+ live Q & A with Muzafar Ali & Nagina Zahra (20-30″) Sunday 28th of June 11:00am JOLYON HOFF, MUZAFAR ALI | AUSTRALIA | 2025 | 1’30” Stuck in Indonesia after Australia ‘Stops the Boats’, a group of refugees start a school and prove that hope, community and connection can change the world. Ten years […]
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Sunday 28th of June 2:00pm (Australian Premiere) PETE MULLER | US | 2026 | 1’37” In a remote American fishing village, where life unfolds with the seasons and the sea, Bucks Harbor explores the ways that men & boys understand their roles and themselves in a changing world. Downeast Maine is a stretch of rugged
Sunday 28th of June 5:00pm (Victorian Premiere) AMBER FARES | USA, FRANCE | 2025 | 1’35” Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment
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Sunday 6th of July 11:00am (Australian Premiere) SINÉAD O’SHEA | IRELAND/ UK | 2024 | 98′ In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer
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Sunday 6th of July 2:00pm JOHAN GRIMONPREZ | BELGIUM / FRANCE / NETHERLANDS | 2024 | 150′ History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is a powerful archival documentary that dives into one of the 20th century’s great untold stories — how jazz, politics, and colonial power collided in
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Sunday 6th of July 5:00pm (Victorian Premiere) GABRIELLE BRADY | MONGOLIA/ AUSTRALIA/ GERMANY | 2024 | 96′ Davaa and Zaya are a young nomadic couple in the vast Bayanhongor region of Mongolia who are in the throes of animal birthing season when a seismic event suddenly changes their lives. They are forced to migrate to
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Sunday 28h of June 8:00pm JEREMY WORKMAN | USA | 2024 | 1’32” In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling
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Sunday 6th of July 8:00pm (Victorian Premiere) LANA WILSON | USA | 2024 | 106′ Is it performance? Is it ‘real’? Does it matter? A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing. In this intimate film, director Lana Wilson (‘Miss Americana’)
