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Opens 9 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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WINTER HIGHLIGHTS
Directed by Richard Eyre
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna
Part of Dendy's Winter Highlights Season
One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen 'is about sex, violence, and racism - and its corollary: freedom,' says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet's drama. 'It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It's sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.' Angela Gheorghiu plays the seductive gypsy of the title in her role debut, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.
Approximate running time 4 hours / 2 intermissions. (more)
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Opens 9 September 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Directed by J Blakeson
Starring Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan
The suspense-filled thriller from up-and-coming director J Blakeson.
Two men (Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan- Me and Orson Welles) fortify a nondescript British apartment so it can serve as a prison, with the intention of kidnapping a young woman (Gemma Arterton) and holding her for ransom.
What first appears to be a foolproof plan, turns into a web of complex lies and underlying motive packed with edge-of-your-seat moments from beginning to end.
Character-centric and chilling, the film succeeds in delivering an engrossing kidnap thriller with oomph... (more)
'Crisp handling, some clever twists and a welcome streak of dry humor hold attention throughout.' – VARIETY
'Taut, superbly executed and consistently engrossing, The Disappearance of Alice Creed marks an auspicious feature debut for writer-director J Blakeson.' –THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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Opens 9 September 2010 at Dendy Opera Quays
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Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Starring Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt
Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much markup can she get away with?). There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter (Sarah Steele) to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt) but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And there's Kate's free-floating 21st century malaise—the problem of how to live... (more)
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Opens 9 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Adam McKay (Talladega Nights/Step Brothers)
Starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes
NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson and P.K. Highsmith (Dwayne
Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved
cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos – other men get tattoos of
them. Two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Allen Gamble (Will
Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg). You've seen them in the
background of photos of Danson and Highsmith, out of focus and eyes
closed. They're not heroes – they're 'the Other Guys.' But every cop has
his or her day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly
innocuous... (more)
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Opens 9 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre
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ADVANCE SCREENINGS
Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Will Arnett, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews
In a happy suburban neighbourhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world - he is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!).
Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day... (more)
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Opens 16 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Portside
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Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Starring Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Nicola Peltz, Cliff Curtis
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.
Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' the live-action... (more)
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Opens 16 September 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Casey Affleck
Starring Joaquin Phoenix
The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Casey Affleck, I'M STILL HERE is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I'M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the... (more)
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Opens 16 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Will Gluck
Starring Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Penn Badgley, Stanley Tucci
The rumour-filled, totally false account of how Olive Penderghast ruined her flawless reputation, 'Easy A' is a witty reimagining of the timeless tale of a fallen woman. After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out of hand, Olive becomes the object of equal parts pity and scorn. Her response? Use the rumour mill to advance her own social and
financial standing. (more)
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Opens 16 September 2010 at Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays
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Directed by Josh Appignanesi
Starring Omid Djalili, Archie Panjabi, Richard Schiff
An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish. Meet MAHMUD NASIR (Omid Djalili), loving husband, doting father and something of a relaxed Muslim. Does the F word occasionally pass his lips? Its hardly worth mentioning. Does he say his prayers five times a day? Of course! Well, usually Does he fast every day of Ramadan? Whos counting anyway? He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is as Muslim as it gets. But after his mothers death a discovery turns Mahmuds world... (more)
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Opens 23 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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FIRST LOOK SUBSCRIBER SCREENINGS
Directed by Daniel Alfredson
Starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
SUBSCRIBERS & CLUB DENDY MEMBERS - BE SURE TO BOOK QUICKLY FOR OUR EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK SCREENINGS! VISIT THE EVENTS PAGE FOR DETAILS.
In the anticipated follow-up to smash hit thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is accused of a triple murder, a crime that writer Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)will do everything to prove she is innocent of. Daniel Alfredson directs the second instalment of Stieg Larsson's international bestselling Millennium Trilogy. (more)
'Though the thriller is in the hands of a different filmmaking team..they've kept the searing intelligence and ruthless bent that turned the first book's adaptation into an international box office hit' Los Angeles Times
'Relentless suspense allows The Girl Who Played With Fire to hold you in a viselike grip.' Rolling Stone
'More gripping than The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Entertainment Weekly
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Opens 23 September 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Directed by Oliver Stone
Starring Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon
Michael Douglas is back in his Oscar-winning role as one of the screen's most notorious villains, Gordon Gekko. Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf). But can Jacob and Winnie really trust the ex-financial titan, whose relentless efforts to redefine himself in a different era have unexpected consequences. (more)
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Opens 30 September 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Portside
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Directed by Julie Bertucelli
Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas, Aden Young
After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She's convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he's come back to protect them.
But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree's troublesome roots.
As the branches of the tree start to infiltrate the house, the family is forced to make an agonising decision. But have they left it too late? (more)
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Opens 2 October 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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WINTER HIGHLIGHTS
Directed by James Levine
Starring Plácido Domingo, Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris
Part of Dendy's Winter Highlights Season
Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi's gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts. Approximate running time 3 hours 40 minutes / 2 intermissions. (more)
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Opens 7 October 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Directed by Ryan Murphy
Starring Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins
Based on Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Ryan Murphy's eagerly anticipated new dramatic comedy stars Julia Roberts.
Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a woman's supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet she found herself lost and searching for what she really wanted in life. Now divorced and at the crossroads, Gilbert risks everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self discovery.
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Opens 14 October 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Directed by Matt Reeves
Starring Chloe Moretz, Codi Smit-McPhee
Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbour. Owen can't help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire.
Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield)... (more)
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Opens 14 October 2010 at Dendy Opera Quays
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Directed by Atom Egoyan
Starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried
Academy Award nominated Atom Egoyan (Where the Truth Lies, The Sweet Hereafter) brings his unique and inspired vision to the direction of the exotic thriller CHLOE, in collaboration with Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno) as Executive Producer and Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary) as Screenwriter.
Starring an exceptional cast, CHLOE is a suspenseful story of love and betrayal. Catherine (Julianne Moore), a successful doctor, begins to question her husband David's (Liam Neeson) fidelity and sets out to resolve her suspicions with the help of an alluring young woman, Chloe (Amanda... (more)
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Opens 14 October 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown
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Screening in 3D!
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Milla Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap. (more)
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Opens 23 October 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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MET OPERA 10/11 Season
Directed by Robert Lapage
Starring Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon
Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. 'The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a cosmos,' says Lepage (La Damnation de Faust), who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world's greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel, singing his first, much-anticipated Met Wotan and Deborah Voigt adds the role of Brunnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek, and Stephanie Blythe also head the extraordinary... (more)
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Opens 6 November 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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MET OPERA 10/11 Season
Directed by Peter Stein
Starring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov
Bass René Pape takes on one of the greatest roles in a production by monumental theater and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky's soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. 'Boris Godunov is a masterpiece,' Stein says. 'The challenge is to transmit the enormous emotional depth of the whole thing. Boris is the czar, but he is expressing a problem we all have: the consequences of human actions.' Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir
Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk lead the huge cast in a work that is also a... (more)
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Opens 27 November 2010 at Dendy Byron Bay, Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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MET OPERA 10/11 Season
Directed by James Levine
Starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien
Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk's production premiered in 2006, the New York Times called it 'brilliant' and 'wonderful.' (more)
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Opens 28 November 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by
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Opens 10 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Starring Various.
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring Tom Hardy, Matt King, Kelly Adams
Strap yourself in for a jaw-dropping performance from Tom Hardy as he completely inhabits the role of Britain's most notorious prisoner in this highly stylised piece of mischievous cinematic vaudeville.
After robbing a post office in 1974, young hot-head Michael Peterson spent more than 34 years in prison, 30 of it in solitary confinement, changing his name to Charles Bronson. The über-prisoner from the UK has been transformed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn into a rakish and gleeful psychopath – both theatrically charming and inexplicably violent.
