Added in October: Hope Gap, Ryuichi Sakamoto & more...
Beamafilm
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05/11/2022
Don't miss the raft of great titles we've added to Beamafilm over the past month. Hope Gap starring Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, and Josh O’Connor is an intense dramatisation of the breakdown of a 29-year marriage. From a techno-pop star to an Oscar-winning film composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA is the story of one of the most important artistic minds of our era. And for something more light-hearted, It Must be Heaven sees filmmaker Elia Suleiman examine his homeland of Palestine by travelling from Nazareth to Europe and the US in a cunning comedy where he's been described as a blend of a modern Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton.
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A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
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A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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One of the things we realized in the early 90s was that no one knew that Panama produced coffee. It was one of the best kept secrets of the world.
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Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
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Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
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A request from Holland's National Museum of Ethnology to acquire a Māori war canoe (waka taua) as a permanent exhibit resulted in master builder Hector Busby being commissioned to craft one.
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A haunted young woman spirals in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug.
This feel-good film tells the story of PJ who loses his truck driving job of 30 years due to failing eyesight, but with the help of his partner Ronnie he finds a new place in the world.
A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley.
The story of contemporary graffiti, tracing its roots in ancient rock paintings through Picasso to its place in hip-hop culture in 1970's New York City.
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Questioning the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance and NZ's involvement, The 5th Eye examines contemporary intelligence gathering from NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, US entrepreneur-in-exile Kim Dotcom to the NZ PM, John Key.
On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.
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This is a film about Mama Irene, a remarkable 84-year-old woman Shaman (healer) from Peru, drawing upon Indigenous knowledge and traditions in danger of being lost forever.
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The film tells the true story of one woman’s quest to help two elephant landmine survivors-Motala and Baby Mosha-walk on their own four legs.
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Australian television series of loosely scheduled specials, featuring Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
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A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son, whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
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Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of this silent film survives today.
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Follow the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation.
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