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★★★★ – Guardian. An elite assassin (Andrea Riseborough) uses brain-implant technology to take control of unsuspecting strangers' bodies in order to execute high-profile targets.
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★★★★ – Guardian. An elite assassin (Andrea Riseborough) uses brain-implant technology to take control of unsuspecting strangers' bodies in order to execute high-profile targets.
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★★★★★ – Time Out. Eva Mulvad's award-winning documentary about an Iranian couple who are forced to flee as their relationship and their child are both considered by the authorities as crimes punishable by death.
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★★★★ – The Times. Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is an emotional family drama, in which old wounds and years of mutual mistrust between a father and son rise to the surface when dementia means they must confront the past.
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Are / You / Actually by Compiler is a quiz about online idleness that explores how even our digital downtime is exploited
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I’m Only Human is an online exhibition of three new animations that explore what it means to be human, made in the context of a pandemic.
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Best of ShAFF 2020 brings together the top films from this year’s Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, covering climbing, running, water sports and biking.
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★★★★ – The Upcoming. Berlin teenager Nora struggles with growing up and her own identity. She tries to fit in, feigning interest in fashion and social media, but it doesn't make her happy. And then she meets Romy... which changes everything.
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Award-winning director Tonje Hessen Schei's documentary explores how artificial intelligence – the most powerful and far-reaching technology of our time – is changing our lives, our society and our future.
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In her efforts to protect the truth, radical activist Marion Stokes recorded American television 24 hours a day for over 30 years. This film pulls back the curtain on her life, through a mix of Stokes' own recordings and interviews with those who knew her best.
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★★★★ – Guardian. In a dystopian world regulated by an inexorable patriarchal code, the Nowak and Kowalski families have been embroiled in a vendetta for years. When the Nowaks’ son dies at the hand of Klara Kowalska, someone must pay.
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★★★★ – Empire. Having completed yet another round of treatment for chronic anorexia, acclaimed war photographer Stephanie (Sian Brooke) is working hard to reconnect with her family.
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★★★★ – Financial Times. Andrea Riseborough stars as British aid worker Hana, who finds herself struggling to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present when she returns to Egypt and reconnects with a former lover.
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★★★★ – RTÉ.ie. Trafficked from war-torn Somalia to Ireland, Ifrah Ahmed turns her traumatic childhood testimony into a force for good, emerging as one of the world’s foremost global activists against FGM.
Tuesdays, 19 – 26 Jan | SOLD OUT
Tutor Kenton Hall leads this short introduction to world cinema, looking at films and directors that have offered a diverse view of the human condition through the lens.