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After placing her stubborn, unmanageable father in a nursing home, Jena must confront their difficult relationship when he unexpectedly shows up at her house and intends to stay.
A stop-motion sand animation film which tells the moving tale of a sea captain and his crew and their struggle to survive.
THE DREAM OF PERFECTION is as extraordinary as its provocative subject matter, the dramatic story of the building of the Sydney Opera House, culminating in Utzon’s departure from the project. Director John Weiley was commissioned in 1968 to make the documentary Autopsy on a Dream by then BBC2 controller David Attenborough, and following its only screening on the BBC, it was destroyed – literally chopped to pieces on the chopping block. Miraculously, a mute print of Autopsy on a Dream was rediscovered in a BBC vault this year, and has now been restored with sound saved by John Weiley, and with a new prologue.
Haunted by the memory of her child, Glory is drawn to a broken toy doll in a children’s playground. Imagining the doll to be a real child, and conjuring up the memory of a past lover, Glory builds the family that she has always dreamed about. Yet even in her idyllic fantasies, the past unravels itself, coiling and ready to strike. GLORY examines the stain of love and tragedy that marks a person through the rest of their life.
A boy goes missing in the snow covered wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts can no longer be trusted. Here, far from civilization he must make decisions that will forever change his relationship with the wilderness he has always feared. THE HUNTER is a haunting stop motion sand animation by emerging director Marieka Walsh.
Set against the backdrop of the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite, INVISIBLE BOYS explores the challenges faced by a group of gay teens in the remote coastal town of Geraldton, Western Australia after one of them is outed on social media following an encounter with a married man. As they form a tight-knit friendship, the boys find solace and support in one another, exploring their desires and identities in a world that often renders them invisible.
JONES FAMILY CHRISTMAS is billed as a warm-hearted multi-generational comedy. A story told through the lens of an Australian family whose Christmas is impacted by bushfires.
After witnessing their able bodied friends awkwardly hook up at a bar, two strangers with cerebral palsy named Frank and Sarah, become entrenched in each other’s dysfunctional lives.
When her beloved family dog Nugget falls sick over Christmas, a city dermatologist must return home to confront both her dysfunctional family, and the mortality of the one family member that brings them all together.
Hilik is an artist living in an inner city street. He gifts his sculptures to neighbours, who in turn display the artworks outside the front of their terrace houses. Queen St Gallery shows us how this spontaneous urban art gallery has changed the dynamic of the street and the interaction between its inhabitants.
In the '70s and '80s, photographer William Yang captured Sydney's emerging artistic, literary, theatrical and queer circles, as well as his friendships with artists, writers and fashion designers such as Brett Whiteley, Patrick White,Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee. With myriad images and his trademark candid narration, Yang leads us through this beguilingly decadent and creative era.
Photographer William Yang came out in Sydney in the early 70s, a period of great social change. “I never consciously came out as a gay man, I was swept out by events at the time.” He has seen the formation of a gay activist culture in the 70s, the commercialisation of the gay scene in the 80s, and lived through the devastating effects of AIDS in the early 90s. With myriad images and his trademark candid narration, Yang leads us though this beguiling era of sexual discovery, politics, love and loss.
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