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Another Members' Choice this Sunday with Cotton Queen at the later time of 5:45 to make way for the Royal Ballet Manon. Life in a Sudanese village is dominated by cotton and Al-Sit, an old lady who fought off the British many years earlier. Her grand daughter Nafisa is happy with her life, hoping to marry Babiker, until Nadir arrives, selling the villagers on GM seeds, and looking for a wife. Nadir's mother sees him as a good bet, regardless of what Nadir thinks...

"There is a mythical quality to this atmospheric first feature from Sudanese-Russian film-maker Suzannah Mirghani, blending a coming-of-age narrative with a striking depiction of the collision between tradition and modernity." - Wendy Ide, Observer

A film about... an escaped hen! Don't be put off - there is a lot more to this than meets her eye...through which the whole film is seen. As she escapes from one place to the next she "quizzically observes a world where humans treat each other like, well, animals" - Leslie Felperin, Guardian.

La Grazia is the latest from the great Italian director Paolo Sorrentino once again has Toni Servillo in the starring role, this time as Mariano De Santis, an imaginary Italian president in the last months of his office.

“La Grazia is a marvel. Slow, grave and perfectly realised, it's by far Sorrentino's best film for years.” -  David Sexton, New Statesman

Based on the director's own childhood, and filmed mainly through the eyes of Sasha, an eight year-old girl, 'Blue Heron' follows the trials and tribulations of this family whose lives are dominated by the eldest child.

"Occasionally, a talent arrives fully formed, and the Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari is one such phenomenon" - Wendy Ide, Observer