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Simone Bitton
Starring Rachel Corrie
A startlingly rigorous, fascinating and deeply moving investigatory documentary that examines the death of peace activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed by an Isreali army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip.
A few weeks after her little-reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military police concluded that Rachel Corrie died in an accident. In a highly unusual approach to documentary filmmaking, Jewish French-Israeli filmmaker Simone Bitton re-opens the case and slices through bipartisan Middle-East politics to investigate Rachel Corrie's death the way a judicial court should have. A... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Toshifumi Matsushita
Starring Christian Huaygua, Francisco Gutierrez
A stunning ethnographic road movie that follows a young boy on his first salt caravan into the Andes. He discovers life, a girl and an understanding of the power of the Goddess of the Earth.
Thirteen year old Kunturi lives on the world's largest salt flats high in the Andes and joins his father and a herd of llamas on a trip to take salt to the traditional communities in the Altiplano – a journey that lasts many months and allows him to observe the traditional customs of a vanishing way of life. Director Toshifumi Matsushita spent 4 years living in the remote region and his eye... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Jan Fehse
Starring Sebastian Kock, Mina Tander, Wotan Wilke Moehring
The film's director Jan Fehse will present the film and take questions after the screening.
A stylish multi-narrative drama starring renowned actor Sebastian Koch (THE LIVES OF OTHERS). The film examines how modern relationships can turn from bliss to tragedy, or vice versa, in the blink of an eye.
A dedicated doctor, married but dealing with a sick child, is tempted into an extra-marital affair in one triangle of this story. A beautiful DJ Sarah leaves her successful but cocaine-addicted boyfriend for a free spirited photographer in another triangle. As the lives of... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
Starring Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, Alex Frost, JK Simmons
In a sharply scripted comic drama, Brittany Snow stars as the pensive Emma, a girl caught between two very different brothers.
Peter is sweet, polite and inexperienced whilst his older brother Caleb is cynical, hurting from a failed relationship, and prone to lashing out with a blistering tongue – especially at women. When Peter introduces new girlfriend Emma to Caleb, her resemblance to his ex brings back mixed emotions, complicated by Emma's obvious attraction to the tough man in pain. What could easily have disintegrated into a stereotypical tale of a dysfunctional family is... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Armando Iannucci
Starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini
Satire has never been this searingly astute and funny in a story where Washington and Westminster are desperately trying to control the media spin on a possible Middle-east war.
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees. When bumbling British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster accidentally backs military action, he suddenly finds he has a lot of friends in Washington but is in deep trouble with the Prime Minister's spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker. With a brilliantly clever and foul-mouthed script in his hands, director... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Luis Lopez, Trisha Ziff
Starring Gerry Adams, Antonio Banderas
A fascinating documentary that traces the iconic image of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara through history, geography and the politics of ideology and pop culture.
The image of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara staring into the middle distance is an instantly recognised global icon used to demand change, sell vodka and lingerie, and to print on t-shirts the world over. Yet few people know anything about the fashion photographer who captured the image or what was going on the moment the shot was taken. Documentary filmmakers Luis Lopez and Trisha Ziff unearth the story of the photograph... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Park Chan-wook
Starring Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin
The story of a noble priest resurrected as a vampire and plunged into a life of desire is opulently brought to the screen by one of South Korea's leading filmmakers.
Continuing his exploration of human existence in extreme circumstances, director Park Chan-wook spins a tale about a priest who becomes a vampire after a blood transfusion. Struggling with his newfound carnal desire for blood, he plunges into a world of sensual pleasures, finding himself on intimate terms with a beautiful married woman. Loosely inspired by Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin, Park – best known for his... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Alexsei Balabanov
Starring Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin
Set in the wintery landscapes of provincial Russia during the 1917 Revolution, this is a moody and gripping tale of a brilliant young doctor tempted by the powers of morphine.
Inexperienced but talented Dr. Polyakov arrives in a rural town to take over as the local doctor, and is immediately put to the test performing a series of grisly operations. His good looks and life-saving decisions quickly make him a favourite with nurses and patients. But after a life saving injection of morphine, and as Russia descends into chaos, he struggles with the crippling force of addiction.... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
Starring Brendan Gleeson, Liam Hourican, Mick Lally, Michael McGrath, Evan McGuire
A stunning visual feast, this animation follows 12-year-old Brendan who must join forces with a beautiful forest spirit to help a group of monks with their illustrations and save their Abbey from invading Vikings.
Living in Medieval Ireland, Brendan – the nephew of grumpy Abbott Cellah — is a novice at the Abbey of Kells which is constantly under threat from the marauding Norsemen. When famous illuminator Brother Aidan arrives with a stunning and precious manuscript, Brendan realises his true vocation and, against his uncle's advice, decides he will help complete the book.... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt
Two of Northern Ireland's most prominent actors Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt star in this dramatic story about murder and the difficulties of reconciliation.
The film opens with a reconstruction of the real life killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by Alistair Little, witnessed by Griffin's younger brother Joe. The film then jumps more than 30 years to a fictional television programme which plans to re-unite Little (Neeson) with Joe Griffin (Nesbitt). Little is a lonely but respectable man seeking redemption, but Griffin who is edgy and confused has other ideas about the man who... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
Starring Ron Burrage, Mark Perry
Followed by a panel discussion.
A moody and thought provoking tale of doppelgangers, Hitchcock and the rise to power of television that defies categorisation with its montage approach to story-telling.
Inspired by a tale from surrealist novelist Jorge Luis Borges in which a writer meets an older version of himself on his deathbed, director and media artist Johan Grimonprez explores themes of doubles, memory and the repetitions of history. As strange and haunting images loop and repeat, Grimonprez cleverly maintains a coherent sense of story by wrapping his thoughts... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Lyes Salem
Starring Lyes Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Mohamed Bouchaib
A crowd pleaser wherever it screens, this quirky comedy of manners is a hilarious tale of honour and love in a remote Algerian village.
Written, directed and starring the gifted comedian Lyes Salem, the film tells of a secret love affair between humble video-shop owner Khliffa and the beautiful Rym, who suffers from narcolepsy. But Rym's overprotective brother Mounir (Salem) has other ideas for Rym, and drunkenly declares to the entire village that he has found a rich husband for her. The next morning he finds himself caught in a hilarious and rapidly escalating charade that... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Starring Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo
Wicked, dry, and entertaining, this exceptional drama explores the essence of motherhood in a murder mystery with a difference.
Veteran actress Kim Hye-ja plays a single mother with 27-year-old son Do-Joon, who is her reason for existence. When a young girl is found dead and he is accused of her murder, Do-Joon's mother summons all her maternal instincts and – trusting no one – sets out to find the killer and prove her son's innocence. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho steadily increases the intensity of the drama, allowing Kim Hye-ja to show us – in a truly mesmerizing... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Directed by Tommy Wirkola
Starring Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner
Halloween Special!
As mad and blood-stained as a meat-axe, this hilarious splatter-romp through the winter wonderland of Norway pits seven medical students and a skidoo against a very hungry hoard of Nazi Zombies.
Screening – or is that screaming – for one night only (and on Halloween!) Dead Snow follows a group of students looking for a quiet Easter break. Leaving civilisation behind, they head for the mountains and a small hut surrounded by very white snow. Conveniently just out of cell-phone range they settle in for a few drinks and plenty of discussion about... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Fredrik Edfeldt
Starring Blanca Engstrom, Shanti Roney, Annika Hallin
Take a look inside the poetic and haunting world of a 10-year-old girl who is left home alone during the holidays and discovers the space between the world of adults and the world of children.
