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Neil Finn MusicMax Sessions

Solo show for MusicMax channel on Foxtel supporting his new album One Nil.

Horror

NightThirst

Polonia Brothers horror anthology, includes four short stories of terror.

Salad Days

A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row: The cold storage of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love.

Santa Smokes

A struggling actor takes a job as a Santa to make ends meet. During his voyage from aspiring actor to Santa-provocateur, he finds bittersweet romance and reveals the dark side of Santa Claus.

A low-budget independent film made on 35mm, that was screened only four times in a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set in the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism (Chinese Independent Film Archive).

Animation

Tractor Tom: Treasure Trail

Tractor Tom lives on Springhill Farm with Farmer Fi, Matt the Farmhand, and all of Tom's fantastic friends. No matter what the problem or the job to be done, it's Tractor Tom who saves the day... with heaps of fun and adventure along the way!

Music Drama History

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Giuseppe Verdi's one prologue, three act opera featuring libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito is performed before a live audience at Florence's Teatro Comunale in this release featuring the music of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under conductor Claudio Abbado, and starring Carlo Guelfi, Julian Konstantinov, and Karita Mattila.