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Both of writer/director Xavier Dolan's feature films, 'Heartbeats' and 'I Killed My Mother', are now available on DVD. Also released this week is the earthy, touching documentary 'Circo' about a family of travelling circus performers in Mexico. 

HEARTBEATS

Bertolucci's The Dreamers meets Truffaut's Jules Et Jim and Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love in Heartbeats. 21-year-old writer/director/actor Xavier (I Killed My Mother) Dolan's lauded and visually stunning film on love, friendship and sexuality explores the complex relationship between three young people. Screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and at the London Film Festival.

Francis and Marie are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas, a young man from the country newly arrived in town. Each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around their object of desire, and the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Hubert Minel doesn't love his mother. The seventeen-year-old regards her with haughty contempt, and sees only her dated sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. Confused by a love/hate relationship, and desperate to escape the suffocating atmosphere of his mother's working-class, suburban home, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical.

The directing debut of 19-year-old French-Canadian actor Xavier Dolan. Visually stunning, with exquisite performances from Dolan himself and a highly acclaimed cast including Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clément, the film won 22 international film awards in 2009, including three categories at Cannes.

CIRCO

From first-time director Aaron Schock, cameraman on the award-winning PBS documentary series Independent Lens, comes an intimate portrait of a Mexican family struggling to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences and a simmering family conflict that threatens this once vibrant family tradition.

Set within a century-old traveling circus, Circo follows Tino, the ringmaster, driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to success, who corrals the energy of his whole family, including his four young children, towards this singular goal. But his wife Ivonne is determined to make a change; feeling exploited by her in-laws, she longs to return to her kids a childhood lost to labouring in the circus. An all-too-human story told through stunning visuals and set to a masterful soundtrack from legendary US band Calexico.