Almost Adult (2006)
Director: Yousaf Ali Khan
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 89 minutes
Country: Germany / UK
Language: English
Starring: Victoire Milandu, Ann Warungu, Agron Biba, Lisa Hogg, Dado Jehan, Cristina Catalina, Ovidiu Matesan.
Synopsis: Almost Adult is the story of two teenage girls who come from different countries and speak different languages but still become each other's family.
The two girls meet at a bus station in Birmingham after arriving in the UK as unaccompanied minors in search of asylum. Mamie, the elder of the two, takes Shiku under her wing. In doing so, she resolves to be the younger girl's big sister. The girls try to adjust to their new lives. Many things seem strange and alarming to them. Shiku in particular is having real difficulty fitting in with her new family. She is suffering from the after affects of the loss of her family back home and the traumatic things that happened to her on her journey to the UK. No one can properly understand what she has been through. No one but Mamie.

I For India (2005)
By: Sandhya Suri
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 70 minutes
Country: UK / Germany
Language: Hindu / English
Nominated for Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 2006.
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri leaves India for Enlgand. The first thing he does on his arrival is to buy 2 Super 8 cameras and 2 tape recorders; one set of equipment, he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For fourty years he uses it to share his strange new life in the West with those at home. In turn he receives their cine/letters, of weddings, festivals and village life. As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility, the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges gives way to the darker reality of alienation, racism and a family falling apart. I for India is a bitter-sweet tale of migration and belonging, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.

Grow Your Own (2007)
Director: Richard Laxton
Writers: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Carl Hunter
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 97 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
Starring: Benedict Wong as Kung Sang, Eddie Marsan as Little John and Philip Jackson as Big John.
Synopsis: Acclaimed screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (A Cock and Bull Story, Millions, 24 Hour Party People) has teamed up with filmmaker and friend Carl Hunter to create real life, true love and plump vegetables on a city allotment. A refugee family are given a plot to help rehabilitate their traumatised father. At first they are met with suspicion by the people who have passionately worked the gardens for years, but eventually they are accepted into a diverse community united by their love of making things grow.

Renaissance (2006)
Director: Christian Volckman
Genre: Animation / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Running Time: 105 minutes
Country: France / UK / Luxembourg
Language: English
Won Feature Film Award at Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2007 and Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver at Fantasporto in 2007.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Catherine McCormack, Laura Blanc, Romola Garai
Paris, 2054. Ilona Tasuiev, a young, brilliant researcher is violently kidnapped.  Initial attempts to find her are in vain. Avalon, a giant multinational corporation and her employer, wants her found at any cost and has requested that Officer Bartholomew Karas (Daniel Craig), a hostage specialist and the most controversial cop in the force, be in charge of the case. Karas finds a connection between Ilona and scientist Dr Jonas Muller (Ian Holm), and he meets Ilona’s beautiful sister Bislane (Catherine McCormack). He builds an intriguing picture of the missing girl and he retraces her movements through the jungles that are the new Parisian districts: he is spied on, threatened, witnesses are assassinated and someone tries to kill him.The cop no longer knows if his quarry is angel or monster. To find Ilona becomes a matter of life or death for Karas and for the whole of civilization.

We Are Staying (Stăm) (2007)
By: Schiltz Anne, Charlotte Gregoire
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 54 minutes
Country: Luxembourg
Language: English
Awards: BC prize at Astra Anthropological Film Festival.
Synopsis: Two filmmakers spend time getting to know Ruth and Natalia, two young Romanian women who grew up together in the Transylvanian village of Malancrav.  One of them is a Gypsy, the other is a Saxon; one left the village, the other chose to stay. The only thing they seem to share is their friendship. The film explores the relationship of the two women and questions our understanding of social and ethnic belonging, migration, money, rural life and the search for one’s roots.  

Inside I’m Dancing (2004)
Director: Damien O’Donnell
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 104 minutes
Country: UK / Ireland / France
Language: English
Inside I’m Dancing won the Audience Award at the Edingburgh International Film Festival, The Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script (Jeffrey Caine) and the ALFS Award for Best Supporting Actress of the Year (Ramola Garai) at the London Critics Circle Film Awards. It also received nine nominations at various festivals.
Starring: Romola Garai, James McAvoy, Steven Robertson
The story of Michael (Steven Robertson), a 24-year-old with cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea (James McAvoy) moves in. Michael is stunned to discover that fast talking Rory, who can move only his right hand, can understand his almost unintelligible speech. Rory's dynamic and rebellious nature soon sparks a flame in Michael, introducing him to a whole new world outside Carrigmore. Together the two men outwit the system and set themselves up in a flat employing the beautiful Siobhan (Romola Garai) as their personal assistant, to cook, clean and take care of their needs. She soon becomes integral to the boys efforts at successful independent living and begins to realise that this responsibility brings as many complications as it does rewards.

Breaking And Entering (2006)
Director: Anthony Minghella
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Running Time: 120 minutes
Country: UK / USA
Language: English
The film was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards for the Best Actress – Juliette Binoche, Best Actress – Robin Wright Penn and Most Promising Newcomer – Rafi Gavron.
Starring: Jude Law as Will Francis and Juliette Binoche as Amira
Breaking and Entering tells the story of a series of thefts - some criminal, some emotional - set against the backdrop of a changing London whose geographical and cultural landscape is in flux. The central character, Will (Jude Law), is a successful landscape architect. His young, vibrant company, which he runs with business partner, Sandy (Martin Freeman), has recently relocated to King's Cross, the centre of the most ambitious urban regeneration site in Europe. Their state-of-the-art office immediately attracts the attention of a local group of thieves. After one of the break-ins, Will follows 15-year-old freerunner Miro (Rafi Gavron) back to the apartment he shares with his mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche) - a refugee from Bosnia. With his relationship with Liv (Robin Wright Penn) - his beautiful Swedish partner - already in crisis, Will embarks on a passionate journey into both the wilder side of himself and the city in which he lives.