The Shore

Ciarán Hinds and Conleth Hill play boyhood best friends driven apart as the conflict in Northern Ireland escalated, meeting again 25 years later when Hinds comes home with his grown-up daughter. Terry George's Oscar winner is shot on the County Down coast and balances an old wound with real laughs, which is why it travels: the history matters, but nobody needs a lesson in it to enjoy the film. At 29 minutes it is the longest entry here.