A rebellious teenager avoiding prison and a woman struggling to come to terms with her past agree to undertake the Camino de Santiago together. As they walk, their unlikely friendship is tested, and the pilgrimage becomes a space for both confrontation and healing. Funny, heartwarming and redemptive, this year’s Senior French choice is sure to please.

Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall through humour, satire and Ostalgie. In this, his final film, he looks humorously at the 30 years hence. Struggling videostore owner Micha is falsely credited by a journalist with masterminding the biggest GDR escape. As Micha’s unexpected fame grows, he must navigate the consequences of a lie that changes his life.

This year’s Senior Spanish film choice is set in 1939, weeks after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when defeated Republican prisoner-cooks are forced to prepare a victory banquet for Franco and his generals, while they plot their final chance to escape. A tragicomedy of humour, suspense and defiance under dictatorship.

Terrific coming-of-age story from the makers of Intouchables. In Paris, 1985, Vincent is on the brink of adolescence. As his Bar Mitzvah approaches, he navigates quarreling parents, an older brother and first love, while discovering that adulthood is not always as certain as it seems. A retro French comedy filled with humour, 1980’s music and nostalgia.

Beautiful, award-winning film about the lives of modern circus nomads.11-year-old Santino grows up among performers, animals and his 80-yearold great-grandfather, one of Europe’s last big circus directors. Together, they share stories of friendship, tradition, and life on the road in this documentary road movie with animated sequences, which speaks to the power of community and belonging.

Spain might be top of the football world, but the historic struggle for young female playersis evident in this 1970’s set drama. 16-year-old Nati secretly pursues her passion for football while coach Javier Poga brings together the country’s first women’s team. Despite social and political opposition in Franco’s Spain, and plenty of everyday sexism, the players set out to win the right to play.