CHINA – 2013 – 129 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JIA ZHANGKE
An angry miner revolts against the corruption of his village leaders. A migrant worker at home for the New Year discovers the infinite possibilities a firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is pushed to the limit when a rich client assaults her. A young factory worker goes from job to job trying to improve his lot in life.
Four people, four different provinces. A reflection on contemporary China: that of an economic giant slowly being eroded by violence.
GERMANY – 2011 – 120 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY TOM TYKWER
Berlin, today. Very urban couple Hanna and Simon have lived together for years. Love, work, sex and daily life have meshed into combative harmony.
Then Hanna meets Adam. And Adam meets Simon.
Unexpectedly, all three fall in love.
Everyone remains oblivious to the other's affair. But the secret slowly begins to confuse all three lovers, and it threatens to rupture their fragile relationship.
THREE is an investigation into the emotional life of a generation that is trying to reconcile new possibilities and old longings.
PORTUGAL / GERMANY / BRAZIL / FRANCE – 2012 – 110 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY MIGUEL GOMES
A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbour devoted to social causes live on the same floor of a Lisbon apartment building. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films.
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 – 2006 – 70 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY BRETT RAPKIN
EATURING BILL (SPACEMAN) LEE
Throughout the 1970’s, Bill Lee was the ultimate gonzo baseball player, a brilliant left-handed pitcher who flouted every manager or front office executive who tried to control him. The fans loved him and so did the sportswriters who delighted in asking the usual baseball questions, only to get philosophical responses involving the relationship between Camus and the curveball or the effects of arma on a pitcher’s rotator cuff.
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.)
CANADA – 2009 – 97 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY STASHA BADER
What is Rocksteady? Rocksteady is a music style that developed in Jamaica in the late sixties of the last century and is the ultimate predecessor and foundation of Reggae. For the untrained ear, it sounds just the same. Out of this era come a few songs which have become world hits in later interpretations, such as "The Tide is High" by Blondie or "No No No" by Dawn Penn. The record that will be released along with the movie will include all these major hits.
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.
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.
