Between Two Worlds among New Park films in Chichester

New Park Cinema takes us on a voyage around the Mediterranean this week, beginning in North Africa with Casablanca Beats, heralded by Mark Kermode as one of his best films of the year so far. This grittily authentic tale focuses on a rapper turned teacher helping his students find their creative voices is a class act.

We sail across to Malta for a moving portrait of a world in flux and one man attempting to survive the changes thrust upon him by a baffling outside world. Luzzu i s an authentic and affecting depiction of an ordinary fisherman struggling to exist in a modern and corrupt world.

Juliette Binoche goes undercover in the gig economy to probe the injustices faced by low-paid workers. Between Two Worlds is an eye-opening film that sees Binoche stars as an author who, inspired by George Orwell’s T he Road to Wigan Pie r , goes undercover as a cleaning lady in the northern French port of Caen to research a book on job insecurity and social precariousness.

We return to the UK with three films: Swan Song which follows a retired hairdresser (Udo Kier) embar king on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo; All My Friends Hate Me , a funny, ordeal-by-comedy that may prove uncomfortably recogni able to anyone who has ever wondered why on earth every single other person in the room is behaving like such an idiot; and the most British of all – Downton Abbey: A New Era, a chance to resee this recent period drama.

Look out also for an encore screening of Ralph Fiennes in Straight Line Crazy from the National Theatre after recent sell-out screenings at New Park. David Hare’s blazing account of the life of a man whose iron will exposed the weakness of democracy in the face of charismatic conviction is unmissable.