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An Affair to Remember
Director - Leo McCarey Country - USA
This stylishly assured film sparkles and crackles with high spirits as it charts the shipboard romance between Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Read full details > |
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An Illustrated conversation with Chris Doyle
Director - Chris Doyle
Don't miss this recent addition to our Talks program in which cinematographers Christopher Doyle and Rain Li focus on recent collaborations, including work with artist Gerard Byrne, fashion designer Dries van Noten, and musicians sigur ros and The Raconteurs. Read full details > |
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An Island Calling
Director - Annie Goldson Country - Australia, New Zealand
The 2001 murder of 'openly gay' couple John Scott and Greg Scrivener in Suva is still clouded in rumour and political mystery. Read full details > |
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296 Smith Street
Director - John Evagora Country - Australia
One man, one place, one day. Read full details > |
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52 Percent
Director - Rafal Skalski Country - Poland
After a young girl fails her ballet audition she embarks on an excruciating physical regime to lengthen her legs by the required 0.4%. Read full details > |
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About Water
Director - Udo Maurer Country - Austria, Luxembourg
The world's water crisis illlustrated by flooding in Bangladesh, the disappearance of the Aral Sea, and the spluttering standpipes that service the teeming masses of one of Africa's largest slums. Read full details > |
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After the Wedding
Director - Susanne Bier
The cinema of Suzanne Bier and writer-collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen (Brothers) is an expanding dramatic universe that gets richer with each film. Read full details > |
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Alexandra
Director - Alexander Sokurov Country - Russia
'Cheer up, soldier', Alexandra advises one young lad early in her journey, yet it's unlikely that any young conscript in such an endless and soul-sucking war can see much in the way of a brighter future. Read full details > |
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Ali and the Ball
Director - Alex Holmes Country - Australia
Ali lives in detention with his mother and little sister. One day his mother has her greatest treasure taken from her and Ali realises he must find a way to replace it. Read full details > |
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All White in Barking
Director - Marc Isaacs Country - United Kingdom
A multicultural community, Barking, east of London, is also a stronghold for the neo-Nazi British National Party. An insightful and surprisingly humorous look at racism in society. Read full details > |
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Alphaville 2007 A.D.
Director - Paulinho Caruso Country - Brazil
With more than just an aesthetic nod to the Nouvelle Vague, a cowboy and an entrepeneur settle their accounts in the middle of the Third World civil war. Read full details > |
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American Teen
Director - Nanette Burstein Country - USA
Hannah, Megan, Colin and Jake: four 17-year-olds from a small town in Indiana who allowed a filmmaking crew intimate access to their last year of high school. Read full details > |
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Apocalypse Again, and again and again and again
Country - Australia
American-born Variety film critic Eddie Cockrell, curator of the Apocalypse Again strand in this year's SFF, will present a range of clips. Read full details > |
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Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina
Director - Shinji Aramaki Country - Japan
Fans as well as newcomers to CGI-animated manga will be amazed by the splendid digital animation with exquisite realisations of clothing, hair and cityscapes. Read full details > |
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As I Lay Dying
Director - Ho Yuhang Country - Malaysia
A young boy comes home soaking wet convinced he's going to die of a fever. Read full details > |
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Ashes of Time Redux
Director - Wong Kar-wai Country - Hong Kong
Wong Kar-wai's revisitation of his 1994 swordplay movie. Read full details > |
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Anatomy
Director - Rhys Graham, Amy Gebhardtm, Natasha Gadd Country - Australia
Gorgeously filmed, the three short documentaries titled Skin, Heart and Muscle probe the connection between art and the body. Read full details > |
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Australian Independents
Country - Australia
Join two Australian filmmakers as they discuss their processes and approaches to filmmaking in a digital world. Read full details > |
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Autism Every Day
Director - Lauren Thierry
SOLD OUT - This eye-opening documentary follows a day in the life of eight families with children who have Autism. Read full details > |
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Autumn
Director - Pablo Lobato Country - Brazil
Pablo Lobato, who co-directed Acidente (SFF 2007), adopts the dramatic strategies of the Dadrenne Brothers in this film in which a wanderer, living in a shadow world, goes into a house without being seen. Read full details > |
