Rose Dymock

Alberto and the Concrete Jungle is not a film that fits easily into a generic category. Part documentary, part staged, and full of heart, this love letter to the five boroughs of New York City is an enjoyable, chaotic watch.
Escape from New York
Alberto (Alejandro Santoni) is a ‘man of adventure’ who does not like to live according to society’s expectations – a nomadic traveler who flits between various one-room rentals and chooses his next destination by the 21st century equivalent of closin...

A crime-thriller based on a best-selling novel that explores low-level organised crime and drug-dealing in the deep South with a cast as well stock as Arkansas should be the start of a promising film.
Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke), two dealers relatively low on the ladder of their organisation and recently promoted to wholesale, take up residence in a state park under the watchful eye of Bright (John Malkovich). Bright, their immediate manager, is just another cog in the vast an...

When Jeff (Jesse Janzen) and Barry (Dustin Miller), two brothers whose shared criminal past has spit them out on two different paths, decide to make some quick money by robbing local businessman Bob in the middle of a messy divorce, they expect a quick and easy payoff. Along with ‘the tag-along’ Tim (Tommy Koponen) the plan is simple: get into the house, find the stacks of cash that he has hidden away, and get out without anyone noticing. Except, as is the way, nothing goes to plan and soon t...

Charlie (Josh Odsess-Rubin) is on a losing streak – after his last relationship ended dramatically when his partner’s cat got squashed to death in a KFC car park, his life has been a series of rejected Tinder matches and loneliness.
Fed up of trying to pick up girls with Lord of the Rings references that flop like a ton of bricks, he stumbles upon Real Companion, a service that allows him to build his perfect woman and create the AI Manic Pixie Dream Girl he needs.
Not Your Average Robot
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When therapist Marianne Winter (Thekla Reuten) moves to a remote area of Scotland following a tragedy, her attempts at a new life is thrown off course by one of her patients, ten year old Manny (Elijah Wolf) who claims he can see and control her future. With Manny’s previous therapist Dr McVittie’s (Peter Mullan) notes being removed following his admission to a mental hospital and subsequent self-immolation, Marianne struggles against both the wall of silence from her colleagues and her own m...

When a local house gets burgled, teenagers Lulu (Ja’ness Tate) and Gabby (Gabriella Pastore) decide to take matters into their own hands and investigate the crime during their summer holidays. As they attempt to discover the truth, secrets of their picturesque neighbourhood come to the surface and not everything is as it seems in Hidden Orchard.
In the vein of Nancy Drew, the two girls use their knowledge of the neighbourhood as well as their youth as they delve into the mystery of the seemin...

Emily Cohn’s debut CRSHD follows three young women celebrating the last night of their first year at college at campus’ most exclusive party – Izzy (Isabelle Barbier) is desperate to finally lose her virginity while trying to stay calm for her exam the following day, while her two friends Anuka (Deeksha Ketkar) and Fiona (Sadie Scott) try to help her while dealing with their own issues as the school year begins to wind down.

An Italian language comedy-drama set in 1950s suburban America is not the first place you’d think to find an examination of trans identity. Sebastiano Mauri‘s new film Fairytale, based on the play written by his partner Filippo Timi, who stars in the central role, is a luridly-coloured and melodramatic exploration of the search for one’s own self in a world so rigidly functioning through the almost concrete gender roles of that time period.

When Riz (Geetanjali Thapa) seeks employment in a motel on the outskirts of an unnamed US city, she hopes to leave a life of petty crime behind in her native India – only to find that making it in America isn’t an easy task, especially for a young, undocumented woman. When she meets fellow worker and roommate Dallas (Olivia DeJonge), their relationship morphs from antagonistic to something tender as they both become enveloped in a crime that quickly takes on a life of its own.

In a pharmaceutical company in an unnamed town in Germany, middle aged engineer Xhafer (Mišel Matičević), originally from Kosovo, begins to suspect that something is not right. After missing a series of department wide emails, a dead rat hanging from his gate and a sense of unspoken hostility that pervades his office, he becomes convinced that he is being subjected to a campaign of racism.
As Xhafer’s German wife Nora (Sandra Hüller) puts it however, maybe his colleagues just don’t like him a...

In their ode to the dive bars left on the fringes of the big cities, Bill and Turner Ross weave a compelling tale of a disparate group of people bound together by the space that they share that welcomes each and every one of them.
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is what is best described as a hybrid film: not wholly fictionalised, but not a straight documentary either, it could best be described as a semi-scripted reality film, more akin to the likes of Jersey Shore or The Only Way is Essex. Even ...

Agnieszka Holland continues to bring unknown historical figures to a wider audience in the intriguing Charlatan, weaving a tale of one man’s dedication to bringing medicine to the masses and the ever-changing society that eventually brought him down.
Jan Mikolášek is a towering figure of Czech history who is little known outside of the country’s own borders — a man whose life is intertwined with some of the major events in the early twentieth century — who provided herbal cures to thousands o...

An uneasy watch that refuses to stop it’s manic, vivid experience until the final few trapped seconds, Aneil Karia’s Surge showcases an exciting new talent in British cinema and a true powerhouse performance from Ben Whishaw, proving once again he is one of his generation’s most versatile actors.
Surge is the story of a lonely man, with no true relationships except for his parents, Joe (Ben Whishaw) works long hours in airport security, blandly scanning belongings and people, unable to connec...

When his older brother Ikenna (Chukwudi Iwuji) hasn’t been heard from in over a year, musician Amandi (O. C. Ukeje) travels the several thousand miles from Nigeria to São Paulo in search of his wayward sibling. The gifted mathematician has supposedly been working as a professor at a prestigious university, but when it emerges that neither the job or the university was real, Amandi is pulled into a world on the edges of society as he follows Ikenna’s search for the true meaning of reality.
Fro...

Alone in a dark cave, a man watches silently as a blood-red sun rises slowly from an underground lake, casting it’s golden light across the face of Clint (Willem Dafoe) as he travels an uncertain yet familiar landscape. It is one of many moments of beauty in a film that is unfortunately not much more than skin deep with it’s intentions.