Wagner Moura on Capitalism and Crime in The Secret Agent
Nadine Whitney spoke with Wagner Moura about Brazil’s past and present and the timeliness of The Secret Agent in the face of dictatorships and how they emerge and are sustained by wealth.…
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Flickerfest Festival Director Bronwyn Kidd on 35 years of supporting local and international short films
This summer, Flickerfest, Australia’s largest Short Film Competition and the only one with Academy® Qualification and BAFTA recognition, will once again grace our shores, rolling out the red carpet at…
Óliver Laxe & Kanding Ray on the sonic tension of Sirāt
In the following interviews, Nadine Whitney talks to director Óliver Laxe about the landscape and use of music in the film, while in the second interview, Andrew F Peirce talks to composer Kanding Ray about building that sonic profile for the film.…
Troy Cassar-Daley on the importance of inviting audiences into his childhood home in A Journey Between the Fires
Troy Cassar-Daley one of Australia’s finest country music songwriters and musicians. He’s a familiar face and voice across the nation, with supporters getting to know him through his music and lyrics.…
Pradip Kurbah: Future, Tense
Set against the backdrop of a dystopian future where India is celebrating 100 years since independence in 1947, Indian National Award-winning filmmaker Pradip Kurbah’s drama Ha Lyngkha Bneng (The Elysian Field, 2025) probes what kind of tomorrow that will be.…
Aranya Sahay: Child's Play
How should we view our relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? What if AI was like a child, and part of how we train AI algorithms relied on the basics of good parenting? This is the fundamental moral question at the centre of Aranya Sahay’s debut feature, Humans in the Loop.…
One More Shot actors Aisha Dee, Ashley Zukerman & Sean Keenan on the joy of making a light and whimsical Australian film
Nicholas Clifford’s feature debut film One More Shot is a delightfully fun Australian dramedy that follows Minnie (a charming Emily Browning) as she discovers that the bottle of tequila she’s brought…
Tribeny Rai: Difficult Women
In director Tribeny Rai’s Chhora Jastai (Shape of Momo, 2025), one of the most assured debut features to come out of India recently, the coming-of-age story meets the sensibilities of autofiction and the personal becomes universal.…
Andrew Dominik: Truth & Myth
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.…
Geraldine Hakewill on voicing single mum Lucy in the adaptation of Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia
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…
The Blue Trail director Gabriel Mascaro on his ode to living a full life in your older years
Gabriel Mascaro's filmography embraces narrative perspectives that we rarely see on screen. His 2019 film Divine Love is a neon soaked dance experience that amplifies love and unity against…
Anthony O’Connor on Angst: The story about Australia’s most stolen movie
Over on Letterboxd, I’ve been quietly maintaining a personal list of lost or unavailable Australian films. Since I started the list a few years back, one film that sat at the top of the list was Danie…