Officially in the care of an ill-disciplined aunt who has other matters on her mind, the girl finds herself free to wander the leafy neighbourhood and explore both adult and childhood worlds around her. We watch through her curious eyes as she takes in the self-indulgent and debauched behaviours of the grown ups and the precocious antics of the neighbourhood kids. Director Frederick Edfeldt... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Starring Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Bruce Ellison
Made for an audience of any age, and a smash hit with the adults in Cannes, this animation is a deliriously wild and totally charming ride from start to finish, as Cowboy, Indian and Horse charge all over the world in a whimsical assault of fun.
Forget stop-motion animation – this is non-stop — the fast, zany and highly imaginative adventures of a group of plastic toys who speak French with phony American accents. Starting with the disastrous events of Horse's birthday, in which best friends Cowboy and Indian nearly destroy their town, the action moves to the North Pole, the... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Guillermo Arriaga
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Bassinger, John Corbett, Jennifer Lawrence
Charlize Theron and Kim Bassinger star in an intriguing drama where past and present come together to reveal how we can be redeemed through love.
Separated by time and space, Theron plays Sylvia, an emotionally strangled woman confronted by her past, whilst Bassinger plays Gina, dealing with a new affair that is dividing her family. Famous for his multi-narrative screenplays (BABEL and 21 GRAMS) Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga directs his first feature film, skilfully layering and twisting his storytelling in this tale of redemption, forgiveness and love.
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Nina Paley
Starring Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya
Perfect proof that animation can work for adults. An infectious, dazzling and poignant story about love and loyalty in mythical India and modern America.
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both the ancient tragedy and the modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, SITA SINGS THE BLUES – described as 'the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told' was entirely... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Claudia Llosa
Starring Magaly Solier
With moments of magical realism this exquisite and gently paced film tells the story of an anxious young woman's journey from fear to freedom.
Uneducated and superstitious, Fausta (Magaly Solier), has grown up in a country racked by a violent struggle that has left its scars burned deeply in its people. Carrying the unspeakable burden of her mother's rape and desperately fearful of others, Fausta is determined to return her mother's remains to a remote village far from the slums of Lima. For the first time in her life Fausta is forced to confront other people and deal with her... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Emma Franz
Starring Simon Barker, Kim Seok-chul, Kim Dong-won, Bae Il-dong
Join us after the screening for a Q&A – and perhaps some drumming – with Emma Franz and Simon Barker.
An intriguing and very surprising journey following Australian Jazz drummer Simon Barker as he attempts to find his spiritual drumming master in Korea.
A road movie, a philosophical encounter, and a tribute to the universal language of music, Emma Franz's highly acclaimed debut documentary follows Simon Barker on a journey that becomes a rite of passage and a showcase of music rarely heard outside Korea as he searches for legendary shaman Kim Seok-chul.
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos
Starring Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papuolia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis
Riding the perverse line between bizarre, awkward and darkly funny, this award-winning film follows the strange antics of three siblings brought up by their misguided parents in complete isolation from the rest of the world.
An allegorical exploration of the perils of the nanny-state or just a perverse tale about over-protective parents, Giorgos Lanthimos has produced an unusual and thought-provoking film about three young adults kept in a state of induced infantilism. Unable to leave their family home, the three siblings – a boy and two girls in their early twenties – invent... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Ginny Galloway
Starring Boston Youth Orchestra
From sophisticated Boston to the wild plains of Kenya this delightful and surprising documentary follows two groups of young people from extraordinarily different backgrounds as they discover each other's worlds through the power of music.
Under the guidance of an inspirational conductor who feels their training is too technical, students from the Boston Youth Orchestra travel across the world for a life-changing cultural exchange with a group of students from Laikipia, Kenya, who know nothing about sheet music and the classics. Instead they have been handed down a centuries-old... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Anna Rodgers
Starring Anna Rodgers
A rare insight into life in Laos, this documentary follows two boys in a coming of age journey that rides the twin currents of Buddhist wishfulness and western dreams.
Filmed over the course of four years, Irish filmmaker Anna Rodgers follows Leh and Bo, eleven year old cousins and best friends. Their future seems certain: leave school, marry young and toil season after season in the paddy fields. Their uncle decides that there is a better option available for the boys: they will move to the temple city of Luang Prabang where, after years of discipline and study, they might be... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
The new off the wall film from the Coen brothers explores questions of faith, mortality and dental phenomena. An ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is playing on the radio and F-Troop is on TV.
It is 1967. Larry Gopnik's wife is leaving him and his son has a discipline problem at Hebrew school. His unemployable brother is sleeping on the couch, and his daughter is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Sebastian Schipper
Starring Milan Peschel, Marie Baumer, Anna Bruggemann, Andre Hennicke
This shifting, summery exploration of loyalty, love and betrayal is based on a novel by Goethe that explores the idea that passion and free-will are subject to the laws of chemistry.
Adapted from Goethe's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, actor turned director Sebastian Schipper creates a 'chemical reaction' when Hanna and Thomas – who have decided to spend summer restoring their house in the country – are joined by Thomas' older brother who is newly separated and out of work, and Hannah's sexy goddaughter. With long summer evenings and ample quantities of wine, the four adults work, eat and... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Cary Fukunaga
Starring Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer
An epic award-winning thriller about two young people crossing the gauntlet of Central America in their attempt to get to the USA.
A beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to a better life. Riding atop cargo trains through the steamy jungles of Guatemala and Mexico, she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican who is desperately trying to outrun his violent past and elude the gang members who are hunting him down. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street instincts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Ramin Bahrani
Starring Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo
On the lonely roads of North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his family and William is a tough Southerner with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is rapidly winding down. Despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit and, as they pass their time together a third presence – the unspoken question of what William is about to do – haunts their... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Safina Uberoi
Starring Chris Rohrlach
You will laugh, you will cry and you'll be amazed at this story of a struggling farmer, his quadriplegic wife and their plans to build a brothel to help make ends meet.
Chris Rohrlach seems like an ordinary Australian bloke from the country, but he has an extraordinary story: fourteen years ago, his pregnant girlfriend Rachel had a massive stroke that left her incurably quadriplegic. Undeterred, the couple were married shortly after their son was born. Years on, with another baby on the way this inspiring couple decided they needed a second income. The solution? Open a brothel... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Caroline Strubbe
Starring Sam Louwyck, Lisbeth Gruwez, Zoltan Miklos Hajdu
An intensely reflective and subtly moving film about a couple and their young child living in a desolate construction zone.
Bettina and Marcus are a passionate couple living in a canteen in a vast field of endless lines of pylons. Marcus is trying to set up his own business and Bettina – bored and longing for a better life – carelessly runs the canteen. Their strangely aloof daughter Tessa skips school to wander the vast site collecting found objects. When Marcus hires a Hungarian engineer to help out, the newcomer's more focused approach to life causes Bettina to question what... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Alvaro Brechner
Starring Adolfo Blanco Cast Gary Piquer, Jouko Ahola, Antonella Costa
A combination of quirky dark drama and deadpan satire plays out in this stylish tale of a washed up wrestler, a smooth conman and a sleepy village in South America.
In a highly impressive debut feature, director Alvaro Brechner takes us to a quiet backwater of Uruguay in the 1960's – just another town on the scam-and-run itinerary of slick but dodgy Count Orsini and his side-kick ex-wrestler Jacob Van Oppen. Together they plan to take the town's naïve inhabitants for a fistful of dollars in a rigged wrestling bout, but get caught up in an unanticipated series of events when they... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
Starring Yuwali
Using one of the most extraordinary pieces of film footage in Australian history, this is the story of a group of women and children who walk out from their nomadic existence and into modern Australia.
In 1964 Yuwali was 17 when her first contact with white men was filmed. Her mob of 20 women and children were the last aboriginal people living traditionally, without any knowledge of modern Australia. Patrol officers were sent to evacuate their desert home ahead of rocket tests. Yuwali gives a riveting account of being chased hundreds of kilometres to escape the 'devils in rocks... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth
Starring Magaly Solier, Jasmin Tabatabai, Olivier Gourmet
Set in Peruvian Andes, this is a lavishly stylised art-house tale of local people battling a mining company that appears to have caused a plague of strange illnesses.
