CON MAN

The unbelievable true story of Barry Minkow, the youngest person ever to defraud Wall Street and who by the age of 21 was worth a staggering 100 Million Dollars. After being sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud, racketeering, money laundering, embezzlement, and tax evasion you would think a lesson was learnt but in the case of Minkow, once a Con, always a Con. This roller coaster ride of power, sex, greed and money includes an impressive cast of Mark Hamill (The Last Jedi), James Caan (The Godfather), Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation), Armand Assante (American Gangster), Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather), Elisabeth Röhm (American Hustle) and introduces Justin Baldoni.

​SEQUENCE BREAK

Oz fixes older arcade games in a shop that will soon close down. He’s hyper-focused on his work, and his social skills are lacking somewhat, but he is well liked by his boss. A customer named Tess comes in one day, and the two begin an awkward walk down a genuinely cute and humorous romantic path. Meanwhile, a straggly stranger begins making dangerous visits to the shop at night, and Oz becomes obsessed with a video game for which he received a mysterious circuit board.

​INCARNATION

A man wakes up on a bench without any idea who or where he is until he is shot by four masked assassins. The man wakes up on the same bench thinking his death was a dream until the assassins re-appear and kill him again. Stuck in a hellish loop, he tries to unravel the mystery and with each death he gets closer to the truth.

​THE MISANDRISTS

THE MISANDRISTS refers to a secret cell of feminist terrorists that is planning to liberate women, overthrow the patriarchy, and usher in a new female world order. The group is led by Big Mother (Susanne Sachsse), who operates a school for wayward girls in the countryside as a front for a radical terroristic cell. When a young man, a radical leftist, who is running from the police, happens upon this remote female stronghold, one of the girls takes pity on him and hides him in the basement. His presence eventually disrupts the household and reveals a number of unexpected secrets, as the film moves towards its climax: the revelation of a new style of lesbian porn that is to be used as both a propaganda tool and calling card for their new brand of female revolution.

​HOMESICK

​Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat, with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives the honourable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be a great opportunity – but at the same time an enormous pressure. In her home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest. However, her own four walls don't appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments. What is the neighbour's involvement, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains?

HEARTSTONE

A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.

​THE ORNITHOLOGIST

Paul Hamy stars in this drama from Portuguese film-maker João Pedro Rodrigues. Ornithologist Fernando (Hamy) is travelling through remote, northern Portugal in search of black storks when his kayak capsizes and breaks in rapids and he is washed ashore where he is found unconscious by Chinese Catholic pilgrims Fei (Han Wen) and Ling (Chan Suan). The pair take him into the nearby forest and tie him up but after escaping Fernando discovers a strange ritual site and begins a journey in which he experiences events similar to those of Saint Anthony of Padua.

SEX COWBOYS

​​'Sex Cowboys' is a travel inside our generation, the lost generation, destined to live without a permanent employment, a fixed home and a defined lifestyle. The characters of this travel are nomadic, precarious and immature in the comedy of their life: to Simone's anger and to Marla's magic need, alternates passion and sex. The generational crisis is inside us, and we have to find a way to survive and make the present our dream, since in our future we won't have space.

​CENTRE OF MY WORLD

German coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Andreas Steinhöfel. After three weeks away at summer camp, teenager Phil (Louis Hofmann) returns to his home, called Visible, which he shares with his nonconformist mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and twin sister Dianne (Ada Philine Stappenbeck), who seems less enthusiastic about his return. After spending the last remaining days of his vacation with best friend Kat (Svenja Jung), Phil returns to school where he falls for attractive newcomer Nicholas (Jannik Schümann). After wrestling with his feelings, Phil is shocked when Nicholas makes the first move on him and he begins his first real love affair. However, his family is still causing problems for Phil as he begins to realise his new relationship with Nicholas might not last forever.

DESPITE THE NIGHT

English musician Lenz searches for his lover Madeleine, who has mysteriously disappeared, but tumbles into an amour fou with troubled, self-destructive Héléne. Grieving the loss of her infant son, Héléne seeks oblivion in the murky subterranean world of a brutal sex ring, followed by Lenz. A stark, elliptical, hauntingly spectral narrative with scenes of sensual abandon and raw carnality.

THE SHEPHERD

Anselmo, a middle age shepherd, lives a poor but happy life in a small, run down house in a middle of the Spain plains, near a small, but growing village. His dog Pillo and his sheep are his only company. A life bucolic enough for him to ignore the offers he receives from a construction company who wants to buy his house and land to build a new residential complex. Conflicting against Anselmo s unwillingness to sell is Julian and Paco s greed, the owners of the neighbouring lands, who only answer to their own interests. A bloody metaphor of the greed to corrodes these who do not answer to reason in their quest to get what they want, and the inevitable, but violent consequences of their actions.

​ESTEROS
​Released on DVD 11 JULY

Matías and Jerónimo have known each other since childhood. The summer before the start of high school they experience their sexual awakening together and the friendship transforms. But soon after they are separated as Matías and his family move away.
More than ten years later, Matías returns to his old town and runs into Jerónimo who has accepted his homosexuality and lives his life as he chooses. Seeing his friend again reminds him of what they shared together when they were teenagers and gives Matías the chance to choose his real feelings rather than what he felt he had to do to please others.
'Esteros' is a beautiful and moving love story between two young men rekindling their teenage love.

