Our award-winning film picks for March

Sunday 10th March at 9pm

Official selection at the 74th Cannes Film Festival (2021)

Nora, aged 6, starts primary school and discovers that her brother Abel is being bullied. Torn between her father, who urges her to react, her need to fit in and her brother, who asks her to keep quiet, the little girl finds herself caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties...

Directed by Laura Wandel (Belgium, 2021)

"You don't need a whole shot to be gripped by this first film, which turns a playground into a world as tumultuous as it is complex".
La Septème Obsession

Monday 11th March at 23:35

In competition at the 71st Berlin Festival (2021)

A shocking journey to the truth. A mother and her daughter confront the secrets of the past: Beirut, the civil war and bringing back childhood memories. A poignant film about handing down, love, and resilience.

Directed by: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige (France/Canada/Liban, 2019)

"The war in Lebanon has perhaps never been told in such sensory detail."
Le Parisien

Sunday 17th March at 9pm

Grand Prize at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (2019)

In a suburb of Dakar one evening, the overexploited workers of a tower block under construction set sail for a better life, so they think. What's left are their wives, sisters, mothers and girlfriends. One of them, Ada, is inconsolable after Souleiman's departure and forced to marry someone else. Mysterious things begin to happen...

Directed by Mati Diop (France/Senegal/Belgium, 2019)

"It's a mysterious film that could have been drowned by the sea with all that it now carries, a nameless body, a contemporary tragedy."
Libération

Sunday 24th March at 9pm

In competition at the 70th Berlin Festival (2020)

Lisa has given up her career as a playwright to follow her husband to Switzerland. When her twin brother falls ill, it's a shock. She moves heaven and earth to get him back on stage, reconnecting with her Berlin roots and her deepest aspirations. Her metamorphosis means her marriage must change or die.

Directed by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond (Switzerland, 2021)

"This sensitive film about twins and theatre, the second by the directors of La petite chambre, is poignantly melancholy, soothed in the end by a Bach cantata.
L'Obs

Sunday 31st March at 9pm

Bayard d'Or for best screenplay at the 7th Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (1992)

Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta run a boarding house where they take in their fellow Sicilians. One day, in an attempt to defend one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Théo, the son-in-law of his French-Canadian best friend. This tragedy will exacerbate tensions between the different communities...

Directed by Paul Tana (Canada, 1992)

"The sensitivity and intelligence with which the director tackles the problems of intolerance and xenophobia arising from immigration demonstrate his deep interest in the issue."
Mediafilm