Belgian doctor Max is working in a rural clinic in Peru with his wife Grace recovering from the shock of a photography assignment in Iraq. As a strange sickness spreads through the town, local bride-to-be Saturina (Magaly Solier) finds herself at the forefront of a battle against a mining company, with Max and Grace caught in the middle. Directors Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth centre the drama on the two women... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Gergely Fonyo
Starring Tamas Kimmel, Ivan Fenyo, Tunde Kiss
Get ready to rock 'n' roll as the music of the Brylcreem era goes behind the Iron Curtain in this toe-tapping musical rom-com.
Set in 1963 Hungary, Director Gergely Fonyo tells the story of Miki, a young man who returns to his drab communist-run native country after a few years in America. With a suitcase full of Jerry Lee Lewis vinyl and a chip on his shoulder, Miki has to overcome the attention of communist party goons and win back the heart of his childhood girlfriend. It's a funny and nostalgic look back at a forgotten era of Hungary's history and a not-forgotten style of... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Aleksandar Manic
Starring Aleksander Manic
More absurd and hilarious than Borat, it's hard to believe that the people, indeed the whole town at the centre of this warm and quirky documentary, are real.
Welcome to Shutka, a town somewhere in the Balkans indexed by the United Nations as one of the poorest places in Europe. Its impossibly cheery inhabitants make the best out of their lives by trying to be champions at whatever they do – whether it's exterminating genies, hunting down vampires, training geese to fight or collecting obsolete Turkish music. Director Aleksander Manic uses a highly innovative style of... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Rob Nugent
Starring Frank Hurley
Join us after the screening for a panel discussion on the difficulties of documenting conflict. The expert panel includes filmmaker Rob Nugent and moderator Virginia Haussegger.
Commissioned by the Australian War Memorial to document life in Iraq for Australian soldiers, this is a beautiful, intimate and sometimes chilling account of how to live with danger.
Canberra filmmaker Rob Nugent spent a month in Iraq documenting a claustrophobic world dominated by strict security. Soldiers are sent out in tanks to patrol the night streets, or practice target shooting in the... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre
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Canberra International Film Festival 09
Directed by Sam Taylor Wood
Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Thomas Sangster, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff
Just ten days after its world premiere in London, we bring you the highly anticipated film about John Lennon's formative years.
It's Liverpool 1955 and John Lennon is 15 years old. Since the age of five, he's been brought up by his Aunt Mimi – a traditional woman who likes classical music. But when John meets his mother Julia, she introduces him to Elvis and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and the fire is ignited. This debut feature from artist Sam Taylor Woods stars Kristen Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff as the women who clash over the young man who will change the face of music. More... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Starring Aksel Hennie
They Took My Country from me...
And Now I Want it Back! I am Max Manus...
And This is My Story
What would you do... If your country was stolen? How far would you go... To get your country back? In a time of war, in a country thrown into chaos... One man would dare to fight back!
An explosive, adrenaline pumping thril-ride from start to finish, this is the incredible true story of Max Manus – leader of the irrepressible 'Oslo Gang', whose urban guerrilla war against occupying Nazi Germany helped free their country and establish Max as a living legend.(more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz
Starring Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia, Lars Brygmann
Described by Variety as comparable to the work of the Coen Brothers and David Lynch is the Danish black comedy TERRIBLY HAPPY from Oscar nominated director Henrik Ruben Genz.
Winner of 7 of the 2009 Danish Robert Awards (Danish Oscars) & the Grand Prix Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Terribly Happy follows Robert, a Copenhagen cop who takes the job of constable in a small town to help him bury the skeletons in his closet. However, village life and the macabre provincial order don't quite fit into his plans...
Terribly Happy is Denmark's... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Dome Karukoski
Starring Niilo Syväoja, Tommi Korpela
Finland's entry to the 2009 Academy Awards, the sweet and touching drama THE HOME OF DARK BUTTERFLIES is based on the best-selling novel about 14yr old Juhani who, after a traumatic childhood experience, ends up in a Boy's Home on a strange island with barely any other inhabitants. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Stian Kristiansen
Starring Rolf Kristian Larsen, Arthur Berning, Ida Elise Broch
Starring a who's who of young Norwegian cinema, THE MAN WHO LOVED YNGVE is a warm, humorous ensemble drama and emotional coming out for 17 year old protagonist Jarle. In Stavanger following the fall of the Berlin Wall Jarle and his mates are set to launch the town's toughest punk band when the new boy in class, Ynvge, turns Jarle's world upside down. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Ole Christian Madsen
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhart
A coincidental companion piece to Max Manus, the Danish noir FLAME AND CITRON from director Ole Christian Madsen (Prague) stars Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, After the Wedding) and Thure Lindhart (Into the Wild) as two resistance fighters (described by the Guardian as 'a pair of patriotic loose cannons') in Nazi occupied Copenhagen. One of the biggest budget Danish films of all time and the biggest hit of the year, FLAME AND CITRON is based on true events and has screened to great acclaim at Toronto, Telluride & London International Film Festivals. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by AJ Annila
Starring Rain Tolk, Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen
The festival opens with SAUNA (Finland) from director AJ Annila (Bandidas), a thrilling horror film bathing in Finnish Sauna culture in the murky zone between Christianity and paganism. A hit of the Toronto Film Festival in 08 and a further 30 festivals since, Sauna approaches themes such as sin, repentance and atonement – themes deeply rooted in the mythical Finnish gloominess – via a genre that has until now been almost non-existent in Finnish cinema. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Jan Troell
Starring Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
From Sweden is the Golden Globe nominated film EVERLASTING MOMENTS by Oscar nominated director Jan Troell (The Emigrants), a touching film about a working-class woman in the hard days of early 1900's Sweden who wins a camera in the lottery, allowing her to see the world through new eyes.
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Nathan Christoffel
Starring Shane Nagle
WORLD PREMIERE - OPENING NIGHT - Q&A TO FOLLOW
SPECIAL BONUS: Director Nathan Christoffel, cinematographer Adrian Kristoffersen, actor Shane Nagle and other members of the cast and crew will be at the screening to introduce their film and partake in a Q&A following the screening.
Join us from 6:30pm in the Dendy foyer for a complimentary DRINK ON ARRIVAL
Slavery looks good in a suit.
In a dystopia of useless products, pre-paid dreams, and a system of 'violations' so invasive that if you laugh too loudly you will be fined, Misner... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Faye Jackson
Starring Constantin Barbulescu, Camelia Maxim, Catalin Paraschiv
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Faye Jackson/105mins/UK/2009
Winner: Best Independent Film, Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Strigoi is a vampire movie that defies categorization.
Shedding a fantastic light on a post-communist Romanian village, the film introduces us to an ancient myth: Strigoi, the belief that a person can rise again after death to seek justice if they've been wronged, their appetites intensified by their hunger for blood. A deeply human take on an old horror story, the darkly comic horror/fantasy film explores the old world versus the new and... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Various
Starring Various
Travel to fantastic worlds with an assortment of the most breathtaking fantasy short films. Within this cinematic vista of mystical landscapes you'll encounter a host of strange and delightful characters: From dancing skeletons, malicious trolls, and teenage deer people, through a dark reimaging of Pinnochio, to reality-challenged super heroes and the Grim Reaper himself. This wonderful program is sure to delight the fantasy fan in everyone.
