The Final Quarter, a new Australian documentary, covers the major incidents in the last three years of Adam Goodes’ career, including the incident with the 13-year-old fan who fired racial… Read More
Category: Sydney Film Festival
Her Smell
Director Alex Ross Perry specialises in unlikable protagonists. His film Listen Up Phillip explores the life of author Phillip, who is manipulative and deeply conceited, and Queen of Earth portrays the psychological… Read More
The Souvenir
The Souvenir follows young film student Julie (Honour Swinton-Byrne) through a progressively dysfunctional relationship with Anthony (Tom Burke), a cultured, clever, heroin addict. There are many meta components to the… Read More
Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away
Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away is the second Minuscule feature. Thomas Szabo and Hélène Giraud have created a surprisingly heart-warming movie that doesn’t need to rely on dialogue to take the… Read More
The Public
Emilio Estevez directs and stars alongside Alec Baldwin in The Public, an empathetic story of homelessness and the fight for fairness and survival. Stuart Goodson (brilliantly portrayed by Emilio Estevez),… Read More
Interview with Ash Mayfair / The Third Wife
Tiana from Film in Revolt spoke with Ash Mayfair, director of The Third Wife – her feature debut focuses on a teenager in an arranged marriage, who learns quickly about… Read More
Vai
Vai is an expressive anthology of vignettes by First Nations Pasifika women spanning seven countries. Each episode tells a day in the life of Vai in different stages of her… Read More
Film in Revolt vs Film Fight Club
Amy, Amelia and Tiana from Film in Revolt chatted with 2SERs Film Fight Club about film and youth the 2019 Sydney Film Festival. Listen here: FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E16: SYDNEY… Read More
One Child Nation
One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Zhang Jia-Ling, delves into the harrowing issue of incalculable complexity, that is, the One-child policy of China. Its complexity arises from a… Read More
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
For the mouthful of a word it is, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch was one of the most fluently beautiful films I’ve ever seen. If Wes Anderson made a documentary, this… Read More