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festival screenings
| Featuring a great selection of Australian and world premiere screenings and high profile international and local filmmakers, the festival coincides with the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
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Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper uncovers stories of profound loss and trauma, survival and resilience in corners of the globe.
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Genesis Potini emerges as much more than Gisborne's reigning speed chess player in Dark Horse. Screens with the refreshingly forthright Endangered.
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Looking for Reconciliation? investigates how a nation may transcend a violent and traumatic history to create a new society. Screens with BRown.
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A daughter's acutely honest reflections of her father's rehabilitation after surviving an explosive tragedy in Iraq that claimed many lives.
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Based on Russell Martin's best-seller of the same name, Weinstein's accomplished screen adaptation follows the trail of a lock of Beethoven's hair.
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Luke Holland offers remarkable access to the closed and wary hunting fraternity and presents an unusually frank account of English country mores.
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Hughes' assembles many sources to weave together a poetic call to reflection on the challenges faced by dissenting voices in security-conscious times.
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An experimental boarding school in Kenya beckons as the last hope for a group of pre-teen boys of a future beyond addiction, unemployment or prison.
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An insightful documentary that follows the California Recall Election and Schwarzenegger assuming control of the world's fifth largest economy.
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Anthem raises fundamental questions about the currency of freedoms and values co-opted in service of the 'War on Terror'.
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Moore's film charts Wainer's unswerving campaign to force the decriminalisation of abortion onto the political agenda.
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Kevin Hull's documentary forms part of the British produced Malaria series and received the 2005 One World Best Documentary Award.
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The two protagonists in Longinotto and Ayisi's documentary are female crusaders fearlessly wading into battles with the law on their side.
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Silma's School is a portrait of an inspirational woman, mother and wife, and offers a rare insight into the Muslim community living in Sydney's West.
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Song Journey is a celebration of Torres Strait Island culture. Screens with Children of Migration; a film about Pacific Islanders in New Zealand.
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Bring your pen along to this special screening to find out if you're sleep deprived and if your lifestyle is affecting the quality of your sleep.
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The Rest is Silence screens with Touch the Sound - a remarkable journey with Grammy Award-winning percussionist, Evelyn Glennie.
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DJs Gary and Yvonne broadcast from a tough housing estate in Bedroom Radio. Screens with Jisoe a story about a young Melbourne graffiti artist.
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Love in a Time of Sickness explores the complexity of relating whilst HIV-infected, screens with the poignantly affirming Ask Me I'm Positive.
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This Time Lucky is a short about a couple of septuagenarian twins intent on finding love late in life. See beyond the pathology of dementia in Memory.
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'Glen' and 'Sydney' are westernised young Indians who answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call centre.
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Kim Newcombe is remembered as the New Zealander who came second in the 1973 World 500 Grand Prix Championship.
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My Green Friday is a light-hearted film about seeing the world in another way. Screens with the charming and humorous Welcome 2 My Deaf World.
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Both these films address cultural issues in relationships between couples of different ethnic backgrounds - mostly a result of disapproving parents.
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Shot entirely from the front seat of a minibus taxi, Matabane travels the country in search of the Promised Land: the new, democratic South Africa.
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Final Solution is a raw and confronting view of the politics of hate. Banned in India for months, the film became an international cause célèbre.
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The Bridge at Midnight Trembles follows Richard Moir through the physical burden of Parkinson's Disease as his career fades and his marriage crumbles.
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An insight into the social network surrounding one of the most widely used narcotics in the world - betelnut. Follows Paul's Beautiful Laundrette.
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Far from the usual media spin on life in Iraq, this production is an intimate view of a nation on the cusp of dramatic change. Screens with Sentences.
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This award-winning docu-musical recounts the fascinating history of Johannesburg's 'Harlem' where a melting pot of talent thrived during the 1950s.
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