AUSTRIA / USA – 2012 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN GERMAN & ENGLISH
A FILM BY JEM COHEN
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world.
USA – 1981 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY ABEL FERRARA
Abel Ferrara’s (Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York) 1981 revenge thriller classic MS. 45 follows a mute garment-district seamstress – played by the late model/ actress/ musician/ screenwriter Zoë Lund – who after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, ignites her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population. Now remastered in HD from the original negative materials.
ITALY – 2008 – 75 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY GIANNI DI GREGORIO
Gianni is a middle-aged man, the only son of his widowed mother, with whom he lives in an old house in central Rome. Living under the tyranny of this impoverished aristocrat, his life drags on between housework and going to the bar.
THAILAND / UNITED KINGDOM – 2012 – 57 MIN – COLOUR - SHORT - IN THAI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
USA – 2012 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SALLY ROWE
A MATTER OF TASTE takes an intimate look inside the world of an immensely talented and driven young chef, Paul Liebrandt. At 24, he was awarded three stars by the New York Times for unforgettable and hyper modern dishes such as "eel, violets and chocolate," "espuma of calf brains and foie gras," and "beer and truffle soup."
USA – 2014 – 127 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JONATHAN DEMME
A MASTER BUILDER unites Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme with two of American theatre and cinema’s most ingenious provocateurs, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn. It is based on Gregory’s near-legendary theatrical production of Shawn’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Master Builder Solness; a production that was rehearsed and performed over a 14-year period. Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn), is a very successful architect in his sixties. He exercises tight control over his wife Aline (Julie Hagerty), who is in permanent mourning for their only two children, who died as infants. And tight control over his employees: the old architect Knut Brovik (André Gregory), Brovik’s talented son Ragnar (Jeff Biehl), whom Solness keeps in a lowly position, and Kaya (Emily McDonnell), Ragnar’s fiancée, who is Solness’s book-keeper and sexual companion. Shawn’s adaptation hues very closely to the original Ibsen with one astonishing ‘Shawnian’ departure — while perfectly healthy in Ibsen's original version, Shawn introduces Solness on his deathbed with only hours to live. When Hilde (Lisa Joyce), a mysterious young woman comes to visit, the once dominating, controlling and narcissistic Solness finds himself apparently revived in every possible way. Intense, intimate and painful, A MASTER BUILDER is a witty, mystical and psychologically complex interpretation of Ibsen’s masterpiece.
USA – 2011 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MATTHEW AKERS
Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits — and at times risking her life in the process — she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time.
NEPAL / USA – 2013 – 118 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN NEPALI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY STEPHANIE SPRAY & PACHO VELEZ
PRODUCED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LABORATORY
High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana.
USA – 2004 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY PETER FRIEDMAN
All over the world, in every society, there are objects that have special power over people. People climb mountains or make pilgrimages just to see or touch them. They prostrate themselves or engage in rituals in their presence, caress them in the hopes of absorbing some of their magic, they enshrine them in temples or pass them on to descendants; wear them or store them in treasure houses or sometimes burn them. An individual object might hold power over only one group or even just one person, but the phenomenon of “power objects” is universal.
AUSTRALIA – 2010 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MARK HARTLEY
MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is the first detailed examination and celebration of Filipino genre filmmaking — a world where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make-up guy was packin' heat!
USA – 2004 – 163 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY THOM ANDERSEN
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF is an essay on how the movies have depicted Los Angeles a city symphony in reverse — a symphony with many directions and speeds. A critical history — and counter-history — of Los Angeles via clips from an eclectic list of movies. Many of them are well known (Chinatown, Blade Runner, L.A. Confidential); others are rarer finds (The Exiles, Bush Mama, Killer of Sheep).
USA – 2007 – 81 MIN – COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JOE SWANBERG
Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life.
USA – 2010 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MIKE OTT
When her car breaks down on a site-seeing tour of California, a Japanese student winds up stranded in a small desert town.
Exhilarated by a sudden sense of freedom, she extends her stay and finds friendship, romance, and what promises to be a new home. But as she pulls back the layers on this unlikely paradise, she discovers a different America than the one in her dreams.
JAPAN / FRANCE – 2012 – 109 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty-four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
FRANCE / KYRGYZSTAN / GERMANY / NETHERLANDS – 2010 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN KIRGHIZ WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY AKTAN ARYTM KUBAT
They call him "Svet-ake" ("Mr. Light"). The electrician is responsible for bringing more than just light to the people around him. Like moths, everybody is drawn to his kindness: those with short circuits in their electricity, and those with short circuits in their marriage, those who have taken all the power in the city, and those who have given up the will to live. He helps everyone and is everywhere. He doesn't even shy from breaking the law, rewinding an old and lonely pensioner's electricity meter so that he doesn't owe the State, but rather the State owes him.
USA / CANADA – 2014 – 118 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY KAT COIRO
From director Kat Coiro, and writers Kat Coiro and Krysten Ritter comes L!FE HAPPENS, a comedy centered on three young women – Kim (Krysten Ritter), Deena (Kate Bosworth) and Laura (Rachel Bilson) – who all live under the same roof in Los Angeles. When one of Kim’s one-night-stands results in an unexpected pregnancy, things take a sudden turn for the trio.
FRANCE / UNITED KINGDOM / USA – 2012 – 87 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR & VÉRÉNA PARAVEL
LEVIATHAN is a feature-length film about men at sea and fish on boats. It offers an appreciation for the sensory experience, labor, and political and ecological stakes of one of the oldest endeavors that has been an important part of human history since the Paleolithic. Shot off the coast of the mythic city of Moby Dick, with eleven cameras swapping hands between the filmmakers and fishermen, in an effort to create a form of collective experimentation that gives free reign to the perspectives of both fishermen and their catch, the film seeks to capture the many ways in which human, animal, and machine; beauty and horror; and life and death all merge in uncanny ways in the world of contemporary commercial fishing.
USA – 2010 – 112 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY MICHAEL EPSTEIN
As the world remembers John Lennon on what would have been his 70th birthday, and the 30th anniversary of his death, LENNONYC takes an intimate look at the time Lennon, Yoko Ono and their son, Sean, spent living in New York City during the 1970s. LENNONYC features never-before heard studio recordings from the Double Fantasy sessions, never-before-seen outtakes from Lennon in concert, and home movies that have only recently been transferred to video. Featuring exclusive interviews with Ono - who cooperated extensively with the production and offers an unprecedented level of access - and with artists who worked closely with Lennon during this period (including Elton John and photographer Bob Gruen), LENNONYC paints a revealing portrait of the legend’s momentous years in Manhattan, the final years of a remarkable life cut remarkably short.
FRANCE – 2011 – 93 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY AKI KAURISMÄKI
Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa.
2013/ 88 MINUTES / ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY RAYA MARTIN AND MARK PERANSON
STARRING: ALEX ROSS PERRY, GABINO RODRÍGUEZ, IAZUA LARIOS WITH THE AMICABLE PARTICIPATION OF RENÉ REDZEPI
A filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry), along with his local guide (Gabino Rodríguez), traverse the Yucatán in the days leading up to the “end of the world” with the idea of making his last movie. They look at possible locations, journeying to Chichen Itza on December 21, encountering a surrealistic gathering of New Agers and Mayan mystics. They meet a local TV reporter (Iazua Larios), who the filmmaker casts in his psychedelic Western. After the film is shot, the misunderstood and egomaniacal filmmaker decides to remain in Mexico, editing his masterpiece, forever.
