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Natalia Laska on her tender and gentle documentary The Piano Tuner

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Jared Nicholson and Ben Lawrence on their documentary Aftermath

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Whose right to write? Kuba Dorabialski on Agata the Writer

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Hell on Earth is here and now in The Glorious Dead

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Arlo Dean Cook on capturing decades of one of Australia’s greatest bands on film with Jebediah: Are We OK?

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Stéphane Demoustier on the battle between vision and reality in The Great Arch

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Meet the film festival programmers who want you to submit your film shot on a Honda Odyssey rear view camera

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Tom Kerby on setting the foundation for Aussie filmmakers to embrace their own voices with the Adelaide Independent Film Festival

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Madison Dell'Aquila on the foundation of Heretica and how to force change in the Australian film & TV industry

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Alexandre Koberidze on the mysterious, magical realism of his film Dry Leaf

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Ken Kwapis pays tribute to true originals with his delightful and genuine documentary We Are The Shaggs

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Mitchell Withers & Sofia Viegas on the pride of their tender short film For the Boys

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Mitch Brown on finding a safe space to share his story with the short film For the Boys

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Chouwa Liang on finding empathy for AI relationships with her documentary Replica

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Producer Blayke Hoffman on the importance of listening to women with the impactful documentary Silenced

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Tony Jones on embedding empathy in the animal testing documentary Sentient

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James Hunter & Lucy Lovegrove on building the atmospheric horror film The Latcher

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Melissa Anastasi on the poetry of existence and capturing that life on screen in her films

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Adam C. Briggs on his latest experiential film Phillip Philadelphia

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James Robert Woods on disrupting Australian cinema with the acidic comedy The Birthday Trip

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Laura Brogan Browne on starting the conversation about grooming with the powerful short film Allegedly

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Unpacking Oi, Aussie voices, and queer identity on screen with Sophie Serisier & Laneikka Denne

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Brandon Daley on gambling your anxiety away with his acidic comedy $Positions

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Alana Hunt on mining the history of Western Australia through archives with Displacement and Replacement: A Remixed Narrative of Western Australia

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Balancing Identities: Vonne Patiag on the lingering weight of his short film Homo

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e-Mum Director Jess Londono on motherhood in the age of AI

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A Return of the Curb Podcast

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David West on breaking cinema with the hyper independent Lint

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Miley Tunnecliffe on building tangible horror in her feature film debut Proclivitas

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Floodland director Jordan Giusti & producer Rachel Forbes on capturing the fate of Lismore on screen

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Sophie Hyde and Aud Mason-Hyde on the queer kaleidoscope that is their stunning film Jimpa

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Haydn Green on ten years of Hear My Eyes and conjuring sensory experiences by combining films with new live music compositions

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Lucy Coleman on centering fearless stories about women in modern Australian cinema and TV

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Damien Power on the brotherly rivalry of his docu-drama short Return of the Champ

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Tuesday Tuesday director Lianne Mackessy on honouring the lives of people living with dementia in her short film

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Addition Director Marcelle Lunam and lead Teresa Palmer on bringing Toni Jordan’s book to life on screen

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Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value

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Óliver Laxe & Kanding Ray on the sonic tension of Sirāt

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Giles Chan on literalising emotions in Jellyfish & Interview

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Geraldine Hakewill on voicing Lucy in the adaptation of Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia

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The Blue Trail director Gabriel Mascaro on his ode to living a full life in your older years

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The Mastermind director Kelly Reichardt on the importance of art that represents home

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Emmanuel Courcol on the universality and emotion of My Brother's Band (En Fanfare)

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Shaun Tan on the journey of bringing Tales from Outer Suburbia to life as an ABC animation series

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Old Habits documentarian Alfie Faber on the gay liberation journey of The Sydney Order of Perpetual Indulgence

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A Silent Rebellion co-director Kitale Wilson on working with his father on collaborative exploration and storytelling

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Director Lynette Wallworth on expanding her exploration of the death experience with Edge of Life

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Director Pauline Clague unpack a circus family's hidden legacy with The Colleano Heart

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A new look the Curb

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Yurlu | Country director Yaara Bou Melhem on honouring the legacy of Maitland Parker and the grace that resides in her essential documentary

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Sophie Somerville invites you to become Fwends with her delightful feature film debut

