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Movie	Rating	Description	Release Date
BLACK GOLD No Complimentaries	TBC	Black Gold is a persuasive and sobering investigation of the world coffee trade, from the hype and glitz of the World Barista Championships to the Ethiopian farmers who grow the world's finest coffee beans yet live in near starvation.	-- More Details
COUNTING HEADZ No Complimentaries	D	COUNTING HEADZ Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
CRY SEA No Complimentaries	D	CRY SEA Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
DALE No Complimentaries	D	DALE Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
DO NOT RESUSCITATE No Complimentaries	R	DO NOT RESUSCITATE Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
DOC NZ - PIANOMAN No Complimentaries	D	In an age of celebrity mania, some genuine heroes try to slip by unnoticed. Director Carlaw looks at the life and career of New Zealand's pre-eminent classical pianist Michael Houstoun, a man who - beyond accepting the acclaim his performances attract - h	-- More Details
FIGHT OR FLIGHT No Complimentaries	D	FIGHT OR FLIGHT Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
Film Fest 08: Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone No Complimentaries	TBC	Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone is the first installment in a film series known as the Rebuild of Evangelion that reinterprets the story first told in the critically acclaimed anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Covering the material from the first	06-08-2008 More Details View Sessions
FREEDOM FUELS No Complimentaries	D	FREEDOM FUELS Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
FREEHELD No Complimentaries	D	FREEHELD Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB No Complimentaries	D	GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
GLOBAL SHORT CUTS No Complimentaries	D	GLOBAL SHORT CUTS includes RENITA RENITA (16 mins) CIVIL STATUS (29 mins) WITTENOON (13 mins) JR - STREET EXPO (18 mins) A SUMMER NOT TO FORGET (27 mins) Movie synopses	-- More Details
HEAR AND NOW No Complimentaries	D	HEAR AND NOW Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
HEARTS No Complimentaries	D	HEARTS Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
HIGHNOTE No Complimentaries	D	HIGHNOTE Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
HKFF2010: At the End of the Daybreak No Complimentaries	TBC	Malaysia, now. The 23-year-old Tuck Chai is dating Ying, a schoolgirl who isn't yet 16. They probably met in an internet chatroom. Their parents know nothing about the illicit relationship . until Ying's mother and father find birth-control pills in her r	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: City Under Siege No Complimentaries	TBC	This is a story about courage. A troupe of circus performers goes on a crime spree when they accidentally acquire superhuman powers (and possibly undergo some kind of mutation). However, one of them, an ordinary clown, does not agree with their misdeeds.	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: Dream Home No Complimentaries	R18	Li-sheung, vowed in childhood that one day she would live in a luxury flat with a harbor view, and she will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream!	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: Echoes of the Rainbow No Complimentaries	TBC	The story follows the travels of a small family - the father, a shoemaker who makes new shoes everyday but yet always wears a pair of broken shoes, the optimistic and protective mother; the oldest son - smart, athletic and optimistic about the future and	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: Gallant No Complimentaries	TBC		12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: Love in a Puff No Complimentaries	M	Cherie works as a saleswoman and Jimmy is a young advertising executive. They meet in a laneway populated by nearby office workers who smoke, tell stories, smoke, flirt and smoke some more. She is in a failing relationship and he has just been dumped in f	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: Rebellion No Complimentaries	TBC	The tension in a triad society heightens when the mob boss was found murdered. His top and most trusted man, Bao, decides to manage a new organisation and at the same time suppresses other triads who had previously been enjoying peace under the reign of t	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HKFF2010: Vengeance No Complimentaries	TBC	A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.	12-08-2010 More Details View Sessions
HOMEGROWN: WORKS ON FILM No Complimentaries	R16	Only a handful of films each year get support from the New Zealand Film Commission to produce a 35mm screening print. Of this year's lucky few, the Moving Image Centre programmers judged these six the best. This year's selection is characterised by a bold	-- More Details
