Cat Villiers

In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at a moment when all around him dreams as much as buildings are disintegrating. With the help of his friends who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY.

A random act of theft has put Tom Hammond's life into a tailspin. Stolen from his bookshop is Tom's most treasured possession, a photograph of him with his son Luke...their last moment of shared happiness. The Last Photograph is set between London in 2002, and a dark night in 1988 when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie.

Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.

The intersecting destinies of three people — a Moroccan-Iraqi writer searching for his brother, the lover whom he left behind, and a young orphan on the run — create an incisive and unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence and fundamentalism.

Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.

A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.

In the wake of the Egyptian revolution, four women speak of their fight for the future and what it means to be a woman in Egypt.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to the village where he grew up, intent on reclaiming ownership of his family home, driving a swanky Mercedes and accompanied by his young bride; by Bonny, his lucky black cat; and with pockets full of money.

No agitado mercado de arte contemporânea londrino, o dono de galeria Art Spindle (Danny Huston) sonha com a venda milionária de uma obra de Mondrian. Neste confuso cenário movimentado pela ambição desenfreada de galeristas, artistas, colecionadores e agentes, toda moral é duvidosa e todo desejo é insaciável.

Journey of an african migrant through Europe.

Após um intenso tiroteio entre policiais e uma gangue de foras-da-lei, Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) e seu irmão Mike (Richard Wilson) são capturados pelo capitão Stanley (Ray Winstone). Juntamente com seu irmão Arthur (Danny Huston), o trio é procurado por ter cometido um crime brutal. Na tentativa de pôr fim a um sangrento ciclo de violência, Stanley faz a Charlie uma proposta aparentemente impossível de ser aceita.

Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is desperately anxious that he should come home. Taking the kids to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident. She remains caught in limbo, trapped between life and death. Many miles away, in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware that his wife has died. As Helen herself is unaware that she is dead. Thus begins, a four-day Odyssey: Grandpa and the kids must come to terms with Helen's death; John must travel across a war-torn land as he tries to reach home; and Helen must stand helplessly observing her own existence as it comes back to haunt her - until at last she is reconciled with John, and thus released.

Durante a Guerra da Bósnia, dois soldados, um sérvio e outro bósnio, acabam isolados em uma pequena trincheira, junto com um terceiro soldado, que está caído sobre uma mina - sendo que ninguém pode matar ninguém ali. Todas as partes do conflito ficam completas com a chegada de mais duas pessoas: um representante da ONU, para tentar resolver o impasse, e uma jornalista, para jogar lenha na fogueira.

A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.

Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a number of days to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West onto his company's books. We then follow Ivan through the highs, lows, and extreme excesses of his final days.

Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn) é uma viúva que está em sérios apuros financeiros. Seu marido (Bill Weston) se suicidou recentemente e deixou para ela uma série de dívidas que podem fazer com que ela perca a casa onde sua família vive há mais de 200 anos. Sabendo de suas dificuldades financeiras e também de sua habilidade como jardineira, seu empregado Matthew acaba lhe fazendo uma proposta insólita: que ela cuide em sua estufa de suas mudas de maconha para que eles, juntos, possam revender a plantação a traficantes.

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.

All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the simplest things are difficult to find...Maddy, a street-wise teenage runaway, believes she has created this family with the women who live with her in an East Coast woman-only rooming house: Lulu, an eccentric silent-screen star; Claire, a beautiful, widowed French war bride; and Mary, a young artist.But as Maddy watches her newfound family fall apart, she begins to realize that some things in life are worth fighting for, and that the bonds of true friendship are the strongest bonds of all.

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

O turbulento período de produção literária de Arthur Rimbaud, enquanto apadrinhado pelo poeta, Paul Verlaine. A convivência e a admiração de um escritor pelo outro faz com que ambos de apaixonem.

A violência recorrente e cíclica em uma história que gira em torno de si mesma. Na Macedônia, durante a guerra na Bósnia, cristãos caçam uma jovem de etnia albanesa que pode ter assassinado um de seus. Um jovem monge que fez voto de silêncio oferece proteção a ela. Em Londres, uma editora fotográfica grávida precisa conversar com seu ex-marido e escolhe um restaurante sofisticado.