An Inconvenient Truth
[ Paramount Home Entertainment / DVD - released 14/Jul/2010 ] A Global Warning. Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic... |
Apollo 11
[ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 11/Dec/2019 ] From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the... |
The Father
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 2/Sep/2021 ] Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can't make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is... |
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... |
Ophelia
[ Madman / DVD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] One of the world's greatest dramas is turned on its head through a bold and new perspective in OPHELIA. Set in medieval Denmark and spoken in a modern tongue with a poetic twist, it recalibrates the classic Shakespearean tragedy of "Hamlet" so that... |
Painter And The Thief, The
[ Madman / DVD - released 12/Aug/2021 ] Desperate for answers about the theft of two of her paintings, Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an... |
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... |
Shayda
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 8/Feb/2024 ] SHAYDA, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women's shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda's... |
Squaring the Circle
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 8/Feb/2024 ] The Story of Hipgnosis Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn's first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell, the creative... |
Whale Rider 20th Anniversary Edition
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 17/Nov/2022 ] On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the... |