The Big Blockade (1942)

When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty…

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much,…

In Serra do Ramalho, in the drylands of Bahia, Milla, Gilmar and Igor will form an unconventional family that shuns convention and instead embraces love in all its dazzling iterations.

Kaagaz (transl. Paper) is a biographical drama about a farmer, Lal Bihari’s 19-year struggle to make himself come alive again when he is declared dead in Government records by interests keen…

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future…

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly…

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

A bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success.

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and…

Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has…

Natalie is a children’s book illustrator struggling with creative burnout that finds unexpected inspiration when she comes across a little girl’s Christmas gift list. Unlike other children’s Christmas lists, Caroline…

Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she’s deported to a home where they’d just wait for…