Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley and starring Saoirse Ronan, has been voted the winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at 2015 Leeds International Film Festival in Leeds, UK. Brooklyn, which was the opening night film of the festival, is described as a wonderful romantic drama adapted by Nick Hornby from Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel. Eilis is a young Irish woman who leaves her home for New York in the 1950s. Desperately homesick at first, Eilis soon finds romance in Brooklyn, but when a family emergency forces her back to Ireland, she finds herself torn between her personal freedom and her family responsibilities.
The top 20 films as voted by audience at 2015 Leeds International Film Festival
1. Brooklyn
2. Victoria
3. Chuck Norris vs Communism
4. Son of Saul
5. Home Care
6. Alice Cares
7. Urban and the Shed Crew
8. The Case of Hana and Alice
9. All About Them
10. Doing Nothing All Day
11. Taxi Tehran
12. Heart of a Dog
13. Nina Forever
14. Tangerine
15. The Postman’s White Nights
16. Another Country
17. Abandoned Goods + Exquisite Corpus
18. Shrew’s Nest
19. Aferim!
20. Lovemilla