The Grudge 2 ( (US). Dir. Takashi Shimizu, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn. Sequel to the successful 2004 film: a supernatural curse takes out an apparently random selection of victims.

Azur e Asmar ( (Fr). Dir. Michel Ocelot. Animation about the son of a noble and the son of a wetnurse who grow up together but come back together again as rivals.

Flags of Our Fathers ( (US). Dir. Clint Eastwood, starring Ryan Phillippe and Jesse Bradford. The story of the battle of Iwo Jima, fought between the Americans and the Japanese during world war two.

Il vento che accarezza l'erba ( (Fr/Ir/UK). Dir. Ken Loach, starring Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney. Grim and gritty drama about a group fighting for Irish independence in the early 1900s.

L'amico di famiglia (It). Dir. Paolo Sorrentino, starring Giacomo Rizzo and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. An unfortunate-looking tailor who lives with his paraysed mother and works as a usurer on the side has an uncanny ability to insinuate himself into the lives of his clients.

Tu, io e Dupree ( (US). Dir. Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, starring Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson. A recently married couple find themselves living with a third person: an old friend of the groom affected with Peter Pan syndrome.