2014/ USA/ GREECE/ 85 MINS
FEATURING JOHANNA TRUJILLO, ROBERTO SANCHEZ, ELOY MENDEZ
DIRECTED BY: MIKE OTT
Francisco, a middle-aged Cuban exile working at a holding house for il- legal immigrants crosses paths with Cecilia, a 10 year old Mexican girl who has crossed the border without her family.
ITALY / POLAND / CANADA – 2006 – 155 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY GIACOMO BATTIATO
POLAND / ITALY – 2014 – 186 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY GIACOMO BATTIATO
Karol Woityla is a boy of eighteen on the threshold of life as an actor, writer and poet when he sees his world shattered with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. This CBC event mini-series follows his decision to become a priest and his struggles under the Nazi regime and later under communism, including the journey that would eventually lead him to Rome and the Papacy. Directed by Giacomo Battiato. Produced in co-production with Tao Due, Starring Poitr Adamczyk, Raul Bova, Hristo Shopov, Matt Craven, and Kenneth Welsh.
AUSTRALIA – 2003 – 110 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE
A FILM BY SUE BROOKS
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to babysit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima), a taciturn Japanese businessman. Hoping to strike up a business deal, she agrees to take him on a field trip around Western Australia's remote Pilbara desert. Against the background of the outback these two diametrically opposed strangers are to find themselves thrust together in a potentially life or death situation. As they journey further and further into the desert, they leave more and more of what they know about each other and themselves behind.
USA – 2006 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MARY JORDON
USA – 1968 – 103 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968. History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example.
UNITED KINGDOM / USA – 2013 – 75 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY TOMAS LEACH
CANADA – 2004 – 96 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MARK A. LEWIS
NON-THEATRICAL: AVAILABLE FOR TV, VOD & FILM FESTIVALS ONLY
UNITED KINGDOM / USA – 1989 – 86 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
Pursued by the FBI since childhood, de Antonio reflects on his life as a radical filmmaker documenting art and politics during the cold war years.
UNITED KINGDOM / SPAIN / GERMANY / USA – 2010 – 78 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY CARLOS CARCAS AND NORBERTO LÓPEZ AMADO
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH MR. FOSTER? traces the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.
ICELAND / DENMARK – 2012 – 62 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ICELANDIC & DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY INGIBJÖRG BIRGISDÓTTIR, ORRI JONSSON & KRISTÍN BJÖRK KRISTJÁNSDÓTTIR
At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from her living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 song; an eccentric myriad of catch compositions mixing in her pets' purrs and coos, found toys, kitchen percussion and casio keyboards.
USA – 2010 – 85 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SCOTT CROCKER
Set in a murky swamp overrun with birders, scientists, and reporters, GHOST BIRD explores the limits of certainty, the seductive power of hope, and how one phantom woodpecker changed a sleepy Southern town forever.
CANADA – 2005 – 45 MIN – COLOUR - SHORT - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY VINCENZO NATALI
Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali uses the production of Terry Gilliam’s TIDELAND as a framework to create a compelling portrait of the director as artist, provocateur, inventor and comedian.
GERMANY – 2014 – 94 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY FELIX MOELLER
,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key.
USA – 2011 – 60 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY BILLY MARTIN
FEATURING MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD
Taking a look into the minds and lives of the band, drummer/percussionist Billy Martin directed the first feature film in the band's history.
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.
