Geist co-founder Stephen Osborne has a new book coming out in October from Arsenal Pulp Press. Come to the book launch on October 10th at People's Co-op Books.

Based on the 2016 Robert Harris novel, Conclave is billed as a psychological thriller, which takes us behind the scenes into the Vatican in Rome, as Cardinals from around the world wheel and deal in their attempts to select the next pope from amongst their scarlet-clad ranks. Skulduggery and political deal-making abound.

Hakki is a fable-like film from Turkey, which shows the protagonist’s transformation from a loving family man with a modest but happy life, to someone completely consumed with an obsessive dream.

Shambhala is a slow-paced and thoughtful film set in the remote Upper Dolpo region of Nepal, among the Tibetan Buddhist culture. When village gossip suggests that Pema, recently pregnant, has been unfaithful, she sets out across a desolate landscape in an attempt to find her husband, a trader, and thereby clear her name.