Sunday 28th of June 11:00am JOLYON HOFF, MUZAFAR ALI | AUSTRALIA | 2025 | 90″ 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 ago Muzafar Ali and his wife Nagina escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan. […]
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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 28th of June 5:00pm AMBER FARES | USA, FRANCE | 2025 | 95″ 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 by challenging
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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 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’)
