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In Christos Nikou’s debut feature in the English language, Anna (Jessie Buckley) increasingly suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) may not actually be the real thing. In an attempt to improve things, she secretly embarks on a new assignment as an assistant to Amir (Riz Ahmed) working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.
In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett). A new charge (Aswan Reid) is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed. However, the...
Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter, Mona (Selina Zahednia). Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardized. Drawn from personal experiences, SHAYDA is Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari’s debut feature. An Origma 45 and Parandeh Pictures production, executive produced by Dirty Films
Pushing the frontiers of film, technology and medical science, EVOLVER is a mind-expanding virtual reality experience that drops audiences into an unseen landscape, deep inside the human body. It follows the flow of oxygen from first intake of breath, around our complex, inner branching ecosystem, through to its origin, a single ‘breathing’ cell. It represents the life-affirming journey of just one among trillions of cells in every living being, all of which function thanks...
Across two seasons (12 episodes) Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy explore eco-anxiety, optimism and hope in the face of climate change, discussing the challenges humankind faces and celebrating the ground-breaking work of those tackling the crisis. These mini documentaries feature interviews with entrepreneurs, innovators and activists. Special guests include Former Irish president Mary Robinson, Prince William, Christiana Figueres and student leader, Oluwadabira Abiole-Awe. The podcast features an exclusive soundtrack by Grammy Award-winning electronic artist...
From the lens of Academy and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Eva Orner, BURNING takes an unflinching look at the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer.’ Fuelled by climate change, the nation’s hottest and driest summer ever recorded resulted in bushfires that burned over 59 million acres, killed and injured an estimated three billion animals, and affected millions of Australians. BURNING explores what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the...
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris (Aris Servetalis) finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna (Sofia Georgovassili), a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and surreal, Greek writer-director Christos Nikou posits a beguiling...
A Netflix limited series, STATELESS focuses on four strangers whose lives collide in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert. They are an airline hostess escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat caught-up in a national scandal. Inspired by real events, the series intertwines gripping and devastating personal stories revealing a system struggling with the irreconcilable contradictions of border protection.
Across nine episodes, MRS AMERICA tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett), aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.” Through the eyes of the women of the era — both Schlafly and those of second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), Betty Friedan (Tracey Ullman), Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), Bella Abzug (Margo Martindale) and Jill...
When veteran newscaster Dan Rather (Robert Redford) and CBS News head Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) choose to air a segment on 60 Minutes exposing how President Bush avoided being drafted to Vietnam through his father’s political advantages, the resulting fallout ultimately costs them their jobs and reputations. How did attention end up focused on the journalists who questioned an official version of a story? How did the minutiae of document typefaces, line breaks, and...
Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love in CAROL. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal novel The Price of Salt, directed by Todd Haynes and written by Phyllis Nagy, CAROL speaks to the transforming nature of...
THE TURNING is a kaleidoscopic compilation of short films based on stories by Tim Winton, exploring the impact of the past on the present, and how seemingly random incidents can drastically shape us. The linking and overlapping stories explore extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a portrait of a small coastal community. Andrew Upton wrote REUNION, directed by Simon Stone, in which couple Gail (Cate Blanchett) and Vic (Richard Roxburgh) dread...
Four years clean, video store manager Tracy (Cate Blanchett) lives quietly, avoiding anything that might trigger a heroin relapse. Her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) returns, claiming he is now a drug-free banker, and the two begin seeing each other again. Tracy looks after Lionel (Hugo Weaving), the man who introduced her to the drug. But Lionel is thrown into a panic when his dealer, Brad (Sam Neill), suddenly retires. Lionel begs Tracy to help...
Julie-Anne comes home from a hard day at the office to discover her mother has locked the cat in the house all day (again) and that she is expected to cook ‘bangers’ for dinner. Preparing the meal becomes a manifestation of all the repressed tensions in her demanding work and strained domestic life.