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Free State of Jones Competition

From THE HUNGER GAMES writer and director Gary Ross, and starring Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey, comes an epic wartime action romance about one man’s defiance which led to a revolution on and off the battlefield. Pokemon Go // FREE STATE OF JONES is based on the thrilling and moving true story of Newton Knight (McConaughey), a soldier who, in a time of conflict that divided a nation, flees the battlefields after being disillusioned by the horrors of war that touched his ...

Cine Latino Film Festival 2016 Competition

Experience the world’s greatest sporting passion, Latin American style, with a selection of comedy, drama and documentary in Back Four: Four films about Football.  The Hola Mexico Film Festival will present six of the best from Mexico including the bold bio pic GLORIA, which chronicles the life of the pop diva known as the ‘Mexican Madonna’ and the gripping I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY. Other program highlights include veteran Colombian director and Gabriel Garcia Marquez collaborator ...

Love & Friendship Competition

Starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Tom Bennebt, and Australian Xavier Samuel in his first romantic lead role, Love & Friendship is an adaptation of young Jane Austen’s novella, Lady Susan. Set in the 1790’s, earlier than most Austen novels, Love & Friendship concerns beautiful young widow Susan Vernon who has come to Churchill, the estate of her in-laws, to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Love & Friendship is ...

Goldstone Competition

Thanks to Transmission Films we have five double in season passes to give away to Our Kind of Traitor. Indigenous Detective JAY SWAN arrives in the frontier mining town of “Goldstone” on a missing persons enquiry. What seems like a simple “light duties” investigation soon opens into a web of crime and corruption implicating the local Mayor, Mining Boss and Aboriginal Land Council. Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road) returns in brilliant form as Detective Jay Swan alongside a standout ...

Our Kind of Traitor Competition

Adapted from one of John Le Carré  best selling novels, Our Kind of Traitor features a quality ensemble cast, international locations and cinematography to die for and a gripping and fast paced thriller with timely contemporary themes. // While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor, THE IMPOSSIBLE) and Gail (Naomie Harris, SPECTRE), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgård, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO), who ...

Queen of the Desert Competition

A true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert chronicles her journeys of love and loss in the Middle East during the early 20th century.   //   A curious and adventurous young woman eager to explore the world outside of England, Gertrude Bell (Kidman) goes to the British embassy in Tehran where she quickly falls in love with a secretary of the embassy, Henry Cadogan (Franco). This sparks the beginning of a life-long advent...

Hunt for the Wilderpeople Competition

Two rebels. One million hectares of untamed wilderness. The hunt is on.   //   Ricky (Julian Dennison) is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle (Sam Neill) in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive in this hilarious and heartfelt adventure. www.facebook.com/huntforthewilderpeople [contact-form-7 id="3660" title="Hunt ...

Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now Competition

From Penelope Spheeris to Kelly Reichardt; from Woody Allen to Alex Ross Perry; from Martin Scorsese to Paul Thomas Anderson; from Sofia Coppola to Lynn Shelton, and from John Cassavetes to Richard Linklater, the American independent film community continues to flourish and produce people, ideas, and cinema with a profound impact on the craft internationally.   //   Highlights of the festival include Opening Night event screening of Time Out Of Mind, starring Richard Gere ...

Now You See Me 2 Competition

The Four Horsemen return for a second mind-bending adventure of Now You See Me, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights and taking them around the globe. One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, the illusionists resurface for a comeback performance in the hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate.   //   The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry ...

Bastille Day Competition

Michael Mason (Richard Madden, Game Of Thrones) is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar (Idris Elba, Luther, Prometheus), the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy. Going against commands, Briar recruits Michael to use his expert pickpocketing skills to help quickly track ...