Acclaimed Lebanese and French box office sensation centering on a Beirut beauty salon where women of different ages and religion discuss their lives and loves,offering a portrait of Beirut that is very different from the city depicted in news bulletins.

The title is taken from the homemade caramel used for leg waxing in the salon and the film is an equally sweet, golden comedy of manners.

Never sure whether to laugh or cry at the modern world? Swedish master Roy Andersson knows exactly how you feel and expresses it beautifully in this deadpan delight. Combining the visual wit of Jacques Tati with the absurdist humour of Monty Python this is a sardonic ensemble comedy on love, pain and the whole sweet misery of being human. Misunderstood Mia, lovelorn Anna, a gloomy psychiatrist and a vengeful barber are among the characters we meet in a painterly film filled with priceless moments.

At last, another action-packed adventure featuring the world’s most exciting archaeologist in a Cold War influenced escapade.

Bring a Baby : Wednesday 9 July at 1pm

Nim is a teenage girl living on her own desert island with her scientist dad. When a big storm comes and Nim’s father is lost their only saviour is J K Rowling-like author Alexandra Rover, a novelist with a fear of open spaces.

A warm-hearted, rip-roaring adventure for all the family.

Classic thriller from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, a sensual story about an order of nuns living in a remote Himalayan convent.

Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.

Coffee Club : Thursday 10 July at 10.45am

Carrie Bradshaw, successful author and everyone’s favourite fashion icon-next-door, is back. Her famously sardonic wit intact and sharper than ever, she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City.

Four years after the hit HBO series ended, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are juggling jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate.

Coffee Club : Thursday 17 July at 10.45am

Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov illuminates the life and legend of Gengis Khan in this stunning historical epic. ‘Mongol’ delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162.

The film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the traditional barbarian, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.

Shot over eleven days on a tiny budget, a stunning, award-winning feature debut from Scots director Charles Henri Belleville.

Using the rugged beauty of the Scottish landscape to impressive effect, the film follows two brothers on a road trip from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye in search of their father’s inheritance.

The screening will be introduced by producer Tim Barrow who will answer questions after the screening.

A long-standing Rolling Stones fanatic, Martin Scorsese filmed the band at the Beacon Theatre in New York last September.

Growing out of a script project that Scorsese and Mick Jagger had been working on for eight years, the result is a remarkable document, a living, breathing, rock’n’roll portrait.

Wilson, an aspiring screenwriter, faces the prospects of New Year’s Eve alone, a suitable end to a dreadful year until he meets aspiring actress Vivian. Filmed in black and white, this film is so well written and acted that it totally captivates.

Like a spikier ‘Before Sunrise’, this entirely delightful comedy allows a wholly persuasive relationship to develop before the audience’s eyes. The mustsee American indie of the year.

Controversial French director Catherine Breillat’s most mainstream film to date is a decadent costume drama in the manner of ‘Dangerous Liaisons’. The fiery, half-Spanish femme fatale Vellini is besotted with her young lover and determined to ruin his happiness when he chooses to marry a virtuous gem of the French aristocracy.

An unusually mature and thoughtful work from Breillat, filled with sexual intrigue, scandal and the war between men and women.

Please note: contains strong sex and nudity.

Tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne. Susannah York, in one of her best performances, plays a young schoolgirl holidaying one glorious summer in France, where she falls in love with the charming Englishman who becomes the children’s guardian when their mother is taken suddenly ill.

Based on a true story by Rumer Godden.

Coffee Club : Thursday 31 July at 10.45am

Oscar-winning documentary about the Bush administration’s abuse of power and torture in their drift to“the dark side” in the war on terror.

In 2002, Afghan taxi driver Dilawar was taken the the US prison at Bagram Air Base after a paid informant said he was a terrorist. Five days later he was dead, with the official cause of death initially reported as “natural causes”. An autopsy called the death homicide and described injuries inflicted during custody which would have necessitated the amputation of Dilawar’s legs had he lived. Taking Dilawar as his starting point, and with a remarkable range of interviewees and striking use of photographs, Gibney follows the officially sanctioned drift towards“the dark side”, Dick Cheney’s term for torture and inhumane methods of interrogation. A chilling film that tackles its subject with clarity and a lack of cant as it moves from firsthand personal experiences to wider philosophical issues without once losing its grip.

“...the single most significant film to emerge from the Iraq conflict.” Time Out

“Is that what we do, as Americans? Are those our values? Then what do we stand for?” Roger Ebert, Film Critic