Director: Garth Davis
Cast: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara

This is the true story of Saroo who at five years old gets lost on a train and is taken thousands of miles across India far from home and family. He must learn to survive in teeming Calcutta before eventually being adopted by a kindly Australian couple.

Twenty five years later he has an overwhelming desire to find his birth mother and armed only with a handful of memories, an unwavering determination and Google Earth he does, against all the odds, eventually track her down.

“A deeply empathetic performance from Dev Patel” (Peter Bradshaw - Guardian)

Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler

Kenneth Lonergan's beautifully textured, richly enveloping drama about how a death in the family forces a small-town New Englander to confront a past tragedy anew. Scratching out a living as a handyman in Boston, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is suddenly called back to his home town on the Massachusetts coast because of the death of his brother (Kyle Chandler). This loss returns him to the scene of an even greater grief, threatening to tip him over the edge for good.

“Masterfully told and beautifully acted, Manchester by the Sea is a shattering yet graceful elegy of loss and grief.” (Phil De Semlyen - Empire)

Director: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo

This brilliant adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel “Fingersmith” is a beautifully filmed erotic drama of passion and betrayal set in 1930’s Japan and Korea.

It is the story of a beautiful young Japanese lady living on an isolated estate with her eccentric guardian. A young Korean woman is hired to serve her as her handmaiden but she is in fact a part of a confidence trick to defraud her of her large inheritance. The twist at the end is both surprising and satisfying.

“A complex and wonderfully decadent erotic melodrama” (Geoffrey McNab – The Independent)