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Foundation date 1 january 1997
Axiom Films is an international film distributor and producer based in London.
Founded in 1997 by producer Douglas Cummins and partner Rocio Freire-Bernat, Axiom specialises in independent and world cinema, as well as documentary, filmed opera and dance.
Notable films under Axiom ownership include Half Nelson, for which actor Ryan Gosling was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 2007 Academy Awards, In a Better World, which won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards and the majority of Wim Wender’s feature and documentary films.
Axiom is owned by UKI Investments and founders Douglas Cummins and Rocio Freire-Bernat, who also retain a controlling interest and act as managing director and director of acquisitions respectively. UKI is one of the largest privately owned investment companies in the United Kingdom, with interests in real estate, mining, agriculture, financial services and technology across a broad geographical footprint. Axiom distributes an average 10 theatrical releases and 20 DVD films each year, as well as online and digitally through LoveFilm, iTunes and FilmFlex.
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(1984)Filmography of Axiom Films (50 films)
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Passenger Side (2009)
, 1h25Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette, Robin Tunney, Gale Harold, Dimitri Coats, Steve-O
On the morning of his thirty-seventh birthday, Michael Brown (Adam Scott) receives a telephone call from his estranged drug addicted brother Tobey (Joel Bissonnette). The two travel in an old BMW across Los Angeles in search of Tobey’s “reason for living”, which Michael believes is something/someone deeply personal while Tobey is actually looking for cheap drugs. At various stops, Michael phones his girlfriend, leaving messages professing his love and a desire to spend his birthday together. Tobey eventually informs Michael that his own ex-girlfriend called recently, and the two plan to get married as soon as possible. The brothers’ search leads them through a bizarre, beautiful land filled with surprising, comical characters to a very unexpected and magical destination, complete with Michael's girlfriend and Tobey's fiancée.
Chop Shop (2008)
, 1h24Directed by Ramin Bahrani
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Chop Shop tells the story of Alejandro "Ale" (Alejandro Polanco), a 12-year-old Latino street orphan from Queens, New York. The film opens with Ale waiting by a roadside with several other men for work. A man in pickup truck arrives looking for two workers. He tells Ale that he is not needed but Ale jumps into the back of the truck anyway. After realizing that Ale is in the back, he stops the truck and sends Ale on his way with some money for breakfast. Ale spends rest of the day selling chocolate and candy to passengers on trains with his friend Carlos (Carlos Zapata). After they finish selling the candy, Carlos informs Ale that Rob (Rob Sowulski), the owner of an auto repair shop in Willets Point, is looking for new workers.
Ballast (2008)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action
The film opens with a local man driving to the home of Lawrence and Darius, twin brothers who operate a local store. Upon entering the home, the man discovers Darius dead in his bedroom with Lawrence sitting on the couch unable to speak. Lawrence then walks to a neighboring property and shoots himself in the chest, which he survives. In the hospital, it is revealed that Darius committed suicide. Depressed and unable to return to the store he owns, Lawrence spends his days at the property he shared with his brother. Meanwhile, James, Darius' estranged pubescent son, steals Lawrence's gun and holds him at gunpoint for money to buy crack. After a failing to repay debts to his drug dealer, James and his mother, Marlee, are targeted in a drive-by assault. Unable to return home, Marlee confronts Lawrence about Darius leaving her and James many years prior and moves into Darius' vacant apartment. After she is fired from her job as a cleaner, James convinces Lawrence to buy them food, which he does. Bound by these numerous tragedies, the trio form a defacto family, determined to move forward, starting with Marlee convincing Lawrence to let her run the store. The pair loosely decides to raise James together, beginning with a shared homeschooling schedule to keep James away from the negative influences that led him to drugs in the first place. The film ends when Lawrence discovers that ammunition is missing. He confronts James, fearing he has found himself another gun, only to find that James had thrown the bullets into a stream, to prevent Lawrence from attempting to harm himself again.
The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
, 1h39Directed by Bernard Rose
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Anjelica Huston, Jamie Harris, Matthew Jacobs
Lion's Den (2008)
, 1h53Directed by Pablo Trapero
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Martina Gusmán, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro
Julia, enceinte de quelques semaines, découvre chez elle le corps ensanglanté de deux hommes. Incapable de se souvenir du meurtre, elle est incarcérée dans une prison pour jeunes mères. Condamnée, Julia sait qu'elle ne pourra garder son fils près d'elle que 4 ans. Un jour, la mère de Julia vient emmener le garçon. bouleversée par cette séparation, elle tentera tout pour le récupérer.
Sugar (2008)
, 2hDirected by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films
Actors Algenis Perez Soto, Michael Gaston, André Holland, Richard Bull, Ellary Porterfield, Karolina I. Wydra
Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond. In his small village outside San Pedro de Macorís, Miguel enjoys a kind of celebrity status. His neighbors gather to welcome him back for the weekend; the children ask him for extra baseballs or an old glove. To his family, who lost their father years before, Miguel is their hope and shining star. With the small bonus he earned when he signed with the academy some time ago, he has started to build his family a new house—one that has a bigger kitchen for his mom and a separate room for his grandmother.
