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What a ginkgo can teach us
Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany, Silent Friend links three stories over different time periods. Source: Australian Catholics.
Reluctant musicians become wonderful string quartet
“The Musicians” is a lovely film – much needed when the world beyond is somewhat bruising – with beautiful music, gorgeous scenery, gentle humour and insights into how a quartet must tune in to each other so that there is a seamlessness to their playing. Source: Australian Catholics.
Safe-cracking thriller perfectly pitched
In “Tuner”, a talented piano tuner with an abnormal sensitivity to sound discovers an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down. Source: Australian Catholics.
Family greed sets background for canvas of discontent
British stage and screen legend Sir Ian McKellen stars in a comedy-drama about an artist’s two estranged children who want a rich inheritance, so they hire a forger to complete the art works of their dying father. Source: Australian Catholics.
Daughter’s nature memoir is I for Inspiring
“H is for Hawk” is a biographical film that tells the true story of a grieving woman who rescues and trains a goshawk falcon. Source: Australian Catholics.
Film explores many facets of Kafka’s life and work
A stylised version of the life of Czech writer Franz Kafka is brought to the silver screen in “Franz”. Source: Australian Catholics.
Deadly game of deception and survival
“In the Grey” is a thriller set in the world of high finance, in the space between the black-and-white of law and disorder. Source: Australian Catholics.
Ewe won’t get away with this
“The Sheep Detectives” is a family-friendly whodunnit – a murder mystery with a flock of sheep looking for clues. Source: Australian Catholics.
Aussie POWs tell their own stories in moving documentary
“Under the Bamboo Sky” is a tale of human connection, hope and resilience in the face of great tragedy, documenting Australian soldiers held prisoner by the Japanese in World War II. Source: Australian Catholics.