The immigrant experience won out thematically as the opening night film for this year’s Lavazza Italian Film Festival, but two films on the program about contemporary Italy and the people who choose to stay and take the problems head on …
The Dungog Film Festival (DFF) collapsed in 2012 after five years of continuous audience growth from 1,000 to 10,000 people. An amazing feat! In late 2012 the producers partnered with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, NSW Mining, Hoyts Cinemas and …
Another good reason to invest in the Israeli Film Festival is the disarmingly charming THE DUNE.
The title suggests desert and the film opens in an arid little Israeli boondock where Hanoch seems to while away his time playing chess …
A young suicide bomber asks when his assignment might come through as he has a maths exam imminent and wonders if he needs study for it. “My father will kill me if I fail the test” he explains.
This black …
LIFE’S NO PIECE OF CAKE is a very funny German film. It is also an insightful and moving drama that blends the tragic and the absurd. Director André Erkau deftly handles Gernot Gricksch’s wonderful script which explores how a husband …
The 2014 Audi Festival of German Films began last night with Christian Alvart’s intriguing BANKLADY about Germany’s first female bank robber, Gisela Werl (1934-2003).
This was a seriously bizarre story. No wonder, that her story caught the attention of a …
The Short + Sweet Theatre and Variety Gala Finals took place on the 21st and 22nd March at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre. These events showcased the best sixteen plays and the best seven cabaret and dance pieces from the …
Is a pact a promise? And can a pact made in youth be binding in adulthood? This is the premise of A PACT (Zum Geburtstag).
Before the fall of the wall, a trio of tertiary students in East Germany, Georg, …
If the past is a foreign country, then a river runs through it, all the way to the sea of the present.
SOURCES OF LIFE (Quellen Des Lebens) begins four years after the end of WWII. It has taken this …
Chekhov was on to something when he conceived the ‘ Three Sisters’. Female sibling relationships are endlessly fascinating. Just think of Woody Allen’s ‘Interiors’ or ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’. One of the highlights of this year’s Audi Festival of German …