Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama posted solid figures at three key art house locations last weekend, the start of an old-fashioned platform release.
Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-set drama 'Jirga' will carry Australia’s hopes of being nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Joel Edgerton and Simon Baker have scored nominations in the feature film direction and acting categories for 'Boy Erased' and 'Breath', the first time that’s happened in the same year in AFI | AACTA history.
Writer-director Imogen Thomas’ debut feature Emu Runner and Benjamin Gilmour’s Afghanistan-shot drama Jirga will have their world and international premieres respectively at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Former Australian soldier, Mike Wheeler, returns to Afghanistan, seeking redemption from the family of a civilian man he killed during the war.
The critics hated 'Venom', blasted as a “puddle of simplistic, sanitized PG-13 drivel” and clumsy, monolithic and fantastically boring. Audiences must be watching a different movie.
The US distributor which released Tanna, Australia's first nominee for the best foreign language film Oscar, has acquired Benjamin Gilmour's Jirga.
'Jirga', writer-director Benjamin Gilmour’s tale of an Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to seek amends with the family of a civilian he killed in battle, will make its world premiere in official competition at the Sydney Film Festival.