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A Flickering Truth
[ Umbrella DVD / DVD - released 22/Feb/2017 ] Director Pietra Brettkelly (The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins) follows a group of dedicated Afghan cinephiles who are literally excavating their country's cinematic past, as they seek to retrieve over 8,000 hours of film footage that they risked... |
Folies Bergere
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 11/Jun/2015 ] Long married 50-somethings Brigitte (the fabulous Isabelle Huppert) and Xavier (Jean-Pierre Daroussin) are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has locked Brigitte into a mind-numbing... |
Frank
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Oct/2014 ] FRANK is an offbeat comedy about Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large... |
The Free Man
[ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 27/Dec/2017 ] Freedom is defined as the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity. To reach that level of liberty is a physical and mental endeavor that many will risk their life to obtain. Is life... |
Free To Run
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Feb/2017 ] Today, all anybody needs to run is the determination and a pair of the right shoes. But just fifty years ago, running was viewed almost exclusively as the domain of elite male athletes who competed on tracks. With insight and propulsive energy,... |
From Up On Poppy Hill (Studio Ghibli Collection)
[ Studio Ghibli / Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 11/Jul/2013 ] Set in Yokohama, From Up On Poppy Hill is a high school love story that take place in the year before the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. As the country begins to pick itself up from the devastation of the Second World War, the new generation struggles... |
The Gatekeepers
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 5/Feb/2013 ] Israel's crushing victory over its neighbours during the Six Day War in 1967 left it in control of a vast, hostile population living under Occupation. Dealing with that population-in times of calm and times of violent uprising-was the responsibility... |
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... |
Girlhood
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 14/Jan/2016 ] Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school, starts... |
God Willing
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Mar/2017 ] The #1 smash-hit comedy success of the 2015 Lavazza Italian Film Festival (where it premiered as the Opening Night Gala), this wildly entertaining and multi award-winning debut feature from writer-director Edoardo Falcone is the story of an almighty... |
The Green Prince
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2015 ] This real life thriller tells the story of one of Israel's prized intelligence sources, the son of a top Hamas leader. Under the code name "The Green Prince", he is recruited to spy on his own people for over a decade. Focusing on his complex... |
Haemoo
[ Eastern Eye / DVD - released 15/Oct/2015 ] Down on their luck, a commercial fishing vessel takes on a cargo of thirty illegal immigrants and attempts to smuggle them from China to Korea. However, the crew and immigrants are put in danger when they encounter heavy storms, fog and the Marine... |
Housebound
[ Rialto / Blu-ray Disc - released 3/Dec/2014 ] Kylie Bucknell (Morgana O'Reilly) is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by the fact she has to live there with her mother Miriam (Rima Te Wiata) - a... |
The Hunt
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/Oct/2013 ] From the Bafta and Golden Globe nominated director Thomas Vinterberg comes The Hunt. Lucas (Mikkelsen) is the beloved teacher of the local kindergarten. After divorcing, Lucas is recovering with a new girlfriend, and reforging the relationship with... |
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... |
The Idol
[ Umbrella DVD / DVD - released 15/Feb/2017 ] Mohammad Assaf is a young man with grand aspirations. A wedding singer from a refugee camp, he dreams of singing in the famed Cairo Opera House before a huge and appreciative audience. But growing up in the densely populated and volatile strip of... |
In Real Life
[ Vendetta Films / DVD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] In Real Life asks what exactly is the internet and what is it doing to our children? Taking us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, filmmaker Beeban Kidron suggests that rather than the promise of free... |
Jappeloup
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Aug/2014 ] At the start of the 1980s, Pierre Durand (Guillaume Canet) abandons a promising legal career and throws himself into his true passion - show jumping. With his fathers (Daniel Auteuil) backing, he gambles everything on a young horse who no one else... |
Jim: The James Foley Story
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] On Thanksgiving Day 2012, American photojournalist James "Jim" Foley was kidnapped in Syria, two years before the infamous video of his public execution introduced much of the world to ISIS. JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY, directed by close childhood... |
Jimi: All Is By My Side
[ Madman / DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] Starring Outkast's Andre 3000 in a flawless performance as the iconic Jimi Hendrix, JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE is the directorial debut of the Oscar-winning writer of 12 YEARS A SLAVE, John Ridley. It's 1966. A then unknown Jimi Hendrix is touring a... |