​THE STUDENT
Released on DVD 26 JUNE

“Those who follow the light have only ever invented darkness”
Robert Desnos
 
Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions.
- Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis?
- Does sex education have a place in school?
- Should the theory of evolution be taught as part of the Natural Sciences?
The adults are soon overwhelmed by the certitudes of the youngster who swears only by Scripture.
No one but Elena, his biology teacher, will alone challenge him on his own ground.

AMERICAN VIOLENCE
​Released on DVD 26 JUNE

Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Amanda Tyler, has an opportunity to interview and analyze death row inmate Jackson Shea. As the interview commences, and Jack's fate hangs in the balance, Amanda must determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

​TOMCAT
Released on DVD 29 MAY

Andreas and Stefan lead a happy life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna's vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends. An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question – the blind spot that resides in all of us.

​THE SHADOW EFFECT
​Released on DVD 29 MAY

Action thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michael Biehn and Cam Gigandet. Ex-Navy Seal Gabriel Howarth (Gigandet) is struggling with his life as it continues to spiral out of control. After the death of his parents, Gabriel has taken over their diner but at night he's plagued by vivid nightmares in which he carries out targeted, political assassinations and eliminates anyone standing in his way. Worried that his dreams are becoming reality, Gabriel seeks out the help of psychiatrist Dr Reese (Rhys Meyers) to figure out the meaning of his delusions. With the support of his wife Brinn (Brit Shaw), will Gabriel finally be able to figure out what's going on in his dreams?

​SALT AND FIRE
Released on DVD 24 APRIL

​Salt and Fire is the latest work by highly acclaimed  Academy Award Nominee director WERNER HERZOG (Grizzly Man) including an all-star cast including MICHAEL SHANNON (Man of Steel, Nocturnal Animals, Boardwalk Empire), GAEL GARCIA BERNAL (Desierto, Y Tu Mamá También, Babel) and VERONICA FERRES (Pay the Ghost).

​When a renowned scientist is sent to Bolivia on an urgent mission to analyse a looming environmental catastrophe she along with her colleagues are deceived by a man claiming to be a member of the Ministry of Security and are kidnapped by a mysterious group of masked men. The prisoners are subsequently led down a path of discovery revealing the dark machinations of a global corporation responsible for an ever threatening ecological disaster; their only hope is to unravel the truth.

FOUR DAYS IN FRANCE
​Released on DVD 17 APRIL

​Disillusioned with his life in Paris, Pierre Tomas drops everything to travel through France. Via phone numbers written in bathroom stalls, coincidental rendezvous, and Grindr, a smartphone app, Pierre never ceases to find a parking spot for the car he so dearly maneuvers. As he wanders the country for four days and four nights, his lover, Paul, will try to find him, using the same app that compasses Pierre. In a game of absurdist cat and mouse, these two lovers try, in their own ways, to find their way back to one another.

​I AM MICHAEL
Released on DVD 3 APRIL

I AM MICHAEL is the incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze (Franco), a high profile gay youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor. The film follows Michael from his life in San Francisco with his boyfriend Bennett (Quinto), where he pursues political activism, a journalist career at XY Magazine, social awareness, and sexual exploration, to his days of personal self-discovery. After a traumatic scare, Michael is plagued by doubt and paranoia, and begins a religious reawakening. Michael renounces his gay lifestyle, rejects his friends, and endeavors to find his "true self." He explores Buddhism and Mormonism, yet ultimately lands at a Christian Bible school in rural Wyoming where he meets his girlfriend, Rebekah (Roberts), and becomes the pastor of his own church. This powerful new film captures one man's haunting journey through modern concepts of love, denial and redemption.

THE BLACK HEN
Released on DVD 13 FEBRUARY

​During a ceasefire, in the midst of the 10-year civil war in Nepal, two boys, Prakash and Kiran, belonging to different castes, embark on a journey to repossess a missing hen which they had raised together. They soon learn of the violence entrenched in the civil war when they are caught unaware in a clash between the fighting forces.

THE INTERROGATION
Released on DVD 13 FEBRUARY

Based on the autobiography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
​In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization of evil that took place in the camp. By introducing the use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss carried out the most efficient mass killing process ever known, which claimed the lives of approximately 1.1 million people.
The film is based on the memoirs Höss wrote before his execution.

​UNITED STATES OF LOVE
Released on DVD/BLURAY 16 JANUARY

​Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires. Agata is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbor Marzena - a lonely former local beauty queen, whose husband works in Germany. Marzena's sister Iza is a headmistress in love with the father of one of her students. Winner Best Script Berlin Film Festival 2016

​AFTER EDEN
Released on DVD 16 JANUARY

​Eve is a successful adult film performer whose daily routine consists of feigning youthful innocence to please her invisible audience. Adam is a reclusive university student with an obsession for media and a fixation on Eve. After he tracks her down in the real world, he becomes her anonymous follower - until he finds the courage to connect in person. When Eve agrees to star in his very own private sex tape, Adam's dream is about to become reality.

