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Drame Aale

January 2024 •Panjabi

A group of theatre performers travel to London and put on a production they hope will repair cultural divides between India and Pakistan.

Heritage Africa

January 1989 •English

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.

Martian Child

November 2007 •English

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

The Mighty Pawns

February 1987 •English

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

Dead Man Walking

December 1995 •English

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

SOIS

March 2024 •French

Hunting & Gathering

March 2007 •French

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

The Lottery

December 2023 •English

An experimental story, focusing on a group of punks disillusions with the neoliberal state, and the tendency’s towards so called filth and degeneracy that those on the margin are pushed towards.

Tiya's Dream

October 2008 •French

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she doesn’t listen. She is staring at the window. Outside, some children are playing rugby... Abderrahmane Sissako's contribution to 8 (2008).

Things We Lost in the Fire

September 2007 •English

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

9 Songs

July 2004 •English

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

The Miracle Worker

May 1962 •English

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

The Miracle Worker

November 2000 •English

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.

The Wave

March 2008 •German

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Stolen Spring

January 1993 •Danish

At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.

Sweet Charity

February 1969 •English

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.

The Fool on the Pill

February 2024 •English

In a village, an unlucky fool has a bad morning when he’s forced to walk to town for his job interview. ​ Along the way he meets a man who claims he is a wizard and can tell The Fool is unlucky, he offers him a lucky pill that will change his life temporarily. ​ The Fool doesn't actually believe the pill will work but when he takes it and gets the job against all odds, The Fool is hooked.

Ramsès II

February 2020 •French

Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral

December 2016 •Russian

On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. And if the farewell to the composer quietly went against the backdrop of the farewell to the dictator that swept the whole country, then in the play everything is the opposite - Prokofiev's music is in the center, and it is interrupted by the stories of those people who would probably ignore Stalin's funeral and went to say goodbye to the great composer.

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt

September 2003 •German

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town