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Dog and robot bromance a charming, wordless delight
Robot Dreams is an animation film with great appeal to younger audiences and good entertainment for older audiences. Source: Australian Catholics.
When great minds don’t think alike
Freud’s Last Session is a fictional drama in which author CS Lewis debates the existence of God with Sigmund Freud. Source: Australian Catholics.
Director’s worst-case vision of a divided America
Civil War is an American-British dystopian drama about a group of journalists who journey across America to document a second American Civil War. Source: Australian Catholics.
Horrific truth behind the journey of asylum-seekers
Io Capitano is a dramatic, subtitled film that recounts the adventures of two African teenage boys who – against the advice of their parents – decide to journey together from Senegal to Europe to escape from poverty and disadvantage. Source: Australian Catholics.
Remarkable faith story pulls on the heartstrings
The intense joy of a birth.The sadness of an unexpected death. A crowded bar in Louisville, Kentucky, 1993, with an exuberant drinker. Then the title comes up, Ordinary Angels. What is going to happen? Any connection? And then information this is based on a true story. Source: Australian Catholics
Searing film bears terrible witness to brutal siege
Winner of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol tracks a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city as the 2022 Russian invasion begins. Source: Australian Catholics.
Honouring the little-known work of a fearless woman of faith
In Cabrini, an Italian immigrant witnesses disease and poverty in the slums of New York and embarks on a daring journey to establish housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children. Source: Australian Catholics.
Odd-couple tragicomic romance an uplifting affair
Fallen Leaves is a subtitled Finnish-German film about two lonely people who meet by chance in a karaoke bar. Source: Australian Catholics.
Weaving dominates screen as feral hermit
In The Rooster, a small-town cop seeks answers from a volatile hermit after his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave. Source: Australian Catholics.