IFF2010: American: The Bill Hicks Story No Complimentaries	TBC	Photo-animated feature documentary, uniquely narrated by the 10 people who knew Bill best.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Carlos Part One No Complimentaries	TBC	Tracing the rise and fall of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (popularly known as Carlos the Jackal), the Venezuelan terrorist whose pro-Palestinian activities earned him global notoriety in the 70s and 80s, Olivier Assayas' sprawling yet incisive three-part epic co	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Carlos Part Three No Complimentaries	TBC	Tracing the rise and fall of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (popularly known as Carlos the Jackal), the Venezuelan terrorist whose pro-Palestinian activities earned him global notoriety in the 70s and 80s, Olivier Assayas' sprawling yet incisive three-part epic co	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Carlos Part Two No Complimentaries	TBC	Tracing the rise and fall of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (popularly known as Carlos the Jackal), the Venezuelan terrorist whose pro-Palestinian activities earned him global notoriety in the 70s and 80s, Olivier Assayas' sprawling yet incisive three-part epic co	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Cell 211 No Complimentaries	R18	Rookie prison officer Juan Olivier has the bad luck to start work on the same day that kingpin prisoner Malamadre (Luis Tosar) sets off a riot. It's Juan's good luck that Malamadre doesn't know Juan's a screw. Already we're in spoiler territory, but this	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Cyrus No Complimentaries	M	A hilariously, awkwardly honest and surprisingly adult dissection of modern romance.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Father Of My Children No Complimentaries	M	Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their hou	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: GasLand No Complimentaries	D	It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton d	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Gordon Crook No Complimentaries	D	The artist Gordon Crook invites us into the worlds that inspire him, from the metaphysical to the natural.The film abounds with drawings, collage, photography, painting and the tapestries that he is best known for, and will most likely leave you hankering	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Homegrown: Dramatic Digital Shorts No Complimentaries	M	This years' crop of short dramas ably demonstrates the talents of up-and-coming New Zealand filmmakers. From the opening of A Glorious Morning through to the night-time shenanigans of Tee Party there is something for everyone on this cinematic platter.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Homegrown: Quirky Stories No Complimentaries	M	A spicy mix of funny and imaginative stories that span animation, documentary and experimental genres.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Jean-Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child No Complimentaries	TBC	Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was a 21-year-old graffiti artist and art world party boy when he became a star, catapulted from Bohemian poverty to multimillionaire in little more than a year. Filmmaker Tamra Davis was a pal and the treasure at the heart of	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Last Paradise No Complimentaries	TBC	A zealous, ingenious cinematographer from an early age, Clive Neeson delivers a glorious greatest hits compilation from a lifetime so far of filming adventure sports in the great outdoors. Neeson's parents were wildlife photographers on safari in East Afr	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Sam Hunt: Purple Balloon No Complimentaries	TBC	If every New Zealander over a certain age feels familiar enough with Sam Hunt to say gidday to the guy, this vivid, unvarnished portrait, which contains that suggestion, might give us pause. Tim Rose and Jim Scott have assembled their film from several se	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Secrets of the Tribe No Complimentaries	M	The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untou	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Space Tourists No Complimentaries	TBC	It costs a cool $20 million to secure a seat in a Soyuz capsule and spend eight days as a civilian guest aboard the International Space Station. This enlightening, visually stunning film takes us on a journey into the 21st-century legacy of the Soviet spa	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Teenage Paparazzo No Complimentaries	M	Fame, its exploiters and its consumers make for an entertaining documentary from Entourage star Adrian Grenier.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: The Double Hour No Complimentaries	R16	As the title signals, even the clock may be duplicitous in this most cunningly constructed of psychological thrillers. Sonia, a pretty, recent arrival from Slovenia, is working as a chambermaid in a fancy Turin hotel, when she joins a speed-dating club an	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: The Free China Junk No Complimentaries	TBC	New Zealand filmmaker Robin Greenberg uncovers the remarkable adventure of five young fishermen who set off from Taiwan in 1955 intending to cross the Pacific in an old junk. The plan: to sail to San Francisco, then haul the boat across the US to take par	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: The Housemaid No Complimentaries	TBC	A housemaid is caught up in the deadly games of her wealthy employers in this stellar, voluptuous remake of a Korean classic, fresh from competition in Cannes. The Housemaid is an entirely grown-up thriller - one driven by lust, boredom and manipulation.