Film and culture. Not content.
Is There Anybody Out There? screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 12 and 15. The first thing documentarian Ella Glendining does is to perform a dance for the camera. It’s her way of saying “Thi…
This Afternoon screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 10 and 11. Dutch/Iranian director Nafiss Nia’s debut feature That Afternoon is an intimate two-hander about Iranian refugees Roya (Hoda Niku…
Iranian/Dutch director, poet, writer, and producer asks the audience of That Afternoon (link review) to consider the plight of refugees and immigrants who seek a better life. As an author of multiple…
Behind the Haystacks screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 10 and 11. Asimina Proedrou’s debut feature, Behind the Haystacks is a modern morality tale. Set in Greece near the border of Macedoni…
Angus McDonald’s work as a filmmaker and an artist is steeped in activist storytelling. His 2019 short film Manus transported viewers to the cruelly neglected refugees isolated and trapped on Manus I…
The Girl from Tomorrow screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 8 and 9. In The Girl from Tomorrow Marta Savina extends her award-winning short film Viola, Franca about the woman who challenged th…
How to Blow Up a Pipeline screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, 12 and 14. In an era where comparatively tame protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion are viewed by far too many as “e…
Reality screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 11, 12, and 17, ahead of a national release later in 2023. “I knew it was secret. But I also knew I had pledged service to the American People.”…
Band screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 8 and 10. Band begins with a subtle Björk joke which is apt because for many audiences their knowledge of Icelandic culture and music will be limited…
The Curb acknowledges this review was written on Wurundjeri country, and acknowledges that sovereignty of this land has never been ceded. We honour and pay respect to elders past, present and emerging…
Sunflower, written and directed by Gabriel Carrubba is a tender, yet tough coming-of-age queer story set in the suburbs of Melbourne. The film documents a turbulent time in the life of high schooler L…
The Fast and Furious saga has come a long way over the years. Audiences have journeyed with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family from the days of stealing VHS players, to stealing vaults of cas…