In her most personal film to date, acclaimed director Mira Nair (Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding) brings to the screen a poignant and transporting version Jhumpa Lahiri’s best selling novel, which won reader’s hearts across the world with its exploration of the ties that can both tangle and bind global families as they brave the modern vicissitudes of change, conflict and disaster.

Jumping between the equally colourful and vibrant cities of Calcutta and New York, The Namesake is definitely a family drama, but it’s about a very different kind of contemporary American family: the Gangulis, who came to the U.S. From India in order to experience a world of limitless opportunities – only to be confronted with the perils and confusion of trying to build a meaningful life in a baffling new society.

On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) jet off from steaming Calcutta to a wintry New York where they begin their new life together. Virtual strangers to one another and now living in what to them is a very strange land, their relationship quickly takes a turn when Ashima gives birth to a son. Under pressure to name him quickly, Ashoke settles on Gogol, after the famous Russian author – a name that serves as a link to a secret past and, Ashoke hopes, a better future. But life isn’t easy for Gogol as his parents might wish. As a first generation American teenager, Gogol (Kal Penn) must learn to tread a razor thin line between his Bangali roots and his American birthright in the search for his own identity. As Gogol attempts to forge his destiny – rejecting his given name, dating a rich American girl (Jacinda Barrett), heading to study architecture at Yale- his parents cling to their Bangali traditions. But their paths keep crossing with both comic and painfully revelatory consequences... until Gogol begins to see the links between the world his parents left behind and the new world that lies in front of him.

But the killers, Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) and Dick Hickick (Lee Pace), were caught, put on trial and sentenced to death. Truman had set out to create ‘a psychological study of a village and how that place is affected by a vicious crime,’ but by the time he left, he had developed an intense emotional relationship with Perry that would deepen over the next five years despite court appeals, agonizing execution stays and miles of separation. INFAMOUS is the compelling study of the complex relationship between Truman and Perry, a bond formed in a prison cell that brought the destruction of Capote’s career, as well as his soul.

ROMULUS, MY FATHER is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son. Developed with director Richard Roxburgh over seven years, ROMULUS, MY FATHER has been adapted for the screen by poet and playwright, Nick Drake. It is both Richard and Nick's first feature film, and is produced by leading Australian production company, Arenafilm. Richard Roxburgh is best known as an actor and theatre director. His adaptation of Tim Winton's THAT EYE THE SKY is still regarded as one of the triumphs of Australian theatre.