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Writer-Director Adrian Ortega's Westgate follows Netta (Sarah Nicolazzo) and her son Julian (Max Nappo) as she embarks on a torturous day of navigating hospitals, family, cultural prejudices, and…
Bina Bhattacharya is a creative storyteller whose work I've been following for a while now. Her 2017 short film Wild Dances embraced music and cultural identity against the backdrop of Eurovision,…
With two feature films under his belt, Samuel Van Grinsven has quickly become a vital voice in Australian cinema. His feature debut, the lurid and sumptuous 2019 queer drama Sequin in a Blue Room, uti…
There’s something irresistible about the idea of running away from it all, isn’t there? The fantasy of leaving behind the noise, the politics, the mess of modern life, and finding some untouched corne…
In 1970 the under-construction Westgate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed, the biggest industrial accident to ever occur in Australia. 35 people died. It changed the way the industry approached safety aro…
South Korean documentarian Kangyu Garam makes her feature-length debut with Lucky, Apartment, a film that feels both intimate and unsettling in the way it threads the ordinary with the unbearable. At…
There are zombie films that thrill you, and then there are those that haunt you — not with snarling teeth or sudden jump scares, but with quiet questions about love, grief, and the echoes we leave beh…
Alice Douard’s Love Letters (Des Preuves d’Amour) is the kind of film that sneaks up on you. On paper, it might look like another story about motherhood—a theme cinema has returned to countless times—…
The Circus Lion follows Samvel, a young wrestler from Western Sydney, who believes leaving his hometown is the only way to escape the weight of his grief. But as he runs from his pain, he discovers th…
Two Ugly People is the feature film debut from Peter Skinner. It follows the story of two strangers who, by chance, meet in a highway-side motel. But, as their stay lingers, they wonder if it was chan…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Whether it be loneliness, solitude, finding sanctuary in a stifled relationsh…
In the remote villages of India, where time seems to hold on to traditions as tightly as the dry earth clings to its roots, the gentle tides of change are finally making their presence felt. This is t…