Sight And Sound

When a stranger comes to town 16-year-old Verity must confront the secrets surrounding her father's time in Iraq… secrets which may tear her family apart. Winner of Best Actress at the London Independent Film Festival for leading lady Indea Barbe-Willson and Best Cinematography at the Van d'Or Film Awards, Verity's Summer is the debut feature from short-film Palme d'Or nominee Ben Crowe. A visually accomplished debut; unusual and intriguing. - Tim Robey, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Stunningly but unsentimentally evoked - Sophie Mayer, LITTLE WHITE LIES, SIGHT SOUND An intelligent new British director has now surfaced - Derek Malcolm, THE EVENING STANDARD

When a stranger comes to town 16-year-old Verity must confront the secrets surrounding her father's time in Iraq… secrets which may tear her family apart.

Prepare to have your senses shattered with five horror shorts that will keep you up all night. In Nick Everhart's "Smell," a sad-sack divorcee discovers a new cologne that will give him confidence - but at a high cost; Miko Hughes' "See" centers on an optometrist who stumbles into a world of unimaginable horror after discovering the key to capturing his patients' visions; Emily Hagins's "Touch" follows a blind 12-year-old boy who must match wits with a ruthless serial killer; Eric England's "Taste" centers on an ambitious hacker who goes to work for a nefarious corporation; and Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton's "Listen" reveals the terrors that unfold when a cursed song comes back into rotation.

Explore the world of the seemingly impossible with the all-new series SCI FI SCIENCE. Hosted by internationally-renowned physicist and co-founder of string field theory, Dr. Michio Kaku, this series poses the idea that science fiction may not be so far from science fact. Examine topics that currently seem so far outďż˝ of the realm of possibility, such as invisibility cloaks, teleportation, time travel and more. Kaku uses discussion of speculative technologies to introduce topics of fundamental physics to the reader.

The sight of a humpback whale breaching and the sound of its melodious singing are unforgettable experiences. This film is a celebration of their remarkable beauty. The facts alone are remarkable. The behemoths of the sea cross the oceans obeying the rhythm of the seasons: summer is the season to feed, winter the season to breed. Their migration from feeding grounds to breeding grounds can extend over 10,000km, and once they get there they don’t need to feed for next 6 months. Testosterone-pumped males sing and fight for the females.

Summary: Four old men, gathered around a steaming punch bowl, reminisce over their happy school days. A younger, middle-aged, man joins them. His name is Johannes Pfeiffer, a successful writer who, as a boy, was taught at home and so missed out on the dubious advantages of a normal school education. Persuaded by the four other men, Johannes has himself enrolled in a state school. Masquerading as a school boy some twenty years his junior, he wastes no time accumulating the experiences which were deprived him in childhood – most of which involve playing cruel practical jokes on his teachers…

Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov takes a break from emulating his beloved Chekhov to film the classic Ivan Goncharov novel Oblomov. The title character (played by Oleg Tabakov) is a 19th century Russian civil servant and landlord who chooses to go to bed one day–and never get up. Preferring to sleep his way through life rather than confront it, Oblomov is shaken from his slumbers by the arrival of a childhood friend Shtoltz. A series of flashbacks show why it is that this friend's presence gets Oblomov out of his 'jammies and back on his feet. Also known as A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov, this sprightly film is an excellent early example of the work of the director who would win a 1994 Oscar for his Burnt by the Sun.

The story is centered on a microcosm of a post-apocalyptic society where food is so rare it's invaluable and is used as currency. The story centers on an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and he is in need of a new maintenance man since the original "mysteriously" disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher's intent is to have him work for a little while and then serve him to quirky tenants who pay the butcher in, of course, grain. The clown and butcher's daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father's plans by contacting the "troglodytes", a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground. The "trogs" are possibly the most sensible of the lot, as they see food as food and not money.