Human Algorithm + Stelarc – Suspending Disbelief
Screening followed by In Conversation with festival guests, directors Sarah-Jane Woulahan (Human Algorithm) and Richard Moore & John Doggett-Williams (Stelarc). Friday 4th of July 5:00pm HUMAN ALGORITHMWORLD PREMIERE SARAH-JANE WOULAHAN | AUSTRALIA | 2024 | 16′ When machines reflect us, what do we see? The Human Algorithm explores how artificial intelligence is changing the way
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Man with a Movie Camera + Live Score by Underground Lovers Moda Discoteca
Friday 4th of July 8:00pm DZIGA VERTOV | RUSSIA | 1929 | 64′ A CASTLEMAINE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENT. No actors, no script — just the rhythm of life. Dziga Vertov’s playful 1929 Soviet silent documentary Man With a Movie Camera revolutionised cinema with dazzling never before seen techniques and playful energy. Filmed by his
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Tracing Light
Saturday 5th of July 11:00am (Australian Premiere) THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER | GERMANY / UK | 2024 | 99′ Where quantum physics meets art, light reveals its magic. Light, without which life itself is impossible, is the working medium and obsession of director Thomas Riedelsheimer. Light, seen only in interaction with matter, allows us to explore the
Writing Hawa
Saturday 5th of July 2:00pm (Victorian Premiere) NAJIBA NOORI | AFGHANISTAN & FRANCE | 2024 | 90′ Hazara women write their fate Filmed over five years, Writing Hawa is the story of three generations of Hazara women from the same family in Afghanistan. With unique access and empathy, director Najiba Noori films her mother, Hawa,
LOCALS + Nature Loves To Hide
SOLD OUT Saturday 5th of July 4:30pm NATURE LOVES TO HIDE LEONIE VAN EYK | AUSTRALIA | 2025 | 22′ Nature Loves to Hide follows artist John Wolseley as he paints the hidden habitats of desert animals across Australia. Filmed in the Tanami, Great Sandy Desert, and the Wimmera, the documentary captures Wolseley—often in camouflage—stealthily
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Reas + Sugar Fed Leopards Gig
Saturday 5th of July 8:00pm (Victorian Premiere) LOLA ARIAS | ARGENTINA / GERMANY / SWITZERLAND | 2024 | 82′ A CASTLEMAINE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENT. The power of wishing. Reas flips the script on the prison film, blending gritty reality with explosive musical fantasy. Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back
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Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story
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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Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat
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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The Wolves Always Come at Night
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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Look Into My Eyes
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’)
Community House Pop-up Kitchen
A fundraiser for Castlemaine Community House’s food pantry SOUP TO WARM YOUR SOUL Available across the weekend in the Theatre Royal Garden Friday: 6pm – 8pm Saturday: 12pm – 2pm, 5pm – 8pm Sunday: 12pm – 2pm, 5pm – 8pm The Castlemaine Community House’s Pop-up Kitchen is your cosy festival haven, tucked into the backyard
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