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Away From Her
Director - Sarah Polley
Fiona (screen legend Julie Christie) is a woman loosing her memory and determined to deal with it in her own way. Read full details > |
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Ballast
Director - Lance Hammer Country - USA
Winner of the Best Director Award at Sundance, this singular feature explores a family disintegrated by years of drug abuse. Read full details > |
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The Band's Visit
A wry and witty film about a lost Egyptian band in Israel and the humourous encounters that follow. Read full details > |
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The Band's Visit
Director - Eran Kolirin Country - France, USA, Israel
An audience favourite all over the world, this quietly funny valentine to cultural exchange starts at an Arab culture centre in Israel and somehow ends up with the jazz sounds of Chet Baker. Read full details > |
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The Banquet
Director - Xiaogang Feng
A stunning new Chinese epic featuring action sequences choreographed by Yuen Wo-Ping (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Read full details > |
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Battle In Heaven
Director - Carlos Reygadas Country - Mexico
As provocative and divisive as Japón is eloquent and resounding, Reygadas' second film opens and closes with explicit scenes of a striking young woman performing fellatio on a corpulent middle-age man. Read full details > |
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Beauty in Trouble
Director - Jan Hrebejk
Sydney Film Festival favourite Jan Hrebejk returns with an immensely enjoyable drama in which a wife and mother slips into a relationship with an older, wealthy expatriate. Read full details > |
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Ben X
Director - Nic Balthazar Country - Belgium, The Netherlands
At the centre of Nic Balthazar's prize-winning debut feature is Ben - a withdrawn teen who escapes into the world of computer games. Read full details > |
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Beyond the Light
Director - Myo Min Khin Country - Myanmar
Blind since birth, a Myanmar man talks of his despair at life, and how taking up the guitar brought him salvation. Read full details > |
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The Big Soul Review (Screening: Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story)
Director - Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville Country - USA
Catch the Dynamite Crew DJing pre-show soul classics: after this film see the awesome Johnny G and his E Types rip out the soulful tunes of the day and to round it off, the Hot Grits team will have ya rumps a-shakin'. Read full details > |
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Birthday Girl
Director - Erin Laing Country - Canada
A precocious child celebrates her twelfth birthday. Read full details > |
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Black Narcissus
Director - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Country - United Kingdom
In her second magnificent collaboration with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Deborah Kerr plays Sister Clodagh, an ambitious young Anglican nun put in charge of establishing a hospital and school in an old castle (with a steamy past) in the Himalayas. Read full details > |
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Blindsight
Director - Lucy Walker
The awe-inspiring journey of the six Tibetan teenagers who are blind and their amazing trek up the world's highest mountain. Read full details > |
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Blue Eyelids
Director - Ernesto Contreras Country - Mexico
Gently comic and gorgeously filmed, this bittersweet tale follows the emotionally detached and naive Marina who works in a uniform factory in Mexico City. When she wins a trip to a beach resort she is resigned to go alone until she encounters Victor. Read full details > |
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Body of War
Director - Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue Country - USA
Motivated by the assertive words of President George W. Bush in the hours following 9/11, 22-year-old Tomas Vincent Young enlisted in the United States Army and on on his fifth day in Iraq took an AK-47 round near the left collarbone that left him paralysed for life. Read full details > |
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Born Without
Director - Eva Norvind Country - Mexico
An actor and musician, womaniser and father of seven, the fascinating life of Jose Flores - born without arms into a poor Mexican family. Read full details > |
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Boxing Lesson
Director - Alexandru Mavrodineanu Country - Romania
A father prepares his son for life 'in the real world'. Read full details > |
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Boy A
Director - John Crowley Country - United Kingdom
With a flying nod to the filmic terrain of Ken Loach, this distinctive and deceptively simple film is a powerful parable about a young man who is released after years of incarceration for a childhood crime so horrific that his identity must be changed in order to resume life outside. Read full details > |
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Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
Director - Hana Makhmalbaf Country - Iran
