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Double bill featuring two of the films produced by the acclaimed partnership of composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Godfrey Reggio.

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

Prepare to experience a truly remarkable film - a cinematic masterpiece so extraordinary that it regales the senses, stimulates the mind and actually redefines the potential of filmmaking. Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio, innovative cinematographer Ron Fricke and Golden Globe-winning composer Philip Glass have created a spellbinding film so rich in beauty and detail that with each viewing it becomes a new and different film. Unique, profound, mesmerizing, and thought-provoking, Koyaanisqatsi contrasts the tranquil beauty of nature with the frenzied hum of contemporary urban society. Uniting breathtaking imagery with a hauntingly evocative, award-winning score, it is original and fascinating.
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Hailed by audiences and critics around the world as mesmerizing, this second instalment of writer/director Godfrey Reggio's apocalyptic "qatsi" trilogy is quite simply one of the most magnificent visual and aural spectacles ever made. Combining stunning cinematography with the exquisite music of award-winning composer Philip Glass, Powaqqatsi is a breathtaking experience working on many levels - emotional, spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic! Bold, haunting and epic in scale, this extraordinary film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress. It is a film that engages the soul as well as the mind - it is truly an absorbing experience.

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Chronos is the directorial debut of Ron Fricke, director of Baraka and cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi. The film imparts a unique vision of our world - the first non-verbal, non-fiction large format motion picture filmed in time-lapse photography.

Presented as a visual symphony in seven movements, Chronos embarks on an unprecedented and manmade monuments, as it explores the essence of time.

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Granted controlled access, filmmaker Alvaro Longoria tours North Korea to contrast his findings to the typical western depiction of the nation.

With privileged but controlled access thanks to Aleoandro Cao de Benos, the only foreign national who works for the communist government, "The Propaganda Game" analyses the interests of the different players and the strategies they use to manipulate the truth. False news, half-truths and surreal controversies will lead the viewers to reach their own conclusions and reflect on how difficult it is to discern the truth.

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22 years ago, John Hammond envisioned a theme park where guests could experience the thrill of witnessing actual dinosaurs.

Today, Jurassic World welcomes tens of thousands of visitors, but something sinister lurks behind the park's attractions: a genetically modified dinosaur with savage capabilities. When chaos erupts across the island, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) race to restore order as a day in the park becomes a struggle for survival.

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Full of humor, warmth and drama, 'Cradle To Grave' stars Peter Kay as Frederick Joseph 'Spud' Baker, a London docker and master at the art of 'pulling strokes'. Based on actual events and characters, our guide through the ups and downs of life with the Baker family is fifteen year old Danny.

The series features a soundtrack combining songs from the 70's with original material from Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.

Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) is on the run from police. Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) is a recovering drug addict and anxious to reunite with her daughter. Confined in an apartment... their chance meeting has surprising consequences when the two broken lives collide.

Legend is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London's most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance.

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Winner of the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards (World Cinema) at Sundance Film Festival, Juan Carlos Valdivia's retelling of the last crumbling days of Bolivian apartheid is vividly captured through the portrait of an upper class family as their lives slowly begin to turn upside down in its

wake. Nestled in the lush valley of La Paz, Bolivia, the upper-class suburb of Zona Sur has sheltered the country's wealthy elite for many years. Here, in an adobe-tile-roofed castle, a statuesque matriarch reigns over her spoiled progeny and her Indigenous Aymaran butler. But all is not what it seems. As the mother fights with her oversexed son and clashes with her petulant daughter, her six-year-old son rambles the rooftops unnoticed. Decline hangs in the air, and the threat of aristocratic privileges changing hands signifies a new chapter of a prickly and ill-fated class war.

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Spring and Port Wine is a poignant, authentic and hilarious depiction of working class life in the north of England during the late sixties.

One of the last great, British kitchen sink dramas it tells the story of Rafe Crompton, a stern, strict and deeply religious father with an extremely domineering control over his meek wife and four children. When one of his daughters refuses to eat her herring one teatime, her actions ignite a family dispute as two very different generations come into conflict.

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Paul Merton, journeys across both modern and traditional China as he attempts to unravel the deep mysteries and baffling contradictions of this ancient country.

Travelling to major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu but also to the country's most obscure and traditional backwaters, Merton enjoys a voyage of personal discovery as he encounters China's new economic realities, idiosyncratic cuisine and engaging people. Merton meets representatives from all walks of Chinese life, from the eccentric farmer who has taught himself to build robots out of scrap metal to the apparatchik who has built his own 17th century French chateau. Exploring China's cultural differences, the comedian braves meals of scorpion and hairy crab, attempts kung fu, prays with Tibetan monks, meets Chinese hip hop artists who only rap about food, and visits Thamestown, a unique recreation of a provincial English town on the outskirts of Shanghai. Laced with Paul Merton's usual deadpan wit and observations, his journey is an unforgettable oriental trip along the road less travelled.

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June, -1945. Bay injured, her face destroyed, Auschwitz survivor Nelly (Nina Hoss) turns to Berlin.. Having barely recovered IMMA facial surgery, she sets out to find her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld).

Nelly's family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife, too, is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn't recognise her, but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his 'late' wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her on imposter.

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Based on a real-life experiment that took place in a Californian high school, The Wave tells the story of a high school teacher's unusual class experiment.

In an attempt to demonstrate what life is like under a dictatorship, the teacher comes up with an experiment to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. A role-playing game with tragic results. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community builds into a real movement: The Wave. As the students boundaries are pushed, things begin to spiral out of control and this newly found cult starts to take on a life of its own.

In this documentary the family of Hong Sun Hui takes us through the daily life of North Korea, country of the Beloved Leader Kim Jong II. Happily the people sing about him as their Great Great Happiness. From their faces we would guess that their feeling is joy all over. Or is this simply propaganda beyond their will?

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A Moroccan immigrant in France, enlists his adolescent son, Réda, to drive him across seven countries as he undertakes the journey from Hajj to Mecca. What should be a peaceful, purposeful and solemn pilgrimage for the father, is an incomprehensible waste of time for his son.

Along the way, the pair's stark differences and attitudes towards life become blisteringly apparent, and what they come to understand about one another has implication far greater than the journey itself.

Witness the founder of Apple like never before. 'Steve Jobs' paints an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at the epicenter of the digital revolution, backstage in the final minutes before three iconic product launches.