This summer is set to be another great one if you are a blockbuster fan with some terrific movies on the horizon.

Second Coming

Second Coming

However, it is not all about the blockbuster movies this summer as there are some great small and independent movies set to hit the big screen - and some are heading our way this June.

We take a look at some of the indie films that we are looking forward to over the next few weeks and they are movies that you cannot miss if you are fans of this genre.

- Second Coming - 5th June

Idris Elba has already enjoyed success with the billion-dollar movie Avengers: Age of Ultron this summer - even if he did have only a tiny role - but he is back with smaller movie Second Coming.

Second Coming sees Debbie Tucker Green on directing and writing duties as she steps into feature film for the first time. Green has already worked on short and TV projects Heat and Random and now she is making the transition into features for the first time.

Elba is set to take on the role of Mark in the film, and is joined on the cast list by Nadine Marshall, Kai Francis Lewis, and Sharlene Whyte - a real mix of established and upcoming talent.

We all know Elba as a big screen star, while Marshall has worked extensively in TV in recent years with the likes of Waterloo Road and Chasing Shadows under her belt. However, Kai Francis Lewis will be making his big screen debut with the project.

Second Coming is set to be an intimate portrait of the life and struggles of a family living in London and I really cannot wait to see Debbie Tucker Green deliver her first feature film.

We have already seen the movie play at festivals such as Toronto and it is a film not to miss of you are a Brit flick fan.

Second Coming

- London Road - 12th June

Another British movie that is set to be completely different to anything else we will see this summer is London Road. The movie based on the National Theatre musical of the same name, which was based on a series of interview about the Steve Wright killings by Alecky Blythe.

Alecky Blythe has penned the screenplay for the film, and has reunited with director Rufus Norris and music writer Adam Cork - they all worked together on the stage musical.

London Road documents the events that shook Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street.

The film follows the community who found themselves at the epicentre of the tragic events. Using their own words set to an innovative musical score, London Road tells a moving story of ordinary people coming together during the darkest of experiences.

Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, and Anita Dobson are just some of the names on the cast list - as well as some of the members of the original production.

2015 has already been a great year for the musical genre with the likes of Into The Woods and The Last Five Years hitting the big screen. However, London Road is set to be unlike any other film that we have seen in this genre so far this year.

London Road

- The Look Of Silence - released 12th June

Joshua Oppenheimer grabbed the world's attention back in 2013 with his powerful and haunting documentary The Act of Killing - which focused on the Indonesian killings of 1965-66.

He returns to the director's chair this summer with The Look of Silence, which is a companion piece to The Act of Killing.

Through Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him.

The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother's murder - something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power.

The Look Of Silence is already being me with acclaim and is set to be another very powerful documentary from the filmmaker.

This is one of those essential movies that come along far too frequently and is a film that really does look at the human condition.

The Look of Silence has already won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Venice Film Festival - as well as going on to screen at the likes of Toronto and New York - and is a documentary that cannot be missed this summer.

The Look Of Silence

- Slow West - released 26th June

Slow West is a movie that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year and has been one of the summer movies that I have been really looking forward to.

John Maclean has already worked with Michael Fassbender on short projects Pitch Black Heist and Man on a Motorcycle and now the pair is reuniting for their first feature film together.

Slow West will also be the feature film directorial debut for Maclean - who has also penned the screenplay as well as being in the director's chair.

Fassbender is set to take on the role of Silas Selleck and will be joined on the cast list by Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, and Rory McCann.

Slow West premiered at the beginning of 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was not only well received, but it went on to be awarded the Sundance Institute's World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic Winner.

At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Smit-McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas (Fassbender), a mysterious traveller, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.

Slow West

- The Forgotten Kingdom - released 26th June

Andrew Mudge is another actor making his feature film directorial debut this month with The Forgotten Kingdom as he shows off both his directing and writing talent with this film.

Mudge has brought us short films such as Chicken Pox Pal and The Perfect Gooseys and is making the leap into features for the first time.

The Forgotten Kingdom has already picked up awards such as Best Feature at Woodstock Film Festival as well as Best Director at the Pan African Film Festival.

Atang Mokoenya leaves the slums of Johannesburg to return to his ancestral land of Lesotho, where he must bury his estranged father in the remote, mountainous village where he was born. Stirred by memories of his youth, he falls in love with his childhood friend, Dineo, now a radiant young schoolteacher.

Through her, Atang is drawn toward the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and land he had forgotten, and faces his own bittersweet reckoning.

The Forgotten Kingdom

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