AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 15 February to 1 March 2019

Directed by Spike Lee
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Directed by Karen Disher, Ray Kosarin, Margaret E. Rutherford and others
The people of Lawndale just don't get Daria Morgendorffer. She's cool with that. See, Daria was born alienated, and now she's just trying to make it through high school with as little human contact as possible. Popularity, friends, activities, whatever. Daria lacks enthusiasm, but she makes up for it with sarcasm. Includes all five seasons, both home movies, interviews, and more.

Directed by Jonas Mekas
Poet and hero of the American counterculture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of filmmaking. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.

Directed by Ronald Bronstein
First-time director Ronald Bronstein describes his extraordinary film as "a rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen." Above all else, Frownland is a pitch-black character study of Keith Sontag (Dore Mann), a neurotic, manipulative, stridently unlovable New Yorker whose pitiless roommate aptly describes him, to his face, as "a burbling troll in his underwear." With the most basic elements of human communication a struggle, Keith lurches his way through an uncaring city, attempting to aid a suicidal friend, evict his unctuous roommate, and simply attain some measure of self-respect.

Directed by Lauren Greenfield
Simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, this bears witness to the global boom bust economy, as well as the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism, and greed.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch's new film Gimme Danger chronicles the story of the iconic rock-n-roll band The Stooges. Gimme Danger presents the context of the Stooges emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relates their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.

Directed by Axel Grigor
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible is an unprecedented feature documentary about one of the world's leading film artists: Australian film editor Jill Bilcock. Her work on beloved films such as Strictly Ballroom, Romeo+Juliet, Muriel's Wedding, The Dressmaker, Road To Perdition, Japanese Story, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog and Elizabeth, has established her as one of the world's most daring and in-demand editors, highly sought after by leading international film directors and top film studios, yet she remains relatively unknown.

Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.

Directed by Panos Cosmatos
Red, a lumberjack living in the depths of the woods, has sequestered himself and his doting girlfriend, Mandy, from the world. Though Mandy is a gentle woman who spends most of her time immersed in a book, she finds herself in a life-threatening situation after being kidnapped by an ill-intentioned cult leader. When stripped from her home by a group of malicious cult members, Red sets out to avenge Mandy's abrupt and inexplicable disappearance.

Directed by Aisling Walsh
Maudie is based on the true story of arthritic folk artist Maud and the unlikely romance between Maud and a hardened reclusive bachelor. An unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love.

Directed by Luke Sparke
A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating alien ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realise they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.

Directed by Gary Ross
Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.

Directed by Larysa Kondracki
A gripping re-imagining of the iconic Australian novel that plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. Exploring the event's far-reaching impact on the students and staff of Appleyard College and its enigmatic headmistress, theories soon abound, paranoia sets in and long-held secrets surface, as the Rock exerts its strange power and the dark stain of the unsolved mystery continues to spread.

Directed by Philippe Garrel
Regular Lovers is a rapturous paean to Paris in '68 love, youth, and disillusionment. A student poet is grappling in tumult with a doomed romance of the famous Parisian riots.

Directed by Mike Judge and others
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.

Directed by Beck Cole
Follows the once-great Warriors Football Club, which pins its hopes and dwindling reputation on three untested rookies and a jaded star.Overnight the talented young athletes are thrown head first into the high-stakes world of professional sport.For Maki, Zane and Scottie, sporting success means leaving home and finding a place in an unfamiliar world. But as the boys encounter temptation and pressure on a level they have never experienced, they must battle to maintain their integrity and a connection to their past. Doc, Maki and his fellow recruits have to navigate new relationships and challenging situations both on and off the field. But will they even make it on to the ground for the first game of the season?

Directed by Jairus McLeary
Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.

Directed by Lynne Ramsay
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.