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Coming soon:
The heartbreaking account - IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE - is Florin Serban's debut feature & Silver Bear Award winner at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
In Cinemas & Curzon On Demand from May 18

Younes (Tahar Rahim) must face a dilemma between serving his own best interests, or putting himself in mortal danger to save the lives of innocent people in - FREE MEN -
In Cinemas from May 25

And on DVD/Blu-Ray :
- L'Atalante and the Films of Jean Vigo - From his inventive early short films to the anarchic tale of student rebellion Zero de Conduite and, finally, the extraordinarily lyrical romantic yearning of L'Atalante, Vigo's body of work has been celebrated the world over for its consummate artistry and far reaching influence. - On DVD from May 14

Markus Schleinzer's - Michael - reveals its alarming plot with a patient, naturalistic atmosphere. - On DVD & Blu-Ray from May 28

Free MenCinema Release: 25.05.2012 Occupied Paris in 1942. Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. He becomes arrested and drawn into a dangerous and morally complex situation - a dilemma between serving his own best interests, or putting himself in mortal danger to save the lives of innocent people…

If I Want to Whistle, I WhistleCinema Release: 18.05.2012 Silviu has only 5 days left before his release from the juvenile detention centre. But 5 days becomes an eternity when his mother returns from a long absence to take his younger brother away. A brother whom he raised like a son. Moreover, he has fallen in love with a beautiful social worker…

FaustCinema Release: 11.05.2012 Alexander Sokurov completes his cinematic tetralogy, the previous three were based on historical figures: Adolf Hitler (Moloch, 1999), Vladimir Lenin (Taurus, 2000), and Emperor Hirohito (The Sun, 2005), by delving further into the nature of power with his own unique take on Goethe's FAUST…

Goodbye First LoveCinema Release: 04.05.2012 In the Paris winter of 1999 Camille is fifteen, Sullivan is nineteen. Although they love each other passionately, Sullivan wants to go traveling for a year - a plan that fills Camille with despair. At the end of the summer, Sullivan leaves and a few months later he stops writing to Camille…

EllesCinema Release: 20.04.2012 Anne, a well-off mother of two and investigative journalist
for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution.
Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex…

Le HavreCinema Release: 06.04.2012 Marcel and Arletty's quiet, economically impoverished but motionally rich life is disrupted when she is diagnosed with
a serious disease. Meanwhile, Marcel takes a young illegal immigrant under his wing. So begins Aki Kaurismäki's glorious, colourful and deeply humane masterpiece…

MichaelDVD Release: 28.05.2012 - Also available on Blu-Ray -
The story of a dull office drone who keeps a kidnapped young boy locked in his house. Despite its subversive edge, MICHAEL successfully drains the shock out of a frightening premise and instead delivers a keen observational thriller…

SanamDVD Release: 28.05.2012 Sanam is left widowed when her husband is shot dead after being accused of stealing a horse. Left to raise her son and work the family farm alone, she must ponder the idea of marrying a man who could readily support the family, even though she knows she doesn't love him…

L'Atalante & the Films of Jean VigoDVD Release: 14.05.2012 Although Jean Vigo died at the age of 29 having made just four films - of which two are undisputed masterpieces - he is unquestionably one of the great masters of French cinema. His body of work has been celebrated the world over for its consummate artistry and far reaching influence…

The Deep Blue SeaDVD Release: 22.04.2012 - Also available on Blu-Ray -
Hester leads a privileged life as the beautiful wife of a high court judge in 1950s London. To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with a young ex-RAF pilot, with whom she has fallen passionately in love…

The Portuguese NunDVD Release: 09.04.2012 One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2011 tells the story of Julie, a young French actress shooting a film in Lisbon about a 17th Century nun who is seduced by a soldier. The encounter with a real Nun among the city's enigmatic and transient inhabitants, changes everything…