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Half Of A Yellow Sun and Locke

Back To The Garden (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Jon Sanders; Stars: Emma Garden, Anna Mottram, Bob Goody)

A year on from his death, the friends of a theatre director gather to comfort his widow.

Benny And Jolene (Benny & Jolene, Jolene: The Indie Folk Star Movie) (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Jamie Adams; Writer: Jamie Adams; Stars: Craig Roberts, Rosamund Hanson, Dolly Wells)

A road trip with an indie folk duo who just might be falling in love.

Half Of A Yellow Sun (Country: Nigeria, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Biyi Bandele; Writer: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Biyi Bandele; Stars: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, John Boyega, Rob David, Babou Ceesay, Genevieve Nnaji, O.C. Ukeje, Paul Hampshire, Zack Orji, Susan Wokoma, Onyeka Onwenu)

Civil war shatters the comfortable illusions of Nigeria’s middle class in this 1960s-set love story.

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Locke (Country: US, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Steven Knight; Writer: Steven Knight; Stars: Tom Hardy, voices of Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Tom Holland, Ben Daniels, Bill Milner, Alice Lowe, Danny Webb, Lee Ross, Silas Carson, Kirsty Dillon)

A man drives through the night, listening to mobile phone calls, as his life falls apart.

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A Long Way Down (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Pascal Chaumeil; Writer: Nick Hornby, Jack Thorne; Stars: Aaron Paul, Rosamund Pike, Imogen Poots, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Tuppence Middleton, Joe Cole, Shola Adewusi, Mohammed Ali, Ilan Goodman, Wilhelmina McFadden, Poppy Epstein, Thomas Williamson, Honey Epstein)

Four suicidal people meet on a roof and make a pact to stay alive.