Half Nelson (2007)
, 1h46Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Tina Holmes, Monique Curnen, Denis O'Hare
Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young middle-school history teacher at a Brooklyn school, with a teaching style that rejects the standard curriculum in favor of an approach based upon dialectics (specifically Engels' three laws of dialectics, though this is never referred to by name).
In the City of Sylvia (2007)
, 1h24Directed by José Luis Guerin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte
Lui, un jeune artiste peintre français, retourne dans la ville de Strasbourg, six ans après sa première venue lors de laquelle il a rencontré Sylvie, un soir au Bar des Aviateurs. Obsédé par ce souvenir, il erre, avec l'espoir de retrouver cette femme, dans les différents lieux de l'autre capitale européenne, ville cosmopolite, mais froide, où il ne réussit pas à entrer en contact avec les gens, se contentant d'en dessiner des esquisses sur son carnet à croquis.
Return to Gorée (2007)
, 1h52Origin Suisse
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Jazz films, Musical films
Retour à Gorée raconte le périple du chanteur africain Youssou N'Dour sur les traces des esclaves noirs et de la musique qu'ils ont inventée : le jazz. Son défi: rapporter en Afrique un répertoire de jazz et le chanter à Gorée, l'île symbole de la traite négrière, en hommage aux victimes de l'esclavage. Guidé dans sa quête par le pianiste Moncef Genoud, Youssou N'Dour parcourt les États-Unis et l'Europe.
The Living Wake (2007)
Genres Comedy
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Jim Gaffigan, Ann Dowd, Jill Larson, Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine, Bryan Brown
The film follows the journey of K. Roth Binew, a self-proclaimed genius. After discovering that he has encountered a rare and unnamed terminal disease, he enlists his eccentric rickshaw-riding best and only friend Mills Joaquin (Jesse Eisenberg) to accompany him on his last day to live. Throughout the film, he attempts to find the meaning of life in "a brief, but powerful monologue" that his eccentric father had promised to tell him, but abandoned K. Roth before he could.
Along the Ridge (2006)
, 1h48Directed by Kim Rossi Stuart
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Kim Rossi Stuart, Alessandro Morace, Barbora Bobulova, Pietro De Silva, Anna Ferruzzo, Roberta Paladini
Tommi aged 11 and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. They cope with being a single parent family until their mother shows up, having disappeared without trace for many times. The film shows their ongoing struggle with love, friendship, puberty and life in general.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
, 1h55Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lee Kang-sheng, Norman Atun, Chen Shiang-chyi
À Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao-kang est agressé et blessé par des escrocs. Il est recueilli par des ouvriers qui le transportent sur un vieux matelas. Hsiao-kang se lie avec l'un d'eux, lequel l'invite à dormir chez lui. Quelques jours plus tard, Hsiao-kang fait la rencontre de Shiang-chyi, une jeune serveuse qui tombe amoureuse de lui. Hsiao-kang se retrouve alors tiraillé entre Rawang son bienfaiteur et Shiang-chyi son admiratrice.
Who Loves the Sun (2006)
, 1h34Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson, Wendy Crewson
Will Morrison (Lukas Haas) and Daniel Bloom (Adam Scott) were the best of friends. They grew up together, went to the same schools, liked the same records, loved the same girls. Daniel was Will’s best man at his wedding to Maggie Claire (Molly Parker). Then one day Will disappeared without a word. Five years later, he re-surfaces and sets off a tsunami of unforeseeable events.
Off the Black (2006)
, 1h30Directed by James Ponsoldt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Nick Nolte, Trevor Morgan, Timothy Hutton, Sally Kirkland, Rosemarie DeWitt, Noah Fleiss
Ray Cook (Nolte) is a bitter, disconcerted high school baseball umpire and chronic alcoholic who, after a series of unusual events, crosses paths with Dave Tibbel (Morgan), a high school baseball player seeking revenge after Cook's questionable calls cost his team the most crucial game of the season. Over time, an unlikely bond forms between the mismatched pair, and Dave agrees to pose as Ray's son for the old man's forty-year high school reunion. The film is a story of two wandering lost souls, one an adolescent boy struggling (along with his younger sister, played by Sonia Feigelson) with an absent mother and a father (Timothy Hutton) who has entirely checked out, and the other an older man, who has seen the curve balls life can throw at you and continuously struck out in his struggle to be the man he wishes to be.
The Exterminating Angels (2006)
, 1h40Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Les fantasmes, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Marie Allan, Frédéric van den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil, Lise Bellynck, Estelle Galarme, Virginie Legeay
François, cinéaste, s'apprête à tourner un film policier. Il fait passer des essais pour une scène de nu à une comédienne qui lui révèle le plaisir qu'elle éprouve dans la transgression de petits interdits érotiques. Poussé par le désir d'apporter quelque chose de nouveau dans le cinéma, il décide de mettre en scène un film mi-fiction mi-réalité, tournant autour de ce qui se révèle de façon inattendue une énigme et un tabou : les petites transgressions qui donnent du plaisir. Sa recherche dans le domaine érotique le confronte à des questions de fond auxquelles, tout comme Icare s'approchant du soleil, il va se brûler les ailes.