USA – 2007 – 78 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY AARON KATZ
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.
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!