MONDAY 5 AUGUST
Whisky Galore 7:30PM
M
UK, 2016
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Naomi Battrick, Ellie Kendrick, Sean Biggerstaff
What's it about?
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett (Izzard) and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Alibi.com 9:25PM
M
France, 2017
Genre: Comedy
Language: French
Director: Philippe Lacheau
Starring: Philippe Lacheau, Élodie Fontan, Julien Arruti, Tarek Boudali, Nathalie Baye
What's it about?
Greg (Lacheau) founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin (Arruti), and Medhi (Boudali) his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo (Fontan), a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity.
TUESDAY 6 AUGUST
Everything Must Go 7:30PM
M
USA, 2010
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Dan Rush
Starring: Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Michael Peña, Laura Dern
What's it about?
The story of Nick Halsey (Ferrell), a career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired, for falling off the wagon one last time, he returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their suburban home and dumped all of his possessions on the front lawn. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line—or more properly, on the lawn—reluctantly holding a garage sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival. Based on a short story by author Raymond Carver (Short Cuts).
Pili 9:25PM
M
UK, 2017
Genre: Drama
Language: Swahili
Director: Leanne Welham
Starring: Bello Rashid, Nkwabi Elias Ng'angasamala, Sesilia Florian Kilimila, Sikijua Rashid
What's it about?
Pili (Rashid) lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret. When she is offered the chance to rent a sought-after market-stall, Pili is desperate to have it. But with only two days to get the deposit together, Pili is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions with ever-deepening consequences. How much will she risk to change her life?
WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST
What Maisie Knew 7:30PM
M
USA, 2012
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: David Siegel, Scott McGehee
Starring: Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Emma Holzer, Alexander Skarsgård, Joanna Vanderham
What's it about?
Six-year-old Maisie (Holzer) is caught in the middle of a custody battle between her rock star mother, Suzanna (Moore), and art dealer father, Beale (Coogan). In a race to win the court’s advantage, Beale marries Maisie’s nanny, Margo (Vanderham), prompting Suzanna in turn to marry local bartender, Lincoln (Skarsgård). Maisie is infinitely accepting and angelic in her ability to observe their immature actions without judgement, staying calm amongst the chaos.
Lantana 9:25PM
M
Australia, 2001
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Language: English
Director: Ray Lawrence
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Vince Colosimo, Barbara Hershey, Glenn Robbins, Geoffrey Rush
What's it about?
A psychiatrist (Hershey) fears her husband (Rush) to be the married man with whom one of her male clients is having an affair. Meanwhile, a female client (Armstrong) suspects her husband (LaPaglia), a detective, is also being unfaithful. When the psychiatrist goes missing, the detective is put on the case and soon uncovers a tangled web of intrigue and deceit.
