Sat 10th Dec 1pm at Sydney University, New Law Building The Latin American Film Festival has been invited to program a free final day of film to cap off Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent. This conference draws Indigenous educators from Argentina, Chile and Mexico to Sydney, as...
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It’s been a while since such a specific genre film has pushed the right buttons for it’s experienced and fickle science fiction/horror/comedy audience. Films such as Gremlins, The Toxic Avenger, Shaun of the Dead, Creepshow, Fright Night, Beetlejuice and Zombieland are rare exceptions in a genre wasteland full of cheap vampire innuendo and slapstick...
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Beck Cole’s debut film, Here I am, tells the story of a woman named Karen (Shai Pittman) coming to terms with her addictions and her efforts to reclaim her daughter and her life after time in prison. Beck Cole’s history is as a documentarian, and it shows. The film exposes some of the social...
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François Ozons Potiche is set in the year 1977, surrounding the family of ‘trophy wife’ and her overbearing patriarch husband, Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). A whimsical opening sequence of Suzanne seeing animals in the forest, reminiscent of Disneys Snow White and Cinderella, introduces us to the joyous nature of our leading lady and the...
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Director: Roselyne Bosch Starring: Jean Reno, Melanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh ‘The Round-up’ tells the story of the capture of over 13 000 Jewish people living in Paris in 1942, who were subsequently interned in the Velodrome d’Hiver, then various camps within France, before being sent to Auschwitz. Director Roselynne Bosch decided to only feature...
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Based on a Russian folktale, Swan Lake tells the story of Princess Odette, who has been turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer, Von Rothbart. She lives every day with other cursed human-swans just like her, in which she is their Swan Queen. Every night she regains her human form. To break the...
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Kyoto Story is a collaboration between students from Ritsumeikan University’s College of Image Arts and Sciences and the commercial film company Shochiku Co., Ltd. It is a love story centred around the Uzumasa Daiei shopping arcade which once contained the Daiei film studios – where Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’ was filmed. To make this film, students...
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This short film was selected as the best from the graduating class of the Japan Academy of Moving Images. It is set in a small village in rural Japan and is the story of a lonely young girl and her relationship with an antisocial old man. Aki is home for the school holidays and...
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Solanin is based on a popular manga series by Inio Asano and follows the lives of young lovers Meiko (Aoi Miyazaki) and Taneda (Kora Kengo). They live in a tiny flat in Tokyo, caught in a post-university world of unsatisfying jobs and general ennui. Taneda still plays regularly with his band from university, but...
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Feel the Wind combines the classic ‘underdogs achieving sporting greatness’ storyline with a Japanese rendering of a frat boy comedy, which works much better than might be expected. Kakeru (Kento Hayashi) is determined to enter Kansai university in the Tokyo-Hakone ‘ekiden’, a relay marathon that is a prestigious university sporting event in Japan. He...
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