Death in the Garden Dir: Michael Chrisoulakis/11 mins/AUS
Hart Dir: Vanessa Williams/11 mins/UK
The Tree Man Dir: Navin Dev/8... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Mardi Gras Film Festival
Directed by Megan Siler & Ellen Siedler
Starring Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono
Germany's seminal split-narrative film, Run Lola Run, gets a San Franciscan reworking in what is already the most popular lesbian film of the year. Commitment-phobic Lola, has one chance to salvage her job and her relationship, but time is running out and a wrong turn or detour will cost her everything. Navigating an obstacle course by sprinting, hitching, flirting and fooling, she must do, and re-do, whatever it takes to keep her girlfriend from the arms of her hot and headstrong ex. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Maria Beatty
Starring Janna Lisa Dombrowsky, Martine Erhel, Hans Piesbergen
A gothic erotic thriller that subverts the naughty nurse and saintly patient paradigm in subtly unsettling ways. Lucille longs to escape the clutches of her mad scientist father and study poetry in college. But it has been predetermined, she shall follow his footsteps in medical sciences. After a suicide attempt that leaves her disfigured but alive she at once becomes both her father's patient and experiment. Enter Joan, a nurse with a dark past who is compelled to accept this unusual post, and soon becomes entwined in a passionate, secret affair with her not-so-innocent patient. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by George O'Donnell
Starring George O'Donnell
College Boys Live is a website where you pay to watch young men bonk and beat-off in front of web cams at routinely timed hours of the day. 'House mothers' Zac and Jonathan take in a new batch of teens and twenty-somethings every six months. The guys get free board and lodgings in exchange for working the cameras; the current residents are: troubled troublemaker JC, seemingly sweet Tim, and fresh-out-of-the-closet-and-ready-for-action Chuck. Their lives under this roof play out in scenes reminiscent of the Jerry Springer Show, as housework rosters clash with webcam rosters, bed-hopping... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Adam Salky
Starring Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer
Based on their award-winning short from 2006, this feature debut of the same name, takes the tension of that moment in time and fleshes out the back story and consequences. Best friends Ben and Alexa are both keen on resident outsider Johnny Drake. Not sure which way he swings, they both take drastic measures to make themselves more appealing to him, both with some success. As the love triangle tangles, loyalties are divided and expectations are both raised and dashed. An excellent example of the teen-romanticangst genre blooming with original and unexpected execution, completed with an... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Mardi Gras Film Festival
Directed by Nancy Kissam
Starring Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones, Oded Fehr
In this queer comic take on Thelma and Louise, salvation takes unfamiliar forms, mostly, in the beautiful guise of a travelling cosmetics saleswoman. Imogene, from Kathy K Cosmetics, moves in next door to the Fleece family and into troubled housewife, Anora's life. Forbidden lust, homicide and a cross-country road-chase ensue, as these two women fly, taking racism, the sexual awakenings of teenagers, patricide and lesbian love all in their stride. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Lucia Puenzo
Starring Inés Efron, Mariela Vitale, Pep Munné
Mysticism and epic love meet in this Latin American thriller. Lala is the privileged daughter of a powerful judge, in love with the family's young maid, La Guayi. As the two prepare to run away together, Lala's father is mysteriously murdered and La Guayi is the prime suspect. No longer just runaways, now fugitives, Lala soon finds herself negotiating in a world of poverty, crime and extraordinary danger, as she battle's to save her lover. This stunningly captured work of Magic Realism is an impressive follow up to the gritty intimacy of Puenzo's celebrated debut, XXY. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Mardi Gras Film Festival
Directed by H.P Mendoza
Starring L.A. Renigen, Mike Curtis, Theresa Navarro
A film for the fag hags! Boys, treat your female partners in crime to this one, a delightful and delirious musical from San Francisco's Mission district. Bethesda, a Filipina-American performance artist moves into a queer artist commune and fast makes friends with it's inhabitants – a passionate Lesbian couple, a precocious gay man and a curious young runaway. Through song, they explore their topsy-turvy lives, defining goals and personal identity along the way. But what about Bethesda? What is her identity? Is there really a cultural-politic place in this world for the Fag Hag? (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Pascal-Alex Vincent
Starring Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier
The ethereal entwining of twins has seldom been so instinctive and insightfully drawn as this astoundingly accomplished debut feature. Are they one and the same, two halves of a whole, and can they be divided? Antoine and Quentin (Alexandre and Victor Carril) travel from France to Spain on foot to attend their estranged mother's funeral. The insular, visceral, almost feral quality of their twinship is developed through a series of chance encounters and near misses, but it is when romance blooms between Quentin and a male farm hand, that their connection complicates, and Antoine's consequent... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Andrew Haigh
Starring Peter Pittaros, Lewis Wallis
Meet Pete. A young, beautiful London boy of Greek descent, he wants
adventure, a home, fame and fortune. As he begins to explore the world of
escorting and modelling he is met with immediate interest – for obvious reasons, the boy's rather blessed – and sets his goals to be the world's greatest, most famous male escort. A fascinating documentary-narrative hybrid exploring the price of fame in a high-risk game, through the real lives of real rent boys, in an emotionally honest and sexually
explicit execution. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Pablo Trapero
Starring Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro
After a moment of passion-fueled fury, Julia is left with blood on her hands and a life behind bars. She is committed to 'The Lion's Den' a special prison ward for mothers with children. Julia is pregnant and will raise her son within these walls, but the terrifying catch is, only until he turns four years old. During her time in the Den she is taken under the wing, and into the bed, of fellow inmate Marta, who trains her in ways of survival, but as the clock ticks and young Tomas grows older, the lionesses must plan to protect their cub. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Paul Morrison
Starring Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltran, Matthew McNulty
Before he was every teen's favourite blood-sucker, Robert Pattinson played a troubled young Salvador Dali, in this picturesque biopic on the love affair between the great painter and Garcia Lorca. The two men try to fight their affections as their social group (consisting of luminary Spanish contemporaries such as Luis Buñuel) become suspicious and the civil war escalates, and followers of Spanish / Queer history will know the inevitable end. Beautifully put together, this is an unexpected, possibly poetic-licensed, spin on two great artists and what, in a different world, might have been. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Cary Cronenwett
Starring Cary Cronenwett
In a cinematic first, a cast of over 100 Trans Men and Male-identified performers come together in recreation of the Konstadt uprising of 1921. This (mostly) silent feature paints an idyllic portrait of pre-Soviet sailors, languid and luscious to view, with stylish stylised execution. Think Battleship Potemkin meets Querelle with FTM sailor-bois rebelling against the Bolshevik state. Curious, aren't you…? This is a deliciously unique addition to the festival. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Jennie Livingston
Starring Carmen and Brooke, André Christian, Dorian Corey
We're delighted to revisit this classic queer kaleidoscope as part of our Sacred Spaces theme. Paris is Burning documents the Harlem Ballroom scene, a home for the freakishly fabulous in the queer New York of African Americans. Weekly, the competing 'houses' gather with their latest fashion creations and then engage in an electrifying 'vogue-off'. The birthplace of the world wide Vogue-ing phenomenon, made all the more known by Madonna, this is the seed bed from which it all blooms. Voluntary vogueing in the aisles is welcome! (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by David Kittredge
Starring Matthew Montgomery, Pete Scherer, Jared Grey
In 1995, gay porn star Mark Anton mysteriously disappears after throwing in the sauna towel and deciding to leave the business. Year's later Michael, a New York writer-researcher uncovers an underground snuff tape that may shed gruesome light on Mark Anton's fate, but finds himself dangerously drawn into those dark truths. Meanwhile, in LA, rising porn star Matt Stevens is haunted by dreams of these men's disappearances and starts penning a porn-thriller as if possessed. But as the project develops and he steps into the protagonist's shoes, he begins to relive the terrifying moments of Mark... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Leanne Pooley
Starring Jools Topp, Linda Topp
If you haven't already, it's time you met Jools and Lynda Topp, the world's only yodelling, lesbian, country-and-western-singing comedienne twins. Untouchable Girls mixes interviews, performance footage, home videos and news archives to paint a portrait of New Zealand's most cherished and charming double act. Their story spans fifty years, from humble beginnings on a dairy farm to internationally acclaimed touring artistes. Along the way we learn how they developed their signature characters, their camaraderie through coming out, Jools' triumph over breast cancer, and the rare occasions of... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Nana Neul
Starring Anjorka Strechel, Lucie Hollmann, Manuel Cortez
Girl who likes boys falls for a boy who is really a girl, which isn't hard when the already boyish girl pretends to be a boy to win the heart of the girl. Got it? When Mel is involved in a car accident with Jenny, it is crush at fi rst crash. Mel begins to question her own sexuality even
further when she discovers that Jenny indeed prefers to hang out with boys, hence thrusting herself into a rigorous routine in body and attitude to become Miguel, the Latino hunk whose charm Jenny can't resist. And needless to say, she can't... But is it Miguel or Mel she
is falling for? This... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by E.E Cassidy
Starring Melia Renee, Mary Elise Hayden, Lance Drake
Sadie's art is her photography and when the new girl in town, Nico, arrives she is introduced to a new wave of young L.A cool kids, reliving Britain's '60s mod culture of music, fashion, drugs and Vespas. Nico is
all style and sass and despite a disease that has her with limp and cane at all times, she shines in the spotlight from behind her jet black bangs. Spunky, boyish Sadie is seduced by this whole new world of
aesthetics and, unsurprisingly, by Nico herself. In life, there is a fi rst time for everything - watching Blow Up, buying a scooter, wearing
jodphurs and... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by Seth Larney
Starring Seth Larney
Adam awakes in a clearing in the jungle, injured and with no memory of how he arrived there. He searches for clues but soon realizes he is running in circles. Will Adam be able to escape the clearing and discover the truth?
