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• Goleshovo (2008)

  Review preview for Goleshovo

  Metev isn't scared to hold a shot, letting silence unfold as often as conversation and though people occasionally seem to roll their eyes at the camera, this adds to the charm.

  A forgotten Bulgarian town struggles onwards in this observational documentary.
• Goodbye Mandima (2010)

  Review preview for Goodbye Mandima

  Strong, engaging, deeply personal.

  A documentary about a white boy growing up in Zaire and the difficulty he faces being taken 'home' to Europe.
• A Grande Love Story (2004)

  Review preview for A Grande Love Story

  It's hard to see where this film was even trying to go and even harder to put yourself through the minutes it takes to get to wherever that is.

  A couple fall in love.
• Le Grand Sommeil (2003)

  Review preview for Le Grand Sommeil

  This is clever, if distinctly odd.

  Cracker toys take sleeping tablets and have somnambulant misadventures.
• Granny Mac's Meringues (2011)

  Review preview for Granny Mac's Meringues

  One can't help but feel that the Queen would probably find life more fun if every royal outing were like this.

  An animated comedy short about the Queen taking a trip to a northern island to buy a new hat for the 2011 Royal Wedding.
• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (2008)

  Review preview for Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

  The animation is excellent - computer generated 3D in muted tones for granny’s world, vibrant colour in 2D for the fairytale.

  A bedtime story is a lot more grim than a little girl expects.
• Gravity (2007)

  Review preview for Gravity

  It resembles nothing more than a challenge round in a movie quiz, save that there is no obvious reward, seemingly no point.

  Examination of a screen kiss.
• The Greater Good: A Hitchhike Perspective (2012)

  Review preview for The Greater Good: A Hitchhike Perspective

  Unfortunately these fascinating interviews are presented in a disorganised manner that detracts from their impact, and the sound quality is so bad than in places it makes the film unwatchable.

  A documentary tracking global hitchhikers as they discuss what travel means to them.
• The Great Breakfast Race (2004)

  Review preview for The Great Breakfast Race

  Mark Ash's film is filled with quirky, imaginitive detail.

  Examination of childhood.
• Green Screen Gringo (2016)

  Review preview for Green Screen Gringo

  Cinema at its most inventively audacious.

  Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting - and yet turbulent - Brazil. Where the streets are a stage for politics, art and affection, a gringo can only watch.
• Guilty By Nature (2006)

  Review preview for Guilty By Nature

  By focussing so intently on the minutae of the nursery Barnett creates a drama on the nature of existence

  A year in the life of a nursery shrub.
• Gutenberg (2013)

  Review preview for Gutenberg

  Slight but entertaining.

  A tribute to John Gutenberg, who introduced the printing press in Europe.
• Gypsy Cab (2009)

  Review preview for Gypsy Cab

  With sandy docklands, rusting hulks, the taxi we follow drifts through an unfathomable landscape.

  The phenomenon of the 'gypsy cab' - Russian, spontaneous, unlicensed taxis.