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I'm Your Man
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 12/May/2022 ] Recently separated forty-something Alma is a research scientist and entirely dedicated to her work. Needing research funds, she's persuaded by her supervisor to participate in an extraordinary study: for three weeks she must live with a human-like... |
Photograph
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 9/Jul/2020 ] Ritesh Batra returns to the Mumbai streets of his festival favourite The Lunchbox (NZIFF14) with this delightful romance that doubles as a sensuous love letter to that bustling metropolis. The plot, in which a poor street photographer Rafi convinces... |
Come to Daddy
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 17/Jun/2020 ] Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), a privileged man-child, arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father (Martin Donovan, Tenet), who he hasn't seen in 30 years. He quickly discovers that not... |
Come to Daddy (Blu-ray)
[ Umbrella / Blu-ray - released 17/Jun/2020 ] Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), a privileged man-child, arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father (Martin Donovan, Tenet), who he hasn't seen in 30 years. He quickly discovers that not... |
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and... |
Sorry We Missed You
[ DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] From legendary director Ken Loach, SORRY WE MISSED YOU tells the story of Ricky and his family who have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a... |
Working Woman
[ Madman NZ / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] Orna, a mother of three young children, returns to the workforce when her husband's new restaurant is failing. She secures a job as an assistant to Benny, a real estate developer whose interest in her isn't entirely professional. Smart and capable,... |
The Third Wife
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Mar/2020 ] In 19th century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will take her by surprise and force her to make a choice between living in safety and being... |
Birds Of Passage
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 13/Feb/2020 ] The highly anticipated new film from the creators of the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego's astounding BIRDS OF PASSAGE is an epic, visually exquisite story about the origin of the Colombian drug trade, told... |
Yuli
[ Lime Light / DVD - released 13/Feb/2020 ] Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His... |
2040
[ Madman / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.... |
2040 (Blu-Ray)
[ Madman / Blu-ray - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.... |
Hail Satan?
[ Madman / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, HAIL SATAN? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). When... |
Woman At War
[ HiGloss / DVD - released 10/Oct/2019 ] Halla is a fifty-year-old independent Icelandic woman, a respected choir leader who lives a mysterious double life. Known to the public only by her alias "The Mountain Woman," Halla is a passionate environmental activist, secretly waging a... |
Celia
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Celia Lashlie was a fearless, impassioned and charismatic advocate for the at-risk and vulnerable. In this documentary, she lays it all out in an honest and heartfelt way that inspires us all to make a difference in our own lives and to the... |
The Kindergarten Teacher
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Stuck in an unsatisfying marriage and with teenage children who ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) treads water by teaching kindergarten with quiet dispassion. One day everything changes when Lisa discovers that Jimmy, a... |
Yellow Is Forbidden
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Yellow Is Forbidden is a modern day Cinderella story where the brave, diminutive and daring heroine's dream doesn't end at the ball. Guo Pei is chasing every designer's fantasy to become part of the exclusive yet savage world of Haute Couture. |
Transit
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Jul/2019 ] In Christian Petzold's (Barbara, Phoenix) haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is... |
Capharnaum
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Jun/2019 ] Sao Paulo International Film Festival: WINNER Best Feature Film Sarajevo Film Festival: WINNER Audience Award Norwegian International Film Festival: WINNER Audience Award Melbourne International Film Festival: WINNER People's Choice Award |
Let The Sunshine In
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Apr/2019 ] Juliette Binoche shines in this Cannes Directors' Fortnight award-winning romantic comedy from iconic French director Claire Denis. After exploring the darker side of human nature in MIFF 2013's Bastards, Claire Denis returns with a lighter - but... |