World Premiere (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by Eddi White and Ari Gibson
Starring Eddid White adn Ari Gibson
A vibrant city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing its own twisted feline symphony.
Best Short Animation - Sydney Film Festival 2009; Best Animation Short - Melbourne Film Festival 2009; & most recently AFI AWARD Best Short Animation 2009 (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by Luke Doolan
Starring Luke Doolan
year old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends tease him he sneaks off to the sick bay wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality.
Oscar nominated; Sundance Film Festival 2009; Winner Youth Jury Prize, LA Award - Aspen International Film Festival 2009; Dendy Award for Best Live Action Short 2009; Craft Award + SBS Television Award - St Kilda Film Festival 2009; & most recently AFI AWARD Best Short Film & Best Short Script 2009
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Opens 30 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by Deborah Mailman
Starring Deborah Mailman
For Maddie it will take more than just dreaming about the Karate Kid to survive school, it will take a friend.
Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival 2009; Best Short Film - IF Awards 2009 (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emund Mokhberi
Starring Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emund Mokhberi
Two Octopi help each other in their comical escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook. However, even after overcoming insurmountable odds to reunite, their fight to stay together is not over.
Best Animated Short Film - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2009
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Portside
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FLiCKERFEST Film Festival
Directed by Various
Starring Various
Flickerfest celebrates its 19th year as Australia's only Academy® Award accredited Short Film festival, with a record 1600 entries and 23 touring venues nationally.
Flickerfest screens the most creative and inspirational shorts films from across the globe, many are Australian and World premieres.
A total of 97 Australian and International shorts were officially selected in competition in 2010.
After the ten day Sydney competition & festival, Flickerfest packs it's little red suitcase and rolls out the show for the 23 venue National Tour!
The films on the tour... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Portside
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FLiCKERFEST Film Festival
Directed by Various
Starring Various
Flickerfest celebrates its 19th year as Australia's only Academy® Award accredited Short Film festival, with a record 1600 entries and 23 touring venues nationally.
Flickerfest screens the most creative and inspirational shorts films from across the globe, many are Australian and World premieres.
A total of 97 Australian and International shorts were officially selected in competition in 2010.
After the ten day Sydney competition & festival, Flickerfest packs it's little red suitcase and rolls out the show for the 23 venue National Tour!
The films on the tour... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Portside
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FLiCKERFEST Film Festival
Directed by Various
Starring Various
Flickerfest celebrates its 19th year as Australia's only Academy® Award accredited Short Film festival, with a record 1600 entries and 23 touring venues nationally.
Flickerfest screens the most creative and inspirational shorts films from across the globe, many are Australian and World premieres.
A total of 97 Australian and International shorts were officially selected in competition in 2010.
After the ten day Sydney competition & festival, Flickerfest packs it's little red suitcase and rolls out the show for the 23 venue National Tour!
The films on the tour... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Portside
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FLiCKERFEST Film Festival
Directed by Various
Starring Various
FLiCKERFEST - Oscar Shorts (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Kyle Rankin
Starring Diane Gaeta, Deborah Geffner, VJ Kewl
Shawn of the Dead meets Them! in this side-splitting, lightning-paced, balls-to-the-wall creature feature. The perfect way to enjoy the witching hour this Halloween.
Infestation starts at a full sprint and never slows down: the film's hero, Cooper, awakens to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - a grotesque, powerful and very angry bug. All 3 feet of it. And so begins a hideous, nail-biting,... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown, Dendy Portside
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Directed by Karel Zeman
Starring Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek, Jana Brejchová
Australia's king and queen of repertory cinema - Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder – present a special retrospective screening of this rare classic of the fantastic genre.
In making Baron Prásil, criminally under-known Czech film wizard Karel Zeman used all of his amazing mixed-media visual cinematic techniques. Merging, juxtaposing and overlapping live action, hand-drawn animation, stop-motion animation, models, matte paintings, woodcuts, life-size replicas, tinted colors and much more to bring the fantastic stories of Gottfried August Bürger's Baron Munchausen to the screen in a way... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Ted Sikora
Starring Perren Hedderson, Jocelyn Wrzosek, Bryan Jalovec
A trippy comic shop romance, with a super hero twist!
David, a 24-year-old superhero junkie and hopeless comic book creator from Cleveland, tries to escape his boring landscaping job, overdue credit card bills and ever-growing sense of failure by smoking grass and hanging out with the eclectic regulars at Hero Tomorrow Comics. When Robyn, his aspiring fashion-designer girlfriend and shop employee, makes a Halloween costume of his original superhero character Apama, it doesn't take David long to hit the streets and begin making his crime fighting dreams into her nightmare. What... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Richard Kroehling
Starring Jay Bingham, Susan Boorujy, Daniel Bridges
The Era of Flesh is Over.
New York, soon. Technology?s exponential growth is fast and furious. Human life is in the process of being transformed. Mankind stands on the verge of re-engineering its biology, merging with the incredibly intelligent machines it has created. The beautiful Mia 2.0 - the world?s first 'Transbeman' - and her inventor, the brilliant Dr. Tom Mortlake, commit a shocking crime in full view of the world media to make the bold political statement: Human reliance on the fragile flesh body is over and 'eternal life' is at hand.
The question facing... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Danny Kuchuck & John Weiner
Starring With Allen Alvarado, Steve Bannos, Nicole Cannon
What if you called your old phone number... And your younger self answered?
This is the dilemna facing Jessie Grave, a bored, beautiful and rebellious eighteen-year-old. As she tries to discover who killed her mother years before, Jessie discovers she has the power to talk to her younger self, in the past. Part ghost story, part time-travel murder mystery, Cryptic is a brilliantly scripted sci-fi thriller, which is flawlessy realised through Kuchuck & Weiner's tight direction and strong performances from the memorable cast. While constantly twisting and turning, with a plot full... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Various
Starring Various
Tremble at alien invasions!
Gasp at strange new cyber-realities!
Laugh at heroically deluded 1950s spacemen!
But whatever you do, don't miss this fatastic line-up of the world's very best science fiction short films!
