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It has been a difficult year for Australian film with few films making it to cinemas for exhibition. Nevertheless, we cannot give up hope for our stories being told. Making lists is always difficult…
“I am the trace of the trance… what if they don’t remember me?” – Number 26. Mati Dop knows about ghosts. The multiple spectres haunting cultures and continents. The voices assembled in the dark whic…
But isn’t everyone in pain somehow. I mean, look at what happened to our families. Look at where we came from. I mean, who isn’t… you know, who isn’t wrought? David Kaplan Jesse Eisenberg’s first fe…
Two young Peruvian sisters are about to leave their country forever in 1992 when they unexpectedly reconnect with their absent father. By turns stressful, joyous, generous, funny, and quietly terrify…
Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio uses Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ as one of its musical motifs. Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) the patriarch of the large Catholic Grazaidei family spends his money on phonograph rec…
Centred around the ABC Olympic Sports reporting team being on the ground in Munich in 1972 during the Israeli hostage crisis, September 5 is a propulsive vérité style film. New York sports producer Ge…
“I’ve been on the Razzle Dazzle for so long,” says Pamela Anderson’s Vegas showgirl Shelly. ‘Le Razzle Dazzle’ is a Paris Lido style revue – rhinestones, feathers, posing, and glitter G-strings. Part…
“Together our future is bright.” Acclaimed political documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer segueing into fiction filmmaking via a post apocalyptic musical isn’t as strange a proposition as it might first…
Roone Arledge: “I know it might not feel like it, but you did a hell of a job.” Geoffrey Mason: “It was a catastrophe.” Tim Fehlbaum’s newsroom drama of underprepared ABC sports reporters at the 197…
Lucy Lawless. If you don’t know who this Kiwi screen legend is, shame on you! The woman repeatedly got to smack Kevin Sorbo on television and became an ideal woman for a generation of straight and que…
“Based on a True(ish) story.” Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster is a sweet trilled high note curdling into a scream of feminine rage. As anyone who has read or seen a fairytale know, appearances can be d…
Aotearoa-New Zealand is on fire recently with brilliant genre films and debut feature director Sasha Rainbow’s body horror satire Grafted is no exception. Skimping neither on gore, giggles, and righte…