AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 3rd August to 17th August 2018: New DVDs

Directed by Miguel Arteta
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.

Directed by David Batty
Black As follows four young men from a remote community in Australia's Northern Territory. Expert bush mechanics and hunters, these fellas love nothing more than to bring home a bounty of fish, turtle, kangaroo and bush foods for their families. They love adventure and plenty of it comes their way in this hit web series.

Directed by Sam Peckinpah
An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Directed by Alex Ross Perry
JR has broken up with her professor and enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother to help move out her belongings. Chaos and calamity follows their beat up Honda as the siblings fight with each other, and anyone else who stands still long enough. The Colour Wheel is a comedic symphony of disappointment, rivalry and forgiveness.

Directed by Adrian Buitenhuis and Derik Murray
This feature length documentary celebrating the life of Heath Ledger provides an intimate look at the actor and icon. Featuring original interviews and showcase footage, get to know Ledger through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his journey.

Directed by Karyn Kusama
The tension is palpable in this taut psychological thriller when Will shows up to his ex-wife Eden's dinner party. Amid Eden's suspicious behaviour and her mysterious house guests, Will becomes convinced that his invitation was extended with a hidden agenda. Unfolding over one dark evening in the Hollywood Hills, The Invitation blurs layers of mounting paranoia, mystery, and horror.

Directed by Sotiris Dounoukos
On 26 October 1997, Australian National University student Anu Singh killed her boyfriend, Joe Cinque, by lacing his coffee with Rohypnol and injecting him with heroin at a dinner party where some of the guests had heard about the plan to murder Cinque. Despite this, none of them warned him.

Directed by Brad Abrahams
The story of David Huggins, an unassuming 72 year-old who claims to have had a lifetime of encounters with otherworldly beings - including an inter-species romance with an extra-terrestrial woman - and chronicled it all in surreal impressionist paintings.

Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Directed by George Miller
See Miller's furious revival of the Mad Max franchise as he originally envisioned: in black and white. "The strikingly pale... War Boys show up particularly well in monochrome, while the many explosions take on a more elegant quality when deprived of colour." (The Guardian)

Directed by Sam Esmail
Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he works for.

Directed by Geremy Jasper
Jasper's debut feature film, Patti Cake$ centeres on aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, who is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey. Lead actress Danielle Macdonald was particularly praised for her brazen and genuine performance in this humorous underdog tale.

Directed by Gregory Erdstein
Polly's dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her twin sister catapults to international stardom. Scrambling to catch up - Polly juggles woeful auditions, painfully awkward dates and her underwhelming job at the local cinema.

Directed by Benedict Andrews
A woman confronts an older man, her former neighbour, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship.

Directed by Stephen Chbosky
Based on a bestselling novel, Wonder tells the heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters 5th grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.