Spaceman on Earth Dir: Shant Hamassian/22 mins/USA
Burden Dir: Michael David Lynch/10 mins/USA
Marooned? Dir: Ryan Nagata/14 mins/USA
Intoxicant Dir: John Hsu/26 mins/Taiwan
The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 Dir: Chema García Ibarra/6 mins/Spain
The Un-Gone Dir: Simon Bovey/12 mins/UK
Oxygen Dir: David... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Kurando Mitsutake
Starring Kurando Mitsutake, Jeffrey James Lippold, Domiziano Arcangeli
Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf manages to be a dead-on homage to 70's action exploitation cinema, while simultaneously catapulting the genre to pulse-charging new heights. Imagine Kill Bill on steroids, and you might come close to an approximation of this pulse-charging film.
Samurai Avenger follows a blind man who seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife and daughter. Eight years after the massacre, the man has returned, now a highly trained samurai swordsman ready to seek justice. But he doesn't know that seven deadly assassins... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Nordic Film Festival 2009
Directed by Susanne Bier
Starring Mona and David
ONCE IN A LIFETIME, also from Sweden and directed by Susanne Bier (After the Wedding, Open Hearts, Brothers), is a riotous romantic comedy about Mona who is an assistant to handicapped David. When the song they secretly create is accepted for the Eurovision Song Contest their lives are drastically altered. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Cary Fukunaga
Starring Edgar Flores, Diana Garcia
Seeking a new life, a beautiful young Honduran woman joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, who is manoeuvring to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009
BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Fernando Lebrija
Starring Jose Maria de Tavira, Craign McLachlan
The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money-driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl one that will place him—and her—in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Roberto Girault Facha
Starring Jorge Lavat, Siouzana Melikian, Pablo Cruz Guerrero
Set against the colourful atmosphere and spectacular architecture of Guanajuato, this comedy captures the adventure of Chano, a retired 70-year-old man who decides, after mixed recommendations from his family, to enrol at the historic University of Guanajuato. His presence, initially quite surprising, has an impact on his classmates and breaches the generational gap. Chano gives his college classmates advice; at times even by force and in the process learns a few lessons along the way. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz
Starring Carlos Aragon, Luis Iván Arana, Rodrigo Corea
Two friends that work on a ranch herding sheep are fed up with the mistreat given to them by their boss. They come up with a plan to steal the sheep and sell them at the Mexican-American border and with that being able to fulfill their dreams of a better future. What could possibly go wrong? That is the question on Jose's and Kumbia's mind.
Jeronimo, the boss's son, will do anything in his power to catch them and not let them get away with anything that someday will rightfully be his. When the plan seemed like it could actually work, Maria, a young girl learning her ways with... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Amat Escalante
Starring Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa, Nina Zavarin
A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican daylabourers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home Improvement Store waiting for work to come. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages.
Today, Jesus carries a shotgun inside his backpack.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2008 (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Roberto Sneider
Starring Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María de Tavira
Based on the novel by Angeles Mastretta, and set in the backdrop of Mexico's post-revolution of the '30s and '40s. The film evokes the politics, love, murder and passion of the time. Story begins with the beautiful Catalina Guzmán (Ana Claudia Talancón) who at an early age, marries an older, charismatic and cunning General, Andrés Ascencio (Daniel Giménez Cacho).
Dazzled by his world, Catalina escorts him on his political campaigns, observing at his side the intriguing political system in order for her to obtain social justice. She soon discovers, that by dedicating her life to... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Emilio Portes
Starring Silverio Palacios, Dolores Heredia, José Sefami
One of the funniest comedies to come out of Mexico in recent years! The story is set on a not-sotypical Mexican circus, where Juan Perez The Magician, decides to bring the glory back to the dying circus by stealing a 16th century guillotine for a final act, but he doesn!t know that it also carries a deadly curse.
GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL
BEST ACTRES and BEST FIRST WORK (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Gerardo Naranjo
Starring Juan Pablo de Santiago, Maria Deschamps, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Voy a Explotar narrates the romantic escapades of Roman and Maru, two troubled teenagers who initiate an impossible rebellion against the adult world. Tortured by violent fantasies, and craving the attention of his father, Roman attempts suicide several times. His life is changed when he meets Maru, a solitary girl who is sexually harassed by her relentless ex-boyfriend. Roman and Maru are united in rebellion against all, and decide to disappear to a place where no one will find them; the roof of Roman's house. Their new life in common pushes them to discover their sexuality and an intense... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa
Starring Barbara Mori, Irene Azuela
This hypnotic sexual thriller, one of a new genre of commercially savvy Mexican productions, takes the audience on a dark journey through a psychological hall of mirrors. Upscale architect Chelo (Mori) has never met a flesh-and-blood man who could measure up to the dream lover she rendezvous with in vivid detail every night. Determined to bring him into the waking world, she devises the bizarre scheme of roughing herself up and claiming she has been raped in order to set the police on the trail of the man who visits her in her dreams. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Carlos Hagerman, Juan Carlos Rulfo
Starring Julio Cesar Castillo, Luis Castillo, Adrian Esparza
Those Who Remain is a film about the families of those who have crossed the border to the United States in search of better opportunities. A film that explores the melancholy, memories and identity of the families of those who have crossed the border to the United States in search of better opportunities. A film about absence, about the families whose lives are defined by the voids emigration has created.
Winner: Los Angeles Fulm Festival 2009 (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky
Starring Eugenio Polgovsky
At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. 'The Inheritors' is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children work farming, sculpting and painting alebrijes, shepherding, making bricks, weaving cloth, looking after their little siblings, collecting water, harvesting tomato, chili, maize, and labouring in a myriad of other activities. They have inherited tools and techniques from their ancestors, but they have also inherited their day-by-day hardship. Generations pass, and child workers remain captive in a cycle of inherited poverty.(more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Antonio Cerrano
Starring Demián Bichir, Susana Zabaleta, Jorge Salinas
One of the films responsible to bring back glory to the Mexican film industry. The film is based on the successful play of the same name, which ran for two consecutive years and was written by Serrano himself. After the film was released it broke box-office records in Mexico, it was shown for more than twenty-seven weeks, and was seen by more than eight million people in Mexico alone.
Winner of six major festival awards, this Mexican blockbuster is an outrageous comedy that explores the battle of the sexes-and the exes! Sex-deprived Ana is nearly out of her mind with longing,... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Antonio Urrutia
Starring Jesús Ochoa, Santiago Segura, Ivonne Montero
A Mexican entry into the 'hip crime' genre popularised by Quentin Tarantino. Jesus Ochoa stars as Detective Martinez, who has been assigned to investigate a series of very unusual murders. It appears to the detective that a serial killer has been eliminating women by pleasuring them to death.
His investigation thereafter takes a very unusual turn, as he must try to understand the technique by which the women were killed and discover who might know of such a method. But in doing so, he learns too much, and the question then becomes whether Martinez can resist using the dangerous... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Various
Starring Various
Light of my Eyes
Beyond the Mexique Bay
The Curious Conquest of the Amp
Jacinta
Out of Control
End of the Line
Distinguishing features
Background Sirens
Watching It Rain (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Rodolpho y Gabriel Riva Palacio
Starring Bruno Bichir, Patricio Castillo, Carlos Espejel
Follow Toto, Willy and Bibi into their new adventure full of old and new friends alike! Toto, now a chicken, tries to live as such, but when an egg witch from the desert needs a chicken!s heart to cast a spell, he sends out his vulture, ostrich and scorpion egg cohorts to kidnap Toto. Willy and Bibi set out across the dangerous desert to rescue their chicken friend and find themselves swept up in wild adventures, meeting an old hawk egg and ground roe along the way. This film is full of double entendres in Spanish making this a cartoon for big kids. ¡Qué huevos! (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Canberra Centre, Dendy Newtown, Dendy Opera Quays, Dendy Portside
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Hola Mexico Film Festival
Directed by Fernando Rovzar
Starring Alejandra Ambrosi, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mauricio Barrientos
With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature. (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Brett Anstey
Starring Renee Willner, Bridget Neval, Dawn Klingberg, Danny Adler
During a violent thunderstorm, a family is awoken by piercing shrieks which summon the dead to rise again. Their lives explode in a blood soaked fury as they battle malevolent spirits whilst fighting to save their souls from eternal torment with the Banshee.
