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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... |
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... |
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... |
The Biggest Little Farm
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
I Think We're Alone Now
[ Madman / DVD - released 11/Apr/2019 ] Del (Peter Dinklage) is alone in the world. After the human race is wiped out, he lives in his small, empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he's methodically created for himself -- until he is discovered by Grace (Elle Fanning), an... |
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... |
Searching
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 19/Dec/2018 ] After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where... |
Generation Wealth
[ Madman / DVD - released 6/Dec/2018 ] For the past 25 years acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles, Thin, kids+money, # likeagirl) has travelled the world, documenting with ethnographic precision and an artist's sensitivity a vast range of... |
I Am Not A Witch
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 12/Jul/2018 ] Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp in the middle of a desert. At the camp she takes part in an... |
City Of Ghosts
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/May/2018 ] A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group... |
A Ghost Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 24/Nov/2017 ] With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost... |
The Innocents
[ Reel DVD / DVD - released 9/Aug/2017 ] A Polish nun asks Mathilde Beaulieu, a young Red Cross intern in charge of caring for French survivors before they are repatriated, to help her. At first reticent, Mathilde finally accepts to follow the nun to her convent, where thirty Benedictine... |
Gleason
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Jul/2017 ] The hit documentary from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival goes inside the life of Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints defensive back who, at the age of 34, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. Weeks later,... |
