Chapter, Canton, Cardiff - Mono's Iwan Davies looks at what's on in the independent cinema

Film listings until August 28:

Dragonflies

Friday, August 22 to Thursday, August 28. Dragonflies is an intense psychological thriller from Norway and an intricate portrait of love and harmony. The film is the story of Eddie and Marie, a couple running away from their past in a desperate bid to put their criminal activities behind them. One day Eddie's old friend Kullman, recently released from a long prison sentence for a crime committed with Eddie, arrives, and their world is turned on its head.

Mon-Rak Transistor

Saturday, August 23 to Thursday, August 28. From the producers of Tears of the Black Tiger comes the perfect summer movie - a potent blend of Elvis-style musical, love story and poisonous social satire in Hysteric Glamour T-shirts.

Pan is a country boy newly wed to his first love, Sadaw, when he's signed up for military service. Success in a local talent contest turns Pan's head and he goes AWOL to pursue his dream, but instead finds himself fending off the advances of his predatory manager. As Sadaw is seduced by a smooth-talking worm tablet salesman, Pan finds himself on a downward spiral. Mon-Rak Transistor was a hit at the 2002 Cannes Festival, confirming Pen-ek as the young pretender to Wong Kar-Wai.

Here's this week's film listings. Week starting Friday August 22

Respiro (12A)

Fri, Sat, Mon - Thurs: 6.15 + 8.15 Sun: 8.00, Tues + Wed: 2.30. Winner of the Critics' Best Film Prize at Cannes, this evocative film follows the life of a family in an isolated fishing community on a Sicilian island. Running time: 90mins

Dragonflies (15)

Fri : 6.30 + 8.30, Sat - Mon: 8.40, Tues - Thur: 6.30. Running time: 96 mins. *See above

Mon-Rak Transistor (15)

Sat - Mon: 6.30, Tues - Thur: 8.30, Thurs: 2.30. Running time: 115mins. *See above.

Once Upon a Forest (U). Sat : 3.00

Friends set off to collect herbs to save the life of an animal affected by a chemical spill. Running time: 71mins

Hana-Bi (18)

Sun only: 5.00. A mixture of comedy, sentiment and violence mark out the films of Takeshi Kitano, in a tale of an an ex-cop who turns to robbing banks. Running time: 103mins