Director: Mani Ratnam
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Govinda, Ravi Kissen and introducing Vikram

Modern day adaptation of the mythological epic - Bollywood Style

Cop Dev Pratap Sharma (Vikram) has just one mission in his life. He wants to capture the local outlaw, Beera (Abhishek Bachchan) who may be a Robin Hood for the tribals around, nevertheless, he is a law breaker. More importantly, he has kidnapped the cop's beautiful wife, Ragini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) to avenge a personal grouse and has escaped into the dense jungles. In a turn of events: the kidnapper falls in love with his trophy victim who too gets indecisive about where her 
loyalties lie....

The visual opulence of the film is literally a work of art where one luminescent frame follows another as the scenes keep shifting from one wet and rocky landscape to another misty mountainscape. You can't seem to get enough of the montages that leave you breathless with the excellent camera artistry by Santosh Sivan and Manikandan. From the opening sequences where Beera (Abhishek) smashes his boat into wide-eyed Aishwarya's canoe, to the fleeing, flinging, fulminating visage of Aishwarya, captured against wild waterfalls, turbulent tidal rivers, crumbling trees and silken drizzle, the film is a string of breath taking images with a feast of rhythmic music.

Director:   Radu Mihaileanu
Cast:        Alexei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dimitri Nazarov, Miou-Miou 
 
During the Brezhnev era, Andrei Filipov was a prodigy - the greatest conductor in the Soviet Union and he directed the famous Bolshoi Orchestra. But after refusing to expel his Jewish musicians, including his best friend Sacha, he was fired at the height of his glory. Thirty years later, he is still working at the Bolshoi, but... as a cleaner.
When Andrei intercepts a fax from the Theatre du Chatelet inviting the Bolshoi Orchestra to Paris, he comes up with a crazy idea: he'll gather up his old musician friends (now working rag-tag jobs), head to Paris and pretend to be the famed orchestra to play Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto." The long-awaited dream to deliver one final performance!

Director      Robert Kenner 

Cast:          Gary Hirshberg, Michael Pollan, Joel Salatin, Troy Roush, Eric Schlosser

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on  the nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

13th Over The Fence Comedy Shorts

Eleven wildly extraordinary films make up this years short film event!


The Over the Fence Film Festival, whcih has been touring internationally since 2005, will be calling into Nambour Art House Cinema in August as part of its annual journey across Australia.

This year's programme is an amazing compilation of short comedies from around the globe, looking  inside strange worlds, states of being and the curious & bizarre nature of being human, which will have you laughing out loud one minute, and emoting quietly into your ice cream the next.

We see urban superheroes, suburban knights,  disturbed, retentive home dwellers, parents communicating with offspring overseas, a piano and petty jealousies, paranoid bus passengers,  a singer with all at his feet, blind dates where the wrong date, or is it the right one, turns up, and much more.

Eleven short films from Norway, UK, Canada, US and Australia make up this years kaleidoscope of short comedies – see them – you’ll only have this one chance!