Cinematic Era: 2022 Vintage

A feature Documentary about Indigenous Australian figure skater Harley Windsor and his young Russian pair skating partner Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya. This unlikely duo made history, but at what cost?

In an abandoned fort, a man tries to recover his lost love. He is prepared to make great sacrifices to do so. Everything, to be complete again.

Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, along with the brutal history that lies submerged beneath Ireland’s heavy, moist earth.

The UK’s biggest-selling album group of the 21st century, Westlife will be broadcasting their first ever show from Wembley Stadium, live to cinemas on Saturday 6 August.  In front of a sold out Wembley Stadium, this spectacular show is going to be their biggest and most historic show yet! With 20 years of hits, a staggering 14 number one UK singles and selling over 55 million records worldwide, Westlife will deliver an unmissable night for fans. Performing all of their hits from their highly anticipated Wild Dreams tour, including ‘Uptown Girl’, ‘Flying Without Wings’, ‘You Raise Me Up’ and ‘If I Let You Go’. Irish heart-throbs Shane, Nicky, Mark and Kian invite fans everywhere to come together in their local cinema and share in this unforgettable live experience, up close and personal.

A vibrant girl from Punjab bumps into a pessimist on the streets of London. In an unexpected twist of events, the two are forced to stay together.

After the events of Kabaddi 3, Kaji no longer seeks love as he suffers from the pain of his previous relationships.

Hamid Symphony is a story about the life of Hamid Alidosti, a former Iranian football star. "Hamid Symphony" invites you to watch life away from the hustle and bustle. To hear, to think.

30 years on the air! 27 years of friendship! It's the Seven Second Delay 30th Anniversary Party Video starring Ken and Andy, with special guest Richard Thompson. Recorded live in Montclair NJ, October 2021.

BEYOND CONVERSION is a deep-dive into conversion therapy in Aotearoa through the eyes of Kiwi conversion therapy survivors.

Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaa’ joins their class Tamer immediately falls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the local celebrations planned for Israel’s Independence Day – otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memorialization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own political convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is willing to pay for freedom.

Revealed in independant movies such as My Own Private Idaho, blockbuster movie star in Point Break and Speed, hero of the digital era in The Matrix, virtuoso killer in John Wick, Keanu Reeves is one of the most intriguous stars of his generation. However, after 25 years in the spotlight, he stays an enigma whose chaotic career seems to go on without a guilding principle. Today, nobody could question his unique status as he reluctantly became a social network icon, and a role model for the « woke » generation.

Dave Stevens created The Rocketeer and reintroduced the world to 50's pin-up model Bettie Page. While carving out his own unique corner of importance in comic book and illustration art, Dave showed the world what it's like to pursue the life of a creative individual.

Stand Up Special

This astonishing glimpse into the restaurant world examines sexual harassment concealed within the industry, causing many employees to suffer in silence or leave their jobs rather than confront a celebrity chef or powerful owner who can ruin their career.

Punga is a hybrid film and series project about the resistance of popular culture in the fictional region of Guajuru. Surrealist and expertimental work that shows what the foreigner and the overwhelming power of capitalism can do with a country that still has originality and dignity. Political and social work about a distant and untouched place.

Vishnu, a fast athlete runner, has multiple medals on his wall from state championships, he strives to win gold at the national level, but loses his leg & also his father in a tragic road accident, before he can. Later Vishnu settles into a mundane job and is yet to move past the incident that destroyed his career. When he encounters a young rural girl, a budding athlete, whose sportive interests are not encouraged by her near and dear, he takes her under his wings and fulfills his long-cherished dream through her eyes.

Drinking 'Suraapanam' let's Shiva turn into an old man, a young boy and a kid everyday. Will there be any consequences? How will he deal with them?

It's the second wave of the COVID pandemic in Rio de Janeiro. There's no water in Madá's old mansion, a sewing cooperative where sheltered LGBTQI+ young people live and work. Renê, one of the residents, paints the anguish of a mysterious spirit that haunts the shelter through the plumbing. Across town, a loner middle-aged plumber, Ismael, is tormented by the same curse.

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.

The official Kairat wins the tender for the construction of the hospital. He promises to make a world-class clinic out of it, but it turns out to be just beautiful words, but in fact a corrupt official builds himself a luxurious dacha with taxpayers' money. Soon the financial police will find out about it, and in order not to go to jail, Kairat, on the advice of his lawyer, decides to pretend to be sick and lie in the hospital. Ironically, he finds himself in the very clinic that he shamelessly robbed.

