Benjamin Gilmour was used to dealing with trauma as a paramedic - but nothing could have prepared him for secretly shooting a film in Afghanistan.
Kiwi filmmaking duo Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami open the Sydney Film Festival next month.
Director Ben Gilmour and actor Sam Smith needed all their courage to shoot the film"Jirga".
The oddly titled Chocolate Oyster centres on two twentysomething waitresses struggling to pay their rent.
A film about a couple who end things for unhappy couples is the drawcard on opening night.
Two months out from opening night,the line-up is starting to take shape.
An idiosyncratic romance about two Hungarian slaughterhouse workers who share dreams has won the $60,000 prize.
With a first taste of the program comes news of an extra cinema this year.
Life is a taut but puzzling space thriller set on the International Space Station.
Annette Bening is happy to have been born right in the middle of the 20th century.
A Beatles fan has taken fandom to the limit by purchasing the childhood home of Ringo Starr.