Contemporary Movies Catalogue

Familiar Touch

For anyone who has felt themselves change, but never disappear – a coming-of-old-age story that belongs to us all.

Triple award-winner at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Competition.

Amid the haze of fading memory and shifting desires, Ruth, a retired cook, quietly navigates her transition to assisted living. With grace, wit, and the enduring threads of her identity, she deals with her changing sense of self and her bonds with those who care for her. As her surroundings grow unfamiliar, something unexpected begins to take shape – what if we glow most warmly at the edges of memory?

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Memory

The story of Sylvia, a woman who can’t forget and Saul, a man who can’t remember.

Starring Academy Award Winner Jessica Chastain &  Venice Film Festival 2023 Best Actor Winner Peter Sarsgaard

Dir. Michel Franco | 2023 | US | 129 mins | Rated MA15+

Sylvia, a single mother, confronts her traumatic past after a chance encounter with Saul, a former schoolmate who stalks her after their highschool reunion. As their relationship evolves, both are forced to face buried memories and personal hardships.

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Grand Tour

Dir. Miguel Gomes | 2024 | United States | 129 mins | Rated M

Winner of Best Director from Cannes Film Festival 2024

Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2024 | Best Director
Cannes Film Festival 2024 | Palme d’Or Nominee
Chicago International Film Festival 2024 | Best Feature Nominee
Sydney Film Festival 2024| Best Feature Nominee
Film Fest Gent 2024 | Best Feature Nominee

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Divertimento

Dir. Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | 2022 | France | 110 mins| Rated CTC

Based on the true story of one of the world’s leading renowned female conductors, Zahia Ziouani.
DIVERIMENTO is the orchestra created by 17 year old Algerian, Zahia Ziouani, unique in it’s diversity and composition, integrated into the elite world of Parisian classical music.

Classical symphonic music is everything for Zahia and her twin sister, Fettouma. Nevertheless, living in underprivileged Parisian suburbs in 1995 with their Algerian background, they struggle arduously to approach their dreams – becoming an orchestra conductor and a cellist.
Driven by determination, passion, and courage, they create their own orchestra, Divertimento.
It will be a game-changer.

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Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

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

BLU-RAY is 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, film maker & projectionist Rob Murphy shares his personal journey to find out what has really happened to film.

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Goodbye Julia

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

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

Two women forge an unusual friendship across devastating divides in an engrossing Sudanese drama.

Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.

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Last Summer

Dir. by Catherine Breillat | 2023 | France | 104 Mins | MA15+

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

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, moves in with them. Anne is troubled by Theo and gradually engages in a passionate relationship with him, putting her career and family life in danger.

WINNER – Albar Special Jury Award – Gijón International Film Festival
NOMINEE – Palme d’Or – Cannes Film Festival
NOMINEE – Best Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Most Promising Actor – César Awards
NOMINEE – Albar Best Film – Gijón International Film Festival
NOMINEE – Best Actress, Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actor – Lumiere Awards

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The Blue Caftan

WINNER – Fipresci Prize – Un Certain Regard. Cannes Film Fest
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize, Golden Star – Marrakech International Film Fest
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize- International Feature – NewFest Film Fest NYC
WINNER – Audience Award – Athens International Film Fest
WINNER – Greek Film Critics Association Award – Athens Film Fest
WINNER – Best Director | Silver Hugo – Chicago International Film Fest
WINNER – Best Actress – Vallladolid | Mexico | International Film Fest
WINNER – Audience Award – Panorama | Vancouver International Film Fest
WINNER – Best Narrative Feature – Arab Film Fest

Mina (Lubna Azabal – Incendies, Paradise Now) and her husband Halim (Saleh Bakri – Costa Brava, Lebanon) run a small business making and selling bespoke caftans in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. Halim is a master of his trade, and Mina a canny saleswoman, though their wares don’t come cheap and traditional dress is falling out of favour.

Woven with exquisite care, Maryam Touzani’s Cannes Un Certain Regard winning drama reveals a beautiful love triangle in a small Moroccan town (where gay relations are forbidden). Touzani explores a complex marriage with tenderness and grace in a sincere and superbly performed film that unfolds in unexpected and heartening ways.

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Furia | Norwegian | 8 Episode Thriller

FURIA is a tense, eight-episode thriller with a dark, twist-laden plot, set against the backdrop of two of Europe’s most distinguished capital cities – Oslo and Berlin – as well as rural western Norway.

An edge-of-your-seat mix of undercover thriller and prescient political drama, the story centres around RAGNA, an undercover operative who has penetrated a far-right extremist terror cell, hellbent on carrying out an atrocity the likes of which Europe has never seen before.
Elsewhere, former special ops officer ASGEIR is living the quiet life in western Norway after escaping from the Russian underworld and assuming a new identity. When their two worlds collide, they face a race against the clock to prevent the unthinkable happening on German soil.

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The Night Of The 12th | 7 x Time Cesar Award Winner | On DVD and Digital

WINNER | Best Film | Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Best Director| Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Best Writing -Adaptation | Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Best Sound | Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Best Supporting Actor | Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Most Promising Actor | Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Highschool Students Cesar | Cesar Awards 2023
WINNER | Best Film | Lumiere Awards 2023
WINNER | Best Screenplay | Lumiere Awards 2023

In the corridors of the criminal police, it is said that all the investigators have a crime that haunts them. One day or another, they come across a case hurting them more than the others, without always knowing why. It starts spinning in their heads to the point of obsession. Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara’s murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara’s complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim’s life soon turns into a haunting obsession.

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The Sketch Artist on DVD and On Demand

Eve Garance is a remarkable sketch artist capable of “reading” people. In the Investigation Unit of the Police Department, she uses her talents to create composite sketches to catch criminals. Her colleagues include Maryse Ferron, the methodical director whose disability has never stopped her; Bernard Dupin, the seasoned investigator who keeps the dark regions of his life under wraps, and Anthony Kamal, the new technician who doesn’t know what he is getting into. This is the team assigned to solve a laundry list of sordid crimes. They will tackle also cold cases – even if old wounds are opened in the process.

The return of Eve’s ex will force her to reopen a very personal cold case: that of the disappearance of their son William, then six months old. For five years, Eve has been secretly imagining and sketching the faces that her son could have today in the hope of finding him one day.

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Drive My Car | Academy Award WINNER | Out DIGITALLY and on DVD

Dir. by Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 2021 | Japan | MA15+

Based on the Haruki Murakami story.

*WINNER of Best Foreign Film at The 2022 ACADEMY AWARDS*

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s DRIVE MY CAR charts a winding road trip through love, loss, truth and peace.
Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theatre festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900.

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 2021 | Japan | 121 Mins | MA15+

WINNER of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize –  71st Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY explores three female-centred short stories thematically linked by coincidence, regret, and imagination.

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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Dir. Radu Jude | 2021 | Romania | 106 Mins | R18+

Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, BAD LUCK BANGING (OR LOONEY PORN) is an outrageous Romanian comedy satirising the sensitivities of modern culture.

Emi (Katia Pascariu), a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat when a personal sex tape is leaked to the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) delivers an incendiary mix of unconventional form, irreverent humor and scathing commentary on hypocrisy and prejudice in our societies in a film of three loosely connected parts: a walk in the city of Bucharest, a playful essay on obscenities, all culminating in an incendiary comic confrontation.