Sometimes sweet, sometimes tough, often passionate:
here's art from the heart by cinema's foremost emotional explorers.
Be moved, be inspired, or get back in touch with what really
matters - from the thorns of family relationships to the flowers of
romance.
Dean Randall's (Guy Pearce) life is turned upside down when the
young Chinese orphan he has been sponsoring turns up in Sydney.
Queer Hong Kong gets a mainstream makeover in this comedy about
rekindled romance between bisexual women - both accidentally
pregnant from incidental affairs.
Producer John Winter (Rabbit-Proof Fence) makes his
directorial debut with this unconventional film-within-a-film about
a sex worker (played by eight different actresses) who reveals
disarming truths about the oldest profession.
Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), breathes fresh air
into this modern telling of Charlotte Brontë's novel, with Mia
Wasikowska starring as the governess heroine and Michael Fassbender
as the master of the house and romantic foil.
The postmodern architecture and infrastructure of Buenos Aires
is both setting and metaphor for this wistful, quirky romance.
From the team that brought you The Maid, an old woman
discovers she is going senile, but will stop at nothing to hide
this from her daughter.
James Marsh, director of the Academy Award-winning documentary
Man on Wire, returns with a riveting doco about a
chimpanzee raised by humans.
This historical blockbuster directed by Official Competition
Jury President Chen Kaige is adapted from the first Chinese opera
to become known in Europe; the story concerns a doctor who
sacrifices his son to protect the last of a noble clan.
An overweight high-school student is befriended by his
over-enthusiastic vice principal (John C Reilly) in this beguiling
and eccentric teen comedy.
Mel Gibson stars as clinically depressed CEO who finds solace
through a beaver puppet which he uses to communicate with his wife
(Jodie Foster, who also directs).
How do you cope with being broke after having lived a life of
luxury? This is the question now facing a spoiled Danish expat and
her mother in exile in Portugal in this wry but sympathetic
doco.
Sweetly melancholy slice-of-life story about the mild-mannered
and world-weary Gianni (played by writer-director Gianni di
Gregorio), who wanders the streets of Rome, ineptly looking for
love.
Tom Tykwer's (Run Lola
Run) stylish drama (and visual tribute to Berlin) centres on
a 40-something couple who separately fall in love with the same
man.
An astutely perceptive, lighthearted French film about a 10-year
old girl who adopts a new persona when she's mistaken for a
boy.