From Iranian filmmaker Hana Makmalbaf comes the story of a young girl determined to go to the new school across the river, despite her mother telling her to stay home. Read full details > |
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The Cars That Ate China
Director - Stefan Moore Country - Australia
A look at a nation that's gone car crazy as China becomes the largest car market on Earth. Read full details > |
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Casting a Glance
Director - James Benning Country - USA
One of the most hypnotic works by experimental filmmaker James Benning, this glorious homage to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is both environmental poem and art historical documentary. Read full details > |
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Chainsaw
Director - Dennis Tupicoff Country - Australia
Frank and Ava Gardner 'star' in a chainsaw safety film ... Read full details > |
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Chak De! India
Director - Shimit Amin
Filmed in part in Sydney, and Melbourne's Telstra Dome, Chak De! India follows a fictionalised Indian National Women's Hockey team as they strive for World Cup glory. Read full details > |
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Chasing Birds
Director - Greg Woodland Country - Australia
Australia is home to over 800 species of birds and many different kinds of bird lovers, some of which take their interest a little further than most ... Read full details > |
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Cheeky Dog
Director - Dena Curtis
Dion is a 15-year-old artist who, despite living with muscular dystrophy and being profoundly deaf, has created a unique fashion label. Read full details > |
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Cherries
Director - Tom Harper Country - United Kingdom
A class of teenage schoolboys are about to have a life-changing lesson they will never forget. Read full details > |
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The Chicken, the Fish and the King Crab
Director - Jose Luis Lopez-Linares Country - Spain
The gourment's Iron Chef! The Bocuse d'Or is a bi-annual cooking contest in which the creation of undeniably complex dishes is performed live in front of an audience and judging panel. Read full details > |
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Children of the Silk Road
Director - Roger Spottiswoode Country - Australia, China
The first Australia-China cooproduction and an epic tale of a young Englishman's (Jonathan Rhys Meyer) trek with a group of orphaned boys, over more than a thousand kilometres of China's mountain terrain, to avoid advancing Japanese troops. Read full details > |
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The Choir
Director - Michael Davie Country - Australia
The redeeming nature of song is celebrated in this inspiring documentary which follows a 19-year-old Jo'burg prison inmate who finds a mentor in the prison choir master, who shows him the possibility of another kind of life. Read full details > |
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Choke
Director - Clark Gregg Country - USA
The first adaptation of a novel by cult writer Chuck Palahniuk since David Fincher's Fight Club, Choke is full of the writer's signature manic black humour. Sold Out Read full details > |
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Chop Shop
Director - Rahmin Bahrani Country - USA
12-year-old orphan Alejandro lives and hones his hustling skills in the network of auto repair shops known as the 'Iron Triangle', a chaotic mercantile ecosystem at the edge of the New York borough of Queens.. Read full details > |
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Circus School
Director - Guo Jing, Ke Dingding Country - China
Be charmed by the tumbling routines and shocked by the tough training routines and bellowing coaches, as young acrobats learn the ropes in this intensely moving doco. Read full details > |
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The Class
Director - Ilmar Raag Country - Estonia
Award winner at Karlovy Vary and Warsaw Film Festivals, this confronting feature was inspired by the Columbine High School massacre, but director Raag takes a different approach from Gus Van Sant's Elephant. Read full details > |
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Cochochi
Director - Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán Country - United Kingdom, USA, Mexico
A sweet, fairytale story about two young brothers who lose their horse and then each other provides the frame for this subtle, languid film set amongst the indigenous people of the Sierra Tarahumara in northwest Mexico. Read full details > |
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Come Drink with Me
Director - King Hu Country - Hong Kong
Acclaimed as one of the best Hong Kong movies ever made, King Hu's fabulously entertaining 1966 martial arts tale took wuxia far beyond its traditional format, adding more than a touch of violence and championing the female warrior. Read full details > |
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A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
Director - Chris Waitt Country - United Kingdom
Dumped by yet another girl after just three weeks, shabby (with no redeeming chic) and hapless thirtysomething Chris Waitt embarks on a mission to determine the 'why' behind his failed love life. Read full details > |
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Continental, A Film Without Guns
Director - Stéphane Lafleur Country - Canada
