THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER



Settsu Province, 1578. Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) is barricaded inside his fortress as the forces of powerful rival warlord Nobunaga Oda close in. When Oda’s brilliant strategist Kuroda Kanbei (Masaki Suda) arrives as an envoy bearing a warning, an enraged Murashige imprisons him instead of ordering his execution, keeping him as a valuable yet dangerous pawn. But when an inexplicable murder rocks the castle, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with his captive, whose razor-sharp intellect may be the key to solving the crime and exposing a hidden traitor before the court tears itself apart…

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Running time 2h 27m

THE CYCLE OF LOVE



In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off on a 6000-mile cross-continent mission - to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart. A love story like no other, THE CYCLE OF LOVE is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about the search for self-belief and risking everything for what your heart tells you.

Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel
Not Rated
Running time 95 minutes

WICKER



On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Directed by Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson
Rated R
Running time 1h 45m