CLEAN HANDS
Released on DVD 22 AUGUST

​Sylvia (Thekla Reuten) has turned a blind eye to her husband Eddie's (Jeroen van Koningsbrugge) flourishing drug business for too long. When Eddie's dealings take a turn for the worse, Sylvia wants to protect the lives and futures of their young children and decides to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the 'family'.

LIFE FEELS GOOD
Released on DVD 8 AUGUST

​Diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy at birth, Mateusz (Dawid Ogrodnik) has also been misdiagnosed as having an intellectual disability due to his inability to communicate effectively with his doctors and parents. Thankfully, his mother and father (Dorota Kolak and Arkadiusz Jakubik) are loving and caring towards their son and try their best to support him as much as they can. However, when a tragedy hits home which results in Mateusz being placed in a care home, his situation worsens as he struggles to find ways to communicate his intelligence and ability to understand.

BIZARRE
Released on DVD 25 JULY

​Maurice is a French teenager who escaped France and begins working at a hype club in Brooklyn called BIZARRE. He quickly becomes a sort of 'mascot' of this incredible club. The owner and the artists that perform there love him, but Maurice can't love...because of the past...and his secrets. 

PANAMA
Released on DVD 25 JULY

​Jovan, an occasional student and a womanizer, starts dating Maja casually. Slowly, her mysterious and shady behaviour intrigues him. Following videos and clues over the social networks, Jovan finds indications of Maja’s parallel life. In the web of lies, pride, jealousy and passionate sex, Jovan loses himself only to find who Maja really is.

HIDE & SEEK
​Released on DVD 18 JULY

​Four young people flee from London to the country and set up in a polyamorous commune. Seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping, they choose total isolation as a form of protest against the ills of the world.
*Winner of the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 

HAPPY
Released on DVD 11 JULY

​Florent, is an upper class Parisian who dreams of going back to America, where he attended college. One summer he meets Alessia, an American girl, lost in the streets . Together while on a journey from Paris to Normandy they explore their passions, which draws them closer as well as brings up their clashing differences. As they face a crucial crossroad in their lives while struggling to determine who they are personally, professionally and sexually and trying to break free from their upbringings.

THE MASKED SAINT
Released on DVD 23 MAY

​The Masked Saint follows the journey of former professional wrestler Chris Samuels, who retires from the ring to settle down as a small town pastor. When the pastor witnesses rampant problems in the community, he decides to moonlight as a masked vigilante fighting the injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his secret, violent identity with his calling as a pastor. The Masked Saint is based on the highly popular book of the same name and inspired by the life and true events of Pastor Chris Whaley. 

YOU AND I
Released on DVD 25 APRIL

​Best friends Phillip and Jonas plan a trip for a photography project. They’ve only seen each other a few times since their time together in London. So they pack up their Mercedes camper and take off. That Phillip’s gay is not an issue for either of them. But when they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris the friendship of the two starts to fray. 

BOUND BY BLOOD
Released on DVD 11 APRIL 

​Radiant yoga instructor MAY (Jessica Biel) has her wholesome life thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost biological sister SHIVA (Zosia Mamet of the hit HBO show GIRLS), a street-smart yet naïve young woman with an abusive boyfriend. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva and finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world and deeper into Shiva’s chaotic one – with lethal consequences.

TIGER ORANGE
Released on DVD 28 MARCH 

​Chet (Mark Strano, Out To Kill) and Todd (Frankie Valenti aka former adult star Johnny Hazzard) are estranged gay brothers who grew up in a small town in Central California to a homophobic, working class single father. While bad boy Todd ran off to Los Angeles and is now out and proud, Chet stayed at home (and mostly closeted) to run the family hardware store and care for their ailing father until the father's recent death. Broke and homeless, Todd returns to the brother he left behind. As long-simmering resentments boil to the surface and the pair confront their differences and similarities, Tiger Orange serves up a poignant depiction of family dynamics and small town life and the journeys we each must take.

NOBLE
Released on DVD 15 FEBRUARY 2016

​Vietnam. 1989. Fourteen years after the end of the war. When Irish-woman Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) she leaves behind an extraordinary life story. But the best is yet to come. Christina lands in a country that she wouldn t be able to show you on a map . With a few dollars, a dream and her own hard-won abilities, she is about to change everything, for hundreds of thousands of people. Shifting between past and present, the film concentrates on Christina s strength of character, as she uses music and humour to pursue a seemingly impossible dream, always following her motto that a little insane goes a long way. NOBLE is the inspirational true story of a woman who believes that it only takes one person to make a difference. And of how she is proved right.
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MY SKINNY SISTER
Released on DVD & VOD 11 JANUARY 2016

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter. ​

DAWN PATROL
Released on DVD 12 OCTOBER 2015

John and Ben live the ultimate beach life - they surf, party, fight, and always frind hot new girls. They're brothers and while hungry for adventure, this locals-only scene suits them. When Ben is killed, John's choices lead him down a dangerous path of revenge. Part Spring Breakers and Lords of Dogtown, this is a story about the loss of innocence.

THOU WAST MILD & LOVELY
Released on DVD 5 OCTOBER 2015

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is a sensual thriller inspired by East of Eden and starring love, death, guns, goats and a farm in the wilds of Kentucky.

