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  1. After The Wedding – Dir. Susanne Bier –

     

    Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jørgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions... Not only must Jacob return to Denmark, he must also take part in the wedding of Jørgen’s daughter. The wedding proves to be a critical juncture between past and future and catapults Jacob into the most intense dilemma of his life../

  2. Better Things – Dir. Duane Hopkins –

     

    Better Things is a multi narrative drama depicting everyday life in small town England. We follow several characters dealing in their own particular way with their relationships. As a day dawns in the Cotswolds a funeral is taking place that will have bitter repercussions for some of the community. Close by Rachel and Larry are reeling against a first love gone wrong. Meanwhile Mr Gladwin refuses to speak to Mrs Gladwin over events of a long time ago. Duane Hopkins presents a painterly view of existence against a rarely seen rural backdrop and its separate generation’s approach to life, love, loss and intoxication.

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    • In Theatres: 23 January 2009
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: 15
    • Starring: Liam McIlfatrick, Che Corr, Freddie Cunliffe

  3. Choking Man – Dir. Steve Barron –

     

    He works all day long in the shadow of the ever present Heimlich Manouevre instruction poster which hangs in the diner kitchen. From his solitary kitchen corner Jorge gropes mutely for a bond with Amy (Eugenia Yuan), the newly hired Chinese waitress and even though she tries to reciprocate, the gulf that separates them may be too large. He is continually tormented by his co-worker Jerry (Aaron Paul) and at home in his Harlem boarding, under the psychological control of his domineering ‘roommate,’ he battles his inner demons.

    • Trailer: 01:32
    • In Theatres: 14 November 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: TBC
    • Starring: Octavio Gómez, Eugenia Yuan, Aaron Paul

  4. Close To Home – Dir. Dalia Hager, Vidi Bilu –

     

    Smadar and Mirit, both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to friendship as they deal with their own emotional issues, the crushes and break-ups in their love lives, as well as the political reality of the city they live in.

    • Trailer: 2:10
    • In Theatres: 14 May 2007
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: TBC
    • Starring: Smadar Sayar, Naaina Schendar, Irit Suki, Katia Zimbris
    • More information: Close To Home

  5. Double Take – Dir. Johan Grimonprez –

     

    Universal Studios California, 1962. Alfred Hitchcock, on the set of THE BIRDS, is called to the production office for an urgent message. When he arrives, he's shocked to be confronted by his doppelganger, claiming to be the real Alfred Hitchcock and who declares: 'If you meet your double, you should kill him. Or he will kill you. Two of you is one too many. By the end of the script, one of you must die' Alfred Hitchcock stars in DOUBLE TAKE, a tale of intrigue, personal paranoia and deception. Using archive footage, the film uses Hitchcock's own sardonic wit to explore his preoccupation with doubles - a recurring theme in his films - to virtuoso and entertaining effect. Positioned against the backdrop of the Cold War and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges novella ‘The Other’, best-selling British author Tom McCarthy writes a plot to mirror the political intrigue in which Hitchcock and his elusive double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder of each other.

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    • Starring: Alfred Hitchcock

  6. El Baño del Papa – Dir. César Charlone, Enrique Fernández –

     

    It is 1988, and Melo, a Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. Numbers begin circulating: hundreds of people will come, no thousands say the media. To the poor townspeople this means one thing: pilgrims in need of food and drink, paper flags, souvenirs, commemorative medals. Brimming with enthusiasm, the villagers not only hope for divine blessing, but above all for a small share of material happiness. And petty smuggler Beto is certain that he’s found the best business idea of all: “The Pope’s Toilet”, where the thousands of pilgrims can find relief …

    • Trailer: 01:44
    • In Theatres: 01 August 2008
    • Language: Spanish
    • Certificate: 15
    • Starring: Cesar Troncoso, Virginia Mendez, Virginia Ruiz

  7. Far North – Dir. Asif Kapadia –

     

    Far North is a dark and tragic epic thriller about the battle for survival. Saiva and her adopted daughter Anja live in near isolation as they are forced further North on the Arctic Tundra. One day a figure Loki appears on the ice and collapses. Against her better judgement Saiva nurses him back to health setting in motion the devastating finale as Saiva and Anja compete for Loki’s attention.

    • Trailer: 01:34
    • In Theatres: 26 December 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: TBC
    • Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Sean Bean, Michelle Krusiec

  8. Garage – Dir. Lenny Abrahamson –

     

    Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie's hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever.

