Colin Ash

When Captain Fred Roberts discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916, he decided to publish a satirical magazine called The Wipers Times - "Wipers" being army slang for Ypres. Full of gallows humour, The Wipers Times was poignant, subversive and very funny. Produced literally under enemy fire and defying both authority and gas attacks, the magazine proved a huge success with the troops on the western front. It was, above all, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. In his spare time, Roberts also managed to win the Military Cross for gallantry.

1975, le Dr Robert Laing, en quête d’anonymat, emménage près de Londres dans un nouvel appartement d’une tour à peine achevée; mais il va vite découvrir que ses voisins, obsédés par une étrange rivalité, n’ont pas l’intention de le laisser en paix… Bientôt, il se prend à leur jeu. Et alors qu’il se démène pour faire respecter sa position sociale; ses bonnes manières et sa santé mentale commencent à se détériorer en même temps que l’immeuble : les éclairages et l’ascenseur ne fonctionnent plus mais la fête continue ! L’alcool est devenu la première monnaie d’échange et le sexe la panacée. Ce n’est que bien plus tard que le Dr Laing, assis sur son balcon en train de faire rôtir le chien de l’architecte du 40ème étage, se sent enfin chez lui.

Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen

Jack Kelly is a successful novelist who leads a reclusive life in his apartment in Paris. His first novel, Made in Belfast, was a critical and commercial success – there was only one problem: it exposed the private lives and innermost secrets of his close friends and family, and none of them have spoken to him since he ran away. But when circumstances conspire to bring him back to his hometown for a few days, he decides to spend that time putting things right with the friends he betrayed, the brother he abandoned, and the fiancée he jilted.