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From James Marsh and Simon Chinn, the Oscar-winning team behind Man on Wire, comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment, which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.

Eavesdropping around a kitchen table in Moscow these days, two decades after the Kremlin supposedly lifted the gates, invariably reveals ordinary lives swept up by the pathos of history yet anxiously awaiting the new hurly-burly of modern Russia.

“Cracks” is a small story writ very large. With its shadowy interiors and shots of faces in the grip of obsession, it verges on a horror film. - NyTimes

Jordan Scott, daughter of renowned director Sir Ridley Scott, makes her dazzling feature film debut with an erotically charged period drama based on a novel by Sheila Kohler.

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It’s not often in these days of cinematic sprawl and girth that you wish a film could be longer. - Telegraph.uk

Laurence Olivier, Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe all received the star treatment from master cinematographer Jack Cardiff (1914-2009). Now it's his turn in front of the camera. 

This unique take on the late ‘80’s British playwright Andrea Dunbar is a haunting, experimental debut combining documentary archival footage and fictional re-enactments. On-location shooting in a rundown Yorkshire housing unit and lip-synching actors create an eerie and compelling work of cutting-edge "verbatim theater" on screen. Heralded by her contemporaries as “a genius straight from the slums,” Dunbar authored three plays before dying tragically of a brain hemorrhage at age 29 brought on by excessive drinking. The film is a compassionate tribute to a brilliant life cut short. Directed by Cleo Barnard, winner of Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and Best British Newcomer at the London Film Festival. 

The clash of steel against steel, in the grand scale of a Kurosawa epic, echoes across haunting, misty landscapes in multi-award-winning and prolific filmmaker Takeshi Miike's latest visual feast 13 Assassins.