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: The Human Centipede No Complimentaries	TBC	The most disgusting film at this year's Festival is also possibly one of the funniest, with a sick conceit that will have you either clambering for a ticket or running a zillion miles in the opposite direction.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: The Insatiable Moon No Complimentaries	M	Down and out in Ponsonby doesn't have the ring about it that it had 30 years ago, but The Insatiable Moon makes a colourful dramatic plea for the continued existence of halfway houses in a part of the city better known for curbside dining. A chance encoun	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: The Two Escobars No Complimentaries	TBC	The two Escobars, upstanding soccer hero Andrés and notorious drug baron Pablo, were not related by blood, but as Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's lively documentary shows their fates were helplessly entwined thanks to Colombian soccer's Faustian pact with th	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Trimpin: The Sound of Invention No Complimentaries	TBC	Documentary profile of Trimpin, an eccentric and highly creative artist/inventor/engineer/composer who has created a world that resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab.	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Wah Do Dem No Complimentaries	TBC	Unfolding to a backbeat of chilled Jamaican pop, Wah Do Dem is a smart and funny account of everything that goes wrong (and a few things that go miraculously right) for a Brooklyn indie rock hipster alone in the Caribbean. Dumped by his girlfriend (Norah	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Waste Land No Complimentaries	M	Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist known internationally for composing portraits from such materials as sugar and chocolate syrup and, now, in this totally engaging, unpredictable film, trash. The Brooklyn-based photographer grew up poor and we meet him as h	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IFF2010: Winter's Bone No Complimentaries	R13	In the harsh backwoods of Missouri, 17-year-old Ree, smart beyond her years, takes care of her incapacitated mother and her younger brother and sister. When her crystal-meth-cooking father puts up the house for bail, she sets out to find him to ensure tha	23-07-2010 More Details View Sessions
IN MEMORIUM: ALEXANDER LITVINENKO No Complimentaries	D	IN MEMORIUM: ALEXANDER LITVINENKO Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
IN THE COMPANY OF ACTORS No Complimentaries	D	IN THE COMPANY OF ACTORS Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
INTO GREAT SILENCE No Complimentaries	D	A German documentary about Roman Catholic monks who barely utter a word, Into Great Silence runs 162 minutes...162 engrossing, entrancing, enlivening minutes. Operating the camera himself, the director, Philip Gröning, brings us inside a world as mysterio	-- More Details
JUST PUNISHMENT No Complimentaries	D	JUST PUNISHMENT Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
KIWI STUBBIES No Complimentaries	D	KIWI STUBBIES includes CALICI: A RURAL CONSIPRACY (24 mins) MAIN TRUNK COUNTRY ROAD SONG (20 mins) 16mm MAXWELL (23mins) PRINTS OF DARKENSS (24 mins) Movie synopses -- More Details
KNEE DEEP No Complimentaries	D	KNEE DEEP Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
LOSERS AND WINNERS No Complimentaries	D	LOSERS AND WINNERS Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
LOST IN LIBERIA No Complimentaries	D	LOST IN LIBERIA Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
Met Opera 2011: Das Rheingold No Complimentaries	D	The Met's 2010-11 season opens November 4 with the first installment of Robert Lepage's highly anticipated new production of Wagner's Ring cycle. Music Director James Levine, in his 40th anniversary season with the company, conducts a stellar cast led by	04-11-2010 More Details View Sessions
Met Opera 2011: Nixon In China No Complimentaries	D	Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon's historic 1972 encounter with Mao and Commun	03-03-2011 More Details
MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY No Complimentaries	D	MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
MY FAMILY POTRAIT No Complimentaries	D	MY FAMILY POTRAIT Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
NOMADAK TX No Complimentaries	D	NOMADAK TX Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
ORANGE REVOLUTION No Complimentaries	D	ORANGE REVOLUTION Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
OUT TAKES 09: Finn's Girl No Complimentaries	M	A smart, sexy, and suspenseful look into the life of Finn Jeffries, a doctor running a clinic, raising a daughter and re-entering the dating scene. Note: This is one of two Opening Night films. Tickets $20 (no concessions) include admission to t	-- More Details
OUT TAKES 09: Northern Lights No Complimentaries	R18	Flatmates share a bit more than the flat! Swedish summer nights and love in Lucky Blue while hidden feelings come to the surface in My Name is Love. How to say I am Gay, and oh yes, a little Icelandic Wrestling! Northern Lights on Out Takes 2009	-- More Details
