Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
TINĀ means Mother in Samoan.
TINĀ is an apt title for writer and director Mika Magasiva’s feature film, the story of Samoan teacher Mareta Percival.
Struggling after the sudden death of her daughter in the Christchurch earthquakes, Mareta reluctantly takes …
This year’s HSBC German Film Festival opener is the sweet Big Chill-esque, LONG STORY SHORT. (Feste & Freunde – Ein Hoch auf uns! )
Hilarious and poignant, David Dietl’s ensemble comedy follows the tensions, joys and changing bonds experienced …
The 13th Palestinian Film Festival Australia promises a bold and innovative program of new cinema from and about Palestine, offering a powerful and resonant exploration of resilience, love and freedom in the face of ongoing war and dispossession.
From …
Devastating.
LANDFALL by James Bradley may well be the most devastating detective fiction you’ll read this year.
Cataclysmic climate change has transformed Sydney into a ravaged landscape shaped by rising sea levels and cyclonic storms, creating a domestic diaspora, …
The South African Film Festival (SAFF) returns from May 4 to May 31, with an action-packed program of compelling films, engaging discussions, and – through its support of Education without Borders – the ability to change lives. With both in-cinema …
Forget the Easter Bunny, this paschal it’s the penguin bringing the fun.
The flightless with flippers offers a feelgood fling at the flicks in THE PENGUIN LESSONS, a poignant recent history memoir set in Argentina.
The film follows a disillusioned …
Set sixty years ago in the so called Swinging Sixties, not in Swingin’ London but in Redfern, BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY has some of the pop confection of The Four Seasons song it shares its name with.
There’s joy, there’s …
Small pictures like these pack a punch more powerful than puerile blockbuster bluster.
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE examines the little moments and the momentous of a life that seems mundane, measured and unobtrusive.
Small things like towing the line, not …
A surprise feelgood coming of age movie, HEAD SOUTH is a sleeper hit worth awakening.
Written & directed by Jonathan Ogilvie, HEAD SOUTH stars Ed Oxenbould as Angus, a teenage fantasist and chrysalis Christchurch punk rock legend, circa 1979…
