UNITED KINGDOM – 1982 – 108 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY PETER GREENAWAY
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway’s sumptuous and sensuously charged brainteaser catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway’s first narrative feature weaves a labyrinthine mystery around the maxim “draw what you see, not what you know.” An aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s property while he is away — in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.
AUSTRIA / BELGIUM / FRANCE / GERMANY – 2004 – 107 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN & SWAHILI
A FILM BY HUBERT SAUPER
A devastating and extremely topical award-winning documentary. DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE is a shocking look at how globalization has caused a country to condemn the majority of its starving population to slavery, prostitution and drug addiction while every day over-fed Europeans dine off of its vast stocks of Nile Perch. Compulsory viewing for anyone enjoying the privileges of the Western lifestyle.
USA – 2006 – 109 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY STEPHEN SIMON (AKA STEPHEN DEUTSCH)
Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch, that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD tells the true story of when, at the lowest point in Walsch's (Henry Czerny) life, he asked God some very hard questions.
ITALY – 2005 – 89 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ROBERTO FAENZA
The true story of Father Pino Puglisi’s plight to help the large number of underprivileged children in Palermo, Sicily. But in his battle against widespread corruption, and his determination to find justice, he drew attention to himself, leading ultimately to his brutal murder by the local Mafia.
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA – 2010 – 113 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN BOSNIAN, SERBIAN & CROATIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY DANIS TANOVIC
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. The communists have fallen from power and Divko Buntic returns to the small town where he grew up to reclaim his family home. After a 20-year exile in Germany, Divko arrives in his flashy red Mercedes with sexy young girlfriend Azra, lucky black cat Bonny and a pocketful of Deutschmarks.
BRAZIL – 2005 – 99 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN GERMAN & PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY MARCELO GOMES
The Brazilian, recalling his great-uncle’s yarns, spins a tale about the encounter of two men in search of a better future: Johann, a young German fleeing the war, and Ranulpho, a Brazilian seeking an escape from the oppressive drought in his home province. Merrily rolling from village to village, they screen a film advertising the miraculous powers of a patent medicine, thereby introducing the rural folk to the magic of cinema.
USA – 2007 – 85 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY HOWARD BIBERMAN
BRUSH WITH LIFE: THE ART OF BEING EDWARD BIBERMAN brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. Both epic and surprisingly intimate, the film presents a classic American immigrant saga, an inspiring search for artistic independence, and a great romance. Along the way, Biberman's growing commitment to social justice and struggle against McCarthy-era repression (his brother, director Herbert Biberman, went to prison as one of The Hollywood Ten) combine with his efforts to create both a loving family life and a groundbreaking body of work.
USA – 2003 – 111 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RICK MCKAY
The most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. It is award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay's journey over 4 continents and 5 years to find out whether there had been a golden age of theatre and why it had never been documented. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print — but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered... In their own words — and not a moment too soon — BROADWAY tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in theatre.
USA – 2012 – 70 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY C. SCOTT SHUFFITT
On February 13, 2010, John Timmons (owner of ear X-tacy Records in Louisville, Kentucky) held a press conference to inform the local community that his business was in financial trouble and would potentially have to close its doors after nearly twenty-five years of service. How could this happen? How could this cultural center within my community close? What would my city look like without its influence? All these questions started running through my mind and a few days after the press conference, I decided I had to look deeper into this story.
Ear X-tacy is a landmark within Louisville. It has hosted scores of in-store performances by a growing list of artists that include the Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket and John Mayer. Jim James, lead singer of My Morning Jacket, says that there would be no My Morning Jacket if it were not for ear X-tacy. The store has consistently been ranked at the top of its industry by magazines including Playboy, Rolling Stone, Paste, and Spin. Timmons, who worked in record stores for over thirty-five years, has been a mentor and vital influence in the local community, and was instrumental in the organization of Louisville Independent Business Association.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
The ear X-tacy story didn't pop up on my radar immediately it was though facebook that I started hearing about the shop being in trouble.
I missed the first press conference, but I was thinking a lot about the situation and what the store meant to me, and the community. A day or so after the press conference I woke up around 5 am and it was then that I decided to move forward with the documentary. I called John the next day and told him about my idea and he was willing to give me an interview and open up the store to me. Our first interview was on February 22nd 2009, from that point I've spent hours with John and his staff and have traveled to Birmingham, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati, Lexington and Austin following the store of what indie record shops mean to their communities, what struggles the owners are facing and how they are facing them.
