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Another Members' Choice this Sunday with Rental Family. The 'dicey premise' is an out-of-work American actor, Phillip (Brendan Fraser), living in Japan, is offered a job: being hired out to pretend to be a friend or a family member - his first role is to be a mourner at a funeral. Why is he doing this? Because in Japan this actually happens! The comedy is very real, but so is the pathos - why would anybody hire someone to pretend to be their groom at a wedding..?

The first of our BAFTA and Oscar nominated Best Films Not In The English Language is IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, the latest and many are saying one of the best films from Jafar Panahi.

“It's a beautifully-written and executed work, one of Panahi's most formally straightforward yet powerful, gripping and generous.” - David Jenkins, Little White Lies

Set in 1936 as the British Mandate is fading in Palestine and German Jews are beginning to flee to the area in larger and larger numbers, Palestine 36 attempts to show us some of the origins of today's troubles. This was all the more timely as filming was set to start soon after Hamas raided Israel and set off the present fighting.

“At its best it cuts between historical footage and new material and achieves the awed emotional resonance of connecting history with the present.” - Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis, Little White Lies