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.
USA – 2007 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RY RUSSO-YOUNG
A heartbreaking story of two estranged sisters reunited at an isolated farmhouse in the dead of winter. When the events take an unexpected turn, the sisters revisit their dark and dangerous past.
Two estranged sisters reunite five years after the death of their parents. Now in their early twenties, Rosie and Sonia each struggle to make it on their own. When the anticipated party is not what Rosie expects, Sonia's true agenda is revealed. The sisters begin to revisit their treacherous history. As Sonia slugs vodka and Rosie eats pills, their journey becomes dark and dangerous.
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.
ITALY – 2008 – 75 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY GIANNI DI GREGORIO
Gianni is a middle-aged man, the only son of his widowed mother, with whom he lives in an old house in central Rome. Living under the tyranny of this impoverished aristocrat, his life drags on between housework and going to the bar.
THAILAND / UNITED KINGDOM – 2012 – 57 MIN – COLOUR - SHORT - IN THAI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
USA – 2012 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SALLY ROWE
A MATTER OF TASTE takes an intimate look inside the world of an immensely talented and driven young chef, Paul Liebrandt. At 24, he was awarded three stars by the New York Times for unforgettable and hyper modern dishes such as "eel, violets and chocolate," "espuma of calf brains and foie gras," and "beer and truffle soup."
USA – 2014 – 127 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JONATHAN DEMME
A MASTER BUILDER unites Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme with two of American theatre and cinema’s most ingenious provocateurs, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn. It is based on Gregory’s near-legendary theatrical production of Shawn’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Master Builder Solness; a production that was rehearsed and performed over a 14-year period. Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn), is a very successful architect in his sixties. He exercises tight control over his wife Aline (Julie Hagerty), who is in permanent mourning for their only two children, who died as infants. And tight control over his employees: the old architect Knut Brovik (André Gregory), Brovik’s talented son Ragnar (Jeff Biehl), whom Solness keeps in a lowly position, and Kaya (Emily McDonnell), Ragnar’s fiancée, who is Solness’s book-keeper and sexual companion. Shawn’s adaptation hues very closely to the original Ibsen with one astonishing ‘Shawnian’ departure — while perfectly healthy in Ibsen's original version, Shawn introduces Solness on his deathbed with only hours to live. When Hilde (Lisa Joyce), a mysterious young woman comes to visit, the once dominating, controlling and narcissistic Solness finds himself apparently revived in every possible way. Intense, intimate and painful, A MASTER BUILDER is a witty, mystical and psychologically complex interpretation of Ibsen’s masterpiece.
USA – 2011 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MATTHEW AKERS
Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits — and at times risking her life in the process — she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time.
NEPAL / USA – 2013 – 118 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN NEPALI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY STEPHANIE SPRAY & PACHO VELEZ
PRODUCED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LABORATORY
High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana.
USA – 2004 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY PETER FRIEDMAN
All over the world, in every society, there are objects that have special power over people. People climb mountains or make pilgrimages just to see or touch them. They prostrate themselves or engage in rituals in their presence, caress them in the hopes of absorbing some of their magic, they enshrine them in temples or pass them on to descendants; wear them or store them in treasure houses or sometimes burn them. An individual object might hold power over only one group or even just one person, but the phenomenon of “power objects” is universal.
AUSTRALIA – 2010 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MARK HARTLEY
MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is the first detailed examination and celebration of Filipino genre filmmaking — a world where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make-up guy was packin' heat!
USA – 2004 – 163 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY THOM ANDERSEN
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF is an essay on how the movies have depicted Los Angeles a city symphony in reverse — a symphony with many directions and speeds. A critical history — and counter-history — of Los Angeles via clips from an eclectic list of movies. Many of them are well known (Chinatown, Blade Runner, L.A. Confidential); others are rarer finds (The Exiles, Bush Mama, Killer of Sheep).
USA – 2007 – 81 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JOE SWANBERG
Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life.
USA – 2010 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MIKE OTT
When her car breaks down on a site-seeing tour of California, a Japanese student winds up stranded in a small desert town.
Exhilarated by a sudden sense of freedom, she extends her stay and finds friendship, romance, and what promises to be a new home. But as she pulls back the layers on this unlikely paradise, she discovers a different America than the one in her dreams.
JAPAN / FRANCE – 2012 – 109 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty-four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
FRANCE / KYRGYZSTAN / GERMANY / NETHERLANDS – 2010 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN KIRGHIZ WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY AKTAN ARYTM KUBAT
They call him "Svet-ake" ("Mr. Light"). The electrician is responsible for bringing more than just light to the people around him. Like moths, everybody is drawn to his kindness: those with short circuits in their electricity, and those with short circuits in their marriage, those who have taken all the power in the city, and those who have given up the will to live. He helps everyone and is everywhere. He doesn't even shy from breaking the law, rewinding an old and lonely pensioner's electricity meter so that he doesn't owe the State, but rather the State owes him.
