PUNCH

Directed by: Welby Ings
Genres: Drama
Written by: Welby Ings
Cast: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes
Produced by: Robin Murphy, Catherine Fitzgerald
Production Company: Robin Murphy Productions
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: New Zealand
Language: English

Synopsis:

Jim is a seventeen-year-old boxer in a small town. He is a golden boy, preparing for a fight that will elevate him to an early professional status. All bets are on his climb to success. But his father Stan is a demanding coach and a notorious alcoholic. In the town Stan is treated like a joke but he has given everything to see his son gain professional status and escape the brutality of his small world. As Jim begins to rethink why he is fighting his life tangles with Whetu, a razor-tongued, gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach. With his dog Moimoi he cobbles together a fragile glamour and dreams of leaving town to become a musician. As Jim stumbles towards discovering what it really is to be a gay man, he is forced to see that strength has little to do with heroism.

Australia / New Zealand Distribution: Vendetta Films
Germany / Austria Distribution: Salzgeber

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JANUARY

Directed by: Viesturs Kairiss
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kārlis Arnolds Avots, Alise Danovska, Baiba Broka, Aleksas Kazanavicius, Juhan Ulfsak, Sandis Runge
Written by: Viesturs Kairiss, co-writers Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman
Produced by: Inese Boka-Grübe, Gints Grübe
Production Company: Mistrus Media
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
Language: Latvian
Duration: 94 min
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.

“January” is an autobiographical take on the political upheaval in the early 1990s that changed the lives of the people of the former Soviet Union. Jazis and his friends Anna and Zeps are all aspiring filmmakers, trying to pursue their dreams of making movies and enjoying the freedom of young adulthood, when the collapse of the political system in the region upends their plans, family ties and friendship. Their experience and participation in the nonviolent resistance through the construction of barricades and human shields becomes the defining moment in their coming-of-age.

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BUBBLE

Directed by: Aleksi Salmenperä
Genres: Drama
Cast: Stella Leppikorpi, Tommi Korpela, Minna Haapkylä, Amos Brotherus, Anna-Maija Tuokko, Edit Patrakka, Saimi Kahri
Produced by: Minna Haapkylä
Production Company: Rabbit Films
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Duration: 104 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP, ProRes

Synopsis: The story of 16-year old small town girl Evelina, whose world collapses when she finds out her mother is having an affair with a woman. Like all teens, Eveliina thinks liberally, and wants her own freedom of thought and action - but that thinking does not really extend to her own parents. She tries to stop her mother’s affair at all cost and get her parents to fall in love again, with both dramatic and comedic consequences.

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THE GRUMP: IN SEARCH OF AN ESCORT

Directed by: Mika Kaurismäki
Genres: Comedy
Written by: Daniela Hakulinen and Tuomas Kyrö
Cast: Heikki Kinnunen, Kari Väänänen, Silu Seppälä, Ilkka Forss, Mari Perankoski, Ville Tiihonen, Tiina Lymi
Produced by: Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Hanna Virolainen, Raoul Reinert
Production Company: Solar Films (Finland), Aspekt Telefilm (Germany)
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland, Germany
Language: Finnish, English, German

Synopsis:
The Grump’s everyday life in the deepest of Finland rolls forward according to old routines. He’s busy working on his farm, but memories of his big brother Tarmo are bothering him. Tarmo moved to Germany decades ago, and the brothers haven’t been in touch, even though they were best friends when they were children. 

One day the Grump crashes his beloved Escort, and the car is taken to the junkyard. But the Grump is particular when it comes to cars; any old car won’t do. The nearest 1972 Escort is found in Germany. The Grump withdraws a suitcase full of money at the local bank and heads to Germany.

The third film in the highly successful “Grump” movies which have garnered over 800,000 admissions in Finland.

Available Worldwide excluding Scandinavia and German Speaking Europe

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JUST ANIMALS

Original Title: Eläinoikeusjuttu
Directed by: Saila Kivelä, Vesa Kuosmanen
Genres: Documentary
Produced by: Elli Toivoniemi, Juha Löppönen, Venla Hellstedt
Production Company: Tuffi Films
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Duration: 80 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP, ProRes

Synopsis: More than ten years ago Saila confessed openly that she was part of the activist group that secretly filmed hundreds of animal farms. Saila’s sister Mai has chosen a different path, politics, and Saila fears her biggest activist idol might become a part of the machinery they have been fighting against together. Saila spent three years of her youth in a legal battle where the prosecutor sought her a jail sentence and the farmers wanted extreme compensation. The leading activist, Kristo, saw Saila as the next hope for the movement. However, Saila does not know how to prove and convince people of the suffering of animals anymore. She needs to save herself and find out what kind of an activist and a person she is.

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SHELTER

Original Title: Foscadh
Directed by: Seán Breathnach
Genres: Psychological Drama
Cast: Dónall Ó Héalai, Fionnuala Flaherty, Cillian Ó Gairbhí, Macdara Ó Fátharta, Diarmuid de Faoite
Written by: Séan Breathnach
Produced by: Paddy Hayes
Production Company: Magamedia
Production year: 2021
Release year: 2021
Country: Ireland
Language: Irish
Duration: 93 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: Set in the wild mountains of Connemara, Shelter tells the story of naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at the ripe old age of 28. When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of romance, trust and vengeance for the first time…

The ensuing drama is a taut and absorbing late coming-of-age tale from the North-western fringes of Europe.