Stéphane Lafleur's award-winning debut is deceptively plain and simple, full of droll Canadian humour. A man goes missing, the impact is felt in several disparate lives. Read full details > |
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Control
Director - Anton Corbijn
After wowing audiences around the world, Control will grace the screen in Darwin, bringing the life and death of Joy Division's infamous Ian Curtis to the big screen. Read full details > |
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The Cool School
Director - Morgan Neville Country - USA
The rise of the Los Angeles' beat-era art scene, with archival footage, interviews with artists and critics, as well as an early collector, Dennis Hopper. Read full details > |
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Crows: Episode 0
Director - Takashi Miike Country - Japan
From cult director Takashi Miike comes this number one hit on the Japanese movie charts. Genji is determined to rule the roost at the baddest school in town, Suzuran Boys' High, but he'll have to fight everyone to do so. Read full details > |
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CSNY: Déjà Vu
Director - Bernard Shakey Country - United Kingdom
'I hate this stinkin' war', Canadian-born rocker Neil Young tells television pseudo-pundit Stephen Colbert, when he follows CSNY's increasingly politicised tour of the USA. Read full details > |
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A Cub Scout Never Lies
Director - Ian SBF Country - Brazil
In this black comedy, a man suffers a domestic accident that leaves him paralysed in a very unusual situation. Read full details > |
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And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Director - Anand Tucker Country - United Kingdom
In a perfect piece of casting, Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth play father and son in Anand Tucker's movie of successful author Blake Morrison's memoirs. Read full details > |
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Andalucia
Director - Alain Gomis Country - France
French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis' follow-up feature to L'Afrance is an utterly unique and endearing take on identity politics, driven by a boldly free-fall logic that matches the ever-meandering mind and pent-up energy of its central protagonist. Read full details > |
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Day Watch (Closing Night Gala)
Director - Timur Bekmambetov
A Russian film like nothing you have seen before, Day Watch is a wild ride, jam-packed with car chases to die for, vampires and glitter punk couture. Read full details > |
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Deep Water
Director - Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
From the producer of Touching the Void comes an extraordinary documentary that follows the events of a daring nautical race. Read full details > |
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Derek
Director - Isaac Julien Country - United Kingdom
From his rebellion against his 50s patrician childhood, through his life as a young artist in swinging 60s London, to years of activism against first Thatcher-era homophobia and then AIDS, Derek Jarman embodied the idea of the artist as an eloquent scream. Read full details > |
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A discussion with Yung Chang: director of Up the Yangtze
Director - Yung Chang Country - China
Chaired by Nick Torrens, director of The Men Who Would Conquer China, and To Get Rich is Glorious, a discussion with director of Red Hot Docs selection Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang Read full details > |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Director - Terence Davies Country - United Kingdom
Terence Davies' autobiographical feature has lost none of its power since its release 20 years ago and in this restored print is more hauntingly evocative than ever. Read full details > |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Director - Julian Schnabel
A film of exquisite beauty and humanity recounting the true story of a French socialite who was mysteriously struck down in his 40s by a massive stroke. Read full details > |
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Dog with Electric Collar
Director - Steve Baker Country - Australia
A dog. An electric collar ... and plenty to bark at ... sparks will fly! Read full details > |
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Donkey Punch
Director - Oliver Blackburn Country - United Kingdom
Sauced up on a heady cocktail of drink and drugs, two young party girls from Leeds get into some steamy business with three guys in the master suite on a yacht of Mallorca. Read full details > |
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Drifter
Director - Cao Guimarães Country - Brazil
Cinematically stunning, this intense and provocative documentary poem follows three homeless drifters - Nercino, Paulao and Valdemar - along different highways in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil. Read full details > |
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The Drummer
Director - Kenneth Bi Country - Taiwan, Hong Kong
Honk Kong director Kenneth Bi uses the coming-of-age format to explore the relationship of a young boy and his gangster father. Sent to Taiwan for his own safety, the son soon discovers his calling. Read full details > |
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The Edge of Heaven
A thoroughly modern portrait of family, hope, tragedy, love and political activism in the new Europe, by award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin.
