Category: Award Winners

A ‘Cineramic’ roller coaster ride through the rise, fall and rebirth of projected film.

Dir. Rob Murphy | 2022 | Australia | 125 Mins | E for Exempt

OUT ON DEMAND, DVD & BLU-RAY OCTOBER 13.
DVD & BLU-RAY are complete with 45 mins of previously unseen footage.

SPLICE HERE: A PROJECTED ODYSSEY explores the single greatest change in the history of cinema; the digital shift from recording and projecting movies on film. Now ten years on from this momentous transition, […]

Across the divides of rich and poor, Muslim and Christian, north and south, light-skinned and dark, Mona and Julia become friends.

Dir. by Mohamed Kordofani | 2023 | Sudan |120 Mins | M

Awards
Freedom Prize | Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival
Audience Award | Paysages de Cinéastes
Youth Jury Award | Paysages de Cinéastes
Women’s Jury Award | Paysages de Cinéastes
Roger Ebert Award | Chigaco International Film FestivalBest African Film | Septimius Awards
Press Jury Award | War on Screen Film Festival
Audience Award | War on Screen Film Festival
Best Film | Belfast Film Festival
Best Director in a Debut Feature Film | Cyprus International Film Festival=
Best Leading Actress Award | Cyprus International Film Festival
Best Actress Award | Muslim International Film Festival
Excellence Award | Muslim International Film Festival
Audience Award | Monstra de Cinema Arab

SYNOPSIS
Two women forge an unusual friendship across devastating divides in an engrossing Sudanese drama. […]

Across the divides of rich and poor, Muslim and Christian, north and south, light-skinned and dark, Mona and Julia become friends.

Directed by Mohamed Kordofani | 2023 | Sudan |120 Mins | M [Adult Themes]

Awards
Freedom Prize | Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival
Audience Award | Paysages de Cinéastes
Youth Jury Award | Paysages de Cinéastes
Women’s Jury Award | Paysages de Cinéastes
Roger Ebert Award | Chigaco International Film Festival
Best African Film | Septimius Awards
Press Jury Award | War on Screen Film Festival
Audience Award | War on Screen Film Festival
Best Film | Belfast Film Festival
Best Director in a Debut Feature Film | Cyprus International Film Festival=
Best Leading Actress Award | Cyprus International Film Festival
Best Actress Award | Muslim International Film Festival
Excellence Award | Muslim International Film Festival
Audience Award | Monstra de Cinema Arab

SYNOPSIS
Two women forge an unusual friendship across devastating divides in an engrossing Sudanese drama. […]

Legendary french auteur, Catherine Breillat once again defies moral boundaries and conventions.

Dir. by Catherine Breillat | 2023 | France |104 Mins | CTC

Official Selection at:
New Zealand International Film Festival, July 2023
Melbourne International Film Festival, August 2023
The Alliance Française French Film Festival 2024

Anne, a brilliant lawyer, lives in perfect harmony with her husband Pierre and their six and
eight‐year-old daughters, in a house on the heights of Paris.
One day, Theo, 17, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, […]

Dir. by Sebastien Marnier | 2022 | France |125 Mins | R13

In NZ Cinemas October 5, 2023
In AU Cinemas, October 19, 2023

Official Selection at:
The French Film Festival Aotearoa NZ 2023 May 25- July 5

In this wickedly funny French thriller, shady relatives scheme for family fortunes through a succession of ingenious twists.
Stéphane’s volatile lover is halfway through her prison sentence while she’s stuck working in a fish cannery. One day Stéphane boldly decides to reach out to her wealthy, […]

Dir. by Maryam Touzani | 2022 | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | 122 Mins | CTC

WINNER – Fipresci Prize – Un Certain Regard. Cannes Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize, Golden Star – Marrakech International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize- International Feature – NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festival NYC
WINNER – Audience Award – Athens International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Greek Film Critics Association Award – Athens International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Best Director | Silver Hugo – […]

Dir. by Sebastien Marnier | 2022 | France |125 Mins | MA15+

In Cinemas Australia-wide October 19, 2023.
In NZ Cinemas October 5

“Fans of Succession, The White Lotus and Knives Out should definitely check out this twisty-turny French thriller.”  ★★★★ STUFF NZ 

In this wickedly funny French thriller, shady relatives scheme for family fortunes through a succession of ingenious twists.
Stéphane’s volatile lover is halfway through her prison sentence while she’s stuck working in a fish cannery. […]

Dir. by Maryam Touzani | 2022 | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | 122 Mins | M

Glam Adelaide | 5 Star Review
Christos Tsiolkas | The Saturday Paper Review 

WINNER – Fipresci Prize – Un Certain Regard. Cannes Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize, Golden Star – Marrakech International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize- International Feature – NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festival NYC
WINNER – Audience Award – Athens International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – […]