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USA – 2003 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY CRAIG HIGHBERGER
SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time.
RUSSIA / ITALY / SWITZERLAND/ FRANCE – 2005 – 118 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE
FILM BY ALEXANDER SOKUROV
THE SUN by acclaimed Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov is the third in a trilogy on pivotal historic figures that have held "ultimate power". Following Moloch (on Hitler) and Taurus (on Lenin), this bold new work takes as its subject Emperor Hirohito (Issey Ogata), in the summer of 1945 during the Allied occupation of Japan.
FRANCE – 2011 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY PAUL LACOSTE
In 2009, Michel Bras, at the head of a 3-star restaurant (Michelin guide), in the heart of the Aubrac region, decides to hand over to his son Sébastien.
A father and his son. Both at a crucial time in their careers.
Is it possible to pass on one’s life’s work? Is it so easy for a son to make a name for himself?
This film is the story of a family over three generations, a fine reflection on passing down know-how, on heritage.
USA / FRANCE – 2009 – 82 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY BILL GUTTENTAG & DAN STURMAN
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION tells the story of the American civil rights movement through the powerful music the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in paddy wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.
GERMANY / FRANCE / NETHERLANDS – 2011 – 91 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN FRENCH, GERMAN, DUTCH, BASSE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ULRICH KÖHLER
Ebbo and Vera Velten have been living in Africa for a long time. Ebbo is managing a sleeping sickness program. His work is fulfilling. In contrast, Vera feels increasingly uncomfortable with her life in the expat community of Yaoundé and the separation from her daughter Helen, 14, who is attending boarding school in Germany.
Ebbo has to give up his life in Africa or he loses the women he loves. But he has become a stranger to Europe. His fear of returning increases from day to day.
Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. He hasn't been to Africa for a long time. But instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man: like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
USA – 2005 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
FILM BY DAVID ZEIGER
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
AUSTRALIA – 2011 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY CHRISTOPHER NELIUS & JUSTIN MCMILLAN
STORM SURFERS is an epic, real-life adventure following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia. Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll enlist the help of surf forecaster Ben Matson and together they track and chase giant storms across the Great Southern Ocean.
USA – 2013 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON
SHORT TERM 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty- something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.)
GERMANY – 2001 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER
"That rare film about an artist that is, in itself, a work of art, RIVERS AND TIDES Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time is an extraordinary journey into the world and mind of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. A land-artist who uses materials from nature to make site-specific works, Goldsworthy allows the elements to have the last say in his beautiful creations, as his ingenious patterns of wood, leaves, stone and ice move and erode over time.
USA – 2010 – 85 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JON FOY
Filmmaker Jon Foy and Philadelphia-based artist and musician Justin Duerr began planning a documentary film about the Toynbee Tiles in 2000. Five years later, they began filming their investigation of these strange street plaques embedded in the asphalt of major U.S. and South American urban intersections that had held Duerr's fascination for over a decade. Having appeared on hundreds of reported examples from the mid-1980s to present, the cryptic four-line message of the Toynbee Tiles read: "Toynbee Idea / In Kubrick's 2001 / Resurrect Dead / On Planet Jupiter". While the text on the plaques was clear enough, neither Duerr nor the numerous media outlets that had documented the phenomenon knew what these tiles meant, how or why they were installed, or who was responsible for them.
ROMANIA – 20O9 – 115 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY CORNELIU PORUMBOIU
Confirming that the new Romanian cinema is no flash in the pan, Corneliu Porumboiu has followed up his Caméra d'Or-winning “12:08 East of Bucharest” with the magnificently conceived and executed POLICE, ADJECTIVE, cementing his reputation as one of Europe's most exciting new talents.
Cristi is a policeman who refuses to arrest a young man who offers hashish to two of his school mates.
“Offering” is punished by the law. Cristi believes that the law will change, he does not want the life of a young man he considers irresponsible to be a burden on his conscience.
For his superior the word conscience has a different meaning.
USA – 2011 – 119 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY CAMERON CROWE
Two decades in, Pearl Jam remains a giant musical force and one of the biggest, most magnetic touring acts in the world. They have sold over 60 million albums worldwide. They have collected a mountain of accolades. And they continue to create and perform great music. On their own terms.
This film is the story of what that looks like, told in big themes and bold colours with blistering sound. Carved from over 1,200 hours or rarely-seen and never-before seen footage spanning the band's career, plus 24 hours of recently shot footage — concert, verité and interview, PEARL JAM TWENTY is the definitive portrait of Pearl Jam: part concert film, part insider-hang, part testimonial to the power of music and uncompromising artists.
GERMANY – 2012 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
FILM BY PEACHES
Following the advice of a 65 year old stripper, Peaches makes music that is sexually forthright. Her popularity grows and she becomes what her fans expect her to be — transsexual. She soon falls in love with a beautiful she male, but Peaches gets her heart broken and has to realize who she really is.
USA – 2013 – 99 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MARK LEVINSON & DAVID KAPLAN
For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. PARTICLE FEVER follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation.
USA – 2013 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
FILM BY PENNY LANE
Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison. This unique and personal visual record, created by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, was seized by the FBI during the Watergate investigation, then filed away and forgotten for almost 40 years. OUR NIXON is an all-archival documentary presenting those home movies for the first time, along with other rare footage, creating an intimate and complex portrait of the Nixon presidency as never seen before.
NORWAY – 2011 – 96 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JOACHIM TRIER
Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn't seen in a long while. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning.
UNITED KINGDOM – 2009 – 74 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY TERENCE DAVIES
OF TIME AND THE CITY is both a love song and a eulogy to the director's birthplace of Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes its toll.
Terence Davies returns to his native liverpool and to his film making roots to capture a sense of the city today and its influences on him growing up in the late 40s and early 50s.
Liverpool's phoenix-like rise is portrayed like it's never been seen before; how a city can change itself and the people under its influence...
USA – 2006 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY BILL FISHMAN
MY DINNER WITH JIMI is an autobiographical film written by Howard Kaylan, produced by Harold Bronson and directed by Bill Fishman, it is a story not only of the rock band The Turtles, but of the pop music scene in general of 1966-1967.
The film chronicles the events leading up to the night in 1967 when Howard Kaylan met Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles.
“It’s an absolutely true story,” Kaylan recounts. “It was our first trip to London, and we met Graham Nash, Donovan, the Stones, and the Beatles-who played us Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band before it was released-all on the same night! I wound up eating dinner with Hendrix at 4 a.m...!”
AUSTRIA / USA – 2012 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN GERMAN & ENGLISH
A FILM BY JEM COHEN
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world.
USA – 1981 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY ABEL FERRARA
Abel Ferrara’s (Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York) 1981 revenge thriller classic MS. 45 follows a mute garment-district seamstress – played by the late model/ actress/ musician/ screenwriter Zoë Lund – who after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, ignites her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population. Now remastered in HD from the original negative materials.
