Freshfield Hall

Here’s a refuge from the sound and fury of summer’s blockbusters. It’s a sort-of documentary about Eoghan (Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride), a sound recordist who heads back to the empty coasts, forests and moors of the west coast of Ireland after years ...

This spooky, entrancing archive doc – newly restored, with an eerie, magical score by Simon Fisher Turner – was the official film of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine’s doomed attempt to conquer Everest in 1924. It begins as a slightly awkward, if ...

The exquisite family dramas of the late Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang (especially 2000’s ‘Yi Yi’) are never far from the mind in Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s feature debut ‘Ilo Ilo’. Chen sets up a quartet of tense, realistic characters b...

In rural Laos, a place of verdant forests and unexploded cluster bombs, ten-year-old Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) and his family are forced to leave their village to make way for a new dam. The crooked communist regime isn’t the only one with Ahlo in...

Ozu’s final film is a movingly valedictory affair, its familiar story of Ryu’s elderly widower marrying off daughter Iwashita carrying even more poignancy than usual as a poised and wise reminder of passing time and the inevitable approach of mort...

A moving, often terrifying and occasionally warm road movie with something urgent and important to say about our world, ‘The Golden Dream’ tells of four teens trying to make a journey across land from Guatemala to the United States via Mexico. One...