Independent filmmaker Brett Antsey bursts onto the horror scene with this atmospheric feature debut which artfully combines Gothic chills with zombie-style action. We are proud to present Damned by Dawn as the opening night film at A Night of Horror.
Plus Q&A with director Brett Anstey
PLUS: Join us... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Peter Cornwell
Starring Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew
This breathtaking feature debut from Australian director Peter Cornwell
charts one family's encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural.
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn
that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only
was the house a transformed funeral parlour where inconceivable acts
occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic
messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now
terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Ti West
Starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Dee Wallace
Get ready for an edge of your seat, dead on homage to 80s horror with
HOUSE OF THE DEVIL.
Sam, an attractive, broke, college sophomore answers an ad seeking a
baby-sitter and ends up in a bloody fight for her life. But there is
something sinister afoot, starting with the unsettling old couple that
lure Sam to the house of the film's title, just in time for a total
lunar eclipse. Plans have been layed and Sam is at the centre.
Reminiscent of such horror classics as Rosemary's Baby and The Wicker
Man, The House of The Devil will... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at selected Dendy Cinema locations
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Directed by Steve Kastrissios
Starring Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy, Brad McMurray
An action-packed, multi-award winning Australian thriller, The Horseman
features a range of powerhouse performances in an unflinching study of
grief & retribution. Explore the dark fantasies we all dream up when
Christian (Peter Marshall) is sent a horrifying pornographic video
featuring his recently deceased daughter.
Setting out to find answers, he soon spirals into a world of violence
and recklessness as he follows the links through the industry with his
unique methods of brutal questioning. Driving through north Queensland
to... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Kelly Marcott
Starring Wes Vance, Aaron T. Frye, Tiffany Apen
Deadpit.com is the world's first - and still best - horror talk radio podcast (check it out at www.deadpit.com). What started with two thickly accented Kentuckian friends – affectionately known as Uncle Bill and The Creepy Kentuckian – candidly discussing the horror genre, quickly grew into the horror world's 'must listen' radio show, regularly featuring interviews with such luminaries of horror as George Romero, John Carpenter, James Wan, Bill Moseley, and Tom Savini.
The Deadpit show is a long time favourite of the team at A Night of
Horror, and this documentary gives... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Gregory Connors
Starring Aash Aaron, Joel Amos Byrnes, Phillipe Deseck
2017: Something has gone terribly wrong at outpost 30, a secret
international research facility one mile beneath a remote part of the
Earth's surface. All communications are gone, all means of escape
destroyed and an extremely dangerous horde of flesh eating creatures is
on the loose. For eight survivors, their one possible escape route is
through thirteen levels of terror that will lead them to the surface.
The Dark Lurking is an adrenaline fuelled action thriller in the
tradition of such horror classics as Aliens and Starship Troopers.... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Neil Marshall/ Jon Harris
Starring Shauna McDonald, Alex Reid, Natalie Jackson Mendoza
Come join us for this terror-inducing double bill! Revisit the modern horror classic that is The Descent and then roll straight into the NSW premiere of The Descent: Part 2.
The terrifying sequel picks up exactly where the first film left off and drags you back into the claustrophobic and ghoulish terrors that made THE DESCENT a modern day horror classic.
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Various
Starring Various
We continue one of the festival's favourite traditions with this spooky
Sunday afternoon line-up of the latest shorts inspired by the writings
of master of the macabre H. P. Lovecraft (Re-Animator, Call of Cthulhu, From Beyond). Sure to inspire a feeling of cosmic dread in even the
sanest of audience members, these celluloid visions of eldritch terror
will leave you quivering.
PLUS: Horror trivia with DVD giveaways!
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Christopher R. Witherspoon
Starring Various
RAGE, is a raw-nerve, suspense-horror film, which combines a
confrontational plot with nail biting action. Not hiding the influence
of Spielberg's classic 'Duel', Rage twists well beyond its 1970s
predecessor into a brutal slasher film.
The story begins when Dennis Twist an unfaithful, 30-something man who
lives in a nice 'Spielbergian' suburb just outside Portland says goodbye
to his beautiful and loving wife and heads into town. There he
unintentionally provokes the wrath of a mysterious motorcyclist. The
confrontation between... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Tom Shankland
Starring Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield
The Christmas holidays. What starts as a relaxing house party for two families coming together to celebrate the festive season gradually turns into a horrifying fight for survival as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and begin to turn against their parents with increasingly disturbing consequences.
PLUS: Horror trivia with DVD giveaways!
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Gregg Holtgrewe
Starring David Coral, Jonas Goslow, Christine Kellog-Darrin
The Award-Winning THE DAWNING takes place at an isolated cabin in
Northern Minnesota, where a brother and sister visit their father and step-mother. As the first night unfolds with uncomfortable small-talk and tension, tragedy strikes as the beloved family dog is found mortally wounded.
Almost immediately, a stranger, potentially under the spell of some unseen 'presence', appears in the cabin and tells the family that he has come to save them... but from what? The man's arrival upsets what at best was only a tentative balance and the pretense at civility begins to crumble.... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by D. Kerry Prior
Starring David Anders, Louise Griffiths, Mark Elias, Clint Jung
The Revenant is a story about an ancient pestilence recurring to infect modern society.
Officer First Class Bart Gregory is killed while fighting in the Middle East. His body is shipped back to the United States and laid to rest, but before the lid can be put on his tomb, Bart inexplicably awakens in his coffin and climbs from his grave, confused, horrified - a moldy, putrefying, living corpse - a Revenant.
Bart desperately enlists the help of his best friend, Joey Leubner, in an attempt to ease his nausea and agony. Joey is shocked and disgusted by his putrescent pal's return,... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Various
Starring Various
When there is no more room in hell... the Dead will walk the Dendy.
Whether your favourite zombie film is Dawn of the Dead, Zombie Flesh
Eaters, or Shaun of the Dead, you'll find plenty to sink your teeth into in this ghoulish buffet of the best and bloodiest zombie shorts on the planet! It's sure to satiate your hunger for undead action!
PLUS: Come in Zombie make-up and/or fancy dress for free DVD courtesy of Icon Home Entertainment.
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Christopher Smith
Starring Melissa George, Michael Dorman, Emma Lung, Liam Hemsworth
When Jess (Melissa George) sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realised when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship that Jess is convinced she has been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.
From director Christopher Smith (Severance, Creep), Triangle is a terror... (more)
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Opens 30 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Domiziano Christopharo
Starring Various
House of Flesh Mannequins is a nostalgic homage that winks at classic, extreme films from the 70s. Theatrical production design and cinematography (by Mirco Sgarzi) that recalls the atmosphere of Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento.
This is a film made by cinema lovers, for cinema lovers, a piece rich with references from the surrealism of the 1930s, through Fulci and Cronenberg, to Lynch. International porn stars and regular actors work together in this highly explicit film which even uses extreme body art performers for it's non-simulated torture scenes. Everything is real, but at... (more)
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Opens 31 December 2010 at Dendy Newtown
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Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg
Believe the buzz, this is the must see horror comedy of the decade! What better way to spend your Halloween than at this exclusive Australian premiere screening!
The no-holds barred action comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is a big wuss – but when you're afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) is an AK-totin', zombie-slayin' badass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita (Emma Stone)... (more)
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