Film Festivals
Threatened with hanging in jail, an Iranian filmmaker bravely shot a film in secret
Mahnaz Mohammadi, has dramatised brutal moments from her own imprisonment for a drama screening at the Persian Film Festival.
- Garry Maddox
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Desire, detective work and disease: the French Film Festival has it all
Famous faces line up alongside new discoveries in this year’s feast of Gallic cinema.
- Stephanie Bunbury
‘Pain and anger’: How art and politics collided at the Berlin film festival
Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Grint and Michelle Yeoh are just some of the big names to cop politically pointed questions this week, much to the discomfort of festival organisers.
- Stephanie Bunbury
The Berlin film festival is desperate not to get political. Somebody forgot to tell Warwick Thornton
The Indigenous filmmaker took aim at Australia’s colonial history as he premiered his new movie Wolfram at the prestigious Berlinale on Tuesday.
- Stephanie Bunbury
‘Jaw-dropping’: Politics casts a long shadow over cinema at Berlin film festival
From Wim Wenders’ controversial plea to “stay out of politics” to Arundhati Roy’s abrupt withdrawal, the prestigious German festival is engulfed in a geopolitical fight.
- Michael Idato
Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlin Film Festival over jury comments on political films
Jury president Wim Wenders’ comments that cinema should remain a non-political “counterweight” to politics has triggered widespread criticism.
- Reuters
Tony Jones on the demise of Q+A and walking the red carpet at Sundance
Should we take drugs that have been tested on animals in appalling conditions? The veteran journalist has directed a groundbreaking documentary on the topic.
- Peter FitzSimons
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Comic film about the struggle to say ‘thank you’ makes Tropfest
In Georgina Haig’s short, a grieving woman’s inability to say those two words makes her a social outcast.
- Garry Maddox
Filmmakers face legal warning over Brittany Higgins’ story
The makers of a documentary about the way the law prevents women speaking out about sexual abuse have been sent a warning letter by lawyers for Linda Reynolds.
- Karl Quinn
Australian talent shines at Sundance Film Festival with seven films on show
Seven Australian productions made it into the line-up of this year’s premier independent US film festival, an event that has been punctuated by protests against ICE raids.
- Nell Geraets