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Films on the Horizen
A Sydney based film festival will endeavour to help you achieve a state of perfect serenity.
As both a Zen Master and an accomplished film academic, Dr. Susan Murphy has combined spirituality with celluloid to create something truly unusual - A Zen Film Festival. Taking place in late August in the inner city Sydney suburb of Glebe, the 5th Annual Reel to Real film festival is upon us once more with a great line up of shorts, features and documentaries.
Under the guidance of Dr. Murphy, the festival promises to deliver audiences a fine selection of short and feature films all with a ‘Buddhist flavour'. Far from the shallow, self-congratulatory, back-slappery you'd find at most film festivals, Reel to Real is about inward reflection, open discussion as well as fantastic films.
Punters can look forward to excellent cinema with an Aussie slant, including Fearless by director Peter Weir and Lee Whitmore's half hour animation The Safe House, both screening on the opening night. Amongst the other films on offer are Over the Fence: Liverpool, Nikita Mikhalkov's Best Foreign Film Oscar winner Burnt by the Sun (which coincidentally has a sequel currently in post-production) and the terrific Man on Wire, which took out the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2008.
The festival not only boasts a fine selection of films, but also tantalising popcorn alternatives including but not limited to ‘beautiful soups' and ‘delicious cheeses', which can no doubt be snacked upon during the post-film discussions, led by Dr. Murphy herself. According to the Zen Master these discussions tend to extend beyond the films themselves and into the realm of ‘our own daily lives and existence.'
With the promise of great discussion about cinema and the soul, as well as the tentative hinting of cake and cheese, the Reel to Real film festival looks to be one to circle in the calendar of any film lover, spiritualist or both.
Reel to Real will be taking place from the 21 -23rd of August at Café Church in Glebe.
Image caption: Dr Susan Murphy