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RŪRANGI

Directed by: Max Currie (Everything We Loved, Queer Nation)
Genres: Drama
Cast: Elz Carrad, Kirk Torrance, Āwhina-Rose Henare Ashby, Arlo Green, Ramon Te Wake, Aroha Rawson, Renee Lyons, Renée Sheridan
Created by: Cole Meyers, Oliver Page
Series Writer: Cole Meyers
Produced by: Craig Gainsborough
Production Company: Autonomouse
Production year: 2019
Release year: 2020
Country: New Zealand
Language: English, Māori (Subtitled in English)
Duration: TV series 5 episodes x 19 min / Feature Film 87 min
Formats: HD

Synopsis: After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rūrangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned.

US DISTRIBUTOR - HULU

For more information about the ways Rūrangi is breaking ground in New Zealand, please visit: Rūrangi - Our Kaupapa

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Sold Territories: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Middle East, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, USA

GEARED UP

Directed by: Tobias Leo Nordquist
Original Title: Vitt Skräp
Genres: Gangster Thriller
Cast: Ola Rapace, Ida Engvoll, Peter Viitanen, Erik Bolin, Donald Högberg, Dakota Trancher Williams
Written by: Anton Hagwall, Andreas Doyle, Joel Forssell
Produced by: Mikael Cross (Head Producer), Eiffel Mattsson
Production Company: Mikael Cross Films
Production year: 2021
Release year: 2021
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Duration: 107 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP

Synopsis:

In the search for reconciliation with his past, Sami (played by Ola Rapace) ends up in a small town where he meets Kim (Ida Engvoll). They both meet the local gangster The Old Man (Donald Högberg) who runs a seemingly sophisticated methamphetamine empire together with his two sons Conny (Peter Viitanen) and Kenneth (Erik Bolin). 
At first, everything is peace and joy, but when drugs start circulating in the town without Gubben's permission, attention is drawn to the newcomer Sami, who realizes that he is in a dangerous situation. To stay alive, he must quickly make a plan.

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ROSE: A LOVE STORY

Directed by: Jennifer Sheridan
Genres: Horror
Cast: Matt Stokoe, Sophie Rundle, Olive Gray
Written by: Matt Stokoe
Produced by: April Kelley, Sara Huxley, Matt Stokoe, Sophie Rundle, Robert Taylor
Production Company: Mini Productions
Production year: 2020
Release year: 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Duration: 86 min
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: Rose: A Love Story is the story of a young couple living alone in the woods, who must contend with a life-altering illness that manifests itself in a violent and terrifying way. Rose’s disease is a vampiric, parasitic thirst for blood. As her hunger grows, all humanity seems to give way to a feral violence that harms both her and those around her. Their loving relationship strains under the burden of Rose’s illness, and it is only a matter of time until the secluded life that they have built is upended entirely.

Nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) - Raindance Discovery Award

US DISTRIBUTOR - SHOUT! FACTORY

UK DISTRIBUTOR - SIGNATURE ENTERTAINMENT

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BROTHERS

Directed by: Tomas Masin
Genres: Fast-Paced Drama
Cast: Oskar Hes, Jan Nebdal, Stefan Konarske
Written by: Marek Epstein
Produced by: Petr Bilek, Benny Drechsel, Zuzana Mistrikova
Production Companies: Film Brigade, Rohfilm Productions, PubRes
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2023
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Language: Czech
Format: DCP

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. 

The Year is 1953 and the Masin family is persecuted for its bourgeoisie ancestry under communist ruled Czechoslovakia. Stripped of their assets, brothers Radek and Josef believe, like their father, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, that the only way to fight oppression is with guns in their hands. 

The brothers, with their three friends, form an underground boy army that is responsible for a series of violent acts leading to an investigation by State Security Captain Koller, which results in the Masin Brothers becoming the most wanted men in the country. They attempt to emigrate to West Berlin to join the US Army and help liberate Czechoslovakia from the communists, but Captain Koller has not given up and mobilises a military operation, the size of which has not been seen since World War II, resulting in one of the largest manhunts in modern history.

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IN EVERY DREAM HOME

Directed by: Louis Melville
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Written by: Louis Melville
Cast: Dominique Jackson, Gaite Jansen, David Arquette, Louisa Krause
Produced by: Louis Melville, Charlotte Wontner
Production Company: Last Bullet Films
Co-Production Company: Rose Pictures
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: UK, USA
Language: English

Synopsis:
IN EVERY DREAM HOME is the story of a once famous Transwoman called Bastet who now lives out her life in a small New York State

coastal town which is closed up for winter. Bastet's life takes a turn she never envisaged when she opens her home to a young woman who pretends to be something she is not, but who is the real liar? Bastet, the fading transwoman star of Andy Warhol’s Factory, or Aggie, the young woman who comes to stay? Who, if any of them, will live to see the spring? Lies, Love, Drugs and Gender Fluidity all make up the heady cocktail that is IN EVERY DREAM HOME.

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