We take a look at movies hitting our screens in this month’s box office.
Allelujah
6 April
A warm, humorous, and deeply moving story about surviving old age. When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back. Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand.
Directed by Richard Eyre and starring Jennifer Saunders and Judi Dench.
Mavka: The Forest Song
6 April
Mavka, a soul of the forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest when she falls in love with a human – the talented young musician Lukash. An animation about the magical power of love.
Directed by Oleh Malamuzh and Oleksandra Ruban.
Paper Spiders
20 April
Dawn recently lost her husband and experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbour aggravates Dawn’s mental condition, and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Determined to help her mum, Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. She starts to spiral out of control — sabotaging Melanie’s academics, social life, and blossoming love life. Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices about her own life as she struggles to support her mother on the path toward recovery and healing.
Directed by Inon Shampanier, and starring Stefania LaVie Owen and Lili Taylor.
Shackleton
20 April
Twenty-eight lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth – Antarctica. Shackleton-The Greatest Story of Survival reveals the true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, told by the only man ever to have repeated their incredible feat – explorer and adventurer Tim Jarvis. Following in the beset crew’s footsteps, Tim reveals the enduring legacy of Shackleton’s crisis leadership in the face of impossible odds, a lesson more relevant to us now than ever before.
Directed by Bobbi Hansel and Casper Mazzotti.