When Akin arrives at the farm, he finds his job.  This is what he expected to find.  When Sarah opens her legs, she finds someone watching.  This is what she expected to find. When Jeremiah opens his mouth, frightening things come out of it.  This has come to be expected.  But what happens by the creek next to the cow. This was not expected.

WASP
Released on DVD 28 SEPTEMBER 2015

Having left England for a romantic escapade in the south of France, Olivier and James invite Caroline along at the very last minute. She was just left by her long-time boyfriend and is in need of a change of scenery. The trio arrives in a little Provencal village, somewhat cut off from the world. Though everything seems calm between the pool, sunshine and a village visit, Olivier finds himself more and more intrigued by Caroline. A tension of sexual jealousy and possessiveness will escalade between the three. The next day, all is silence. The three leave the house. Not one word is exchanged. The house stands still, quiet, empty.

HIDDEN AWAY
Released on DVD 27 APRIL 2015

Ibrahim, a 14-year‐old Moroccan boy, walks down a road in the outskirts of a big city, alone and disoriented. He has just been informed that he will deported in two days, so he has packed up and run away. He is alone with no place to go. Rafa, a Spanish boy the same age as Ibrahim, runs into a club toilet like a bundle of nerves. Outside, there is a girl, Marta, waiting for him. A girl that expects from him, far more than he can give. These two boys' paths are about to cross.

LET'S KILL WARD'S WIFE
Released on DVD 13 APRIL 2015

Everyone hates Ward's wife and wants her dead, Ward (Donald Faison) most of all. But when his friends' murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems - like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time. Scott Foley's directorial debut is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.

FELONY
Released on DVD 23 February 2015

Police officer Malcolm Toohey (Joel Edgerton) has it all - a loving wife, beautiful children and a reputation for being an outstanding detective. But it only ever takes a single moment to change a life forever. One night following a successful drug bust, Toohey and his team hit a bar for drinks, he has cheated death and it requires celebrating. On the way home he knocks down a young boy severely injuring him. Toohey desperately fights to save the boys life until the ambulance arrives. Driven by fear he lies to the paramedics, claiming he found the boy on the road. But Toohey knows better than anyone where lies ultimately lead.

EVA BRAUN
Released on DVD 9 February 2015

Inspired by the Italian sex scandals of the Berlusconi era...Pier is a powerful and important Mogul who holds the power in his Country. Elegant, ironic and well educated, he has bizarre sexual instincts which are satisfied by his employee and once girlfriend, Romy. For him, she recruits men and women, with aspirations of success (musicians, directors, writers and businessmen), willing to become sex slaves. In Pier’s childhood villa, they spend a few days satisfying his weird fantasies of sadism and bizarre perversion, in exchange for his advice and support to achieve their dreams of success.

ROB THE MOB
Released on DVD 12 January 2015

In the vein of True Romance, Rob the Mob chronicles the lives of a real-life Bonnie and Clyde who made the bold move to rob and humiliate some of New York City's most powerful mobsters. Fresh from prison for a small-time crime, reunited lovers, Thomas (Pitt) and Rosie (Arianda), find themselves in need of cash. After hearing testimony from John Gotti's high-profile trial that mob social clubs are gun-free, Thomas and Rosie brazenly rob these underground spots operated by the major crime families in the city. Unwittingly, they come across something much more valuable than money: a list of every mobster in the families. Now the feds, family members, and rival mobsters are on the hunt for the most notorious lovers since Romeo and Juliet.

THE CIRCLE
Released on DVD 26 January 2015

Zürich in the mid-1950s: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a member of the gay organization Der Kreis. There he gets to know the transvestite star Röbi Rapp - and immediately falls head over heels in love with him. Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the organisation, which, in the whole Europe, is seen as the symbol of gay emancipation. Ernst finds himself torn between his "bourgeois" existence and his commitment to homosexuality, for Röbi it is about his first serious love relationship. A relationship which will last a lifetime. From the present, the film looks back to the time when the "Mother" of all European homosexual organisations had its high point until it fell apart. While the repression against homosexuals became increasingly more intense in Zurich, two young and very different men fight for their love and - together with their friends - for gay rights.

WHITE REINDEER
Released on DVD 24 November 2014

Christmastime is looking swell for pretty, unassuming real-estate-agent Suzanne Barrington: she just sold a house to a nice swinger couple; her weatherman husband Jeff scored a sweet new job; and her favourite holiday is quickly approaching. After a sudden tragedy takes Jeff away, Suzanne is left lost and lonely. Even worse, a friend of his confesses a secret: there's another woman. Her name's Fantasia and she works at the "girl club." In their grief, the two women form an awkward but meaningful friendship. Pushing away the ghosts of Christmas present, Suzanne falls into Fantasia's world of dance parties, shoplifting and substances! But maybe that's not what Suzanne's looking for either.

SUPERNOVA
Released on DVD 8 December 2014

Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house. She dreams of a young car driver called 'Brad' whom she would like to take care of and maybe have sex with. Dad is waiting for the next driver to bring some heroism to his life again. Mom is waiting for the same moment, so they can permanently move to the city. Ever since dad was the first person that ran into the house, grandma cannot stop shaking. The shaking seems to worsen lately. Meis hopes this is a sign that something is bound to happen. During one of Meis' forbidden, dangerous nocturnal visits to the half bridge, deliverance finally arrives. Part of a trunk sticks out from the cloud of dust blowing from the house front. In the car, the solution incarnate lies, all crumpled up.

HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES
Released on DVD & Blu-ray 27 October 2014

Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two brothers as they abruptly come of age through the experience of a friend's mysterious death. The event ripples under the surface of their town, unsettling the brothers and their friends in a way that they can't fully understand. Once familiar interactions begin to take on a macabre tone in light of the tragic accident, leading Eric and Tommy to retreat into their wild surroundings. As the two brothers vocally face the questions they have about mortality, they simultaneously hold their own silent debates within their minds that build into seemingly insurmountable moral peaks. Hide Your Smiling Faces is a true, headlong glimpse into the raw spirit of youth, as well as the calluses that one often develops as a result of an unfiltered past.

IN A BEDROOM
Out now on DVD

Forty-year-old Edyta is in crisis. She sleeps at hotels, and when her money runs out she uses the internet to find men who are looking for sex. Edyta spends nights in the homes of the nameless men but, instead of the promised sex, she takes advantage of their involuntary hospitality. She reaches a turning point, however, when she meets a young artist named Patryk. In his minimalist movie, debuting director Tomasz Wasilewski makes smart use of the tension resulting from the lack of information his story provides viewers about the protagonists. Faces and gestures reveal the characters more than words, with the brittle, unnameable atmosphere that pervades the entire film playing a fundamental role. In her entirely natural manner, Katarzyna Herman lends veracity to the character of Edyta, and her excellent performance earned her the domestic award for Best Actress at the Koszalin Debut Films Festival.

THE TRIALS OF CATE MCCALL
Out now on DVD

Cate McCall (Kate Beckinsale; Pearl Harbour, Underworld, Total Recall), was a hotshot lawyer with the world at her feet, but as her career went from strength to strength, her personal life began to fall apart, she slipped into a spiral of alcoholism and depression that drove her family away, and left her with nothing. Sometimes we find redemption in the darkest of places and fresh out of rehab Cate must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder in order to be reinstated at the bar and regain custody of her daughter. But this is a case that will challenge everything she vowed to uphold; Cate will be thrown into a world of lies, abuse and deception, where fighting for what's right may mean fighting for her life. The Trials of Cate McCall is an intelligent and tense thriller with powerful supporting performances from Nick Nolte (Gangster Squad, Warrior, Cape Fear, 48 Hrs.), James Cromwell (The Green Mile, The Artist, Spider-Man 3) and Anna Anishimowa (The Whistleblower).

A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING
Out now on DVD

On the eve of his widower father's second wedding, fifteen-year-old birding fanatic David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime, the extinct Labrador duck. Now he and the two other stalwart members of the local Young Birders Society, joined by their headstrong photographer classmate Ellen (Katie Chang), take off on an epic road trip in search of the rare bird and elusive answers to teenage questions large and small. With marvelous supporting performances by Ben Kingsley and James LeGros, A Birder's Guide to Everything is an alternately poignant and funny window into the thoughtful world of birding and the inner peace that can be discovered during a walk in the woods. Rob Meyer delivers a sparkling feature film debut with a coming-of-age tale to warm the hearts of anyone who grew up with a nerdy passion.

IN SECURITY
Released on DVD 11 August 2014

Ethan Embry and Michael Gladis star as Kevin and Bruce, best friends and co-owners of a failing home security company in a town with no crime. As a last ditch effort to drum up some business, they start robbing the neighbours to instil fear and create a need for their services. Bullets fly when they unwittingly rob the wrong guy, Cary Elwes, who turns in a killer performance as a suburban drug lord with a penchant for kitchen gadgets. Clea DuVall and Adam Arkin co-star in this action-packed comedy featuring a host of hilarious turns from Ed Begley Jr, Vinnie Jones and Ving Rhames.

EXPECTING
Out now on DVD

After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan, Source Code) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan, on one condition: Andie must move in with them for the duration of the pregnancy. But can the women's friendship survive until birth? Jessie McCormack's debut is a refreshingly candid comedy about planning ahead for life's unexpected detours.

THE YEAR & THE VINEYARD
Out now on DVD

In the year 1937, Andrea Pesce (Andrea Calabrese), a Sicilian member of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, is on his way to the frontline when he falls through a hole in time and into present day Spain. Finding himself in a small village in the Province of Salamanca, he befriends Tomás, the village teacher (Fede Sánchez), has to deal with being confused by an angel, an over enthusiastic priest (Javier Sáez) and must make a choice between staying in a time where he doesn't belong or trying to go back to the horrors of war and the woman he loves. From the makers of The Soul of Flies (El Alma de las Moscas) comes another surreal, moving comedy about the absurdity and perils of war and peace.

SILENT SONATA
Out now on DVD

Januz Berger's Silent Sonata is an elegantly shot slice of magical realism set during wartime in an unnamed Balkan country, that employs the circus as a metaphor for the human spirit. After Stevo's wife is shot and killed, he prepares to defend his two young children against further marauders. But the incoming invaders turn out to be nothing less than the amazing Circus Fantasticus, which sets up camp nearby and lives up to its name when the performers turn out to have supernatural powers.

FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS
Out now on DVD & Blu-ray

In his 15th year of training, aspiring champion swimmer Kuba lives an uneventful life at home with his mother and girlfriend. He happily switches back and forth from good sex with Sylwia to the occasional back rub his mother craves. But Kuba has also been growing more curious about some of the boys at the gym. At a gallery opening one night, he is out of place and totally bored until he meets Michal. Sylwia picks up on his fascination, but Kuba has her heart. She keeps her feelings to herself, as from one day to the next Kuba puts Michal in the middle of his life with her. He gradually comes to recognise he has never experienced feelings as deep as those he has for Michal. It takes all the courage he can muster to face those who love him and dive in. Then he must deal with the consequences.

HAVING YOU
Out now on DVD

After finally proposing to his long-term girlfriend Camilla (Romola Garai), Jack (Andrew Buchan) is suddenly confronted by Anna (Anna Friel), a one-night stand from a rock concert eight years ago. But the big shock comes when she introduces him to the product of their liaison - a son called Phoenix.

A former wild man is tamed by the twin horrors of commitment and responsibility in this bittersweet British comedy from actor and first-time director Sam Hoare.

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DIDI HOLLYWOOD
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Diana Diaz has always dreamt of being a star - and she'll do anything to make it. In Hollywood, she tries desperately to land any part she can. Used and abused by agents and producers alike, Diana soon discovers how hard you have to climb to reach the heights of success in a world of lies, luxury and fame, where nothing is quite what it seems. Be careful what you wish for - you might just get it.

TO HELL WITH THE UGLY
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Eliseo (Javier Cámara, I'm So Excited!) is ugly, lame and single. He still hasn't found the woman of his dreams and he doesn't really know what love is. Nati (Carmen Machi) is similarly ugly, she's missing one breast and is currently separated. She's just met the man of her dreams but she doesn't know what real love is either.

Eliseo, on the other hand, fears that the worst is just around the corner, whilst Nati fantasises that the best is yet to come. When Eliseo's mother dies, their two paths cross for the first time in twenty years, giving them one last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when your ideal woman is married to your brother?

BORROWED TIME
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Desperate for cash to pay back a psychotic crime lord, hapless teenager Kevin is persuaded to break into the house of an eccentric recluse. No sooner is he through the window, however, than he comes face to face with the grumpy old owner, Philip, brandishing an antique rifle. Kevin manages to escape, but with his sister out of patience and his friends nothing but trouble, he has nowhere else to go other than back to Philip's house.

Against all odds, a fragile bond gradually develops between would-be burglar and victim, a friendship that will take them both on a personal journey of discovery and redemption. Starring Phil Davis and Theo Barklem-Biggs, this cross-generational comedy is enough to defrost even the most cynical hearts.

INSEPARABLE
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After a series of tragic life events, Li (Daniel Wu) is burnt out. His beautiful but increasingly moody wife is never home, the unpaid bills are piling up and his work is pressuring him to lie at a public hearing. With seemingly no options left he decides to end it all. But he can't even do that right.

Enter Chuck (Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey), Li's wise-talking American neighbour who takes Li under his wing and encourages him to stand up for himself and the exploited people around him. Together they hit the streets as superhero's much to the bewilderment of those around them. After initial success it becomes clear that Chuck is not really who he says he is and Li may be in serious trouble.

ARTIFICIAL PARADISES
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In ARTIFICIAL PARADISES, an idyllic beach in Northeast Brazil, Shangri-La - a huge festival of art and alternative culture - serves as a backdrop of intense sensory experiences between three different young contemporaries: Nando (Luca Bianchi), DJ Érika (Nathalia Dill) and her best friend Lara (Lívia de Bueno). Without realising it, as mere pieces of a chaotic game of fate, the encounter radically changes their lives forever.

An engaging story in full boom of electronic music in Brazil, which has a poignant story of love and overcoming the involvement of young middle-class in the international trafficking of narcotics, intense celebrations, conflicts and fates crossed through time.

THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE
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Retired maths teacher Michel (Jean-Claude Brisseau) lives alone following the death of his wife, and spends his time writing an essay on human illusions. One day, Michel comes across Dora (Virginie Legeay), a young homeless woman who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new into Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of a series of mysterious events.

Jean-Claude Brisseau's THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE took top honours at the 65th Locarno Film Festival 2012, winning the Swiss festival's top Golden Leopard (Pardo d'Oro) prize.

HAPPINESS RUNS
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Victor (Mark L. Young) realises the shortcomings of the utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor’s mother (Andie MacDowell) is funding the commune where the guru, Insley (Rutger Hauer), hypnotises and seduces women. Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him both their bodies and all their worldly possessions.

Preoccupied with Insley’s free love philosophy, the adults of the community overlook the painful reality that the self-destructive behaviour of their children is most certainly due to early exposure to sex and drugs. Victor is torn between getting money from his mother who is entirely under Insley’s influence, dealing with the violent drama of his drug-addled friends.

THE PARADE
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Srdjan Dragojevic's The Parade takes a comedic look at Serbia through the lens of one group's fight to hold a Gay Pride parade in Belgrade. When a bulldog is shot, an improbable alliance develops between two very different men. We meet Pearl and Limun (Nikola Kojo), a couple about to be married, and Mirko and Radmilo (Milos Samolov), a couple involved in the Gay Pride parade.

