The opposite of show business? REAL LIFE! Albert Brooks's feature debut is an understated and uproarious mockumentary about a Hollywood filmmaker who sets out to capture a year in the life of America's most ordinary family. Chronicling the project’s disastrous fallout, as the meddlesome Albert can’t help getting too close to his subjects, this pioneering metafiction grapples with the hilarious pitfalls of making reality TV and the painful pursuit of 'truth' on film. Jellied Reels serves up monthly screenings of the best films you've never tried... For more details about our upcoming programme at The Castle - follow us here!

After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their break-up - like a wedding but the other way around. While their friends and family are sceptical, they seem to be sure of their decision. Or are they really? Jellied Reels serves up monthly screenings of the best films you've never tried... For more details about our upcoming programme at The Castle - follow us here!

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov is an esteemed and enthusiastic enforcer for the Soviet security organs - it's 1938 and the Great Terror is rattling along at full tilt. When his peers start to be sent for 're-evaluation', Volkonogov senses something amiss and makes a break through the backstreets of Leningrad. Enduring a profound crisis of conscience and a relentless manhunt by his former colleagues, Fyodor is accosted by otherworldly apparitions. He must find one living person to grant him forgiveness for his atrocities, or forever be subjected to the torments of Hell... but are executioners really worthy of redemption? Part hallucinatory ghost tale, part propulsive historical thriller, Captain Volkonogov Escaped is an elegantly styled and thought-provoking parable that channels Dostoyevskian moral questioning against a backdrop of striking Constructivist aesthetics. Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov's timely reimagining of the Stalinist purges competed for the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Biennale, before the film's domestic release in Russia was 'indefinitely delayed' at the start of 2022. Oscar nominee Yuri Borisov (Anora, Compartment No. 6) leads with a superbly chilling, if not darkly funny, performance as the soul-searching Volkonogov. Klassiki is a video-on-demand platform which is dedicated exclusively to cinema from Eastern Europe - including Ukraine, Russia, and the Baltics - the Caucasus and Central Asia

1980, Naples. Antonio Pisapia is the star of a local football club at the top of his game. Antonio Pisapia is a flamboyant nightclub crooner at the height of his fame. Two men with the same name, living parallel lives. When both find themselves at career crossroads, can either keep their star in the ascendancy? Paolo Sorretino's (La Grande Bellezza, The Hand of God) melodramatic debut doesn't shy from the knotty vicissitudes of fame and ambition. With his trademark sense of vitality and stylish visual poetry, Sorrentino weaves a considered tale of doomed ego and unfaltering lust for life. Jellied Reels serves up monthly screenings of the best films you've never tried... For more details about our upcoming programme at The Castle - follow us here!