OUT TAKES 09: Shank No Complimentaries	R18	Explicit, shocking and painful at times, Shank is a part of a new genre from contemporary queer filmmakers that shows another side of gay life: a life set amongst raw British youth gangs. Shank on Out Takes 2009 website: http://www.outtakes.org.	-- More Details
OUT TAKES 09: To Faro No Complimentaries	R13	A coming-of-age drama about youth and the impact of first love. Mel re-invents herself as a boy and finds herself falling for a girl. To Faro on Out Takes 2009 website: http://www.outtakes.org.nz/2009/akl/films/tof.html	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: 20 CENTIMETRES No Complimentaries	R16	A wild, bawdy Spanish delight, 20 Centimetres draws upon the conventions of the over-the-top Hollywood musical to tell the raw, dramatic and often hilarious story of Marieta, a pre-op transsexual prostitute who walks the streets of Madrid, earning the cas	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: 3 NEEDLES No Complimentaries	M	This intense social drama from writer-director Thom Fitzgerald chronicles the spread of AIDS on three continents - Asia, Africa and North America - and the wrenching, controversial choices that three sets of people make to cope with the disease. Outstandi	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: A FOUR LETTER WORD No Complimentaries	R16	If you caught Casper Andreas' debut feature Slutty Summer in Out Takes 2005, you'll soon realise that his follow-up, A Four Letter Word, is the sequel - and it's the better, much funnier film. Luke appears to be a 'typical' gay guy - he works in a Chelsea	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: ANOTHER GAY MOVIE No Complimentaries	R18	A winner at the 2006 LA Outfest for its comedy performances, Another Gay Movie has four gay high school friends who are desperate to lose their anal virginity before they go to college. The final straw for the guys comes at a graduation party, where every	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: ANY BODY No Complimentaries	D	One in 2000 babies is born with "ambiguous genitalia". They are hastily assigned a sex and usually operated on to reinforce that. 1 in 2000 This documentary explores the societal context and personal experience of growing up intersex. Black and Wh	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: BOB AND JACK'S 52-YEAR ADVENTURE No Complimentaries	PG	In 1952 US Army sergeant Bob Claunch was cornered and courted by his commanding officer Lieutenant Jack Reavley. Their romance grew and then grew too obvious. Rumours became anonymous tips to headquarters. They avoided court-martial by confronting the ent	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: BOYS' TALES No Complimentaries	TBC	In Attack a neo-Nazi skinhead is apprehended after two black friends are assaulted in an alley. Police arrive, but perhaps not everything is as it seems. When a young director puts out an open casting call for his new film based on his family, he never ex	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: CALAMITY JANE No Complimentaries	G	Cross-dressin' n' fast-shootin' with Doris Day! Get a load of her dirty leather britches as she sings 'A Woman's Touch'! Doris Day's Calamity Jane takes on the macho Wild West in this rousing musical about a tomboy's fight for acceptance in a man's world	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: EATING OUT2: SLOPPY SECONDS No Complimentaries	R16	The straight world gets Die Hard 4 and MI3. We get Eating Out 2. We win. The first gay movie sequel ever, if you enjoyed one, take two before bedtime. A sex comedy for everyone, Eating Out 2 asks some serious questions about closet politics, the Christia	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: ELECTROSHOCK No Complimentaries	R16	A devastating portrayal of love ripped asunder, Electroshock is a tearjerker that resonates long after you've left the theatre. Based on a true story it is set in a Spain under the oppressive grip of Franco's right-wing regime where homosexuality was an a	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: EYES ON THE GUYS No Complimentaries	R18	Long before Calvin Klein's poster boys marched into public view, Alan B. Stone was taking erotic photographs of men for physique magazines during the 1950s and early 60s. These semi-clandestine magazines were all about gay desire but had to disguise thems	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: FtF FEMALE TO FEMME No Complimentaries	M	It's been a long time coming but here, finally, is a new feature-documentary on femme. With much talk in queer circles recently of female masculinities, have femme voices become lost in the debate? Taking language more commonly used to describe transgende	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: GENDER REBEL No Complimentaries	D	Shot in a fast paced style A Girl Named Kai follows Kai and her search for love, fame and her identity across four countries. Out of the political tumult of South Africa comes Enraged by a Picture which explores the fallout from photographer Zanele Muholi	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: GOD AND GAYS, BRIDGING THE GAP No Complimentaries	D	An ex-Exodus counsellor talks about her days as a straightened-out Christian on the evangelical circuit. An activist gay minister describes his career as Jerry Falwell's ghostwriter. "The only reason I didn't kill myself," a college