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Survivor haunted by the memory of a helping hand
Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) offers a powerful meditation on trauma by telling the story of a woman trying to remember how she survived a terrorist attack in Paris. Source: Australian Catholics.
A taxi ride to nowhere leads to understanding
Damage is a personal film written and directed by Madeleine Blackwell. It is an Adelaide-based story, but also very much an Australian story. Source: Australian Catholics.
Will this man survive a 30-day digital detox?
In Disconnect Me, Australian filmmaker Alex Lykos switches off his smartphone and social media for 30 days in an experiment that will challenge audiences to question their own reliance on technology. Source: Australian Catholics.
Scorsese’s gripping account of shocking episode in US history
Based on a 2017 best-selling non-fiction book, Killers of the Flower Moon tells of the brutality against the Indigenous Osage Nation people in the United States after oil was discovered on their land. Source: Australian Catholics.
Quirky black comedy weird and convoluted, yet strangely watchable
Set in Melbourne at Christmas 1999, Slant tells the story of a journalist who dredges up the sordid secrets of an infamous socialite after her mysterious disappearance. Source: Australian Catholics.
Man versus machine in sci-fi thriller
The Creator is a science fiction action thriller that tells the story of a special agent recruited to hunt down and kill a weapon called The Creator, which has the power to end the human race. Source: Australian Catholics.
Film explores Iranian mother and daughter’s pursuit of freedom
In Shayda, an Iranian mother and her young daughter seek shelter in an Australian women’s refuge, looking for freedom from the domestic violence they have experienced. Source: Australian Catholics.
Poirot meets the supernatural in city of canals
In A Haunting in Venice, intrepid inspector Hercule Poirot is encouraged to come out of retirement to investigate the death of the daughter of an opera singer and to solve two murders. Source: Australian Catholics.
When father met daughter
Scrapper offers up a slice of life in East London, where a smart and enterprising tween lives alone on a council estate after her mother’s death, until her absent father turns up. Source: Australian Catholics.