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There’s a calm, lived-in nature to Jess Sofarnos’ films, one where she holds a mirror up to herself, reflecting emotions and experiences that are familiar and relatable, yet rarely seen in Australian…
My biggest challenge was to create a shift. To start with a social environment, and basically to examine what it does to the people offering themselves every day and being treated like they are treated.…
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…
I hope Saccharine prompts people to really interrogate that for themselves and how they relate to culture, that diet culture within their own bodies.…
Franz: Becoming Kafka drops breadcrumbs for the audience to follow to go on their own search for an author who shapeshifts in our understanding; and in adopting that openness and style, Holland has made a stunning literary biographical work.…
This article was original published in 2024. Few filmmakers have explored the human condition through technology and biology as David Cronenberg. Long a fan of blending experimental technology with t…
Andrew Dominik has long occupied an unusual position in Australian cinema. After his breakthrough with Chopper in 2000, Dominik’s career has been forged almost entirely in the glare of American myth.…
Giles Chan's Jellyfish was one of the cinematic revelations that I experienced during 2025. It's a film about a man, Henry, played with grounded depression by Aidan Rynne, who earns mone…
Even though we're only five days into the new year, one of the standout shows for 2026 is the ABC adaptation of Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia. This glorious animation carries a s…
Academy award winning actor Kate Winslet makes the leap to directing duties with her feature debut film Goodbye June. Kate has talked about what reading her son Joe Anders script meant to her, and why…
Sophie Somerville is an Australian emerging filmmaker whose short films Linda 4 Eva and Peeps made waves at film festivals around the world. Now with her feature film debut Fwends, winner of the Berli…
In this podcast, Nadine Whitney speaks with documentarians Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas about the extraordinary documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil. Journey Home, David Gulpilil is a…