The Gulbenkian Theatre

Bernie

• 
• 2011
• US
• 99 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Written by: Skip Hollandsworth, Richard Linklater
• Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
• UK release: 26 April 2013

Based on a real-life 1996 murder in Texas. When violence mars the friendship of popular mortician Bernie Tiede (Black) and mean-tempered widow Marjorie Nugent (MacLaine), the neighbours' sympathies aren't with the victim. Black and MacLaine are well-cast but underused, and the faux-documentary style robs the film of…

Dead Cat

• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Stefan Georgiou
• Written by: Sam Bern, Stefan Georgiou
• Cast: Sebastian Armesto, Sophia Dawnay, Tom Mison

Childhood sweethearts are thrown back into each other's lives ten years on, leaving their friends to wonder will they or won't they.

Geezas

• 2011
• US
• 90 min

• Directed by: Mark Jackson/Simon Kassianides
• Written by: Mark Jackson
• Cast: Mark Jackson, Simon Kassianides, Mustafa Shakir

Dodger is sent from London to LA to bring his runaway little sister back home, but his straightforward mission gets hung up when the notorious West Hollywood Gay Mafia gets all up in his grill.

Kai Po Che

• 2013
• India

• Directed by: Abhishek Kapoor
• Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Raj Kumar Yadav, Amit Sadh, Amrita Puri
• UK release: 22 February 2013

As the new millennium turns, three best friends try to make their mark by starting a cricket training facility to help find the next superstar. Based on Chetan Bhagat's novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life.

Me and You (Io e te)

• 2012
• Italy
• 103 min

• Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
• Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco
• UK release: 19 April 2013

Bertolucci's first film since 2003's The Dreamers is about a shy teenager who tells his parents he's going on holiday but instead spends his time alone in a basement.

Oblivion

• 
• 2013
• US
• 126 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
• Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough
• UK release: 12 April 2013

Cruise stars as a court martialled soldier sent to a distant planet where he is tasked with destroying an alien race. Director Kosinski's follow-up to TRON: Legacy is based on a graphic novel he himself wrote.

Royal Opera House: La Donna del Lago

• 2013
• UK

• UK release: 27 May 2013

Rossini's opera based on the poem 'The Lady of the Lake', by Sir Walter Scott, performed by the Royal Opera House.

Sanctuary

• 2012
• Ireland/Poland
• 90 min

• Directed by: Norah McGettigan
• Written by: Norah McGettigan, Gabriel Vargas
• Cast: Jan Frycz, Anne-Marie Duff, Agnieszka Zulewska

A Warsaw plastic surgeon dominates the operating room but his personal life is a shambles, reaching a climax when he finds his wife dead in the backyard. Then, he finds a young woman (Duff) strikingly similar to his departed wife, who he sees as a chance to right his personal wrongs.

Saving The Titanic

• 2011
• Ireland
• 104 min

• Directed by: Maurice Sweeney
• Cast: Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Ciarán McMenamin

A look at life under the main deck, way down below in the engine room, where the workers kept on supplying electricity even as the boat sank.

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone

• 
• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Shane Meadows
• UK release: 5 June 2013

Meadows' documentary charts the eagerly anticipated return of the seminal Madchester band.

The Butterfly's Dream

• 2013
• Turkey
• 138 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Yilmaz Erdogan
• Written by: Yilmaz Erdogan
• Cast: Kivanç Tatlitug, Belçim Bilgin, Mert Firat

Two student poets in the city of Zonguldak, Turkey, dream of brilliant futures in the midst of WWII.