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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... |
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr! |
The Dark Horse
[ Sony Pictures DVD / DVD - released 10/Dec/2014 ] Genesis Potini is a wildly charismatic, bi-polar suffering former chess champion, at a crossroads in his life. Gen is released from a psych ward and given a last chance at life in society. With nowhere else to go, he moves into his... |
Gurrumul
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music... |
Tokyo Story: Restored And Remastered
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 12/Jan/2017 ] restored and remastered. An elderly couple travel from rural Japan to Tokyo on a once-in-a-lifetime visit to their adult children. On arrival, they discover the burgeoning capital and the priorities of their family are distinctly different to their... |
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 |
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... |
Chronesthesia
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2017 ] When emotionally isolated barista Dan Duncombe starts receiving strange messages on the inside of his bedroom window, he is forced to become involved with the lives of the people around him … and by changing their lives, he changes his... |
The Dancer
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 8/Mar/2018 ] French singer/actress Soko (Augustine) and Lily-Rose Depp lead a star-studded cast in Stéphanie Di Giusto's spectacularly mounted screen biography, inspired by the true story of two rival pioneers of modern dance and theatrical performance in late... |
Foxtrot
[ Madman / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] Michael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. Michael becomes increasingly frustrated by overzealous relatives and well-meaning army bureaucrats. While his sedated wife rests,... |
Happy End
[ Madman / DVD - released 12/Jul/2018 ] Gradually succumbing to dementia, George Laurent, the octogenarian patriarch of the Laurents, an affluent upper-bourgeois family, is uncomfortably sharing his palatial manor in Calais, the heart of the infamous migrant jungle, with his twice-married... |
I Am Not Your Negro
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 14/Dec/2017 ] Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck (The Man by the Shore, Moloch Tropical, Murder in Pacot), returns with a transcendent documentary examining the life and work of literary iconoclast and queer icon James Baldwin. The Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro... |
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... |
The Insult
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] The internationally acclaimed new film from multi award-winning writer/director Ziad Doueiri, 2018 Oscar-nominee THE INSULT is a thrilling new legal drama centering on a minor disagreement that escalates into a nationwide controversy. The present... |
Leave No Trace
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 19/Dec/2018 ] New Zealand actress Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie is mesmerising as 13-year-old Tom living off the grid with her war vet father (Ben Foster) in this haunting new film from the director of Winter's Bone. A father and daughter live a perfect but... |
Love Story
[ Rialto Distribution Ltd DVD / DVD - released 9/May/2013 ] M:Contains sexual themes. A beautiful stranger on the Coney Island train becomes both lead actress and real life object of desire in this choose your own adventure documentary about writing a fictional love story on the streets of New York... |
Mia Madre (My Mother)
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 13/Oct/2016 ] Margherita (Buy) is directing a new social drama, set against the backdrop of an industrial dispute. Try as she may to remain professional, the emotional turmoil of her private life is taking a toll: an affair with one of her actors (Enrico... |
The National: Mistaken For Strangers
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] In 2010, The National released their fifth album, High Violet. After ten years as critical darlings, the band was finally enjoying wider recognition. As they were about to embark on the biggest tour of their career, lead singer Matt Berninger invited... |
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... |
Rams
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 15/Dec/2016 ] Who would have thought that a tale about sheep in rural Iceland could bring tears to your eyes? Grímur Hakonarson's RAMS does just that. Majestically shot in a spectacular, weather-swept valley, this wryly observed fable about two brothers who are... |
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
[ HiGloss / DVD - released 11/Apr/2019 ] "I want to make more music" was the reaction of Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto when he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. Not long after his treatment he started making a new album, async, which came out at the beginning of... |
Sami Blood
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Aug/2018 ] A breakout critical discovery of the 2016 Venice International Film Festival, Swedish-Sami filmmaker Amanda Kernell's striking directorial debut is a female coming-of-age story told with emotional power. During the 1930s in Sweden, indigenous Sami... |
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... |
Spookers
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 25/Oct/2017 ] As night falls at Spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary people become freaks, zombies and chainsaw-wielding clowns. Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern... |
Summer 1993
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 10/Jan/2019 ] The breakout critical discovery of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, where it was named Best First Feature, Carla Simón's autobiographical jewel is one of the most evocative and affecting depictions of childhood seen in years. In the summer of 1993,... |
Top Of The Lake: China Girl (Season 2)
[ Sony Pictures DVD / 2 DVD - released 27/Jun/2018 ] In this crime mystery story, Detective Robin Griffin has recently returned to Sydney and is trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realises... |
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... |
Una
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] UNA follows a young woman's journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, Una ran away with an older man, Ray, a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes across a photo of him in a trade magazine, Una tracks him down and... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
Crossing Rachmaninoff
A documentary by Rebecca Tansley (Blu-ray) [ Rialto Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Sep/2016 ] Enthralled, like its hero, by the turmoil, lyricism and sheer melodic grandeur of one of the most beloved works in the Romantic piano repertoire, Rebecca Tansley's documentary recounts the voyage of Italian-born Auckland pianist Flavio Villani. From... |
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.... |
American Animals
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] From Bart Layton (The Imposter) and starring Evan Peters (The X-Men Series), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk & The Killing of the Sacred Deer), and Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale) comes the extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends living an... |
The Eagle Huntress (DVD & Blu-Ray)
[ Sony Pictures DVD / 2 Blu-ray - released 26/Jul/2017 ] A spellbinding true story about a 13-year-old girl on an epic journey to become the first female eagle hunter. Follow Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an... |
Good Time
[ HiGloss DVD / DVD - released 14/Dec/2017 ] After a botched bank robbery lands his vulnerable younger brother in prison, small-time hustler Constantine (Robert Pattinson) is plunged into the buzzing labyrinth of New York's underworld in an increasingly desperate attempt to free the only family... |
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... |
Kedi
[ HiGloss DVD / DVD - released 7/Dec/2017 ] Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the streets of Istanbul, neither wild nor tame. This is the story of seven of them. For millennia, cats have roamed the city of Istanbul. Granted freedom and respect, they wander in and out of people's lives, an... |
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... |
Mega Time Squad
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] A small-town crim finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in... |
