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I Swear

Running time: 120 mins

Diagnosed with Tourette’s at age fifteen, John Davidson faced and overcame many hardships from adolescence and early adulthood as a result of what was a little known and entirely misunderstood condition in 1980’s Britain. I Swear is a funny, heartfelt, and moving account of John’s experiences.

Written and directed by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Kirk Jones, I Swear stars Robert Aramayo as John Davidson. Supporting cast includes three-time BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake, BAFTA-winner Shirley Henderson, and Cannes Best Actor Award-winner & Golden Lion winner Peter Mullan.

Fackham Hall

Running time: 97 mins

A British Comedy from comedian turned screenwriter Jimmy Carr; mistaken identities, forbidden love, and one very inconvenient corpse turn the grand English manor of Fackham Hall, into total bedlam in this comedy of class, romance, manners, and mischief. From the director of ‘Catastrophe’ Jim O’Hanlon; the hilarious story of a pickpocket (Ben Radcliffe) who blags his way into service at the grand Fackham Hall, only to fall for the Lord’s (Damien Lewis) rebellious daughter (Thomasin Mckenzie) who is betrothed to marry another (Tom Felton) to keep the family from financial ruin.

Nuremburg

Running time: 148 mins

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, as the world grapples with the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust, U.S. Army psychiatrist Lt. Col. Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) is assigned the extraordinary task of assessing the mental state of Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), the notorious former Reichsmarschall and Hitler’s second in command, along with other high ranking Nazi officials.

As the Allies – led by the unyielding chief U.S. prosecutor, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) alongside Sgt. Howie Triest (Leo Woodall), David Maxwell-Fyfe (Richard E. Grant), Gustave Gilbert (Colin Hanks), Col. John Amen (Mark O’Brien) and Burton C. Andrus (John Slattery) – navigate the monumental task of creating an unprecedented international tribunal to ensure the Nazi regime answers for its atrocities, Kelley gets to know his ‘patients’. But he soon finds himself locked in a psychological duel with Göring, whose charisma and cunning reveal a sobering truth: that ordinary men can commit extraordinary evil.

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