Paradise is Burning - Sunday 20th October 5pm

Winner of a Best Director award at Venice, Paradise Is Burning is Mika Gustafson's first movie and is a celebration of youth: three sisters, aged 16, 12 and 7, are surviving alone after their fun-loving mother finally abandons them all together.

"Bracingly shot and edited, with impressive performances from the cast, the film is packed with powerfully intense moments." - Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

Hounds - Sunday 13th October 5pm

In Hounds local mobster Dib's prized dog loses a fight, so he gets a couple of cheap goons , Hassan and Issam, to kidnap his rival. What could possibly go wrong? Just about everything as it turns out. We follow Hassan and Issam in almost real time through the surroundings of Casablanca as they try to recover from their initial mistake, only to get into more and more problems... 

"A tense journey through the underbelly of Morocco’s largest city where a father and son walk a knife edge between life and death, right and wrong, reality and a spirit netherworld." - Lee Marshall, Screen International