Two-time Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award® winner Mel Gibson in The Beaver - an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life.

Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track. until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.

Award-winning director Joe Wright creates a boldly original suspense thriller with Hanna, starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, Atonement) in the title role. Raised by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin.

The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

"You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed."

Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy's absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy's daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.

Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, The Tree of Life is a hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions through a kaleidoscope of the intimate and the cosmic, from the raw emotions of a family in a small Texas town to the wildest, infinite edges of space and time, from a boy's loss of innocence to a man's transforming encounters with awe, wonder and transcendence.

An impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's, the film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in a modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick's signature imagery we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only out lives as individuals and families, but all life.

Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother and two younger brothers in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society.

Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie's family, they begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known.

John moves from the role of Jamie's protector to that of a mentor, indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some of John's traits and beliefs. The protection and guidance that John presents to Jamie is initially welcomed, however as events occur around him, including the disappearance of several people, Jamie begins to harbour deep suspicions about John and his motivations.

When the truth is finally revealed to Jamie his hopes of happiness are threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his father-figure John Bunting, Australia's most notorious serial killer.

Fleeing a life of urban chaos, the volatile drifter TJ heads north to the frontier town of Five Rivers to find 13-year-old Bullet, the son he has never met. He encounters tough local cop Texas and reconnects with Nella his old flame and Bullets mother. When he finally meets his son, things seem to be going well, until TJ’s old rage and anger surface, leading to a showdown with Texas on the endless Five Rivers floodplain. Beaten and bloody TJ realizes this maybe the last chance for him to be a man and a father…

My Afternoons With Margueritte is a new and uplifting French comedy debuting in Australia at the 2011 French Film Festival and opening in cinemas on April 7. It's the story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one's life: the encounter, in a small public garden, between Germain (Gerard Depardieu), fifty and barely literate, and Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a little old lady passionate about reading. Forty years and 220 pounds separate them.

BIFF Film Club returns in March with a screening of Never Let Me Go at Dendy Portside Cinemas on 29 March 2011 at 6:30pm.  In his highly acclaimed novel, Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of The Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us human? Now, director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo), writer Alex Garland and DNA Films, bring Ishiguro's hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the screen.

BIFF Film Club kickstarts 2011 in February with an exclusive screening of Certified Copy at Palace Barracks Cinemas on 16 February 2011 at 6:30pm. A sensation at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress award, this is the latest feature film from acclaimed filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Ten, Taste of Cherry).