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Egg
Director - Semih Kaplanoglu Country - Turkey, Greece
Winner of multi-awards, Egg tells the story of a young man who, along with Ayla, a young woman and distant relative who cared for his dying mother, sets off to fulfil his mother's dying wish. Read full details > |
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Elite Squad
Director - José Padilha Country - Brazil
Twitchy as a crooked cop and saturated in the rich, sweaty hues of a favela funk party, José Padilha's high-octane thriller has been the subject of much debate since its premiere opening at Festival do Rio and Golden Bear win at Berlin. Read full details > |
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Encounters at the End of the World
Director - Werner Herzog Country - Australia
Werner Herzog, the indomitable warrior of frontier documentary making, lands on his seventh continent with the irascible promise that this will not just be 'another film about penguins' (a pledge that he can't exactly keep!). Read full details > |
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End of the Rainbow
Director - Robert Nugent Country - Australia
Winner, First Appearances Award at IDFA. The impact of a new mine in remote Africa, from environmental concerns to community changes. Read full details > |
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Endless Night
Director - Pan Jianlin Country - China
Sly, confronting and highly effective, this unexpected docu-drama takes the true account of one woman's multiple experiences of rape and constructs a series of interviews with people from all sorts of backgrounds around each accumulating case. Read full details > |
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The English Surgeon
Director - Geoffrey Smith Country - United Kingdom
An unusual look at a medical issue, following English neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, on his annual visit to Ukraine, a country with limited healthcare and many in need. Read full details > |
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Ephemeral
Director - Tony Radevski, Jongsu Oh Country - Australia
A seemingly ordinary train trip home turns into something more than its weary passengers expect. Read full details > |
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The Eternity Man
Director - Julien Temple Country - Australia
For almost 40 years, ex-alcoholic Arthur Stace roamed Sydney writing 'eternity' in perfect copperplate script on the city's pavements. In 2003, Australian composer Jonathan Mills and novelist and poet Dorothy Porter combined to create an opera based on Stace's life. Read full details > |
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The Eternity Man
Director - Julien Temple
Julien Temple's film of the Jonathan Mills and Dorothy Porter opera about how 'eternity' came to be written all over Sydney's streets. Read full details > |
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Fados
Director - Carlos Saura Country - Spain, Portugal
Carlos Saura's latest work finds him in Portugal, the home of fado, a musical tradition that began in the back alleys of Lisbon and is now performed across the world. Masses of glorious music, including Sydney fave Mariza. Read full details > |
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Fantastic Parasuicides
Director - Park Soo-young, Cho Chang-ho, Kim Sung-ho Country - South Korea
United by their strangely optimistic reversals of suicide attempts, the stories in this inventive omnibus was one of the hidden gems of the Pusan International Film Festival. Read full details > |
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Fear(s) of the Dark
Director - Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire Country - France
Ten of the world's most cutting edge graphic artists and cartoonists showcase their fertile imaginations in this collection of the truly creepy animations. Don't go home alone after this one! Read full details > |
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feeling_lonely
Director - Rachael Turk Country - Australia
Sometimes you just want to feel something. Read full details > |
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Forbidden Lie$
Director - Anna Broinowski
Norma Khouri's 2004 international bestseller, Forbidden Love, was read and adored by thousands around the globe. Read full details > |
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Foster Child
Director - Brillante Mendoza Country - Philippines
The impoverished Manlangqui family provide a foster home for the gorgeous, abandoned three-year-old John-John. Read full details > |
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Frederikke
Country - Sweden
Nine-year-old Frederikke's weekend at her mother's doesn't turn out as expected. Read full details > |
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From Here to Eternity
Director - Fred Zinnemann Country - USA
Set on an Oahu army base outside Honolulu in the months prior to the invasion of Pearl Harbour, this smouldering war classic won eight Academy Awards and features one of the most famous on-screen kisses in movie history. Read full details > |
