X (MA)
Dir. Jon Hewitt | Australia, 85 mins | Trailer

“Powerful...pounds with flickering energy and an intoxicating sense of danger.”
FILMINK

“Highly erotic, sexy and extreme.”
TWITCH

“The acting is phenomenal…a beautiful film.”
KILLER FILM

Two unsuspecting young women are plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse in Jon Hewitt’s high-octane erotic thriller X. High class escort Holly is retiring, kissing her call girl life goodbye. She just has one last night on the job to get through. Meanwhile, teenage runaway Shay arrives in the city broke and alone, doing whatever it takes to get through her first night on the streets of Kings Cross.

Holly and Shay are thrown together on a job that goes horribly wrong. They find themselves on an out-of-control roller coaster ride racing through a labyrinth of neon lights, seedy strip joints and grimy back alleys deep in the heart of the red light district. If they can get through this unrelenting night, they might just have a chance at a fresh start. Stars Viva Bianca (Spartacus: Blood and Sand) and Hanna Mangan-Lawrence (Acolytes, The Square).

THE ILLUSIONIST (PG)
Dir. Sylvain Chomet | UK/ France, 80 mins | Trailer

Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee for Best Animated Feature Film, THE ILLUSIONIST is based on an unproduced script by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati (Play Time, Mon Oncle). Adapted for the screen by Sylvain Chomet (Academy Award nominee for 2003’s The Triplets of Belleville), his distinctive hand-drawn animated style brings the story to life.

In the late 1950s an out-dated and aging magician travels the globe in search of work, forced to accept increasingly obscure engagements to get by. Travelling to Scotland, his gloom is lifted when he encounters Alice; an innocent young girl who will change his life forever. Watching his performance, Alice becomes fascinated by The Illusionist and believes his tricks are real magic. Though they don’t speak the same language, the two lonely strangers quickly bond through small kindnesses afforded one another. As they travel together to Edinburgh for work, The Illusionist cannot bring himself to reveal that real magic does not exist for fear of disappointing Alice.

"A lovely film, a wry and compassionate one that has a sense of humour"
FOUR STARS
Margaret Pomeranz, AT THE MOVIES

"An uplifting gem"
Louise Keller, URBAN CINEFILE

2010 Asia Pacific Screen Awards - Mark Ivanir nominated for Best Actor

From the director of Lemon Tree. The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He's separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing and the bakery is accused of inhumanity and indifference, the HR Manager is sent on a mission to make things right.

As the facts unfold he embarks on a complex journey, beginning in the mystical streets of Jerusalem and continuing in frozen Romania. The Manager finds himself leading an awkward convoy to the dead woman's village including her rebellious son, a pesky journalist determined to ruin him, a quirky consul, an old veteran driver and a coffin. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn't even know but has somehow grown to admire, the HR Manager rediscovers his own humanity and his ability to truly care for human resources.