Upcoming Screening
Anime Japan 2023, 2 hours 4 min
Cast: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki
Mahiito, a young 12-year-old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world.
Directed by the famed Hayao Miyazaki, and produced by Studio Ghibli, The Boy and Heron won the academy award for Best Animated Feature Film for 2024.
Recent Screenings
Ghost Stories Australia 1993, 1H 30MIN
Cast: Diana Davidson, Jack Charles, Ben Kennedy
Three Australian stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick (Jack Charles), an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American soldier who drowned in quicksand. Ruby (Tracey Moffatt) and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord (Lex Marinos) has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years.
BeDevil is a trilogy of ghost stories that follows characters pestered by vision- real, remembered and imagine. These contemporary tales travel from the sparseness of the outback, through the merky, rotting swamps of the islands, to the Brisbane docks.
Comedy Finland/Germany 2023, 1H 21MIN
Cast: Alm Poysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiainen
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of lvoe met by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Aki Kaurismkai's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be this last film as a director. It's fortunate that he changed his mind, because this subsequent film, Fallen Leaves, perfects much of the carefully curated melancholy, deadpan humour and poignancy for which he is renowned.
Drama/Thriller France 2023, 2H 31MIN
Cast: Sandra Huller, Samuel Theis, Milo Michado-Graner, Swann Arlaud and Messi (a border collie)
In an isolated mountain chalet near Granoble, successful but depressed novelist Sandra Boyter (Sandra Huller) decides to reschedule her interview with a female student because her husband, university lecturer Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), is playing loud music in the attic above, disrupting the interview.
After the student leaves the chalet, Sandra's visually impaired son, Daniel goes for a walk with his guide dog Snoop. When they return home, Daniel finds Samuel dead in the snow, a bloody wound in his head, apparently having fallen from the attic window. Did he jump? Or was he pushed?
Comedy UK 1949, 122 minutes, B&W
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Bruce Seton, Catherine Lacey, Wylie Watson
During World War II, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When the freighter S.S. Cabinet Minister runs aground nearby during a heavy fog, the islanders are delighted to learn that its cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky.
When officious English commanding officer Captain Waggett (Basil Radford) demands return of the liquor, shopkeeper Joseph Macroon (Wylie Watson) and his daughters Peggy (Joan Greenwood) and Catriona (Gabrielle Blunt) spearhead an island rebellion.
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