On Blu-Ray & DVD 11th Dec
DIRECTOR: Robert Connolly
East Timor, 1975: Five Journalists Are Missing. One Man Searches For The Truth. One Man Fights For Justice.
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian-based journalists go missing.
Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifies and an unlikely friendship develops between the last foreign correspondent in East Timor and the man who will become President.
BALIBO is a political thriller that tells the true story of crimes that have been covered up for over thirty years.
On Blu-Ray & DVD 4th Nov
DIRECTOR: Ted Kotcheff
Sweat, Dust and Beer... There's Nothing Else Out Here Mate!
Brutal, uncompromising and stunning Wake in Fright tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub...
However, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...
There is no Australian film quite like Wake in Fright. Nominated cinema's ultimate prize, the Palme d'Or, at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival and still as raw and fresh today as it was then, rediscover this lost cinematic masterpiece as it screens for the first time in over 30 years.
"This is the greatest Australian film ever made." Stephen Romei, THE AUSTRALIAN LITERARY REVIEW
On DVD 25th Nov
DIRECTOR: Warwick Thornton
True Love.
Samson and Delilah's world is small - an isolated community in the Central Australian desert.
When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival.
Lost, unwanted and alone, they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.
"A love story with heart and humour... An inside look at a world rarely, if ever, depicted on the big screen." Frank Hatherley, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
On DVD 4th Nov
DIRECTOR: Glendyn Ivin
Love Runs Deep.
When his father bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong. As the two escape into the desert facing an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements, and each other. Poetically spare and emotionally tense, Last Ride is an unforgettable love story between parent and child.
"...visually captivating and thought provoking..." Annette Basile, FILMINK
On DVD 14th Oct
DIRECTOR: Sarah Watt
One Family. One Year. No Sex. What Else Is There?
My Year Without Sex is kind of a love story about a family dealing with all the big questions and even more of the small ones. Set over one messy year, Ross and Natalie and their two kids, Louis and Ruby, navigate nits, faith, Christmas, job insecurity, footy practice, more nits, and whether they will ever have sex again.
Starring Sacha Horler and Matt Day, and directed by Look Both Ways' Sarah Watt, My Year Without Sex is a triumphant comedy about the everyday minutiae of Australian life.
"Funny and heart-wrenching." Michaela Boland, AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
On DVD 2nd Dec
DIRECTOR: Kriv Stenders
One day, your luck runs out...
1902. The Australian federation is one year old.
12 year old Tom loves and worships his father, a man who has dragged his family to an isolated cabin in the bush with an evangelical dream - to farm the god-given land.
But the dream has died. Tom's older sister has begun to question not only the dream, but her father's sanity. When three men arrive on horseback, ex-soldiers from the Boer War, they are cautiously welcomed. But one of them has a secret - he has gold. When Tom realises that the gold has poisoned all around him, the cabin becomes a psychological battleground, and he is forced to choose between the ideals of his father and the basic, brutal laws of survival.
On DVD 2nd Dec
DIRECTOR: Joel Anderson
IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A GHOST... LOOK CLOSER.
Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam, near the town of Ararat. After she is laid to rest, her family start experiencing a series of strange and inexplicable events. She begins to mysteriously appear in the background of photos and video footage. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a parapsychologist who discovers that there was more to Alice's life than first appeared. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice's secret past emerges.
Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story told in documentary style that illustrates how the dead can forever haunt the living.
