An Iranian woman and her daughter hope for a new life while in an Australian women’s shelter. Noora Niasari’s Shayda is a story about escaping fear and finding new beginnings. It is also a story about finding strength and confidence to buld that new life. Shayda is Australia’s submission for Best Foreign Feature consideration. Shayda…
Each year there are Oscars? awarded in three categories of short films: Live Action Shorts, Animated Shorts, and Short Documentaries. Programs of these shorts can be seen in various places around the country. Check at 2023 Oscar? Nominated Short Films – ShortsTV for more information. The Animated Shorts category always has a broad range of…
How far will someone go to protect the ones they love? In Leah Purcell?s Australian Western, The Legend of Molly Johnson, we see one woman?s answer to that question in very trying conditions. The film is based on Purcell?s play which reimagined a nineteenth century Australian short story, ?The Drover?s Wife?. (The onscreen title of…
?I?m not sure I know how to please a woman.? ?If you can say that, you?re a better man than most.? How to Please a Woman, written and directed by Ren?e Webster, is a risqu? comedy about women being given a voice in their own lives. In the process it exposes some of the unspoken…
Directed by Justin Kurzel,?Nitram?is a harrowing look at what creates our ?monsters?. Beginning as the story of one young man struggling to connect with a family who struggles to know how to properly care for him, the film unravels into tragedy and darkness. Based on the true story of the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in…
Directed by Stephen Johnson,?High Ground?follows Travis (Simon Baker), a policeman in northern Australia tasked with supporting a local missionary amongst the Indigenous peoples. Once a sniper in WWI, Travis is meant to maintain control of the operation from above with his bird?s-eye view of the situation. Then, when the operation results in a massacre of…
The interaction of news events and the journalists covering the events made up the focus of the first two films of the day. Another News Story, directed by Orban Wallace, follows the story of immigrants to Europe from the time they land on the Greek island of Lesbos as they work their way through various…
Do lies undermine lives?or does the discovery of the truth bring ruination? In The Daughter, an Australian adaptation of Henrik Ibsen?s The Wild Duck, Christian (Paul Schneider) returns home after several years abroad for his father Henry?s (Geoffrey Rush) wedding to the much younger Anna (Anna Torv). The estrangement between father and son has tension…
The Light Between Oceans is set on Janus, a small island far off the coast of Western Australia. The Roman god it is named after has two faces and is often thought to be looking to both the past and future (hence the year starts in January, also named after Janus.) Janus Island we discover…
In Lion a child faces perhaps the most frightening of all prosepects?being separated from his family and far from home. That he manages to find a new family in a faraway land may seem like a rescue (and it is), but what of the family he lost?