After a lover's tiff, Limun - who is less than accepting of Gay Pride - makes a deal to protect the participants in the parade in order to win Pearl back. Limun and Radmilo embark on a road trip across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo as Limun attempts to assemble a fearsome security team for the parade.

BRINGING UP BOBBY
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In an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive (Milla Jovovich), a nomadic European con-artist, and her 10-year-old son Bobby (Spencer List), find themselves living in Oklahoma. Olive enrols him in school, makes him do his homework and tries her hardest to be a good mother, and with the help of old friend Walt (Rory Cochrane), Olive "provides" for Bobby in the only way she knows how.

Despite her efforts, Bobby displays troubling behaviour both at his school and in their conservative neighbourhood. Things take a turn for the worse after Bobby's unfortunate run-in with local and wealthy businessman Kent (Bill Pullman), and Olive's criminal past finally catches up with her, forcing her to make the toughest judgement of all.

UNFAITHFUL
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Claude Peres takes viewers on a haunting and intimate journey with this groundbreaking erotic drama. The premise is simple: Peres and a man he's never met will sleep together while the cameras roll. No contract, no film crew, no boundaries. The end result is a film that challenges viewers to look into the heart of human desire.

Peres loosely structures the encounter as an interview in which he poses piercing questions to his on-screen lover, himself, and the audience. It's the kind of film that seeps into the viewers subconscious and rattles their comfort levels. After watching Unfaithful, audiences will never look at cinema the same way again.

KORE-EDA HIROKAZU COLLECTION
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AFTER LIFE: At a half-way station between Heaven and Earth, guides greet the newly dead. Over the next three days, they will help them sift through their memories to find the one defining, most blissful moment of their lives. NOBODY KNOWS: Inspired by an infamous true story that made headlines in Japan, this tough yet tender film follows the lives of four children left to fend for themselves by their wayward mother. STILL WALKING: This family drama, firmly in the Ozu tradition, is set over 24 hours of an anniversary gathering to commemorate a death. The three generations of the family exchange gossip and memories, grievances and resentments, without great drama, but all the more truthfully. AIR DOLL: An erotic fantasy that explores the complexities of love and loss, joy and pain, fantasy and reality, this bittersweet love story examines the intricacies and frailties of human existence.

KORE-EDA HIROKAZU'S AIR DOLL
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A life-size Air Doll (Doona Bae) lives in a shabby apartment in Tokyo. She cannot speak, nor can she move. But she is the only companion her middle-aged master has. He talks to her, puts her in a bath and makes love with her every evening after he returns home from work.

This routine life is disrupted when fantasy turns into reality. The Air Doll suddenly comes to life, filled with a soul. Like a newborn baby, she doesn't understand what is going on around her, but she sees a world waiting to be explored outside the apartment. Eventually venturing to the outside world, the Air Doll is fascinated by everything she sees, and though she meets many people in all walks of life, they can't seem to provide her an answer to what "being alive" means.

EL ALMA DE LAS MOSCAS
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By turns comic, poignant, absurd and profoundly moving, The Soul of Flies tells the story of the two sons of Evaristo de la Sierra - who never met their father and whose mutual existence they both ignored - until Evaristo sends them a letter inviting them to his funeral.

The two brothers meet at a train station (where the train hasn't gone by in years), which serves as the starting point of their surreal wanderings through barren landscapes, punctuated by chance encounters with the weird and wonderful characters that inhabit that land. These include a suicidal narcoleptic; a man with serious anger issues towards funerals; a bunch of thieving musicians and a young woman in love with the spring.

ARMY OF SAVIOURS
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Army of Saviours is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. The film tells this story of survival with a sense for the absurd in daily life and not without humour.

Without reservation, the farmers offer the refugees their protection. That this turns them into heroes would never occur to them. They are used to weathering even dangerous situations somehow, guided only by their instinct and century-old code of ethics. They risk their own lives, and, if necessary, even that of their families. There is never a discussion about friendship, reliability, humanity.

BLESSED
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Seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey over one day and night. But not all will find their way home. Katrina and Trisha are two street-smart girls, with sharp tongues and attitude. When they wag school and are caught shoplifting, the cops make sure they leave knowing they've got nothing - that they're worth nothing.

Having recently fled his mother's cloying love, Roo is now living on the street. But when he finds himself shooting a porn film he realises he s not so tough and just wants to go home. Unfairly accused of stealing his mother s money, Daniel decides he may as well stage a real theft. But the outcome of his actions is not the one he expects. Brother and sister, Orton and Stacey, must flee the mother they love in order to survive.

GRIFF THE INVISIBLE
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By day Griff (Ryan Kwanten) is an everyday office worker, in an everyday town. He lives a secluded life, bullied by co-workers (Toby Schmitz) - his protective brother his only friend. By night Griff assumes his other identity, roaming the dark streets protecting the innocent and the vulnerable from the dangers that lurk in the shadows - he is the hero, Griff the Invisible.

