Hole in the Ground – 1st March
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake) is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey). A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust…
DIRECTOR: Lee Cronin
LENGTH: 90 mins RATING: 15
CAST: Seana Kerslake, James Cosmo,
James Quinn Markey, Eoin Macken,
About A War – 1st March
The Lebanese Civil War saw approximately 170,000 dead, 1 million displaced and 17,000 people still missing. During the conflict thousands of teenagers picked up arms to fight in a 15 years war that tore the nation apart.
DIRECTOR: Daniele Rugo, Abi Weaver
LENGTH: 84 mins RATING: 12A
CAST: Amine Kammourieh, Ziad Majed, Assad Chaftari
Hannah – 1st March
Intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment.
DIRECTOR: Andrea Pallaoro LENGTH: 95 mins RATING: 12A
CAST: Charlotte Rampling, André Wilms, Stéphanie Van Vyve
Sauvage – 1st March
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.
DIRECTOR: Camille Vidal-Naquet LENGTH: 97 mins
RATING: 18
CAST: Felix Maritaud, Eric Bernard
Foxtrot – 1st March
A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post.
DIRECTOR: Samuel Maoz LENGTH: 113 mins
RATING: 15
CAST: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
The Kindergarten Teacher – 8th March
A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.
DIRECTOR: James Gardner LENGTH: 101 mins
RATING: 15
CAST: Liv Hill, Sinéad Matthews, Cyril Nri, Angus Barnett
Border – 8th March
A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
DIRECTOR: Ali Abbasi LENGTH: 110 mins
RATING: 15
CAST: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson
Ray & Liz – 8th March
Outside of Birmingham, Ray and Liz raise their two sons living on the margins of society, performing extreme rituals and breaking social taboos as they deal with issues beyond their control.
DIRECTOR: Richard Billingham
LENGTH: 108 mins RATING: 15
CAST: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Maiden – 15th March
In 1989 Tracy Edwards leads the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race, a grueling yachting competition that covers 33,000 miles and lasts nine months.
DIRECTOR: Alex Holmes LENGTH: 93 mins
RATING: 15
CAST: Tracy Edwards
Girl – 15th March
Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.
DIRECTOR: Lukas Dhont LENGTH: 109 mins
RATING: 15
CAST: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart
The White Crow – 22nd March
The White Crow is a British film written by David Hare and directed by Ralph Fiennes, and starring Oleg Ivenko as the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, and Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin as his roommate Yuri Soloviev.
DIRECTOR: Ralph Fiennes LENGTH: 130 mins
RATING: 15 CAST: Luon Sovath, Tep Vanny
At Eternal’s Spring
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
DIRECTOR: Julian Schnabel LENGTH: 111 mins
RATING: 12A
CAST: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac
US – 22nd March
A mother and father take their kids to their beach house, expecting to enjoy time with friends, but their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some visitors arrive uninvited.
DIRECTOR: Jordan Peele LENGTH: 120 mins
RATING: 15
CAST: Anna Diop, Elisabeth Moss, Lupita Nyong’o
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey – 29th March
The official documentary about maverick Manchester comedian Frank Sidebottom, and the life and art of his hidden creator Chris Sievey
DIRECTOR: Steve Sullivan LENGTH: 100 mins
RATING: 12A
CAST: Frank Sidebottom, Johnny Vegas, Ross Noble, John Cooper Clarke
