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Clarice Cliff rompe il soffitto di vetro rivoluzionando il posto di lavoro in una fabbrica di ceramiche nell'Inghilterra degli anni '20.

A man serving life sentence takes an in-prison job caring for infirm prisoners suffering from memory losses. The start of the job was for his parole but it turns into a deep emotional and transformative relationship.

A young woman bonds with her driver in Jeddah over shared dreams, unknowingly mirroring his struggles leaving family behind in Sudan while navigating Saudi's restrictions on women.

In this debut feature written and directed by Iranian born Babak Jalali, Frontier Blues features 4 intertwined stories all set in Irans northern frontier with Turkmenistan, a region that has long been neglected in Iranian cinema, interesting not only for its magnificent, forlorn landscape but also for its multi-ethnic population of Persians, Turkmens and Kazakhs. Featuring non-professional actors from the northern region of Iran, Jalalis film looks at fragments of the everyday existence of a varied collection of characters from the region.

At their old farmhouse on Dartmoor, a family gathers at their matriarch's deathbed to celebrate her last birthday. She has controlled the men in her family for decades, but long-buried secrets and resentments now come to the surface.

When we meet Farida in 1990, her life in Newport with her husband Haidar, their six-year-old daughter Rima, and their soon to-be-born child seems idyllic. And then, everything changes. Just as her mother is set to visit the UK from Iraq for the first time to help with the new baby, the Gulf War breaks out, throwing all her plans into chaos. With severe sanctions in place, Farida loses all contact with her family-left in agonizing uncertainty about whether they are alive or dead. Her only connection to home becomes the relentless stream of news reports on vicious airstrikes, which she can't tear herself away from.

Entertainer Nathan Kennedy, who speaks Gayle, the South African cant that flourished during the Apartheid era, meets Louis van Brakel, a much older user of the secret language, and interviews him on stage at the Showroom, Prince Albert.

As ageing Mayaw's mind begins to fade, he hears the call of his indigenous Taiwanese homeland and its magical guardians - very far from the grey London he now inhabits.