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Some films don’t just unfold—they breathe. The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s latest offering, is one of those rare works that moves with the quiet rhythm of something deeply sacred. Set against the sun-…
The New Boy, written and directed by Australian powerhouse Warwick Thornton, tells the story of the unnamed New Boy (Aswan Reid) as he is delivered in a sack to a remote monastery in the dead of night…
PRESS RELEASE Award-winning First Nations filmmaker, Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy has been selected for this years’ Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard program. This is the seco…
With a few months still left to go in 2019, and with those months, a wealth of Australian films yet to come (The Nightingale, Ride Like a Girl, Little Monsters, The Faceless Man, Nekromantik, The Nake…
Warwick Thornton is a director with an agenda – namely, the agenda to bring Indigenous stories and history to life via cinema. From Samson & Delilah to Sweet Country, he strings a bow that links t…
Every now and then a film comes along that, for you, will never become irrelevant. The themes that it carries, the messages it sends, the honesty and compassion it expresses just align with what you f…