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Sydney Film Festival: My Happy Family
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Directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, My Happy Family certainly has a sublime quality of the ordinary -
Sydney Film Festival: Pulse
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Pulse is a brave film that will test boundaries of sexuality, disability and gender, proving that sometimes what we resist the most is what we choose to pursue. -
Sydney Film Festival: By the Time It Gets Dark
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In the quiet and pensive By the Time It Gets Dark, tragedy is distant and half-seen, but its echoes taint the march of time. -
Sydney Film Festival: The Forest of Lost Souls
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The Forest of Lost Souls is not so much a horror movie as a slasher movie and if you're going to make a slasher movie there needs to be more blood and lots of it. -
Sydney Film Festival: The Other Side of Hope
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The Other Side of Hope provides an unpretentious and comedic tale that is not washed out by its sensitive political relevance. -
Sydney Film Festival: Roller Dreams
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Roller Dreams is an enlightening journey into the LA culture through the eyes of this extraordinary group of people. -
Sydney Film Festival: Una
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Una is as a screenplay adapted by David Harrower from his play Blackbird and directed by Benedictine Andrews. It is as conflicted as it is bold, taking you into the heart of a sexually beguiled relationship, bet… -
Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up
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Nearly ten years after Fleet Foxes' rustic chorale first soared, it is a decidedly different sound that opens their melancholy and intensely personal third album Crack-Up. -
Wayne Tunks' Bitch
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For a play that is named Bitch, comedy thankfully finds a great home here. -
Sydney Film Festival: The Divine Order
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In this incredible story director Petra Volpe explores not only the emotional and legal complications of womens' rights but also the timeless complexities of the human experience of both men and women. -
Big Thief: Capacity
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Big Thief's Capacity is like stepping into the mind of steely-eyed singer and guitarist Adrianne Lenker, and just as confronting as you would expect. -
Only Heaven Knows
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Musical celebration boy-meets-boy romance Only Heaven Knows originally premiered in Kings Cross in 1988 and returns this month to The Cross. -
Sydney Film Festival: Whitney 'Can I Be Me'
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It's sad and its dramatic and we all know the fodder Whitney's not totally unexpected death provided the tabloid press. But don't expect the same from this latest instalment to her story. -
Chastity Belt: I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
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I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone is like the aftermath of a party. -
Mr Burns, a post-electric play
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Mr Burns, a post-electric play is a fitfully absorbing, frustratingly uneven work that you'll never, ever forget. -
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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More than half a century after it was first performed, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is still a striking comedy drama that drips with venom, filled with darkly magnetic characters. -
Perfume Genius: No Shape
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Coming after three albums of intensely cathartic introspection, No Shape is an expression of otherworldly joy befitting a talent as singular as Perfume Genius. -
Spanish Baroque: Brandenburg and Circa
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The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra continues to WOW in holistic performance beyond the sensitivity of period instruments and music. -
Jamila Woods: HEAVN
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Thick and sometimes urgent grooves taken from hip-hop rub up against gospel uplift, jazz exploration, bossa nova breezes and soulful fervour in beautiful and exciting ways. -
Get Out
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Get Out is a radical statement of pitch black humour that goes to extreme lengths because it has to.