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Frozen River
Director - Courtney Hunt Country - USA
Sundance prize winner. Struggling working class mum Ray's chance encounter with a streetwise young Mohawk woman who smuggles foreigners over the frozen river, sets off a chain of events based around both women's need for quick cash. Read full details > |
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Fugitive Pieces
Director - Jeremy Podeswa Country - Canada, Greece
As a young boy in Nazi-occupied Poland, Jacob witnesses the massacre of his family but does not know the fate of his beloved sister Bella. Read full details > |
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Fujian Blue
Director - Weng Shou-ming Country - China
Weng Shou-ming's roughly hewn first feature is an energetic and involving two-parter intoxicated with the legacy of the 'special economic zone' status granted the southeast coastal Chinese province in the early 1980s. The region's signature colour permeates the visuals, with the grainy 16mm blow-up a perfect aesthetic fit for this gritty joint-winner at Vancouver. Read full details > |
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The Funk
Director - Cris Jones Country - Australia
Jack woke up in a funk one day... no one really knows how it started. Read full details > |
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Funny Games
Director - Michael Haneke Country - USA
The Farber family (headed by Tim Roth, Naomi Watts) head off to their weekender for some timeout, and find themselves running out of time when their home is invaded by two obsequious teenagers. Read full details > |
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A Gentle Breeze In The Village
Director - Nobuhiro Yamashita Country - Japan
Soyo is the eldest child in a rural school with just six students. When older, stylish city-boy Hiromi, joins the school, it's not only Soyo's emotions that are unsettled. Read full details > |
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Girl Cut in Two
Director - Claude Chabrol Country - France
French master Claude Chabrol is at his most wicked and playful in this arch comedy of sex, greed and power about a TV weathergirl and a famous playboy author. Read full details > |
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The Girl Who Swallowed Bees
Director - Paul McDermott
A young teenage girl (Pia Miranda) feels so distraught that she even swallows bees in an attempt to end her life. Narrated by Hugo Weaving. Read full details > |
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Girls Like Us
Director - Khine Saw Country - Myanmar
Four young women living in the same Yangon hostel talk of their lives and their hopes for the future in Myanmar's largest city. Read full details > |
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Glass Lips
Director - Lech Majewski Country - USA, Poland
Artist-filmmaker Lech Majewski has so many other interests - biblical, aural, baroque, earthy, spiritual - that this film, stitched together from 33 videos created for a gallery installation, feels like a therapeutic cry from the soul. Read full details > |
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Glass: a Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Director - Scott Hicks Country - Australia
Scott Hicks' eloquent portrait of Philip Glass includes interviews with Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese and was filmed over a year in which the renowned composer staged the opera Waiting for the Barbarians, wrote his eighth symphony and scored several films. Read full details > |
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Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure
Director - Olivier Jean-Marie Country - France
Hilarious French animation based on classic comic character Lucky Luke, the famous cowboy escorts a wagontrain of French settlers on the hazardous trek from New York to California. Suitable for ages 7 and above. Read full details > |
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God Man Dog
Director - Singing Chen Country - Taiwan
Ching suffers from post-natal depression; Biung is struggling to shake his alcoholism; and Yellow Bull wanders the countryside in a neon-lit shrine-on-wheels, looking out for young street urchin Xian. Read full details > |
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson
Director - Alex Gibney Country - USA
From the Academy Award-winning director - as well as Australian producer Eva Orner - of Taxi to the Dark Side comes a fascinating documentary on an American legend. Sold Out Read full details > |
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A Good Day for a Swim
Director - Bogdan Mustate Country - Romania
A compelling story of three juvenile delinquents who break out of prison and indulge in a session of gratutious abuse. Golden Bear for Best Short at the 2008 Berlinale. Read full details > |
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Grace is Gone
Director - James C. Strouse Country - USA