counsellor admits, "is	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: HAPPY HOOKERS No Complimentaries	D	This enlightening and taboo-breaking film explores the secret underground world of male sex workers in India. Three young men share stories about their lives in the Mumbai (Bombay) sex trade. Married tailor Imran's family know nothing about his career as	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: HATSUKOI No Complimentaries	R16	Out Takes is proud to be hosting the World Premiere of Hatsukoi (First Love). From Japanese director Koichi Imaizumi comes this engrossing, satisfying story of first love and of living an openly gay life in Tokyo. Tadashi, in his last year of High School,	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: HOTEL GONDOLIN No Complimentaries	D	In Buenos Aires, Hotel Gondolín is the home of 30 transvestites and transsexuals who work as prostitutes - ?all presided over by Monica, who looks after the new girls and keeps order in the house. In this vibrantly painted former hotel, transgender women	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: INTERNATIONAL MALE No Complimentaries	R18	What do you do when your girlfriend says your best friend kisses better than you? Two German boys have only 41 Seconds to find out. In Rugburn, a young painter works up the courage to contact the collections agency that's been hounding him and gets embroi	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE No Complimentaries	R13	Oh my. The new film from But I'm a Cheerleader director Jamie Babbit comes to us hot from rave reviews on the queer festival circuit. Dumped by her girlfriend and without a place in college, Anna lives at home and works in a plastic surgeon's office. Seri	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: KEILLERS PARK No Complimentaries	R16	Gothenburg, Sweden. A businessman, Peter, is accused of murder. While in custody, Peter's story - and the mystery behind the murder - unfolds in flashbacks. Living a charmed life, Peter was happily engaged to beautiful Maria and due to inherit the thrivin	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: KING AND THE CLOWN No Complimentaries	M	This sumptuous costume drama about two gay actors who mock a King in 1500s Korea became the highest-grossing film in that country's history. Bawdy and boisterous, the story follows the tough life of a troupe of actors, clowns and acrobats who perform in t	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: LAUGHING MATTERS ... MORE No Complimentaries	R18	Laughing Matters.More! is a reality-based romp with four of the hottest lesbian comics working in the US today - Elvira Kurt (a Second City alum named Canadian female comic of the year and a writer for Ellen DeGeneres); Sabrina Matthews (the darling of Co	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: LESBIAN PULP-O-RAMA GOES TO SWEDEN No Complimentaries	R18	In December 2004, popular New York City based comedy troupe Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama! performed a three-city tour of Sweden, showcasing their trademark sketch/variety act inspired by the immensely popular lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s and 60s. Delightfully	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: LEZPLOITATION No Complimentaries	R18	Triple X selects the best of Lezploitation Take a trip down memory lane with a selection of some classic made-for-straight-men movies that have been reclaimed for the ladies - featuring Swedish wildcats, frisky inmates, sinning nuns, lesbian vampires	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: METH No Complimentaries	D	This powerful documentary explores the rising wave of crystal methamphetamine use within the gay population. Through the stories and reflections of a dozen gay men across the US, who range in age from 21 to 50, we learn of the allure of the drug (commonly	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: MY NAME IS JACKIE BEAT No Complimentaries	D	In the concert-style documentary My Name is Jackie Beat, we follow a few years in the life of one of today's most notorious 'bad girl' drag artists. Bastard daughter of Dolly Parton and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, Jackie Beat is one of the funniest, bitch	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS No Complimentaries	PG	Nina's Heavenly Delights is a love story where Scottish humour meets Bollywood spectacle. It follows the fortunes of a Glaswegian family, the Shah's, and their award-winning Indian restaurant, The New Taj. The story is told through the eyes of Nina Shah,	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: ODETE No Complimentaries	R16	Starting with a passionate kiss, a techno version of 'Moon River' and a car crash, and ending with one of the most shocking sex scenes in recent memory, this second feature by the brazenly talented Portuguese director of O Fantasma plumbs the depths of ro	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: OUTLAUGH! No Complimentaries	D	This hilarious, historic concert film showcases the funniest queer stand-up comics and queer sketch groups working in America today. The First Queer Comedy Festival in America, Outlaugh! 