Made in Dagenham

Made in Dagenham is a fun, good natured film about the serious issue of the sewing machine workers strike in London, 1968. The women went on strike in protest against unequal pay due to sexual discrimination. The real life events depicted in the film were key in the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970, and 40 years on it remains just as important for a younger generation to appreciate what women went through to get to the position they are today.

50 First Dates

In 50 First Dates, a woman suffers from a fictional form of amnesia; when she wakes up she has forgotten everything from the previous day. She meets a new man who immediately falls for her, and so comes up with new ways to ‘meet’ her every day, in the hope of her memory retaining something. Ultimately, he creates videos of their lives together, and convinces her to keep a diary. So each morning when she wakes up, she has proof that this is her life and she can live it to her fullest potential.

Phone Booth

In the film Phone Booth, an arrogant man is contemplating cheating on his wife. He goes into a phone booth to call his mistress but instead receives a call from a man who is armed with a sniper rifle and watching him. He orders him to tell the truth to both women involved, and warns him that he’ll kill him if he attempts to leave.

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent French film from the 1920s. It tells of Joan who is brought to trial for claiming she has been given a mission by God. The judges, the authorities and then priests attempt to get her to say she was lying, but she won’t budge. Finally when she is threatened with burning at the stake, she breaks down and signs a confession. However, she soon says the confession was a lie and she is publicly executed.

Memento

Memento by Christopher Nolan

Memento is a psychological thriller about a man suffering from short-term memory loss. The film is edited so that the plot is revealed backwards in ten-minute chunks, giving viewers the feeling of experiencing memory loss. The man makes sense of the world by having an evolving series of facts and memories provided by annotated Polaroid photos and tattoos on his body.

Being John Malkovich

Clip from Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich is a weird and wonderful story about a man who discovers a portal in his office, which leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich. Upon entering the portal, for 15 minutes you see, hear and feel everything that Malkovich is doing until you return back to reality, falling onto the same spot on the side of a road. When Malkovich discovers what’s going on, he tries to stop it but when curiosity gets the better of him, he enters his own portal with amusing consequences!

The Cove

The Cove Trailer

The Cove was the winner of the Best Documentary award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It tells of a particular town in Japan which annually slaughters dolphins in barbaric ways for two reasons – primarily, the more attractive, intelligent ones will be bought for a lot of money by institutes such as Seaworld; secondly, the unwanted ones are bought by the government for meat and used as part of school dinners. Of course this caused controversy – the high levels of mercury within the dolphin meat are highly dangerous for the school children, and needless to say when the first ever dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry recounts of one dolphin committing suicide due to stress, emotions ran high among all animal lovers.

Day and Night

'Day and Night' by Pixar

Pixar's short film preceding screenings of Toy Story 3 combines both 2d and 3d visuals as 'day' and 'night' come to life. Initially hating each other, these animated characters soon learn not to judge a book by its cover.

The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke - White Ribbon

The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s latest film which is set just before World War I, in a small village in northern Germany. When strange, sadistic events begin to happen, it appears that the suppressed children of the village are at the stem of the problems.

Validate me.

Writer/Director Kurt Kuenne’s fable about a parking attendant who gives his customers the validation they truly need -- dispensing both free parking and free compliments.

Tyger

Tyger by Guilherme Marcondes

This is a timeless mix media work by an amazing Brazilian filmmaker featuring the Japanese art of Bunraku puppetry blended with photographic images, CGI, and 2D flat art; it is his interpretation of William Blake’s poem “The Tiger”.