FilmGeist
Quentin Tarantino wrote the scripts for two of his blockbusters – True Romance and Natural Born Killers – whilst working in a video shop...
Steven Soderbergh rose to fame at the tender age of 26 in 1986 when his indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival...
Filmmakers
The Coen Brothers write, direct, and produce their films jointly. They have a satirical, neo-noir and witty style and a name for genre-busting...
Baz Luhrmann rose to fame with his fabulous film Strictly Ballroom (1992) - his Ballroom Dance teaching mother must have been so proud!
Paul Thomas Anderson has films to his name such as Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master(2012) and Inherent Vice (2014)...
Apatow is is an American producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian. Judd's comedic talent is what has made his films famous and 2015 saw him triumph again with Trainwreck - starring Amy Shumer, the new queen of American comedy.
Sofia is undeniably one of the finest American Directors of the 2000's and is often cited as such. She is also a much needed female presence and recognised talent in a largely male dominated industry, with a string of very fine films to her name.
Latest Films
Gaza is Fetah Sabawi’s ancestral home. Can he take his family back? Can he start a music school in Gaza? Can he be part of a solution? What are his chances? Return to Gaza is a very personal insight into the Mid East conflict.
This is the struggle of the Mirrar people against the Jabiluka Uranium mine... Jabiluka is about us, blackfellas, whitefellas together...and our belief in the future of our nation...
A coming of age tale and personal portrait of inspiring Melbourne transgendered woman Sally Goldner: activist, drummer, singer/songwriter, stand-up comic and radio DJ.
The Way Up is the personal story of a street girl’s struggle for survival, led by her dream of reuniting with her birth mother.
Over a period of 30 years, Bill Douglas discovered and collected pre-cinema optical devices–the story of these remarkable visual contraptions form the secret history of film.
NYC painter Jimmy Ernst is linked, on several narrative levels, with his upbringing and his apprenticeship to the one-of-a-kind famous print-making shop Augustine, in Glückstadt, Germany.
AFTERMATH is a reminder that we will continue to pay for the last century's legacy of war for years to come, and that future generations will pay for contemporary events which are occurring even now.
In these days, the stereotyped image of all strippers as drugs addicts, whores and brainless ‘bimbos’ is over. Both riveting and insightful, this film explores the lives of these new-age strippers.
During the so-called Egyptian revolution, the people from Bulaq played an upper role. This film portrays a little known story of social marginalisation, whose destiny is strictly intertwined with the Egyptian spring.
The economic crisis and consequences of the strict austerity policies have hit the Italian people hard.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Africans risk their lives trying to get into Europe. This is their story.