Father-of-two Stanley Phillips bundles his daughters into the car for a trip to a Florida amusement park in order to avoid telling them their mother Grace has been killed in Iraq. Read full details > |
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Great Australian Albums: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads
Director - Larry Meltzer Country - Australia
Nick Cave's cult album dedicated to murder apparently started as a joke; but as Bad Seed Conway Savage remarks there was always a murder track, 'loosely referred to as the comedy record'. Read full details > |
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Green Porno
Director - Isabella Rossellini, Jody Shaprio Country - USA
Isabella Rossellini as you've never seen her before. Read full details > |
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Half Nelson
Director - Ryan Fleck Country - USA
Featuring unusual friendship and superb performances all round, Half Nelson shines with a humanity and honesty rarely seen on the big screen. Read full details > |
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Hamdi and Maria
Director - Timor Britva Country - Israel
Hamdi, a 30-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, lost his mother, wife and eldest son in an Israeli rocket attack. Read full details > |
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Director - Mike Leigh Country - United Kingdom
Mike Leigh in upbeat form with this sparkling film about the relentlessly cheerful Poppy, a London teacher whose boundless optimism protects her from the darker things in life. Read full details > |
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Haze
Director - Anthony Chen Country - Signapore
A hot day, a smoke haze covers the city. Two teens decide to play truant. Read full details > |
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Heartbeat Detector
Director - Nicolas Klotz Country - France
Polished and picture perfect, Simon, the 21st century corporate dreamboy, starts to unravel when he is assigned to determine the mental well-being of his chemical firm's Chief Executive. Read full details > |
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Heaven's Heart
Director - Simon Staho Country - Sweden, Denmark
Swedish drama about the relationships between two fortysomething couples as issues regarding love, passion and trust are exposed in the aftermath of a dinner party. Read full details > |
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Heavy Metal Vice Party (Screening: Heavy Metal in Baghdad)
Director - Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi Country - USA, Canada
A VICE film about Iraq's only heavy metal band, and a suitably debauched VICE party to follow. Read full details > |
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Helen
Director - Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy Country - Ireland, United Kingdom
Fresh and original UK filmmaking - A young woman, Joy, goes missing, but she's not the focus of Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy's wholly original feature. The focal point is Helen, the young woman who's asked to re-enact Joy's unexplained disappearance for the police investigators. Read full details > |
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Help Me Eros
Director - Lee Kang-sheng Country - Taiwan
Taunted by the remnants of his former life of wealth and glamour, Ah Jie mindlessly dates brassy, beetle-nut selling street-girl Shin, while forlornly fantasising about Chyi, his personal Eros on a random telephone helpline. Read full details > |
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Her Name is Sabine
Director - Sandrine Bonnaire Country - France
French actor Sandrine Bonnaire documents the moving story of her younger sister, Sabine, whose autism was undiagnosed for many years and whose treatment, despite her loving family's best endeavours, was often inappropriate. Read full details > |
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Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Director - Kim Longinotto Country - United Kingdom
Festival favourite Kim Longinotto (Sisters in Law, Gaea Girls), with unprecedented access and extraordinary sensitivity, records the daily lives of severely traumatised children in a special boarding school. Despite a staff to student ratio of 108 to 40, everyone is stretched to the limit. Read full details > |
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Home
Director - Paul Negoescu Country - Romania
Just before Christmas, a taxi driver picks up a fare at the international bus station and starts a conversation about being home. Read full details > |
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The Home Song Stories
Director - Tony Ayres
Based on events of his childhood, director Tony Ayres' beautiful new film tells the story of a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, Rose ... Read full details > |
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Hope
Director - Stanislaw Mucha Country - Poland
