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Wake In Fright

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Sweat, Dust and Beer... There's Nothing Else Out Here Mate!

Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he 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...

Believed lost for many years, Wake in Fright has been painstakingly restored by Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive and AtLab Deluxe, and is presented in its original uncompromising form.

“This is the greatest Australian film ever made.”

The Child

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A Film by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia's unemployment benefits and the panhandling and petty theft committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. She returns home after Jimmy's birth to find that Bruno has sublet their apartment to total strangers. After an initial and promising change of heart about becoming a father and changing his ways, Jimmy becomes little more to Bruno than a new source of wealth. Desperate for money and unable to face his parental responsibilities, Bruno sells Jimmy to a black market connection, who promises to find the child an adoptive home. Realizing the error in his actions Bruno sets out to try and undo his callous deed, leading him to a powerful personal transformation.

Dead Snow

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Nazi zombies, chainsaws, oversexed medical students and bungy jumping with intestines. Need to know more?

Eight medical students going for a boozed-up weekend in a cabin in snowy Øksfjord, Norway, discover a nasty history lesson of the local area when they uncover some old Nazi gold. Cue an army of pissed off Nazi zombies waking up in order to get their gold back! Their snowbound getaway, stocked up only with beer and ski equipment, becomes a hilarious splatterfest that pays direct homage to classic Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi films.

The Cove

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Shallow Water, Deep Secret

Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Documentary, The Cove is an alarming environmental thriller. In 2008, an elite team of scientists, filmmakers and free-divers embarked on a covert mission to expose a shocking secret. What they found was only the tip of the iceberg.

Gonzo

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The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson

GONZO is the definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called our "greatest comic writer", whose suicide, by gunshot, led Rolling Stone Magazine, where Thompson began his career, to devote an entire issue (its best-selling ever) to the man that launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism - named "gonzo" after an anarchic blues riff by James Booker.

Princess

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A film like you have never seen before!

When his sister dies, 32-year old August returns home and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as the famous porn-star The Princess, is dead after years of drug abuse. She leaves behind her 5-year old daughter Mia, whom August feels obliged to take care of.

Weighed down by grief and guilt he decides to revenge the death of Christina - and takes Mia on a mission to destroy all existing pornographic material featuring her mother. The mission escalates into a brutal and violent route, where August desperately tries to protect the only precious thing in his life, Mia. In the end he makes a fatal decision that costs him dearly.

“Using a mix of animation techniques plus Dogme-style live-action sequences, renegade Danish cartoonist Anders Morgenthaler fashions a visually striking and deeply upsetting attack on the inhumanities of pornography.”

Still Walking

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A Film by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Still Walking is a touching and gentle drama about a family, the grown-up children of which journey to visit their elderly parents on one long summer day. The rare family reunion has been organised to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years before. As the family attempt to reconnect, the individuals realise that although the roomy familial home is as comforting and unchanging as the mother’s homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed, and that they are as bound by love as they are torn apart by resentments and secrets.

Reminiscent of Ozu’s masterpiece Tokyo Story, Still Walking measures a subtle balance of gentle humor and wistful sorrow and Kore-eda expertly portrays just how annoying, and exactly how precious, family can be.

Balibo

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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.

The Host

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OVER 13 MILLION ADMISSIONS IN KOREAN CINEMAS

The Han River runs through the heart of Seoul and when the US military dumps toxic chemicals in the river, a monstrous mutant creature is conceived in its waters. Then suddenly the creature reveals itself and creates a path of destruction on the local residents by the river. Gang-du (Song Kang-ho, star of JSA, SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE) , who operates a snack bar on the riverbank, witnesses his only daughter, Hyun-seo, taken away by the creature right before his eyes.

The sudden and shocking appearance of the mutant creature renders the government and state powerless to act. The once-ordinary citizen, Gang-du, and his family , sneak past the military cordon and are thrust into a battle with the monster in a desperate attempt to rescue Hyun-seo and they are forced into an unstoppable showdown with the mutant monster.

Directed by Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, Barking Dogs Never Bite) THE HOST is tale of ordinary people facing extraordinary odds.

Hidden

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A Film by Michael Haneke

Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) live the perfect life of modern comfort and security in modern day Paris. They have a teenage son and Georges hosts a popular literary review television program while Anne works in publishing. One day they start receiving packages on their doorstep that contain video surveillance footage shot secretly from their street, accompanied by disturbing drawings. Georges and Anne's idyll is shattered.

As more tapes and images arrive and become increasingly personal, Georges launches into an investigation of his own as to who could be imposing this terror upon him and his family. As he delves deeper, secrets from his past are revealed, and the walls of security he and Anne have built around themselves begin to crumble.

Workingman’s Death

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A film by Michael Glawogger

Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century?

Workingman’s Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghosts among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with lions at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with brothers as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious future.

Meanwhile, the future is now in Germany, where a major smelting plant of bygone days has been converted into a bright and shiny leisure park.

Tokyo Story

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A Film by Yasujiro Ozu

Listed at Number One in Halliwell's Top 1000 countdown of the world’s best cinema, and voted among the five best films ever made in Sight and Sound magazine's ten yearly poll of critics worldwide, Tokyo Story is prehaps the most powerful reflection on the human condition ever committed to celluloid.

When an elderly couple travel to a rapidly-rebuilding Tokyo to visit their children, they are met with unexpected indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. As the vastly different priorities of pre- and post-war Japan collide, Yasujiro Ozu's materpiece deepens into a sublime meditation on family, ambition and mortality. Considered by many to be the greatest film ever made, Tokyo Story is a subtle yet overwhelmingly emotional drama from one of Japan's finest directors whose masterful eye and scrupulous attention to character has influenced countless filmmakers around the world.

“Watching a film like Tokyo Story is like people-watching from the point of view of a god.”

Mind Game

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Begin again in a wild and bizarre ride!

Nishi has been in love with Myon since he was 9 years old. They both had feelings for each other, but due to Nishi’s cowardice their relationship never became more than friendship. Now, in the present, Nishi is 20 years old and aims to be a great manga artist; but he still loves Myon. After years of being apart they meet again, but she tells him that she's thinking of marrying her boyfriend. Nishi is still a coward so he accepts it and wishes her luck. While they're talking at her older sister's restaurant a pair of yakuza walk in looking for their father. One of the yakuza starts harassing Myon and out of anger Nishi chooses to finally take a stand – but he is shot and dies. Now, in limbo, he chooses to live again; but will he really live any differently than before?

White Lightnin’

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There’s tha devil runnin’ thru my blood…

In a battered trailer, deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia—where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still—abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Lil' Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum for taking drugs, stealing lighter fluid and for his wild behaviour.

To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing—a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his daddy’s murder at the hands of a pair of drunken rednecks, the crazy but charismatic Jesco put on his daddy’s shoes and danced his way round the county bars. It was here that he met the love of his life, Cilla, who happened to be twice his age and half his height. The odd couple tried to settle down but, tortured by the thought of his daddy’s killers still at large, Jesco’s demons resurfaced. This is his story.