6.4

The Infidel

2010, UK

• Actors: Yigal Naor, Stewart Scudamore, Omid Djalili, James Floyd, Archie Panjabi, Leah Fatania, Stuart Antony, Scott Walters, Mina Anwar, Amit Shah, Soraya Radford, Ravin J. Ganatra, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Richard Schiff, Miranda Hart, Chris Wilson, Niraj Naik, Madison Cole, Bhasker Patel, Sartaj Garewal, Rod Silvers, Michele Austin, Matt Lucas, Captain David Hawker, Max Rissman, Ricky Sekhon, David Schneider, Jonathan Tafler, Tracy-Ann Oberman
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Josh Appignanesi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his pretty wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz. He conceals this information from his family, and with the help of his neighbor, Leonard Goldberg, tries to understand the Jews, their religion and even locates his birth-father, who is on his death-bed in a nursing home. Mahmud does not know that Arshad has been checking into his background, has videotaped him setting fire to a Jewish cap during a protest, and has already approved of him, despite of his letter to the media about 'moderate Muslims'. But on the day of the meeting with Arshad and Uzma - Mahmud will find his life drastically changed when the Police will attend to arrest him, and he will be forced to publicly proclaim that he is Jewish - a move that will not only alienate him from his family but both the Jewish and Muslim communities.

  7.1

Traitor

2007, USA

• Actors: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Alyy Khan, Archie Panjabi, Raad Rawi, Hassam Ghancy, Mozhan Marnò, Adeel Akhtar, Jeff Daniels, Lorena Gale, Scali Delpeyrat, Mehdi Ortelsberg, Aizoun Abdelkader, Mohamed Choubi, Farid Regragui, Habib Hamdane, Youness Sardi, Joseph Beddelem, Alaa Safi, Tom Barnett, Simon Reynolds, Matt Gordon, Patrick Rodney Barnes, Shahla Kareen, Ali Momen, Paulino Nunes, Alexandra Castillo, Jeff Kassel
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Jeffrey Nachmanoff
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Samir Horn is a former soldier, a devout Moslem, and U.S. citizen in the Middle East selling bomb detonators to Islamic radicals. He joins their cause as both the FBI and a rogue CIA agent track him. Horn escapes a Yemeni prison, goes underground in France where he proves his abilities, and is sent to the United States to choreograph a simultaneous and multiple terror attack. Will the intelligence agencies talk to each other, and can Horn be stopped?

  6.7

A Mighty Heart

2006, USA, UK

• Actors: Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Arif Khan, Tipu Taheer, Amit Dhawan, Saira Nasir Khan, Aliya Khan, Sarah Mone, Bushra Parwani, Zafar Karachiwala, Danish Iqubal, Ali Tejani, Azfar Ali, Ahmed A. Jamal, Denis O'Hare, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Alyy Khan, Irrfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah Murad Aliani, Imran Paracha, Imran Patel, Jean-Jacques Scaerou
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.

  6.8

A Good Year

2005, USA, UK

• Actors: Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard, Albert Finney, Freddie Highmore, Rafe Spall, Archie Panjabi, Richard Coyle, Tom Hollander, Ben Righton, Patrick Kennedy, Ali Rhodes, Daniel Mays, Nila Aalia, Stephen Hudson, Giannina Facio, Lionel Briand, Maria Papas, Didier Bourdon, Isabelle Candelier, Kenneth Cranham, Igor Panich, Oleg Sosnovikov, Magali Woch, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jacques Herlin, Abbie Cornish, Catriona MacColl, Patrick Payet, Félicité Du Jeu, Mitchell Mullen
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Ridley Scott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?

  7.6

The Constant Gardener

2004, UK, Germany

• Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Daniele Harford, Packson Ngugi, Damaris Itenyo Agweyu, Bernard Otieno Oduor, Gerard McSorley, Bill Nighy, Keith Pearson, John Sibi-Okumu, Donald Sumpter, Archie Panjabi, Nick Reding, Juliet Aubrey, Jacqueline Maribe, Donald Apiyo, Pete Postlethwaite, Samuel Otage, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Mumbi Kaigwa, John Moller, Andre Leenheer, Lydia M. Manyasi, Steenie Njoroge, Stuart Wheeler, Chris Payne, Nyajima Jial, Brigid M. Kakenyi
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Fernando Meirelles
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

  6.3

Code 46

2003, UK

• Actors: Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa, Nabil Elouahabi, Samantha Morton, Sarah Backhouse, Jonathan Ibbotson, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Om Puri, Emil Marwa, Nina Fog, Bruno Lastra, Christopher Simpson, Lien Nguyin, David Fahm, Jeanne Balibar, Mick Jones, Taro Sherabayani, Nina Sosanya, Shelley King, Tuyet Le, Benedict Wong, Nina Wadia, Essie Davis, Teo-Wa Vuong, Jennifer Lim, Archie Panjabi, Paul Barnes, Louis Lin, Nabil Massad, Kerry Shale
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his visa: 24 hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.

  6.9

Bend It Like Beckham

2001, UK, Germany, USA

• Actors: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson, Shaheen Khan, Ameet Chana, Pooja Shah, Paven Virk, Preeya Kalidas, Trey Farley, Saraj Chaudhry, Imran Ali, Kulvinder Ghir, Harvey Virdi, Ash Varrez, Adlyn Ross, Shobu Kapoor, Zohra Sehgal, Ace Bhatti, Tanveer Ghani, Nina Wadia, Jenni Birch, Olivia Schofield, Natasha Lee, Louise Walker, Danielle Richards
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
• Director(s): Gurinder Chadha
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to freekicks in the Final. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg, the film follows two 18 year olds with their hearts set on a future in professional soccer. Heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough when your parents want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boyfriend and learn to cook the perfect chapatti.

  6.7

East Is East

1998, UK

• Actors: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, Raji James, Ian Aspinall, Lesley Nicol, Emma Rydal, Ruth Jones, Ben Keaton, Kriss Dosanjh, John Bardon, Gary Damer, Albert Moses, Jimmi Harkishin, Rosalind March, Kaleem Janjua, Gary Lewis, Roger Morlidge, Ralph Birtwell, Madhav Sharma, Saikat Ahamed, Bruce McGregor, Margaret Blakemore, Thierry Harcourt, Leena Dhingra, Tallat Nawaz
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Damien O'Donnell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.