In this visually stunning and psychologically complex morality play. Francis, an idealistic young man, orchestrates the blackmailing of an art historian, whom he records stealing a painting from a church. Read full details > |
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Hunger
Director - Steve McQueen Country - United Kingdom
UK artist Steve McQueen's debut feature. The life and death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is framed in abstraction with prison cells as installation sites for articulating the human body as both weapon and battleground in a series of intense and violent clashes between the wardens and prisoners. Read full details > |
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Hunting And Gathering
Director - Claude Berri
From legendary French filmmaker Claude Berri (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources) comes a warm and funny tale of lost souls and unlikely friendships. Read full details > |
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I Always Wanted to be a Gangster
Director - Samuel Benchetrit Country - France
Winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at Sundance, Benchetrit's second feature is an hilarious take on a crime caper involving a stocking mask and a run-down roadside cafeteria. Read full details > |
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I Love Sarah Jane
Country - Australia
Neither bullies nor zombies are going to stop Jimbo from finding a way into Sarah Jane's world. Read full details > |
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I'm Not There
Director - Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes' bold and highly original film inspired by the life and music of Bob Dylan, is an extraordinary cinema experience. Read full details > |
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Ian McPherson Memorial Lecture
Country - Australia
Bob Pisano, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America, will give this year's Ian McPherson Memorial Lecture. Read full details > |
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Import/Export
Director - Ulrich Seidl Country - Austria, France
In the frozen industrial wasteland of rural Ukraine, young nurse Olga decides after a degrading stint doing webcam porn to strike out for Vienna and new opportunities. Read full details > |
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In Bruges
Director - Martin McDonagh Country - Belgium, United Kingdom
Ray and Ken are two mismatched hit men sent to lay low in the medieval Flemish town of Bruges after they botch an execution. Ray emotionally unravels, his conscience tortured by the memory of their recent crime and the pair become entangled in a series of bizarre and distracting local encounters.
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In the City of Sylvia
Director - José Luis Guerin Country - France, Spain
This beautifully observed elegy to young lovers in the city is framed by the young man's romantic voyeurism, as he sits and sketches different women, and by the labyrinthine streets and architecture of Strasbourg. Read full details > |
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In the Valley of Elah
Director - Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis (Crash) returns to the big screen with a confronting look at the post-combat behaviour of US soldiers returning from the Middle East. Read full details > |
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The Innocents
Director - Jack Clayton Country - United Kingdom
Kerr is perfectly cast as the tight-laced Victorian governess Ms Giddens in this eerie gothic horror co-scripted by Truman Capote. Read full details > |
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Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Director - Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden Country - USA
Anita O'Day's larger than life character fills the screen in this marvellous documentary that charts the scandalous life of the so-called 'Jezebel of Jazz', which featured numerous marriages, rape, abortion and jail. Read full details > |
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Japón
Director - Carlos Reygadas Country - Spain, Mexico
Stylistically rigorous and visually arresting, Reygadas' debut feature film was awarded at festivals around the world and heralded by film critics for its transcendental vision and exacting sense of human frailty. Read full details > |
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Jar City
Director - Baltasar Kormákur Country - Denmark, Iceland
In this smash hit from Iceland, seen-it-all cop Erlendur (Ingvar E. Sigurdsson) works long hours to link the mysterious 1974 death of a little girl to the recent killing of a reclusive lowlife. Read full details > |
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Jerusalema
Director - Ralph Ziman Country - South Africa
Lucky starts out stealing cars and ends up ram raiding, ably assisted by his best friend. When things go badly wrong, he realises that this kind of crime doesn't pay and decides to turn himself into a businessman. Read full details > |
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