2005, hosted by The Gay Mafia comedy troupe, was sidesplittingly fun	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS No Complimentaries	R13	Maria Maggenti, director of the beloved Unbelievably True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, hits another high note with Puccini For Beginners, a charming New York story centered on a bisexual love triangle. Humming with delectable wit and wry humour, this	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: RED WITHOUT BLUE No Complimentaries	M	In 1983 identical twin boys Mark and Alexander Farley were born in Montana. Twenty-three years later, Mark is apartment hunting with his boyfriend in San Francisco, and Alex is living as a woman named Clair. Captured over a period of three years, this mov	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: SAVING MARRIAGE No Complimentaries	D	A moving and resonant documentary, Saving Marriage looks at our universal human rights within a specific and recent context. When, in 2003, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to recognise gay marriage, a constitutional amendment immediately rises up	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: SPIDER LILIES No Complimentaries	R16	Two young women reawaken love in this beautiful Taiwanese film. According to legend, spider lilies line the path to hell. Tattoo artist Takeko keeps a tattoo of this flower on the wall of her studio and wears it on her body in order to remind herself and	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: STRAY CATS No Complimentaries	R16	Stray Cats follows the parallel love lives of Marta, a middle-aged advertising executive, and her gay friend and landlord, Boyet. Both are unwaveringly committed to their non-committal boyfriends. Marta's smooth lover Steve has no intentions of marriage a	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: SURVEILLANCE No Complimentaries	R13	"London, the best city in the world," says Adam. He loves coming to the vibrant city in the weekend to club, dance, meet new friends, party and shag. Following a chance encounter with a stranger, Adam finds himself under the surveillance of powerful unsee	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: THE GYMNAST No Complimentaries	M	In her forties, having no luck getting pregnant, trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, and tired of being propped up by anti-depressants, former Olympic gymnast Jane (Dreya Weber) has the perfect body but a troubled mind. Unexpectedly, an old friend re-ent	-- More Details
OUTTAKES 07: THE JOURNEY No Complimentaries	PG	The Journey depicts the story of two Indian women, quiet Kiran and adventurous Delilah, who grow up together in a small rural village. They lead inseparable lives until Kiran develops desires for her friend. Afraid to jeopardise their relationship Kiran s	-- More Details
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME No Complimentaries	D	PLEASE VOTE FOR ME Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
RAFF2010: Evangelion 1:0: You Are (Not) Alone No Complimentaries	PG	Rebuilt from the ground up by creator Hideaki Anno, this is the definitive Evangelion for a new generation! The most important anime returns in this, the first feature film in a series of four. The year is 2015, and half of the Earth's population is d	09-09-2009 More Details View Sessions
RAFF2010: Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance No Complimentaries	PG	The second film in the epic rebuild of Evangelion takes us in a frightening, thrilling and cinematically stunning new direction. The story of Shinji, Asuka and Rei, the chosen children who fight to save Tokyo-3 from monstrous creatures known as Angels is	09-09-2009 More Details View Sessions
RAFF2010: King Of Thorn No Complimentaries	M	Based on the award-winning manga. A disease, called 'Medusa', which turns a person's body to stone and subsequently kill them, has become a worldwide epidemic. Clinging to the hope of a cure, a group of chosen infected people is put into cold sleep capsul	09-09-2009 More Details View Sessions
RAFF2010: Redline No Complimentaries	M	The toughest and the most destructive underground car race in the universe, REDLINE, has just begun! JP is a reckless driver oblivious to speed limits, and Sonoshee, one of his competitors with whom JP is secretly in love with, is a hot girl determined t	09-09-2009 More Details View Sessions
RAFF2010: Summer Wars No Complimentaries	PG	In the near future, the creation of virtual community of OZ has made possible for everyone to access the internet from anywhere and anytime.Kenji, a normal high school student, spends his summer holidays working part-time maintaining the OZ system. But th	09-09-2009 More Details View Sessions
