Film Festival

... full of provocative questions but not always equally convincing answers.

Yellow Letters (Gelbe Briefe, in German) is a timely take on the ongoing oppression of artistic freedom during authoritarian times. Directed and co-written by Turkish-born, German-based filmmaker İlker Çatak, the

Fatherland is not only about the past. It is a warning about the cyclical nature of history and the dangers of forgetting.

Nirvana Nagi recently wowed audiences with his moody, stylish, slow burn short Devourer at CinefestOZ, Monster Fest and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. We spoke with the Melbourne filmmaker to find

Ben Rosenberg shot his first film on an iPhone when he was 10 years old. He’d watched a behind-the-scenes documentary on Lord of the Rings and was amazed to discover

... much more than a spy film ... tragicomic story about aging, guilt, friendship and the impossible attempt to negotiate with one’s own past.

Its melancholy is gentle, its romance easy to follow, and its emotional demands modest ...

… cinema that refuses to play by the rules.

For Enda Murray, Irish cinema has travelled a long way from the social realism of the 1970s. Today, it is a more confident, internationally connected industry, unafraid to revisit the

Its achievement lies not in offering a profound new theory of existence, but in finding a form perfectly suited to its concept.