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AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. 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.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 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.
AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY. 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.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD from Mid 2024. Starring Laure Calamy. In this wickedly funny French thriller, shady relatives scheme for family fortunes through a succession of ingenious twists.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Winner of the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Director at the Chicago International Film festival, director Maryam Touzani's THE BLUE CAFTAN is a sensitive drama exploring the flexibility within cultural and marital traditions. . Halim (Saleh Bakri) is one of the few enduring maalems, or master tailors, in one of Morocco’s oldest quarters. Along with his wife Mina (Lubna Azabal), they run a traditional caftan store and service a demanding clientele. When the talented and handsome Youssef (Ayoub Missioui) is hired as an apprentice, the young man’s presence and effect on the couple force them to reconsider the future of their relationship.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD *WINNER OF Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival*. By Ryusuke Hamaguchi. 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.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Cesar Awards includes Best Film. 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.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND. 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.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND. Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. She can recall memories of beach holidays and anything else he programs her to remember. During the day they drift through the summer and at night he takes her to bed. Designed to resemble one of his memories, she seems very much alive -sometimes, she even seems to dream and yet, she remains a machine, a container for those memories that mean everything to him and nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Australia’s answer to The Buena Vista Social Club, The Song Keepers tells the inspiring story of an Aboriginal women’s choir and their first tour of Germany.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. The title of Wajib translates as ‘duty’, and it’s duty that brings architect Shadi (Saleh Bakri) from Rome back to Nazareth, where his sister Amal (Maria Zriek) is to be married. Local tradition dictates that Shadi and his divorced dad, Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri), must drive around town delivering wedding invitations
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. In 19th-century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May’s hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Elia Suleiman escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promotes her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant afloat, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered, she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self-worth.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. WILD THINGS follows a new generation of young environmental activists hell-bent on saving their futures from the ravages of climate change.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. A charming, funny and biting comedy from Brazil. Set in Rio De Janerio over three summers, Mada (Regina Case) a housekeeper sees a window of opportunity when her employers become caught in a major corruption scandal. Directed by Sandra Kogut THREE SUMMERS is a brilliant comedy about gross class disparity and the infinite resourcefulness of those who can never take anything for granted.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. By Melbourne based director Travis Beard, follows Afghanistan’s first rock band District Unknown. In the war torn capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, where Rock music is forbidden by Islam.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Carrie is in love with her new fiancé Vincent, a handsome and successful author. Vincent is besotted with Carrie, she’s everything he’s ever dreamed of. However, he’s harbouring a dark secret from his past and on top of that he’s experiencing a series of strange daily occurrences.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Marina Abramović travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian countryside, exploring the limits between art and spirituality. The film features healing sessions with the medium John of God in Abadiania, herb healers in Chapada dos Veadeiros, spiritual rituals at Vale do Amanhecer in Brasilia, the strength of religious syncretism in Bahia, ayahuasca in Chapada Diamantina, shamanic processes in Curitiba and energy of crystals in Minas Gerais
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. {Icelandic} The Cliff is a dramatic mystery about a Reykjavik Crime Detective who is sent to a small rural community in Iceland to help a young local policewoman investigate a suspicious accident. Together they unravel a mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths, happening against the backdrop of a controversial hydroelectric project in Iceland.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. 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.
AVAILABLE NOW ON DEMAND AND DVD. Captain Marianne Aubrais is a detective with the Le Havre Police Department. Should she believe a child who tells her that his mother is not his mother? After all, she is busy investigating a robbery that happened months ago. Stolen goods worth hundreds of thousands of euros have not been recovered and two fugitives are still at large. But if the kid’s story is not pure fantasy, it would be truly criminal to ignore it. The little boy’s memories are fading. If he is telling the truth, will he never grow up to be the adult he should have become? Will he finally be forced to accept the unthinkable and allow himself to be raised by a woman who may have abducted him?
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. {Danish} 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.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. The Mystery of Happiness is from Award-winning director Daniel Burman (Lost Embrace). Santiago and Eugenio are more than friends, they are life long business partners. They understand each other without words, they care for each other and they need each other. One day Eugenio disappears without leaving any clues behind. Santiago immediately notices his absence, but only realises what’s happened when Eugenio’s wife, Laura, lost and hopeless assures him that Eugenio has left on his own accord. Santiago and Laura set out on a journey to find him and end up discovering a whole lot more… A funny and poignant film about midlife crisis, relationships and dreams.
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND AND DVD. Curious to see how the Method works first hand, filmmaker Alexandre Mourot sets his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France (with kids from 3 to 6) and observes. The teacher remains discreet. Alexandre was warmly welcomed in a surprisingly calm and peaceful environment, filled with flowers, fruits and Montessori materials. He met happy children, who were free to move about, working alone or in small groups. Some children were reading, others were making bread, doing division, laughing or sleeping. The children guided the film director throughout the whole school year, helping him to understand the magic of their autonomy and self-esteem – the seeds of a new society of peace and freedom, which Maria Montessori dedicated her life work to.