If you like a documentary that is about giving the subjects agency in how their story is told, then Flathead is not for you.
Continue readingFlathead (2024)
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Community to Commercial – Restored Australian Music Videos
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Ray Argall introduced this showing of his personal collection of films from the 80s that he has been restoring.
Continue readingLike My Brother (2024)
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The Moogai (2024)
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Director Jon Bell has expanded his award-winning short film of the same name into a feature horror that enjoyably blends horror tropes with Indigenous history.
Continue readingAudrey (2024)
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I love this kind of film. It’s like a black and bleak Hunt for the Wilderpeople but where parenting isn’t a grizzled old man getting a second chance. With sex toys.
Continue readingTop End Wedding (2019)
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This is a heartwarming romcom about falling in love with Country, culture and family.
Continue readingYou’ll Never Find Me (2023)
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Sometimes you want a horror experience that’s visceral and uncomplicated and the debut feature by South Australian directors Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen gives that in spades.
Continue readingMonolith (2022)
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South Australian director Matt Vesely worked with a development lab and funding specifically for first-time feature directors to create a film on a defined, small budget to create this tense, one room, one character, sci-fi thriller.
Continue readingThis is Going to be Big (2023)
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I was waiting in the lounge of the Capitol cinema, when a previous screening of this homegrown documentary finished. The foyer filled with a joyful throng of participants and their families, whose faces I now recognise for their starring turns in Thomas Highland’s skilful documentary.
Continue readingBirdeater (2023)
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This smart, funny, and scary exploration of toxic relationships was a delightful surprise.
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