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Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas on honouring the remarkable homecoming of a legend with Journey Home, David Gulpilil

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SXSW Sydney Interview: Adrian Ortega, Sarah Nicolazzo & Max Nappo on their familial drama Westgate

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Kiah Roache-Turner on his WW2 shark flick Beast of War and how Spielberg made him shoot it in Australia

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From All Sides writer-director Bina Bhattacharya on giving space for multiracial and bisexual stories on screen

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SUFF Interview: Julie Pacino on her dark fairytale I Live Here Now

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Lesbian Space Princess producer Tom Phillips on ushering in a new era of Aussie comedy

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Samuel Van Grinsven on honouring the weight of grief with his latest film Went Up the Hill

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Sydney Underground Film Festival Director Nathan Senn on Fucktoys, Take48 shorts, and more

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Jessica Husband and Ethan Finch on their short film Zombie and balancing creativity and corporate filmmaking

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Filmmaker Kaite Fitz on conjuring emotionality of being seen with her short film Smoke

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Filmmaker Frank Mosley on the lovely weird worlds of OBEX, Quantum Cowboys, and more

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Filmmaker David Robinson-Smith on masculinity, his Letterboxd four, and the new wave of Australian filmmakers

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MIFF Missive: Iron Winter & Romería

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MIFF Interview: 'Art is labour' - Jung Jae-il on the job of composing for Parasite

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MIFF Interview: Shalom Almond on putting humanity at the core of Songs Inside

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Cinematographer Matthew Chuang on his method of capturing authenticity in films like Jimpa and Of an Age

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MIFF Interview: William Jaka and Fraser Pemberton on dismantling the class system with their short film Faceless

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Artist Suri Chan on bringing her truth to life in her poetry

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MIFF Interview: Lorin Clarke on sharing her dad with the world in But Also John Clarke

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Bethany Bruce on producing one of best documentaries of 2025 Make it Look Real

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MIFF Interview: Domini Marshall and Josie Baynes on the searing drama Howl

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Grant Hardie on the birth of Monster Pictures Studios

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Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama on creating examples of healthy masculinity with Têtes Brulées

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Amy Wang on her fun and chilling feature debut Slanted

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Melbourne International Film Festival Interview: Denise Fernandes on her film Hanami

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Documentarian Rosie Jones on the cross-culture collaboration in Abebe Butterfly Song

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Richard Moore on the visceral nature of Stelarc Suspending Disbelief

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Storm Warning | New Extremity Collection | The Fall Umbrella Release Review

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From the World of John Wick: Ballerina How to Train Your Dragon | Dangerous Animals

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Daniel Bibby, Miah Madden & Mitchell Bourke take us Half Past Midnight with their short film

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Nadine Whitney Reviews Jane Austen Wrecked My Life & The Materialists

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Harley Hefford and Luke Thomas on embedding creativity into Collingwood with Trainscendence

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Gabrielle Brady on the art of liberating the viewer's gaze in The Wolves Always Come at Night

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Zoe Pepper on the dark housing-crisis comedy delight that is Birthright

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Archie Hancock & Jack Zimmerman on giving space to unsaid stories in The Conversation

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St Kilda Film Festival Interview: Kat Dominis on building the award-winning short film Unspoken

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Sydney Film Festival: Amalie Atkins on the warm hug of a film that is Agatha's Almanac

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Sean Byrne, Jai Courtney, and Hassie Harrison on the bloody brutality of Dangerous Animals

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Ellis Park director Justin Kurzel on being in the orbit of Warren Ellis

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Tony Gardiner and Lachlan Marks on the bloody and bonkers short DIY

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Andy Johnston on the tenderness of male affection in Coming & Going

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The Cinema Within director Chad Freidrichs on Walter Murch and the power of editing

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Director Matthew Rankin on the kindness that sits at the core of Universal Language

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Conservationist Isabella Tree on the power of inviting nature back into your world as shown in the documentary Wilding

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Archie Lush, Alex Power & Mark Zanosov on building the simmering heat of their Freo-shot short Blunt

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Genevieve Bailey on the importance of Always Listening to stories of struggles with mental health

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Karan Kandhari and Radhika Apte on the hilariously aggressive punk film Sister Midnight

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Robert Connolly talks about bringing Nicolas Cage to the salty sea of The Surfer

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Jacob Richardson on heading to Greece for his feature film debut The Aegean