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Film Festivals 1996

This year's line-up was dotted with award winners including Todd Solondz's Sundance winner "Welcome to the Dollhouse", Best Foriegn Film at the Academy Awards, "Antonia's Line" and winner of Cannes Best Director Award, "La Haine". Other stand-outs were Lars Von Trier's minor masterpiece "Breaking the Waves" and the Coen Brothers' "Fargo". Ken Loach didn't disappoint with "Land and Freedom" while Mike Leigh made his most accessible film yet with "Secrets and Lies". Kathryn Bigelow, director of 'Point Break', broke out with her stylish and visually stunning "Strange Days" (pictured).

La Ardilla Roja ( aka The Red Squirrel ) (1993)

Director: Julio Medem
Starring: Emma Suarez, Maria Barranco, Nancho Novo, Karra Elejalde, Carmelo Gomez

An anti-macho parable and passionate love story about a woman who loses her memory in a motorcycle accident. Suicidal Jota saw the whole thing and put... Read more

La Haine ( Hate ) (1995)

8.1/10
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Hubert Kounde, Vincent Cassel

This angry indictment of life on a Parisian housing estate is packed with sharp street humour, intense action and propelled by brutally brilliant came... Read more

Land and Freedom (1995)

7.6/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Iciar Bollain

A perceptive, passionate tale of a young working class Communist (Ian Hart) from Liverpool who goes to Spain to join the anti-Facists in their battle... Read more

Leningrad Cowboys: Total Balalaika Show (1993)

7/10
Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Finland's Leningrad Cowboys meet the ex-Red Army Choir in this inspired documentary. The Cowboys (a comedy group) claim to be the world's worst rock a... Read more

Lie Down with Dogs (1995)

4.7/10
Director: Wally White
Starring: Randy Becker, Bash Halow, Darren Dryden, James Sexton, Wally White

Here's the outrageous, good-time comedy for anyone who's ever wanted to get away from it all and have some fun! Tommie's a gay college graduate who's... Read more

Love And Other Catastrophes (1996)

6.3/10
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Radha Mitchell

Students Alice and Mia move into a new flat and plan a party while looking for another flatmate, as well as trying to sort out their loves and lives a... Read more

Love Serenade (1996)

7/10
Director: Shirley Barrett
Starring: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shetsov

The tale of two sisters in a small back-of-beyond Australian town and their relationship with a seedy disc jockey, whose career is on the slide, when... Read more

Nadja (1995)

6.8/10
Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Elina Lowensohn, Peter Fonda, Suzy Amis, Martin Donovan, Jared Harris

In this stylish, supernatural thriller a pair of twin brother and sister vampires haunt contemporary New York. Full of dead-pan black humour and execu... Read more

Nelly and Mr Arnaud (1995)

Director: Claude Sautet
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Michel Serrault, Claire Nadeau

Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's 'A Heart in Winter'. A subtle, beautifully acted story of a 25 year old woman in debt and stuck in a n... Read more

Secrets and Lies (1996)

7.7/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rus...

A 27 year old black London Optometrist decides to seek out the woman who gave her up for adoption after she was born. The search leads to a surprising... Read more