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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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Tony Takitani (2005)
, 1h15Directed by Jun Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Issei Ogata, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Rie Miyazawa, Miho Fujima
The film starts by telling the story of Tony's father Takitani Shozaburo, a jazz trombonist from Japan, who spends the Second World War in China. Shozaburo is imprisoned and many of his fellow inmates are executed. He expects he will be executed, and he is shown curled up on the floor of his cell. However, he survives and in 1946 returns to Japan where he marries a distant relative on his mother's side. A year later they have a child, Tony, but Tony's mother dies three days after giving birth to him.
Why We Fight (2005)
, 1h38Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Gore Vidal, Frank Capra
Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its 50-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was misled so that the government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter are politician John McCain, political scientist and former CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.
The Wayward Cloud (2005)
, 1h54Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pornography, Musical films
Actors Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Lu Yi-Ching, Yang Kuei-Mei
There is a water shortage in Taiwan, and television programs are teaching various water-saving methods and encouraging the drinking of watermelon juice in place of water.
Lost Embrace (2004)
, 1h39Directed by Daniel Burman
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Daniel Hendler, Melina Petriella, Silvina Bosco, Juan Minujín
The episodes in the life of a Jewish family in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires and the other shopkeepers in a low-rent commercial gallery are depicted in the story.
Rolling Family (2004)
, 1h43Directed by Pablo Trapero
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Nicolás López, Elías Viñoles
The comedy-drama tells the story of Emilia (Graciana Chironi) an 84-year-old grandmother who lives in the Buenos Aires suburbs and receives a phone call inviting her to be the matron of honor at her niece's wedding in Misiones, the village of her birth.
Life and Debt (2003)
, 1h26Directed by Stéphanie Black
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, La mondialisation, Politique, Transport films, Documentaire sur l'altermondialisme, Political films
Ce documentaire porte un regard sur la situation économique en Jamaïque depuis l'accession du pays à l'indépendance, le 6 août 1962. Il s'intéresse particulièrement au rôle du Fonds monétaire international et de la Banque mondiale dans la globalisation de l'économie du pays. Ceux-ci ont en effet accordé plusieurs prêts au pays pour l'aider dans son développement, à la condition qu'il mène une politique de déréglementation, de privatisation et d'ouverture au commerce extérieur. Cette politique aurait d'après le film non pas conduit à une amélioration de la situation, mais au contraire à une augmentation progressive de la dette publique jamaïcaine, qui atteint de nos jours 7 milliards de dollars. L'agriculture du pays aurait été fortement affaiblie, de par la concurrence des denrées étrangères (majoritairement américaines), subventionnées et donc moins chères.
Any Way the Wind Blows (2003)
, 2h7Directed by Tom Barman
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Matthias Schoenaerts, Johan Heldenbergh, Natali Broods, Sam Louwyck, Titus De Voogdt, Valentina Sauca
Set in Antwerp at the beginning of June. On a sunny Friday eight people dream of having a different life. There is wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip, fighting and in the evening, a party.
Uniform (2003)
, 1h34Directed by Diao Yi'nan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Wang Xiaojian (Liang Hongli) is a down-and-out slacker in a small town in China's industrial Shaanxi province. His father, a factory worker, has fallen ill, and prospects for both Xiaojian and his family look dim. Stuck working in his family's tailoring and laundry shop, one day, Xiaojian comes across the freshly laundered uniform of a police officer. Attempting to deliver it, he discovers that the police office who the uniform was intended had been injured and would not be back on the job for a few weeks. Wandering home, Xiaojian decides to try the uniform on.
Pellet (2000)
, 1h28Directed by Achero Mañas
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about child abuse
Actors Juan José Ballesta, Ana Wagener
Pablo aka "El Bola" (Juan José Ballesta) is a twelve-year-old boy who suffers abuse by his father (Manuel Morón). His violent family situation prevents him from having friends at school until a new kid, Alfredo, arrives at school. The warm, caring atmosphere in Alfredo's family provides a stark contrast to Pablo's oppressive situation under his father. Soon, Pablo finds a different reality in his new friend's family who teaches him to confront with courage his worst fears.
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
, 1h45Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Ry Cooder
The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album (also called Buena Vista Social Club) and to perform two times with a full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) and the 1st of July 1998 in the United States (at the Carnegie Hall, New York City). Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba and the United States is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes interviews with each of the main performers.
Lisbon Story (1994)
, 1h40Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical
Themes Films about films, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Manoel de Oliveira, João Canijo
Lisbon Story is partially a sequel to Wenders' 1982 film, The State of Things. The fictitious movie director in the previous film, Friedrich Munro, reappears, again played by Patrick Bauchau. In Lisbon Story Friedrich has moved to Lisbon, Portugal (the country where The State of Things was set). The principal character, Philip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler), a sound engineer, receives a postcard invitation from Friedrich to come to Lisbon to record sounds of the capital city for his forthcoming film. On arriving, the director is nowhere to be found, though he leaves cryptic messages. This sets in motion a mysterious quest.
Spanking the Monkey (1994)
, 1h40Directed by David O. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson, Benjamin Hendrickson, Carla Gallo, Zak Orth
Susan Aibelli, a married, lonely woman, suffers a leg injury at home just as her husband is about to leave on his job as a travelling salesman and her son, Raymond, is about to leave for the summer on a medical internship. Raymond is then forced to stay at home to take care of her as his father cannot. He loses both the internship and his girlfriend. These troublesome events leave him emotionally confused as he and his mother are left alone together, and they develop an incestuous relationship.
Wings of Desire (1987)
, 2h8Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Circus films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Nick Cave
Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.
Paris, Texas (1984)
, 2h27Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicki, Hunter Carson
Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) is walking alone across a vast South Texas desert landscape. Looking for water, he enters a saloon and collapses. He is treated by a doctor (Bernhard Wicki), but does not speak or respond to questions. The doctor finds a phone number on Travis, calls the Los Angeles number, and reaches his brother, Walt Henderson (Dean Stockwell), who agrees to pick him up. When Walt arrives in Texas, he discovers that Travis is gone. When he finds him wandering alone, Walt tells his silent brother that he will take him back to Los Angeles. They stop at a motel, but Travis wanders off again. Walt finds him, and the two drive to a diner, where Walt begins to question the still silent Travis more forcefully about his disappearance. Walt and his wife, Anne (Aurore Clément), have not heard from Travis in four years. After Travis abandoned his son Hunter (Hunter Carson), Walt and Anne took care of him for four years. Travis is visibly moved by the mention of his son, and tears flow from his eyes.