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PRESS RELEASE The award-winning Australian drama, SHAYDA, from Iranian-Australian debut writer and director Noora Niasari, has been announced as the official Australian submission for Best Internatio…
PRESS RELEASE After winning Aussie audiences over with his heart-warming feature June Again, writer and director JJ Winlove has now turned his hand to a genre bending, interactive digital series aime…
PRESS RELEASE Screenwest, Screen Australia, Stan and Banijay Rights are pleased to announce 10-part drama series, Invisible Boys, based on the book by multi-award-winning WA author Holden Sheppard, h…
Touch is a futuristic short film set ‘five minutes in the future’ which tells the story of Esme (Rebecca Leafe), a woman who is seeking therapy from an android named Theo (Meraj Ahamed). It’s written…
“Some crossings cost you your whole life,” is a line from a play by Nora Moon (Greta Lee) an immigrant from South Korea now living in New York City via Canada. Leaving Seoul when she was twelve in 200…
“This is the only thing that is real,” says Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) to Hal (Christopher Abbott) in Zachary Wigon’s psychosexual thriller and melodrama, Sanctuary. There is a world outside our two p…
This review contains mention of sexual assault, gaslighting, and toxic masculinity. It’s no mistake that Jack Clark and Jim Weir have a visual cue in the form of a Wake in Fright poster in the backgr…
“It’s a dangerous business,” says the permanently aggressive Cleve, a hairdresser competing in a regional competition. Thomas Hardiman’s high camp debut feature Medusa Deluxe starts with horrors insid…
PRESS RELEASE In its 14th year the Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne (IFFM) is set for another bumper year, as the largest festival of its kind in the southern hemisphere, returning to venues all acr…
Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with…
Kim Albright’s surreal alternate universe in With Love and A Major Organ is uncannily close to our own – so much so that the parallels it draws with modern loneliness leave an ache as one watches it u…
Fallen Leaves forms the fourth part of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Proletariat’ series, after Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl. Although it is centred around a love story…