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Journey Home, David Gulpilil (Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas, 2025) celebrates his life and takes us on a journey that is equally spiritual and existential as it is physical and geographical. W…
Keren Tova Rubinstein was born in Haifa and now lives in Naarm. She holds a PhD in Israel Studies and has taught Hebrew language and literature in Australia, the US and Canada. She translates articles from Hebrew for The Palestine Project, as well as being a visual artist and writer.…
Starring Joe Bird (Leviticus, Talk to Me) and Ed Oxenbould (The Visit, Wildlife), and from directors Jack Zimmerman and Archie Hancock, the new Australian short film explores family, grief and climate…
Heretica is built to close the visibility gap, and open up opportunities to connect and create with other filmmakers and creatives, those who didn’t have access to before. 0:0…
Stop Talking Shit to Siri, You Fool. “What are you thinking?!” Surely you realise all these devices are listening. Everything you say, including the names you call them, is being stored somewhere. A…
Zijian Qi, Managing Editor of China's Xinhua News Agency Sydney Bureau writes for the Curb about Nauru's debut film Far End of the Sea by director Matthew Holmes and writer Jamie Coffa.…
What happens when Melbourne’s biggest commitment-phobe meets its most emotionally unavailable bachelor, who also happens to be a literal demon? I Fell in Love with My Sleep Paralysis Demon follows Sar…
Anemoia is my debut feature film, a story pulsing with emotions, strung by the quiet ache of lives half in reality and half in dreams. It follows Casey, a restless romantic, chasing a world that feels…
The Short film that didn’t quit! Written and directed by emerging filmmaker and actor Finn Middleton, Acid Amorè is a short comedy that explores the anxieties of love, after a boy receives a potentia…
Sydney’s most unremarkable man has a story to tell. He just doesn’t know it yet. A man whose life has looked like failure after failure, always offset by optimism. Unremarkable is the next chapter in…
A pulsing red glow slowly illuminating a rundown motel bedroom. A couple, physically close, yet so emotionally distant from one another. Once Ethereal follows a young couple, Ollie and Liv, through…
This essay was original published on Pure Shit Australian Cinema and is written by Mike Retter. Mike Retter is a film director, of the indie feature Youth On The March, creator of the zine "Ci…