A mother finds a cigarette in her daughter’s bag. Even though her mother starts to bombard her with questions, the daughter keeps her mouth shut. Then the father returns home from work and begins to suspect the cigarette is not just a cigarette, after all.

Love scammer Candy, promises her crew one last con before swearing off the game, but what happens when the target turns out to be "the one".

A movie about a young mother who’s trying to enjoy her me time by having a picnic in the pine forest. In reality, the tranquility she expected keeps on getting interrupted by many calls, video calls, chats about work and house affairs. Following the story, we learn that she is a property agent who runs an online florist shop, and also helps for her husband's koi fish business.

Filmed at the Piff the Magic Dragon Theatre at the Flamingo Casino and on location in and around Las Vegas, this is Piff's debut hour starring Mr Piffles, Jade Simone, Francis the Squire and Penn Jillette as Pop the Magic Dragon.

Antoine, an international wine negotiator in his fifties, receives an unusual phone call from Moscow. No voice, just a breath. Shaken, he leaves everything behind, his job, his partner, to go immediately to Russia to look for the woman he loved passionately and who has mysteriously disappeared for four years.

Filmed at the legendary Ritz in 1991, this concert was one of three rehearsal “club” dates for the tour that would ultimately divide the band, and it took place at the 1,400-person-or-so-capacity Ritz. Rose tells the crowd he doesn’t like showing up to rehearsals (shocker) so this was his warmup, but he nevertheless delivers an impressive, throat-shredding performance throughout, even after injuring a leg mid-gig. He even sounds like he’s having fun. He does the Cool Hand Luke “failure to communicate” monologue himself in “Civil War,” which also features Slash riffing on Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).”

Weeks before giving birth to her first child, Dr. Anna Fisher is chosen for a mission to space. Although the decision to go is easy, Anna is faced with the difficult intersection of motherhood and ambition on the way to her dream.

In a dystopian world, young people discover government secrets about the pandemic. While fighting oppression, they try to survive.

An experimental coming-of-age odyssey through someone's troubled mind, going from country to country, landscape to landscape, growing up in the process. A documentary, travelogue, vlog, dream and self-portrait. A reflection on life, death and history.

Gopi, an arts and crafts professor, on his first day at work faces the task of saving the school which has been taken hostage by four radical social media activists.

18-year-old school graduate Sasha is indecisive to choose painting as his profession. He does not want to let down his mother, who wants him to make a safe career choice. The meeting with his father, whom Sasha never knew, complicates things even more. But when Sasha meets an unusual girl Zhenia, he has no other choice but to grow up.

The story revolves around the life of an unmarried couple who live together. However, as we get to know every chapter of their lives we realize that they are troubled with individual commitments, deception, arguments and a hidden mystery that brings them together.

Max Verstappen had a season to list: a second world title and a record number of GP victories and points. In this interview, Max looks back on the successful year 2022 with Amber Brantsen.

A group of biologist search for evidence of an unseen southamerican bear. There, they hear about the local legend of a bear-man known as the ucumar.

Ten years ago, the paths of Abou, Laura, Cadiatou and Jacques have crossed Emmanuelle’s. She was their French teacher at a high school in Marseille. Together they took part in a film, Children of the Princess of Cleves, in which, while analyzing the classic text, they expressed their hopes, dreams, and fears. In En Nous, the director re-connects with the protagonists : memories blend with stories of their lives and the daily obstacles they must overcome whilst trying not to lose hope. Now, the sentence of the Princess of Cleves rings poignantly true: “I know nothing can be more difficult than what I undertake”.

An introspective look at a young black man, Sammy, and how being pushed away from his passion leads to his breakdown. Cracked explores passion, addiction, toxic masculinity and their effects on Sammy and his loved ones.

"Bamboula": this word was chosen in the 1980s for a chocolate cookie well known to children at the time. In 1994, he sponsored an Ivorian village set up in the Port-Saint-Père zoological park south of Nantes, where children and adults lived in a zoo to offer their folklore as a show to visitors. This documentary film, narrated by Jean-Pascal Zadi, gives a voice to those who lived in this African safari and to those who fought for their dignity

An experimental coming-of-age odyssey through someone's troubled mind, going from country to country, landscape to landscape, growing up in the process. A documentary, travelogue, vlog, dream and self-portrait. A reflection on life, death and history.