Increasingly concerned by Griff's eccentric behaviour, his brother (Patrick Brammall) attempts to draw him back into the real world. In doing so he introduces Griff to Melody (Maeve Dermody) an equally eccentric and charming girl.  Fascinated by Griff's idiosyncrasies, which are equal only to her own, Melody begins to fall for Griff. As Griff is forced to face up to realities of a mundane world, it is up to Melody to rescue him for the sake of herself, Griff and their love for each other.
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LOU
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Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 months ago and hasn't been seen since.

Mother-daughter relations hit bottom when Rhia takes in Doyle (John Hurt), her father in-law, who is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Doyle turns Lou's initial hostility around with exciting tales of his South Seas adventures. But coursing deepest in his mind are fractured memories of Annie, his late wife. Before long, Doyle 'sees' Annie in Lou and imagines he is courting her all over again.
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LOVELY, STILL
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With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love, Robert Malone (Academy Award Winner Martin Landau) braves the wintry snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger (Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn) standing in his home.

What begins as an odd and awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a romantic late life love affair that takes us on a heartfelt and wonderful journey which takes an unexpected turn. Skilfully and sensitively directed by Nik Fackler, Lovely, Still also stars Elizabeth Banks and Adam Scott, and features original music by Conor Oberst and a score by Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis of US band Bright Eyes.
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3SOME
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Sex and love; pain and pleasure; art and culture. The lines between all blur forever in 3some, when three promising students engage in a passionate and physical relationship where jealousy and anger slowly destroys the ties that bind them together.

Salvador Garcia Ruiz’s powerful film is an intense study of human sexuality and desires, and the price we have to pay to satisfy them. Set against the intense beauty of Spain aspiring artist Maria (Adriana Ugarte) and classmates Marcos (Nilo Mur) and Jaime (Biel Duran), suffer the complexities of youthful romance and the joy and anguish of the eternal love triangle in this steamy drama.
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ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
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Accidents Happen is a moving and savagely funny comedy about family, friendship and fate in 1980s American suburbia. At the age of six, Billy Conway witnesses his elderly neighbour die in a barbecue accident. When his mother, Gloria, Queen of the Comic Putdown, suggests a trip to a drive-in movie to take Billy's mind off the cremated neighbour, the Conway's night-out ends up worse than it began with another major accident.

Over the ensuing eight years, the ripples of that fateful night have thrown the remaining family members into disarray. Billy has settled into an accident-prone existence and does his best to bolster his mother since his father walked out. However, the ensuing collision of guilt, truth and self-discovery may be just what his family needs to move on.
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BEAUTIFUL KATE
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Award-winning actress Rachel Ward's stunning and handsome directorial debut, Beautiful Kate is the story of a family whose all-too-human mistakes lead to tragedy, recrimination, guilt and finally salvation. Told in parallel strands of past and present, the film recounts the sexual awakening of three siblings growing up in isolation, interwoven with the emotional journey of reconciliation between an estranged father and son.
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BITTER & TWISTED
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Bitter & Twisted's elegy to unrealised dreams contemplates the dark currents flowing beneath suburban placidity. The Lombard family has been steadily disintegrating since the death of oldest son Liam three years before. The descent is slow and soft, manifesting itself in a personal crisis for each family member.

Father Jordan is caught in a vicious cycle of depressed overeating, and his boss at the car dealership is threatening to fire him if he doesn't make a sale. Mother Penny harbours a hysterical false hope that she may be pregnant and suffers a rude awakening when she discovers that, on the contrary, she has started menopause. Ben is not sure if he is gay or straight, but he knows that he has very strong feelings for the girl across the cul-de-sac-his dead brother's ex-girlfriend-who also happens to be having a tragic affair with a married man.
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THE BALLROOM
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The Ballroom invites you to experience the lives, loves and dreams of the patrons of a traditional Brazilian dance hall. Set over the course of one evening, the film brings together a variety of characters who attend the ballroom each week and live for their moment on the dance floor. As they recall the past, imagine the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance, their passions and desires unfold in front of our eyes.

An enormous hit in its native Brazil, and set to an astounding soundtrack featuring songs performed by Elza Soares and Marku Ribu, The Ballroom is passionate drama of lives transformed and love invigorated by the magical power of the dance hall.
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NORMAL
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Catherine, Dale and their 12-year-old son, Brady, are a family on the brink of collapse. In the two years since the death of her eldest son and star athlete Nicky, Catherine is finding it increasingly difficult to cope with a husband who prefers to live a life of denial and a son who is a constant reminder of what once was.

Walt, a professor, is coming to grips with his impending middle age. His inability to communicate with his wife, the care demanded from his agoraphobic brother and his failure as a writer, lead him to find refuge in the arms of Sherri, a young television reporter and student. After losing his wife and jeopardizing his career however, Walt realises that his future depends on his finding closure with the victims of an accident he caused.
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50 WAYS OF SAYING FABULOUS
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Set in the long, hot summer of 1975, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous is the beguiling story of 12-year-old Billy, who is about to discover that growing up is a lot more confusing than he could have ever imagined. The arrival at school of Roy, another young outcast, and Jamie, a sexy young farm labourer who comes to work on Billy's farm, turns Billy's world upside down. As he discovers new feelings about sex, everything he knows is called into question, including his lifelong friendship with tomboy Louise, whose world is changing alongside his.