7 Sep 09 @Cairn                   I've Loved you so long

Director: Philippe Claudel, 117 mins, 2008, France

Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein

A shell-shocked Juliette returns from prison to live with her younger sister. Lea’s goodness very slowly breaks up Juliette's icy bitterness and she carefully opens up. But a huge question hangs over Juliette’s renaissance. Why did she do such a terrible thing fifteen years ago? For more information click here

 5 Oct 09 @Cairn                    Man on Wire

Director: James Marsh, 94 mins, 2008, UK/USA

Starring: Philippe Petit

In 1974, a young Frenchman committed the artistic crime of the century by stepping out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers. But how did those involved find a way to bypass security, smuggle the equipment into the towers, and safely connect the wire between the two rooftops? This documentary brings Petit’s adventure to life. For more information click here

 9 Nov 09                                The Wave

Director:  Dennis Gansel, 107 mins, 2008, Germany

Starring: Jürgen Vogel

Addressing autocracy as part of the school’s project week, a high school teacher devises an unorthodox experiment in social orders and the power of unity. But his lesson to demonstrate what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. For more information click here

7 Dec 09                                 Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Director: Woody Allen, 115 mins, 2008, USA

Starring: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall

Two young American women spend a summer in Barcelona. Vicky is cautious and about to be married. Cristina is an adventurous free spirit. They each become amorously entangled with the same flamboyant painter, unaware that his tempestuous ex-wife is about to re-enter the picture. For more information click here

 4 Jan 10                                 Female Agents

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé 117 mins, 2008, France

Starring: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu

In May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistMexicoance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitring the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. For more information click here

 11 Jan 10                               Easy Virtue

Director: Stephan Elliott, 97 mins, 2008, UK

Starring: Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth,

In 1929, a young Englishman has just married a feisty American racing car driver. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.  Adapted from a Noel Coward play. For more information click here

1 Feb 10             8 Mar 10                        Welcome to the Sticks

Director: Dany Boon, 106 mins, 2008, France

Starring: Kad Merad, Zoé Félix

To please his wife, Philippe, a post office administrator, tries to scam a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera. Caught red-handed, he is banished instead to a distant unheard of town in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, Philippe braces himself for a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect. For more information click here

8 Feb 10                                  Everlasting Moments

Director: Jan Troell, 131 mins, 2009, Sweden

Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt

Sweden, early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. A young working class woman, Maria is struggling to care for her large brood of children and trying to manage her abusive, alcoholic husband. When she wins a camera in a lottery and decides to keep it, her world is changed forever. For more information click here

Tue 16 Feb 10                         La Zona 

Director: Rodrigo Plá, 97 mins, 2008, Mexico

Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Daniel Tovar

In Mexico City, a wealthy compound is surrounded by walls and surveillance system to protect residents from the violence of the slums. When three young burglars break in, their crime goes fatally wrong. Alejandro, a young resident of the community, allows one of the thieves to stay with him as neighbourhood vigilantes search for the criminals. For more information click here

8 Mar 10                      Conversations with my Gardener

Director: Jean Becker, 109 mins, 2007, France

Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. When he hires a gardener who happens to be a former school friend, a warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men. As they see everything through each other's eyes, they find a beauty they have never seen before. For more information click here

Tue 16 Mar 10            OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies

Director: Michel Hazanavicius, 99 mins, 2006, France

Starring: Jean Dujardin

It's 1955 and after a fellow agent and close friend disappears, secret agent Hubert Bonisseur (aka OSS 117) is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he is busy investigating, foiling Nazi holdouts, quelling a fundamentalist rebellion, and bedding local beauties. For more information click here

Tue 30 Mar 10                                    Fermat’s Room

Directors: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña, 88 mins, 2007, Spain

Starring: Federico Luppi, Santi Millán

Four mathematicians, who do not know each other, are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them. For more information click here

12 Apr 10     (AGM)                Flame and Citron

Director: Ole Christian Madsen, 130 mins, 2008, Denmark

Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen

During World War II, two fighters in the Danish resistance put everything on the line in their fight against the Nazis. As they get closer to attacking the head of the Gestapo, the men realize that they can only trust each other. Based on true events. For more information click here