contra rebels are about to stage their final, lethal assault on the Sandinista Government.