It’s a Free World (2007)
Director: Ken Loach
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 96 minutes
Country: UK / Italy / Germany / Spain
Language: English / Polish
The film won 3 prices at the Venice Film Festival: the EIUC Award (Ken Loach), Golden Osella (for Best Screenplay, Paul Laverty) and the SIGNIS Award – Honorable Mention
Starring: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times.

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.

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.

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.

A Mighty Heart (2007)
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Genre: Drama / History / Thriller
Running Time: 108 minutes
Country: USA / UK
Language: English / French / Urdu / Arabic
Nominated for the Golden Globe for best actress, Angelina Jolie, won the Outstanding Performance Award (for Angelina Jolie) at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and had another 12 nominations.
A Mighty Heart is the heart-breaking true story of the disappearance and death of Daniel Pearl, the South Asian bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002. The story is told through the eyes of his pregnant wife Mariane Pearl. Mariane Pearl's bravery is remarkable and her courage, along with that of her late husband, serve to make A Mighty Heart, despite Danny Pearl's heart-breaking death, a profound and ultimately uplifting love story. It is also a fitting tribute to a dedicated reporter not a hero, but an ordinary man. An ordinary hero.

Hot Fuzz (2007)
Director: Edgar Wright
Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Mistery
Running Time: 116 minutes
Country: UK / France
Language: English
Won National Movie Award for Best Comedy
Nicholas Angel is the finest police officer London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He's so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so embarrassing - the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), an oafish but well meaning young Constable. Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play, Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idilic as it seems. With his faithful new partner in tow, Angel fights to prove his instincts are correct and uncover the truth about Sandford. Is Angel simply loosing his mind in the safest, sweetest village in Britain? Or is something far more sinister at work? A small village is about to get some big city justice.

Shorts, Not So Shorts and Docs I: 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.

Shorts, Not So Shorts and Docs II
Broken (2007)
Director: Vicki Psarias
Genre: Short Feature / Drama
Running Time: 15 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
It's 1968 and 14 year old Chrystalla arrives in London to meet her father, Solomon after four years apart, only to find him cheating on her mother with an English woman. Jealous and upset, Chrystalla devises a plan to stop his philandering ways, with devastating consequences.
Tomato Delivery (2004)
Director: Xiaosong Que
Genre: Short Feature
Running Time: 15 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English and Chinese Mandarin
A quiet lament of an illegal alien's private grief over a shattered dream. The film intends to personify one of the many familiar yet anonymous Chinese faces one comes across when passing through London's China Town, and his humble dreams and desires - things which are taken for granted as basic necessities among people from the West.
King of London (2006)
Director: Valeria Ruiz
Genre: Short Feature / Drama
Running Time: 20 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
Tony is a Bulgarian delivery driver who is struggling to make it in London, trying to support his family back home. He cannot admit to himself that he will not be able to achieve his dreams here, and as a result he almost loses even more.
Small Steps (2006)
Director: Max Sobol and Tom Loughlin
Genre: Short Feature
Running Time: 12 minutes
Country: UK
Language: Polish / English
Kasia is a young Polish girl working in an English cannery. She longs to escape the monotony of her job and start living properly in her new home. A factory closure gives her the chance to join a local dance class but when it reopens Kasia finds herself falling into the ritual and rhythm of the factory once again.
Smalltown Boy (2007)
Director: Moby Longinotto
Genre: Short Feature
Running Time: 13 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
David has never felt at home where he lives in the English countryside. He's known since he was very young that he was different and now that he's fifteen he's decided to come out that he is gay. After being thrown out of his foster home and continually bullied at school, the village where he lives has turned its back on David. But now David has the chance to show everyone in the village who he really is. For over a hundred years the annual summer carnival has been a celebration of traditional family values in the village that all its in inhabitants of all ages get involved in. Each year the prettiest young girl in the town is paraded through the main square as the carnival queen. But this year the festivities are going to be turned on their head, because this year David is the first ever gay male carnival queen. Under huge pressure from the locals who feel he is bringing shame on their village- David, in his lilac dress, is determined to stand up be proud of himself in front of all his doubters.