Liverpool
Lisandro Alonso is one of cinema's most acclaimed new generation of filmmakers. Liverpool follows an enigmatically homesick shipworker, taking leave of his ship in a wintry Tierra del Fuego, compelled to visit the family he hasn't seen in years. When he finally arrives, he discovers that he's been forgotten by his ailing mother and is a complete stranger to his daughter, Analia. Liverpool was heralded at both Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals in 2008, proclaimed "one of the best undistributed films" by both INDIEWire and Film Comment, and 'Best Film of 2008' by CinemaScope.
"One of the great films of our times... I feel something in Liverpool that is so special and so rare in cinema these day" MUBI
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Casa de Lava
Few filmmakers can boast a body of work as audacious, beautiful or challenging as that of Pedro Costa, and Casa de Lava – his second feature and follow-up to Blood (also available on Second Run DVD) - is one of the most extraordinary cinematic works of the past twenty years.
Pedro Costa's second feature is a dense and ingeniously metaphoric take on Tourneur's I Walked With A Zombie - whilst simultaneously recalling Rossellini's Stromboli. It is another unique and startling film from one of the most singular and important filmmakers working today.
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The Girl from Hunan (Xiangnu xiaoxiao)
The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man... Though set in turn-of-the-century China, The Girl from Hunan deliberately parallel the state of affairs in the China of the late 1980s. 
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