For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn't be better. He has a well paying job, friends and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several others for a student Q&A about their personal achievements, something goes wrong: Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question. This triggers a year of soul-searching and looking for answers in all the wrong places. From his best friend Andy (Snowtown's Daniel Henshall), whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme), who loans him a sports car, Ben's search for answers comes up empty. Soon he begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing – and a girl he once knew (Rachael Taylor). From the Working Dog Team, who brought you The Castle, Frontline and The Late Show, Any Questions For Ben? is amongst 2012's most anticipated films.

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Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a young successful thirty-something living comfortably in his apartment in New York. As a distraction from day-to-day cubicle life, he seduces women, juggling a string of doomed romances and one-night stands. The tightly controlled rhythm of Brandon's life begins to collapse, however, when his wayward, unruly sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) arrives for an unannounced visit. her disruptive presence in his life propels Brandon further into New York’s dark underbelly as he tries to escape her need for connection and the memories she stands for. Fassbender won the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for this film which re-unites him with Steve McQueen, the director of his breakout film, Hunger.

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In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) is determined to make his way in the film business. Gaining employment on the UK set of The Prince And The Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), Clark could never anticipate the job that lay ahead of him. When Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for the American star to enjoy some of the pleasures of British life. Upon the publication of Clark's diary forty years later, a single week was missing from the text. This is the incredible true story of that week. Co-starring Emma Watson (Harry Potter series) and Julia Ormand.

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - BEST ACTRESS

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In writer/director Julie Gavras' delightfully warm and wise romantic comedy, William Hurt is Adam, a London-based architect horrified to find himself the recipient of awards that suggest he's reached the end of his career, while wife Mary (Isabella Rossellini), taken aback by an unexpected health scare, sets a course of radical action in league with her vivacious best friend Charlotte (Joanna Lumley). As Adam & Mary respond to these challenges in completely opposite and unpredictable ways (successfully infuriating each other in the process), their three adult children plot to find ways to keep them together… With luminous supporting performances from a mix of established and upcoming British acting talent (including Simon Callow, Kate Ashfield and Luke Treadaway), Late Bloomers is an elegant and engaging portrait of marriage, and the joys & realities of getting on.

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Ahree-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) directs a screenplay by Academy Award winner Eric Roth (The Insider), based on Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed best-seller. Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker mourning the loss of his father Thomas (Tom Hanks). When he discovers a mysterious key in his deceased father’s belongings, he is convinced that his father has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother Linda (Sandra Bullock) Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits the key. As Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs he encounters an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way and in turn, develops a greater understanding of the world around him.

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - BEST FILM and BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Max Von Sydow)

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Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski directs Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly, in the screen adaptation of the Tony-Award winning play God of Carnage. Set in contemporary New York, Carnage is a bitterly amusing story on the contradictions and prejudices of two well-heeled American families. After their sons are involved in a playground fight, two sets of parents: Nancy and Alan (Winslet and Waltz); and Penelope and Michael (Foster and Reilly) meet to settle the dispute. However, the polite discussion of childrearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colours. Unpredictable and shocking, the film hilariously exposes the hypocrisy lurking behind their polite façade.

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Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film - A Separation is a compelling drama that focuses on a contemporary Iranian middle-class couple. Nader (Peyman Maadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) have been married for fourteen years and live with their eleven-year-old daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) in Tehran. Nader and Simin are attempting to divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. They have acquired visas to emigrate from Iran - Simin is anxious to ensure a better future for Termeh, but Nader does not want to leave his elderly father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. When a judge refuses to formalise their separation, Simin departs the family home, leaving the obstinate Nader to hire a housekeeper Razieh (Sareh Bayat) that leads to an altercation that has unexpected consequences. Propelled by an acute attention to class, religion and gender differences, Farhadi's meticulous script explores the cultural, social and judicial minefield that plagues contemporary Iran.

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS and BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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