An air hostess escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee saving his family, an Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat trying to contain a national scandal each struggle – to the limits of their sanity – with an immigration system that is itself struggling.
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ lead AACTA International Award noms
Indie darlings 'The Banshees of Inisherin' and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' have dominated the nominations for the AACTA International Awards with six apiece.
Directors Baz Luhrmann and James Cameron were able to win the prizes that have so far eluded them on the global awards circuit, but there was no joy for an Oscar favourite as the AACTA International award winners were announced.
“I just want to play characters whose ethnicity is incidental and I’ve been lucky to be able to do that in the past few years."
Warwick Thornton’s latest feature, the 1940s-set 'The New Boy', sees Cate Blanchett star as a renegade nun, Sister Eileen, who runs a mission for Aboriginal children.
What's your favourite Australian film of the last decade?
Friends for years, Tony Ayres and Andrea Denholm had long wanted to work together but did not have the opportunity- until now.
Australian writer/director Andrew Dominik's 'Blonde' will premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September, alongside Florian Zeller's The Son, produced by See-Saw Films and starring Hugh Jackman. Australian short 'Love Forever', directed by Clare Young and EP'd by Jane Campion, has been selected for Orizzonti.