Highlights

World Movies celebrates the best in French cinema with four nights of premiere and standout films. The week begins with the comedy-drama premiere ‘The Day I Saw Your Heart’ starring Mélanie Laurent as the daughter in a family that is turned upside down when the 60-year-old patriarch announces he is expecting a baby with his…

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival is regarded as the most influential film event of the year, particularly for international cinema. This year we celebrate Cannes on the day the 2013 Festival begins, with three films back-to-back that have taken out the top prizes. Palme d’Or winner and World Movies premiere ‘The White Ribbon’, directed by…

Written, directed and starring French star Mathieu Kassovitz, this fast-paced drama tells the true story of the 1988 Ouvéa cave hostage taking. When a police station is attacked by Kanak separatists and 300 officers are taken hostage, French Special Forces are sent in to clean up the mess before the Presidential elections. The stakes are…

Garnering controversy and praise in equal measure around the world, Leos Carax’s wildly inventive ‘Holy Motors’ is a film for those that love film. Characters and situations spring vividly from Carax’s imagination and are brought to life with ferocious skill by muse Denis Lavant. Holy Motors follows a day in the life of a man…

Andras wakes up to find his pregnant girlfriend replaced by a different girl, who acts like nothing happened. When it begins to happen every week, he must figure out if the new ladies are a dream come true, or an inescapable nightmare?

The award-winning follow-up feature from ‘Maria, Full of Grace’ director Joshua Marston follows an unfolding family drama in modern Albania. Nik is an ordinary teenager – more interested in Facebook than his family’s bread business. When his father goes over to settle a dispute with their neighbour, the neighbour ends up murdered and his father…

To commemorate ANZAC Day, World Movies is showcasing stories of courage and wartime honour from all around the world. Join us at 8.30pm for the Australian television premiere of ‘Free Men’, the moving true story of Jewish families being hidden in Mosques throughout German-occupied France starring Tahar Rahim (‘A Prophet’). Screening afterwards is ‘Outside The…

In the past couple of years, Michael Fassbender has become an acting force to be reckoned with in the world of film. The German-Irish star first came to the attention of audiences worldwide with his startling transformation into a starving prisoner in Steve McQueen’s Hunger, and has since enjoyed mainstream success with Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds…

This is your chance to catch the entire ‘Rec’ trilogy – three of the most terrifying films to have ever come out of Spain. Over three consecutive nights in April catch this heart-racing story of a mysterious zombie illness that drives people to violently attack each another. The first ‘Rec’ film follows a reporter and…

This heart-warming drama was a departure in tone for Belgium’s Dardenne brothers, who are twice Palme d’Or winners for their stark neorealism films. ‘The Kid With a Bike’ was received with almost universal acclaim, and its story of a young orphaned boy in search of his bike and his parents draws cleverly on De Sica’s…