18th December 2014
158 million people live in Indian slums under very extreme insalubrity. Millions of children play surrounded by rubbish, cows, rats and excrements. Garib Nagar slum, in Bandra district (Bombay, India) is Rubin’s home, a 12- year old girl who aims to become an actress and change the slum into a more clean and habitable place.
Tags: Documentary, Documentary 2, International
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Muhammad and his family have been capturing and taming Hyena’s, baboons and pythons since he can remember. Their beliefs are ancient, their powers are questionable and even though they love their animals, there is an element of cruelty that cannot be ignored.
Tags: Documentary, Documentary 1, International
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Newborns attempts to provide a lens to the survivors of acid violence, to look forward and gaze back. They take us through the ennui of their domestic and public spaces in a nameless dystopian city, its factories, houses and motels, and its promises, never honoured.
Tags: Documentary, Documentary 1, International
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A courageous young Scottish actress takes the boldest step imaginable to confront her risk of having inherited the fatal, incurable Huntington’s Disease.
Tags: Documentary, Documentary 1, International
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December 2011, in a town in northern Italy, a young man returns home as he does every evening. He parks his car and discovers his 16-year-old sister in tears in front of their house. She tells him that two young Romani guys have attacked her. The young man immediately goes in search of the attackers […]
Tags: Documentary, Documentary 1, International
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In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago.
Tags: Documentary, Documentary 1, International
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Melissa Johnson hit 6’4’’ tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, this film follows her hilarious and awkward misadventures in romance as she dates shorter men and gets cheered or jeered wherever she goes.
Tags: Animation, Australian, Documentary, Documentary 1, International
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When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.
Tags: Animation, Australian Premiere, International, International 5
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A deeply moving, at times surprisingly comic journey into the head of a father torn apart by grief. Simon, a middle class headmaster, receives news that his eighteen year old daughter, Penny, has been killed by a crocodile while on a gap year in Kenya. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Tags: Australian Premiere, International, International 5
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5 years ago the boss closed the company and fired 300 workers. The first day that he goes out to run he meets one of them. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Tags: Australian Premiere, International, International 5
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