VIVARIUM
COUNTY LINES
ONSCREEN ON INDIE
We take a look at the best limited release, independent, documentary, and world cinema films showing on select screens in March / April. Vivarium RELEASE DATE 27 MARCH / Director Lorcan Finnegan / Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Aris / Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg star as a young couple, Tom and Gemma, who are in desperate search of their perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, they find themselves trapped in a constantly changing and yet frustratingly identical suburban neighbourhood where they are forced to raise an otherworldly child.
County Lines RELEASE DATE 17 APRIL / Director Henry Blake / Starring Conrad Khan, Ashley Madekwe, Harris Dickinson / Genre Crime, Drama
Inspired by true events based on writer/director Henry Blake’s own experiences as a youth worker in London, County Lines is a powerful drama about a young single mother and her fourteen-year-old son who is groomed into becoming involved in “county lines”, the lethal nationwide drugdealing enterprise which exploits vulnerable children into trafficking drugs with shocking consequences.
Devers family, while at the same time desperate to be a good father. Torn between his two families, Arm’s loyalties are tested when he’s asked to kill for the first time.
The Truth RELEASE DATE 20 MARCH / Director Kore-eda Hirokazu / Starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke / Genre Drama
Fabienne is a star, a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation in a powerful and emotional story of family conflicts from Kore-eda Hirokazu, his first feature set outside Japan.
Calm With Horses RELEASE DATE 13 MARCH / Director Nick Rowland / Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar / Genre Crime, Drama Two of the UK and Ireland’s fastest-rising stars go head-to-head in director Nick Rowland’s gripping feature debut. In dark rural Ireland, ex-boxer Arm has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing
Rocks
ONE TO WATCH
RELEASE DATE 10 APRIL / Director Sarah Gavron / Starring Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, Shaneigha Greyson / Genre Drama
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After her stunning debut Brick Lane and the award-winning Suffragette, director Sarah Gavron returns with an astounding film about resilience, joy, and the spirit of girlhood. Fifteen-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother will be taken into care if anyone discovers that their mother has abandoned them. With the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.