Alison Lesley

Katja Sekerci (Diane Kruger) lives with her 5 year old son Rocco (Rafael Santana), and her Kurdish ex-drug trafficker husband Nuri (Numan Acar), who now runs a translation and taxation office in a Turkish neighbourhood in Hamburg. After a nail bomb is detonated outside the office, Nuri and Rocco are killed, and Katja’s world collapses. As the investigation probes into Nuri and Katja’s personal liv...

Thirteen-year-old Ava (Noée Abita) is on a beachside holiday in the Medoc region, with her mother and baby sister, when she learns that the degenerative eye condition she has been diagnosed with is accelerating faster than expected, and will very soon leave her completely blind. In spite of her imminent disability, Ava confronts her prognosis head-on, exploring her remaining senses and her burgeon...

Set in 1996 in the real life town of Boring, Oregon, Everything Sucks! follows the clash between the awkward members of the AV club – Kate (Peyton Kennedy), Luke (Jahi Di’Allo Winston), McQuaid (Rio Mangini) and Tyler (Quinn Liebling) – and the too-cool-for-school members of the drama club – Oliver (Elijah Stevenson) and Emaline (Sydney Sweeney). The feud results in the groups’ collaboration on an...

Set in 2002, against a backdrop of economic downturn, post-9/11 American disillusionment, and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’, Lady Bird follows the senior year of 17-year-old Christine ‘Lady Bird’ McPherson (Saoirse Ronan). Desperate to escape her hometown of Sacramento, California, for a more ‘cultural’ scene, Lady Bird applies for expensive east coast colleges to spite her overbearing...

Plagued by guilt and unsatisfied with a lack of arrests regarding her daughter’s violent rape and murder, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) confronts the incompetent police department of Ebbing, Missouri, by way of three hard-to-miss billboards. The signs, directed at Chief of Police William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) escalate tensions between Mildred, the town, and Willoughby’s second-in-comman...

In an attempt to solve the problem of overpopulation and scarcity of resources, Norwegian scientists invent a way to shrink human beings to just 5 inches tall. Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) still lives in his childhood home, and has given up on his dream of becoming a surgeon to work the fulfilling, albeit low-paying, job of occupational therapist. Struggling with his inability to provide his wife Au...

Lucky is a 90-year-old atheist, who, having outlived his contemporaries, finds himself on a spiritual journey of self-exploration, looking for enlightenment in the face of mortality. Harry Dean Stanton stars as the titular character, surrounded by quirky townsfolk, eking out an existence in a small desert town. These characters include Elaine, a bar waitress (Beth Grant), Fred, an ex-marine (Tom S...

Loving Vincent, directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, retells the life and death of the world’s most recognisable artist, Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk). Postman Joseph Roulin, (Chris O’Dowd), an old friend of Vincent’s, charges his son, Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), with the duty of delivering Vincent’s final letter to his brother Theo (Cezary Lukaszewicz), two years after the artist...

Alias Grace is based on the true story of Grace Marks, a poor Irish immigrant, who becomes a young domestic servant after she moves with her family to Canada. In 1843, Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) was convicted, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), of the brutal murders of their employer Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross) and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin). James was hanged, ...

Kidnapped as an infant and raised in a bunker in the desert, James (Kyle Mooney) lives a lonely existence. For 25 years his only companions are his ‘parents’, Ted (Mark Hamill) and April Mitchum (Jane Adams), and the universe’s greatest hero, Brigsby Bear – a vacant-eyed animatronic bear from a cheesy educational children’s show. James’ life is consumed by his love for his favourite television cha...

Haunted by a past mistake, medical student Courtney (Ellen Page) convinces a group of friends to partake in a risky experiment of pseudo-science in order to document what happens after a person dies. With the help of Sophia (Kiersey Clemons), Marlo (Nina Dobrev), Jamie (James Norton), and Ray (Diego Luna), Courtney’s heart is stopped and then revived while they record her brain activity. Thrilled ...

An intimate portrait of a year in the life of Lady Gaga, this film presents an unguarded glimpse into the superstar’s personal highs and lows, focusing on the creation of her fifth studio album, Joanne, and culminating in her Superbowl performance. It reveals the woman beneath the costume and glamour, the woman struggling with relationship and health issues, the woman on an emotional journey towar...