RBFF2010: Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves In Globa No Complimentaries	TBC	Beyond Ipanema celebrates the world's enduring fascination with Brazilian music. Through interviews with David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Seu Jorge, Thievery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, CSS, Creed	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: Bollywood Dream No Complimentaries	TBC	Three Brazilian actresses go on a life-changing journey to India to realise their dream of making it big in Bollywood. What follows is a heady mixture of comic and deeply spiritual experiences that will challenge their friendship and beliefs. Beatriz Seig	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: Citizen Boilesen No Complimentaries	TBC	This fascinating filmlooks into the life of Henning Albert Boilesen, a Danish man who became a naturalised Brazilian and rose to the heights of his new country's corporate elite. Famous both in Brazil and honoured back home in Denmark, he was also deeply	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: Elvis And Madona No Complimentaries	TBC	Meet Elvis: she's lesbian, an aspiring photographer and motorcycle courier living in Rio who's just taken on a new job delivering pizzas. Her first delivery is to Madonna, a ravishing blonde transvestite who Elvis finds lying on the floor, beaten up after	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: Jean Charles No Complimentaries	TBC	Jean is based on the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian man killed mistakenly by the British police, following the 2005 terrorist attacks in London. But this is no sober dramatic recreation: instead, the film tells the story of	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: Love Stories Last Only 90 Minutes No Complimentaries	TBC	Zeca is a young writer living in bohemian idleness in Rio. He's spent years writing a novel he just can't seem to finish and gets by on handouts from his family and lives a strained relationship with beautiful and successful wife Julia. Everything seems t	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: My Name Aint Johnny No Complimentaries	TBC	The true story of João Guilherme Estrella, a privileged middle class boy turned big-time cocaine dealer, is brought to life in this fast paced and muito cool biopic. Played by the charismatic & popular Brazilian actor Selton Mello, we follow Johnny's prog	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: Now Boarding No Complimentaries	TBC	How far would you go for your dream? Wagner is a twentysomething Brazilian who works at an airport and yearns for a better life in New York. Through a failed attempt to stow away on an aircraft he meets Justina, a world-weary supervisor at the airport who	26-08-2010 More Details
RBFF2010: The Xavante Strategy No Complimentaries	TBC	Follow Brazil's Xavante people in their attempts to preserve their territory and keep their traditions untouched. It tells the poignant personal stories of young Xavante men sent to study the customs of modern Brazilian society so that they can become s	26-08-2010 More Details
RESTORING THE MAURI OF LAKE OMAPERE No Complimentaries	D	RESTORING THE MAURI OF LAKE OMAPERE Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
ROW HARD NO EXCUSES No Complimentaries	D	ROW HARD NO EXCUSES Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
SCARY No Complimentaries	D	SCARY Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
SHANGHAI QUEST No Complimentaries	D	SHNAGHAI QUEST Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY No Complimentaries	D	In his first documentary, Hollywood director Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, Out of Africa) provides a lucid and engaging personal introduction to one of the most intriguing and popular architects of our time, 77-year-old Frank Gehry, who happens to be his close	-- More Details
SUFFER THE CHILDREN No Complimentaries	D	SUFFER THE CHILDREN Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
THE BIRTHDAY No Complimentaries	D	THE BIRTHDAY Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
THE NEXT FRONTIER No Complimentaries	R16	THE NEXT FRONTIER includes CONVERSING WITH AOTEAROA (15 mins REVOLVING DOOR (17 mins) PODLOVE SERIES (25 mins) Movie synopses here.	-- More Details
THE RAPE OF EUROPA No Complimentaries	D	THE RAPE OF EUROPA Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
THE UNFORSEEN No Complimentaries	D	THE UNFORSEEN Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
THIN ICE No Complimentaries	D	THIN ICE Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
TIME AND TIDE No Complimentaries	D	Filmmakers Julie Bayer and Josh Salzman offer a thought-provoking visit to the land and people of the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, threatened with possible extinction by the twin oppressions of global warming and economic globalisation. The film follows	-- More Details
TRADERS' DREAMS + BIDDING FOR CAMILLA No Complimentaries	D	TRADERS DREAMS (83 mins) BIDDING FOR CAMILLA (29 mins) Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
TRADERS' DREAMS + BIDDING FOR CAMILLA No Complimentaries	D	TRADERS' DREAMS Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
USA VS AL-ARIAN No Complimentaries	D	USA VS AL-ARIAN Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
WCS: Unrelated No Complimentaries	TBC	Beautifully acted, this début feature by UK TV director Joanna Hogg trains a drily compassionate eye on the tensions that come to the fore as a group of privileged Brits loosen up in the Italian sun. "This quietly trenchant low-budget drama is simply one	-- More Details
WE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU No Complimentaries	D	WE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU Movie synopsis here.	-- More Details
WELLY STUBBIES No Complimentaries	D	WELLY STUBBIES includes PRIVATE CABLE CARS OF WELLINGTON (17 mins) FISH & SHIPS (24 mins) IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN (22 mins) Movie synopses here.	-- More Details

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