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When the Tide Comes In
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When The Tide Comes In is hypnotically intriguing experience, featuring a powerful rhythm of live action inter-dispersed with audio-visual sequences -
Sydney Film Festival: Captain Fantastic
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Viggo Mortenson plays an American Pacific Northwest father, Ben who is home schooling his six children and raising them with Platonic ethics isolated from society. -
Sydney Film Festival: Tharlo
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It is powerful, inspirational and extremely relevant. Everyone should see this - It is a true piece of art. -
Everybody Wants Some!!
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Like Linklater's earlier film Dazed & Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! is like receiving a really great mixtape from a friend. -
Opening Night: OUR Land People Stories
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers, Bangarra Dance Theatre are in their third decade now, and this year Stephen Page celebrates 25 years as Artistic Director. "I don't even know what that means. Compare decades to 40,000 years and … -
Flame Trees
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Flame Trees evokes small town drama and a nod to the glory days of adolescence before life changing events take place. -
Sydney Film Festival: Cinema, mon amour
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The critically acclaimed Romanian documentary, Cinema, mon amour, provides a bleak, yet seemingly accurate depiction of the role of the cinema in modern day Romania. -
Sydney Film Festival: The American Epic
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Music helps us to express ourselves and for many of these people it gave them a voice when the rest of America didn’t want to listen. -
Sydney Film Festival: Ants on a Shrimp
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Ants on a Shrimp is the name of the first of the 15 courses and the documentary film about René Redzepi and his chefs at Noma in Tokyo -
Mitski: Puberty 2
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Puberty 2 is about self-acceptance. Mitski is staking out her place by ensuring that she doesn't erase the things that make her different and unique - the things that set her apart from the white, male hegemony. -
Sydney Film Festival: Heart of a Dog
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Heart of a Dog is structured in a stream-of-consciousness, like a dream. It's full of anecdotes and wry jokes, and observations that fall out of Anderson's mouth with the weight of bowling balls. -
Sydney Film Festival: Strike a Pose
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The new documentary Strike a Pose revisits the Blond Ambition dancers and allows us for the first time take a peek behind the curtain. -
Sydney Film Festival: The Commune
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The film navigates the differences between physical distance and emotional distance, people's need for intimacy, and the power of empathy with charm, humour and biting eloquence. -
The Big Dry
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Stretching the Ensemble Theatre boundaries artistic director leads us into new territory with world premier Big Dry and a collaboration with the Australian Theatre For Young People. -
The Conjuring 2
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Demonic possession and haunted houses are on the menu again in the sequel to James Wan's 2013 film The Conjuring. -
Now You See Me: The Second Act
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The magic steals the show with plenty of playing cards flying around the screen in dazzling sleight of hand tricks, rain falling in the wrong direction, doves becoming reattached to their dismembered heads, and the ever-popular underwater safe break, to keep pulses racing. -
Marcus Whale: Inland Sea
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Combining hard hitting beats with swelling, sonorous textures, Inland Sea is a thrilling collision of aggression and sensuality. -
Ngaiire: Blastoma
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Blastoma is a brave album, with Ngaiire's gorgeous voice navigating a terrain of sharp, rocky beats and reaching a stunning emotional apex. -
Tribes
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Tribes is a well thought out and constructed play and promises to delight and entertain while reassuring you that your family is in fact, normal after all. -
Sydney Film Festival: Mustang
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The film is called Mustang for a reason; when you try to domesticate a wild horse it is only a matter of time before the horse is going to buck and break free.