A cave-girl from outer space wreaks havoc after she is brought to life by a top secret super-weapon that transforms drawings into real people.

Based on short story by Nedžad Ibrišimović. At the very beginning of the 20 century, guy from Sarajevo slips on railway bridge and stays hanging in the air. In order to save him, gathered people begin to search for large, firm carpet on which he could jump.

An ancient evil stalks and claims the souls of anyone who awakens its presence. Children playing with a Ouija board, as adults are confronted with the consequences of dabbling in the occult and must face the true essence of evil at Halloween. Set in the backwoods and swamps of Central Florida, Harlow's Haunt leads you through a maze of treachery and deceit spanning decades on this emotional and harrowing journey to the end - or is it?

When a high-end restaurant chef is passed over for promotion, she tries to earn her boss’s trust by betting she can turn around the worst restaurant in the city. But when she starts to fall for the curmudgeonly owner, she’ll realise the key ingredient she’s been missing is love.

A smart a* DJ wants to start a career in radio, but the only place that will hire him is an old Southern Gospel Radio station. His first night shift happens during Y2K AND the rapture. Literally, all hell breaks loose.

A modern and fast-paced cinematic documentary that aims to trace, understand and demonstrate the historical and unwavering links between the United States, Bordeaux and its wines. An investigation like no other, Eastbound Westbound lets the viewer understand how this Franco-American friendship around Bordeaux wines had its starting point in the 18th century around the greatest connoisseur of fine wines and lover of Bordeaux, the American Thomas Jefferson, US Ambassador to Paris and third President of the United States. To better demonstrate Thomas Jefferson’s legacy, this intimate relationship between the two winegrowing continents is illustrated through interlinked portraits of wine families, from many and varied backgrounds but all sharing a real passion for wine. Leading players in their field, they produce some of the best wines in the world.

Short film made by the students of the ‘Moteur, ça tourne’ film workshop at Lycée Les Bourdonnières during the 2021–2022 school year, depicting an alternative reality where homosexuality is the majority.

The Beanie Bubble follows the unbelievable tale of America’s most fascinating phenomenon – Beanie Babies. Flashing back to the 90’s and early 2000’s, we take an in-depth look at how the era-defining zeitgeist came to be, the mysterious man behind the mania, and the lives that were forever changed in its wake. This is not simply a retelling, but rather an exploration of the American Dream and what makes all people susceptible to buying into a fantasy.

Andien, a masseuse, strives to fight for her dignity by standing up for herself when she experiences sexual harrasment. However, the responses from people around start to make her question her own beliefs.

A documentary surrounding the investigation into Litvinenko’s murder and the undeniable radiation health emergency. Who were the people behind the scenes who dealt with a deadly radioactive poisoning on British soil?

Working for the World Record Bureau, Leah Hoffman is forced to travel to a small town just before Christmas to investigate its plans to break multiple holiday world records. While there, she falls for the town’s doctor, Devan Bancroft.

A late night hook-up leads Shay and Adam to the bedroom. Before long, chit-chat gives way to passion. But something is missing from their interaction – something that is important to Adam, repellent to Shay – and it soon becomes a sticking point.

"For reasons of health, Lee Kang-sheng and I moved to the mountains. We don't have any neighbors. Our house is part of a row of dilapidated houses. I love these abandoned houses. I often walk around in them casually. I think they are beautiful. I said to Lee Kang-sheng: we don't have to go elsewhere to make films anymore. I'll make all my remaining films right here. I got some old chairs and some of my paintings and arranged them in these abandoned houses. And thus, this film was made." Tsai Ming-liang

A broke college student finds a modeling gig online to help her make ends meet: an all expenses paid trip, a dream beach photoshoot, and a big paycheck. It’s almost too good to be true…

In the summer of 2022, Germany's biggest star, Helene Fischer, returned to the big concert stages with a gigantic show like no other. Held on the open-air grounds of the Munich Trade Fair Center, Rausch (Live aus München) is a spectacular show full of musical and visual highlights. It includes all of Helene's biggest hits as well as amazing new songs from the Rausch album.

Shiroko suddenly returns to her hometown of Nagashima in Kagoshima Prefecture. She was supposed to make her debut in a film set in this town, but the production had fallen through. Moving in with Yukino, who still lives with her parents, Shiroko declares that she’s going to make a movie again. This sparks a series of small incidents…