‘The last thing anyone wanted to talk about was Cook’:Indigenous survival film to open SFF

‘The last thing anyone wanted to talk about was Cook’:Indigenous survival film to open SFF

We Are Still Here involves Australian,New Zealand and South Pacific filmmakers.

  • byGarry Maddox

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‘Striving for a better life’:Sydney’s diverse street dancers on centre stage at this year’s Film Festival

‘Striving for a better life’:Sydney’s diverse street dancers on centre stage at this year’s Film Festival

A new documentary focuses on two young women heading towards the country’s biggest street dance festival.

  • byGarry Maddox
Melbourne launches $140k best film prize in bid for global spotlight

Melbourne launches $140k best film prize in bid for global spotlight

To mark its 70th year,the Melbourne International Film Festival has launched a $140,000 Best Film prize that’s the equal of anything the world has to offer.

  • byKarl Quinn
Sydney Film Festival shows that sex is back in cinemas ... and in surprising ways

Sydney Film Festival shows that sex is back in cinemas ... and in surprising ways

Highlight films featured a sex tape going viral,sex with a car and way too much sex for money.

  • byGarry Maddox
Assange,the movie:his father and brother expose the human behind public enemy No. 1

Assange,the movie:his father and brother expose the human behind public enemy No. 1

Was the WikiLeaks founder naive to hold the US to account for war crimes? Let his father answer that question.

  • byElizabeth Farrelly
Bouncing back:tales of the unexpected from the Black Summer bushfires

Bouncing back:tales of the unexpected from the Black Summer bushfires

Nearly two years on,the recovery continues – and new side-effects emerge – for those scorched by the 2019-20 bushfires.

  • bySally Rawlings
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It has film festival audiences fainting in the aisles. But how bad is Titane?
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It has film festival audiences fainting in the aisles. But how bad is Titane?

The French Palme d’Or winner caused multiple faintings and walkouts at its premiere screening at the Sydney Film Festival last week.

  • byRobert Moran
A decade on from winning best picture,this Australian is set to return to the Oscars

A decade on from winning best picture,this Australian is set to return to the Oscars

As the joint head of a mini studio,Emile Sherman’s films include The King’s Speech,Lion and now The Power of the Dog.

  • byGarry Maddox
‘I can’t watch this again’:Eva Orner on Burning,her call to climate action

‘I can’t watch this again’:Eva Orner on Burning,her call to climate action

The Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker doesn’t shy away from difficult subjects,but documenting the horror of Australia’s Black Summer took its toll.

  • byRachelle Unreich
‘Rattled me to the core’:Australian photographer Andrew Quilty on life under the Taliban

‘Rattled me to the core’:Australian photographer Andrew Quilty on life under the Taliban

Quilty,whose work in Afghanistan won him the Gold Walkley award in 2016,will soon head back to Australia after eight years to write a book.

  • byGarry Maddox
Kirsten Dunst:why I would do anything to work with Jane Campion

Kirsten Dunst:why I would do anything to work with Jane Campion

The Power of the Dog star says the director brings a sensitivity and rawness to all her characters,as well as an intriguing view of sexuality.

  • byStephanie Bunbury