USA – 2011 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY ALMA HAR'EL
The desolate and surreal Salton Sea in California stands as a formidable metaphor for the broken American dream. The largest lake in all of California, was created when the Colorado River flooded the windswept desert, carrying the river’s entire volume into the Salton Sink over a period of approximately two years. A dam was built and water filled the basin — the Salton Sea was born.
CANADA – 2004 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JERRY CICCORITTI
Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, Emily Hampshire
Best Adapted Screenplay, Jerry Ciccoritti
Adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by tour-de-force author Tom Walmsley, BLOOD tells the story of reuniting siblings Noelle and Chris. They trade control and fantasies in a debate between destroying and reconciling with the other. By experimenting with the many manifestations of love, the result is a blunt, passionate, and darkly comic look at two people struggling for salvation.
CANADA / FRANCE – 2012 – 72 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - NO SPOKEN LANGUAGE
A FILM BY DENIS CÔTÉ
Animals/People: Along the rhythm of the changing seasons they watch one another. BESTIAIRE unfolds like a filmed picture book about mutual observation, about peculiar perception. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of lose, calm and indefinable elements.
USA – 2005 – 118 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY DAN GELLER & DAYNA GOLDFINE
The revolutionary 20th-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes began as a group of Russian refugees, who never danced in Russia, and became not one but two rival dance troupes. 'Ballets Russes' begins with the company's Diaghilev-era in turn-of-the-century Paris -- when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Miro, Matisse and Stravinsky united in an unparalleled collaboration. The film then explores the company's halcyon days of the 1930s and '40s, when the Ballets Russes toured America and finally the company's demise in 1950s and '60s.
CANADA – 2014 – 120 MIN – COLOUR
CREATED BY PATRICK CROWE AND THOMAS WALLNER
Anxietyville is the story of six urban neurotics living technologically accelerated lives in a world that feels increasingly unreal… because it is.
In fact, these people don’t live in the real world at all.
CANADA – 2013 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY KIRK SCHRIEFER
NON-THEATRICAL: AVAILABLE FOR TV, VOD & FILM FESTIVALS ONLY
Pete Miller, Janet Sloan and Stan Winston attend the funeral of their friend, Keith Owens, and discover that Keith left his pub, “The Angel Inn”, to them under the condition that all three of them take equal ownership. Despite Keith's weird offer, Pete, Janet and Stan each find reasons to accept.
USA – 1970 – 90 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Campaign for the presidency. The making of a political alliance against an unpopular war and President. The failure at Chicago. Decisive on the working of Democratic politics from college town to convention.
CHINA – 2004 – 133 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN MANDARIN, RUSSIAN, AND ENGLISH
A FILM BY JIA ZHANGKE
THE WORLD focuses on a young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others who work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Bejing suburbs. Daily lavish shows are performed amongst replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, Big Ben, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers. But working beyond the kitsch potential, THE WORLD casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships and desperate dreams of these provincial workers.
Jia, whom The Village Voice calls “the world’s greatest filmmaker under 40,” has created his funniest, most inventive and touching work to date, from the sensational opening tracking shot to poetic flourishes of animation and clever use of text-messaging.
USA – 2010 – 93 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMMETT MALLOY
In the summer of 2007, shortly after the release of their 6th album Icky Thump, The White Stripes headed north of their hometown of Detroit to embark on an ambitious journey across Canada. The plan was to play a show in every province and territory in Canada, from B.C. to Newfoundland to Nunavut. “Having never done a tour of Canada, Meg and I thought it was high time to go whole hog… from the ocean to the permafrost” says Jack White. “We wanted to play out of the way towns that don’t usually get shows… the shows are better, it’s better for the people, it’s a better experience, it’s way more unique, something interesting is going to happen…hopefully.”
USA – 2002 – 92 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SAM GREEN & BILL SIEGEL
USA – 2014 – 120 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EDET BELZBERG
WATCHERS OF THE SKY interweaves four stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin — the man who created the word "genocide," and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem From Hell, WATCHERS OF THE SKY takes you on a provocative journey from Nuremberg to The Hague, from Bosnia to Darfur, from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action.
