An award winning French legal drama. Sandra a successful author is suspected of murdering her aspiring writer husband, Samuel. What ensues is a fascinating court room thriller. It explores the troubled marriage of the couple whilst their visually challenged young son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness. Sandra, while her own secrets are exposed must prove her husbands fall was an accident and that she is not responsible.

The Old Oak is set in a once thriving mining village now in rapid decline. There’s a deep sense of injustice pervading the community which is exacerbated by the unexpected arrival of a number of Syrian refugee families. This becomes the flashpoint for angry xenophobic tensions and views which are vented openly in the local pub and directly to the refugees. It takes the empathy and friendship of the struggling pub landlord to inspire hope and the beginnings of change.

Following Donya’s evacuation from Afghanistan ,where she worked as a translator for the US army, she is living alone in the town of Fremont, California. Donya has a lonely existence in an apartment block with other evacuees and she works in a Chinese fortune cookie factory. When Donya is surprisingly promoted to writing the fortunes she takes the opportunity to change her life. This is a gentle story full of heart and off beat comedy.