    • Trailer: 01:43
    • In Theatres: 07 March 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: 18
    • Starring: Pat Shortt, Conor Ryan, Anne-Marie Duff

  9. Home – Dir. Ursula Meier –

     

    A family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment. They continue their happy-go-lucky routine despite the daily stress of hundreds of noisy speeding cars. But suspicions about the highway's unknown long-term dangers cause family tension. Remaining in the disrupted household might not be so easy, but it's still their home.

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    • Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet

  10. Irina Palm – Dir. Sam Garbaski –

     

    Marianne Faithfull plays Maggie, a widow who is looking desperately for money to pay for last chance treatment for her dying grandson. While aimlessly wondering the streets of Soho she sees a notice ‘hostess wanted’; intrigued she enters the club and despite all the odds finds herself a new career to raise the money needed.

    • Trailer: 01:38
    • In Theatres: 13 June 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: tbc
    • Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop

  11. La Danse – Dir. Frederick Wiseman –

     

    The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world's great ballet companies. LA DANSE shows how a ballet company functions from administration, technical support, and classes, to the rehearsal and/or performance of seven ballets— Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, The Nutcracker by Rudolf Nureyev, Genus by Wayne McGregor, Medea by Angelin Preljocaj, The House of Bernarda Alba by Mats Ek, Romeo and Juliet by Sasha Waltz and Orpheus and Eurydyce by Pina Bausch. The film is a profile of all aspects of the ballet company, one of France’s principal cultural institutions. The film immediately draws us into the rehearsals and shows preparations for performances of seven ballets, including The Nutcracker by Rudold Nureyev and Medea by Angelin Preljocaj, widely considered to be the most important contemporary choreographer working in ballet today. It is a testament to both Wiseman’s love of dance and the respect of the Opera that he was allowed full access to film all facets of this revered institution from the administration offices to the costumers’ department, illustrating the sometime tensions between a commercial sensibility and creative integrity.

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    • In Theatres: 23 April 2010
    • Language: French / English (English Subtitles)
    • Certificate: E
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  12. Modern Life – Dir. Raymond Depardon –

     

    Down winding country lanes and behind rural l backwaters, Raymond Depardon has spent 20 years making friends with a dying breed of farmers who are defiantly old school, treating newcomers and women with equal suspicion. With a warm irreverent eye Depardon presents a rural community and the legacies that bind them to land and family.

    • Trailer: 01:34
    • In Theatres: 03 April 2009
    • Language: French
    • Certificate: Exempt
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  13. My Winnipeg – Dir. Guy Maddin –

     

    With his latest work, My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin continues in the freewheeling, genre-bending tradition that has made him one of Canada’s most consistently intriguing and internationally respected artists. Described as a docu-fantasia My Winnipeg is a story about his home town blending local myth with childhood trauma. Winner of the best Canadian feature film at the Toronto Film Festival 2007.

    • Trailer: 02:02
    • In Theatres: 04 July 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: 12A
    • Starring: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage

  14. Private Property – Dir. Joachim Lafosse –

     

    An old, but beautiful farm in Belgium is home to Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) and her twin sons Thierry and François (Jérémie and Yannick Renier). Although loving and ostensibly supportive of one another, each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Now in their late teens, the boys have begun to move in different directions but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. When Pascale falls in love again and dreams of beginning a new life she finds herself unable to rise from the shadow of her ex-husband and selfish children. Helpless and in a bid for survival, Pascale leaves the house in the hands of Thierry and François, never suspecting that in her absence, a fratricidal war will change their family forever.

    • Trailer: 1:37
    • In Theatres: 18 April 2008
    • Language: French (English Subtitles)
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    • Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier

  15. RFK Must Die – Dir. Shane O'Sullivan –

     

    In 1968, five years after the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy ran for the White House. On June 4th, he won the California Democratic primary and looked set to challenge Nixon for the presidency. Just after midnight, he made a televised victory speech to his supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. As he walked through the hotel kitchen shaking hands with well wishers, a man stepped out and fired. That man was 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, still serving a life sentence for the murder. RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy is a new investigative documentary by Shane O'Sullivan that examines the events of that night and presents compelling evidence that Sirhan did not act alone. Witnesses placed Sirhan several feet in front of Kennedy yet the fatal shot came from one inch behind. And even under hypnosis, Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting. Leading psychiatrists believe he was a 'Manchurian Candidate', hypnotically programmed to kill Kennedy or act as a decoy for the real assassin.

    • Trailer: 01:29
    • In Theatres: 16 May 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: TBC
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  16. Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle – Dir. Simon Miller –

     

    The first ever Scottish Gaelic film released theatrically!

