Desaccord Parfait (2006)
Director: Antoine de Caunes
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 92 minutes
Country: France / UK / Romania
Language: French / English
Nominated for Cesar Award for the Most Promising Actor (James Thierree) in 2007.
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Charlotte Rampling
Thirty years ago they were lovers. Their affair fascinated a nation. Louis was a director and Alice was his muse. Then came the breakup It too, was public and painful. They have not met since. But Alice, who has established herself as a first lady of English theatre is asked to present Louis with a lifetime achievement award. She is married and has a son and a dog that snores....but the game is on again....delightfully.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This Is England (2006)
Director: Shane Meadows
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 101 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham
Won the Best British Independent Film and the Most Promising Newcomer (On Screen) and was nominated for Best Director (Shane Meadows), Best Screenplay (Shane Meadows), Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Joseph Gilgun), Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Stephen Graham), Best Technical Achievement (Ludovico Einaudi) (original music) at British Independent Film Award in 2006. The film also won the UK Talent Award (Mark Herbert) at London Film Festival and Best Director Award (Shane Meadows) at Newport International Film Festival. This Is England tells the story of Shaun, a 12-year-old kid growing up without a father in the north of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1983, we chart his rites of passage from scruffy misfit grieving the loss of his father into a shaven-headed thug whose anger and pain are embraced by the local skinhead fraternity. With a shell of a mother and no father to guide him, Shaun seems set for self-destruction, but it's not long before things turn sour with his new-found 'friends' and Shaun soon learns that violence is the coward's answer.

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.

Airplay UK I (2007)
Durata: 69 minute
Acest program grupeaza unele dintre cele mai bune videoclipuri muzicale produse in Marea Britanie pe parcursul ultimului an. El prezinta atat lucrari ale unor artisti aflati la inceputul carierei cat si pe cele ale unora care se bucura deja de reputatie in domeniu, artisti care experimenteaza atat in creatia muzicala, cat si in cea vizuala, mixand traditia si inovatia intr-o maniera ce face marca oricarei creatii britanice. Unele dintre videoclipuri au drept interpreti bine cunoscuti actori precum Bob Hoskins, detinatorul rolului principal din Who Framed Roger Rabbit siThe Long Good Friday. Programul include un interviu cu Nima Nourizadeh, unul dintre cei mai percutanti regizori de videoclipuri muzicale activi astazi in Marea Britanie.

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.

Ghosts (2006)
Director: Nick Broomfield
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Running Time: 96 minutes
Country: UK
Language: Chinese Mandarin, English
The film was nominated for Golden Seashell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Solidarity Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Starring: Ai Qin Lin, Zhan Yu, Zhe Wei, Man Qin Wei, Yong Aing Zhai
This is film based on a true story.  It is disturbing portrayal of a secret world that is all around us. Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian borrows $25,000 to pay the Snakehead gang to smuggle her into the UK so she can support her son and family back in China. Once in the UK she becomes another one of three million migrant workers that are the bedrock of its food supply chain, construction and hospitality industries. She lives with 15 other Chinese in a two-bedroom suburban house. With an illegally forged work permit, she works in factories preparing food for British supermarkets.  In their search for better paying jobs to repay their debts they end up cockling in Morecambe Bay at night. On 5 February 2004 23 Chinese drowned in Morecambe, their families in China are still paying off their debts. Ai Qin and the other principal characters are played by Chinese former illegal immigrants who have drawn on their life experiences to give passionate and authentic performances. The director, Nick Broomfield, has stepped out of his documentarian role, to create a grippingly compelling film that will change your views on the entire migrant population and leave you wondering about slavery in the 21st century.

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.

Shorts, Not So Shorts and Docs III: Acasa (Home)
Director: Paul Negoescu
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 14 minutes
Country: Romania
Language: Romanian
Starring: Gabriel Spahiu, Marian Ralea
Synopsis: Tells a controversial story about a taxi driver who drives home a Romanian migrant worker returning home on Christmas Eve.

Stam (We Are Staying)
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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

Airplay UK II (2007)
The second programme of music videos profiles directing talents that make a big impact in this highly creative area of filmmaking. It features a wide range of artists, music and visual styles with a profile of Minivegas, a collective with an excellent track record spanning already five years. Not to be missed: the animation that illustrates music by veteran band The Chemical Brothers.

Shorts, Not So Shorts and Docs II
Zohra (2006)
Director: Kemal Akhtar
Genre: Short Feature
Running Time: 15 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
Set in 1960 we follow the departure of 18 year old Zohra, from Karachi to London looking for opportunity and "a better life at her Majesty's invitation". Zohra discovers that promises of Britain's 'better life' are greatly exaggerated, and that there is a huge cultural gap between Pakistan and Britain but also finds solutions on how the gap can eventually be bridged.
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.
This Is England (2006)
Director: Shane Meadows
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 101 minutes
Country: UK
Language: English
Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham
Won the Best British Independent Film and the Most Promising Newcomer (On Screen) and was nominated for Best Director (Shane Meadows), Best Screenplay (Shane Meadows), Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Joseph Gilgun), Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Stephen Graham), Best Technical Achievement (Ludovico Einaudi) (original music) at British Independent Film Award in 2006. The film also won the UK Talent Award (Mark Herbert) at London Film Festival and Best Director Award (Shane Meadows) at Newport International Film Festival.
This Is England tells the story of Shaun, a 12-year-old kid growing up without a father in the north of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1983, we chart his rites of passage from scruffy misfit grieving the loss of his father into a shaven-headed thug whose anger and pain are embraced by the local skinhead fraternity. With a shell of a mother and no father to guide him, Shaun seems set for self-destruction, but it's not long before things turn sour with his new-found 'friends' and Shaun soon learns that violence is the coward's answer.

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.