Lemon Tree

Release date: September 2008

Distribution: Halcyon Releasing Ltd

Director: Eran Riklis

Starring: Hiam Abbass & Ali Suliman

Based on a true story - Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbour, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma's trees pose a threa...

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Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Release Date: July 2008

Distribution: Slingshot Studios

Director: Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi

Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom...

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Heartbeat Detector

Release date: May 16th 2008

Distribution: Trinity Filmed Entertainment

Director: Nicolas Klotz

Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Edith Scob, Lou Castel & Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Heartbeat Detector is a radical and unsettling new French drama that explores the current political, economic and social landscape of French corporate thinking through the eyes of Simon (Almaric), a Company Psychologist who uncovers a terrible layer of secrets when ...

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Then She Found Me

Release date: July 4th 2008

Distribution: Artificial Eye/Chelsea Films

Director: Helen Hunt

Starring: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler & Matthew Broderick

Nearing 40, April Epner (Hunt), a schoolteacher in New York who was adopted at birth, wants to have a baby of her own - a desire made that much stronger by the fact that she never knew her biological mother. A snag in her plans presents itself when her sweet but immature husband Ben (Matt...

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The Visitor

Release date: July 4th 2008

Distribution: Halcyon Releasing Ltd

Director: Thomas McCarthy

Starring: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Hiam Abbass & Danai Gurira

Thomas McCarthy returns with a beautifully poised and flawlessly acted paean to humanist hope in our ever-darkening age. A lonely widower and college professor travels to New York to attend a conference and finds an undocumented young couple living in his apartment.

08.01.

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Release date: July 2008

Distribution: Slingshot Studios

Director: Hana Makhmalbaf

Starring: Nikbakht Noruz, Abdolali Hoseinali, Abbas Alijome

From Hana Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, comes her second feature film, Buddha Collapsed out of Shame. Set in Bamian, amidst the rubble of the massive statues of Buddha blown up by the Taliban in 2001, the film is a deeply felt political allegory of the impossible situation f...

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French Film

Release date: Summer 2008

Distribution: Slingshot Studios

Directed by: Jackie Oudney

Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Eric Cantona

French Film is an original and intelligent romantic comedy, which playfully pits the French against the Brits when it comes to relationships. Journalist Jed (Hu...

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Funny Games

Release date: April 4th 2008

Distribution: Tartan Films/Halcyon Releasing Ltd

Director: Michael Haneke

Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet

Having established himself as one of the most important directors working today in Europe, winning Best Film for HIDDEN at the European Film Awards, Micheal Haneke takes on America with an English language remake every bit as shocking as his brilliantly conce...

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Wristcutters: A Love Story

Release date: November 23rd 2007 tbc

Distribution: Halcyon Pictures

Directed by: Goran Dukic

Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham and Tom Waitts

From the moment Zia (Patrick Fugit) cuts his wrists and enters a bizarre afterlife reserved for suicides, this Sundance hit becomes a strangely uplifting, darkly comic tale about a journey through the hereafter. Searching for his long-lost love with new found friends (Sossamon, Whigham and...

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What Would Jesus Buy

UK Release date: tbc

Directed by:Rob VanAlkemade

A Morgan Spurlock Production

What Would Jesus Buy explores the commercialisation of Christmas as Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir cross the US singing and preaching in an effort to save us from the Shopocalypse.

SWCP launched the film with Reverend Billy at the 2007 Edinburgh Film Festival where it recieved its European Premier.

25.09.

Waitress

Release date: August 10th 2007

Distribution: Fox Searchlight

Directed by: Adrienne Shelly

Starring: Keri Russell, Christy Taylor, Nathan Fillion, Andy Griffith

Jenna (Keri Russell) is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship.

20.09.

Day Watch

Release date: October 5th 07

Distribution: Fox Searchlight

Director/Writer: Timur Bekmambetov

Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Victor Verzhbitsky

The second part of the groundbreaking trilogy, Day Watch is a dazzling mix of state of the art visual effects, amazing action sequences and nail biting horror set in contemporary Moscow, revolving around the conflict between ...

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Scenes of a Sexual Nature

Seven couples, seven stories, one common ground.

Release date: 3 November 2006

Directed by: Ed Blum

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo, Catherine Tate and Dame Eileen Atkins

20.06.

Little Miss Sunshine

A family on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Release date: 8 September 2006

Directed by: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Starring: Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin

14.05.

Secuestro Express

Every hour in Latin America…30% survive…..

Release date: 9 June 2006

Directed by: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Starring: Mia Maestro, Carlos Julio Molina, Ruben Blades

14.05.

Little Manhattan

Nothing’s as big as your first love

Release date: 7 July 2006

Directed by: Mark Levin

Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Bradley Whitford, Cynthia Nixon

14.05.

Tristan and Isolde

Before Romeo and Juliet…

Release date: 21 April 2006

Directed by: Kevin Reynolds

Starring: Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, James Franco

14.05.

The Omen

His day will come

Release date: 6 June 2006

Directed by: John Moore

Starring: Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis

14.05.

The Hills Have Eyes

The lucky ones die first

Release date: 10 March 2006

Directed by: Alexandre Aja

Starring: Vinessa Shaw, Aaron Stanford, Emilie de Ravin

14.05.

The Ringer

What kind of man would fix the Special Olympics?

Release date: 24 March 2006

Directed by: Barry W. Blaustein

Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox

14.05.

Lord of War

Where there’s a will, there’s a weapon

Release date: 14 October 2005

Directed by: Andrew Niccol

Starring: Nicholas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ian Holm

14.05.

Stay

You can’t stay between the Living and the Dead

Release date: 3 March 2006

Directed by: Marc Forster

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins, Ryan Gosling

14.05.

Night Watch

In between night and day is the Night Watch

Release date: 7 October 2005

Directed by: Timor Bekmambetov

Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Aleksei Chadov, Anna Dubrovskaya

14.05.

Top Spot

UK Premiere

London Film Festival and regional Margate premiere.

Release date: December 3 2004

Directed by: Tracey Emin

Starring: Elizabeth Crawford, Laura Curnick, Kate Foster-Barnes

14.05.

Melinda and Melinda

Every story has two sides

Release date: 25 March 2005

Directed by: Woody Allen

Starring: Will Farrell, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Radha Mitchell

14.05.

Kingdom of Heaven

Be without fear in the face of your enemies

Release date: 6 May 2005

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, David Thewlis

14.05.

In America

Release date: October 31 2002

Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Starring: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Djimon Housou

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