  17. Someone Else – Dir. Col Spector –

     

    David (Stephen Mangan), a photographer has been going out with Lisa (Susan Lynch) for a number of years. Maintaining separate lives it looks like their relationship might never move onto the next level. Unbeknown to Lisa, David has met the carefree and bohemian Nina (Lara Belmont) who appears to be offering him everything Lisa cannot. When Lisa surprises David with tickets for a romantic trip he breaks off the relationship only to discover that Nina, too, has Someone else. A charming romantic film for all those in-love, out-of-love and somewhere in between.

    • Trailer: 1:33
    • In Theatres: 24 July 2007
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: TBC
    • Starring: Stephen Mangan, John Henshaw, Susan lynch, Christopher Coghill
    • More information: Someone Else

  18. The Happiest Girl in the World – Dir. Radu Jude –

     

    Delia Fratila (18) comes from a poor family living in a small Romanian town. Her fortunes change when she becomes the lucky winner of a luxury car through sending off bottle labels in an advertising competition. Delia and her parents, arrive in Bucharest for the promotion testimonial – a nationwide video campaign depicting Delia’s success as an example of the drinks manufacturer granting happiness. After a long journey to Bucharest, the family finally arrives at the film location, where Delia spends the day shooting, a seemingly non-demanding task. All she needs to do is sit in the car, drink the product and thank the drinks company. Of course, any thing that could go wrong does go wrong and this is just the beginning of Delia’s woes. During the shooting breaks, Delia and her parents discuss what they plan to do with the car; Delia wants to keep it for herself, while her parents wish to sell it, thinking that this their chance to escape poverty. These arguments intensify, while the shooting becomes more and more absurd. And what had initially seemed to be a change in Delia’s fortunes manifests in to a troubling emotional experience that sees her questioning her relationship with her family.

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    • Starring: Andreea Bosneag, Andi Vasluianu

  19. The Princes' Quest – Dir. Michel Ocelot –

     

    By acclaimed French animation director Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Princes and Princesses). Once upon a time there were two children nursed by the same woman. Azur, a blonde blue-eyed son of a noble woman and Asmar, the dark skinned and dark-eyed child of the nurse. The two are raised as close of brothers till cruelly separated. Some years later they are reunited, but this time as rivals on their quest to free the mythical Djinn fairy, knowing that only one of them may succeed.

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    • In Theatres: 08 February 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: U
    • Starring: Animation

  20. The Tracey Fragments – Dir. Bruce McDonald –

     

    15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he’s a dog. Tracey’s journey leads us into the dark underbelly of the city, into the emotional cesspool of her home, through the brutality of her high school, the clinical cat and mouse games with her shrink and her soaring fantasies of Billy Zero - her boyfriend and rock ’n’ roll saviour. Tracey’s stories begin to intertwine truth with lies, hope with despair as we move closer to the truth of Sonny’s disappearance.

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    • Language: English
    • Certificate: TBC
    • Starring: Ellen Page, Max McCabe-Lokos, Slim Twig

  21. Who Killed Nancy – Dir. Alan G Parker –

     

    On October 12th 1978 Nancy Spungeon, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper and heroin addict, was found dead in a bathroom at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. She also happened to be the girlfriend of the Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious, who was quickly accused of her murder. Less than 6 months later, he died of a heroin overdose and the case was closed. The death of Sid and Nancy has passed into rock legend and has only added to the controversial and notorious image of the Sex Pistols and punk music. At the request of Sid's mother, who committed suicide in 1996, rock author and punk expert Alan Parker has devoted himself to discovering WhoKilled Nancy? By interviewing 182 people and re-examining NYPD evidence, he reveals what really happened that night in room 100.

    • Trailer: 02:27
    • In Theatres: 06 February 2009
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: E
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  22. Wild Tigers I Have Known – Dir. Cam Archer –

     

    A visually stunning coming-of age story shot through with fantasy, as a teenager deals with his newfound sexuality. Logan is 13 years old, and a dreamer. Soft spoken and isolated, he has a crush on an older and infinitely cooler boy, Rodeo Walker. As Logan and Rodeo strike up a mismatched friendship, the kind that only works on walks deep into the forest when no one else is around, Logan’s infatuation with Rodeo inspires him to create a new persona named Leah. Leah and Rodeo grow close through whispered late-night phone calls, and when Leah agrees to meet Rodeo face to face it is Logan who must finally prove that he can ask for what he so achingly wants.

    • Trailer: 02:13
    • In Theatres: 25 February 2008
    • Language: English
    • Certificate: 18
    • Starring: Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Fairuza Balk