April movies

Damage

Damage

DatesSat 6 April 2024

Starts: 2.30pm & 5.30pm

Price: $18/$15

Q&A with film maker Madeleine Blackwell after 5.30pm screening.

Ali is not a citizen. He drives a taxi using another man’s license and relies on the GPS to negotiate his way around a city he doesn’t know. His passenger, Esther is an old woman who can’t remember where she is going. She is angry because she has been stripped of everything that is familiar to her and she doesn't recognise the world anymore. They travel through the night in search of a vague destination while surveillance cameras mark their journey, coldly redacting the human element, defining who belongs and who does not, who is safe and who is not. What they are left with is their damage – she can’t remember and he can't forget.

Goodbye Julia

Goodbye Julia

DatesSun 7 April 2024Wed 10 April 2024

Starts: Sun 2.30pm & 5.30pm Wed 3.30pm & 6.30pm

Price: $15/$13

Just before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer, Mona from the north, seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife, Julia as her maid. The two women forge an unusual relationship across devastating divides in this engrossing Sudanese drama. 

Wracked by guilt after covering up the murder, Mona tries to make amends. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country's turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.

Io Capitano

Io Capitano

DatesSun 14 April 2024Wed 17 April 2024

Starts: Sun 2.30pm & 5.30pm Wed 3.30pm & 6.30pm

Price: $15/$13

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.

Nominated for Best International Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards.

West Papua Mini Film Festival

West Papua Mini Film Festival

DatesMon 15 April 2024

Starts: 6:30pm

A diverse mini festival of hot off the press short documentaries from inside West Papua and Indonesia.
 
This riveting selection of short films looks to promote peace, justice, and education, and the prevention of harm to the thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees in West Papua.
 
Soccer, hip-hop and emotional family dramas created by on the ground activist filmmakers tell stories of positive resistance, struggles for social justice, and the fight against environmental destruction.
 
The films highlight conditions and developments in our near neighbour in West Papua, where there is civil and armed conflict, thousands of internally displaced people, and ongoing large-scale environmental destruction from mining and logging industries.
 
Join some of the film makers for screenings and Q&A's to publicise their situation and to lend support to activists in West Papua as they struggle for basic human rights and land rights.
 
Arranged in association with the West Papua Project at Wollongong University in collaboration with filmmakers from West Papua, Indonesia and Australia, and community support groups and citizens in Australia. 
Reel Rock 18

Reel Rock 18

DatesSat 20 April 2024

Starts: 5pm

Price: $18/$15

Don’t miss three heart-stopping new films featuring the year’s biggest climbing & adventure stories: a wild expedition on Nameless Tower in Pakistan; a new cutting-edge route in a massive limestone cave in France; and a journey to Palestine’s West Bank to explore the power of climbing to change lives. Presented by The North Face and supported by Black Diamond & Yeti.

Evil Does Not Exist

Evil Does Not Exist

DatesSun 21 April 2024Wed 24 April 2024

Starts: Sun 2.30pm & 5.30pm Wed 3.30pm & 6.30pm

Price: $15/$13

 In Harasawa, a tiny village located deep in the forest, single father Takumi and his eight-year-old daughter Hana live a simple life surrounded by pristine lakes, mountains and roaming deer.

 Their quiet lives are interrupted when agents from a Tokyo urban development company visit the town proposing a 'glamping project' - a resort for city vacationers looking for nature experience but not keen to get their hands dirty.

May movies

Mad About The Boy The Noël Coward story

Mad About The Boy The Noël Coward story

DatesSun 28 April 2024Wed 1 May 2024

Starts: Sun 2.30pm & 5.30pm Wed 3.30pm & 6.30pm

Price: $15/$13

Sir Noël Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world. And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world, and a star on the Broadway stage.

The Shining

The Shining

DatesThu 16 May 2024

Starts: 6:30pm

Price: $15/13

Venture into the chilling, intricate world of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Explore the depths of psychological horror and suspense that have cemented this film as a cult classic.

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