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Film Review

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.

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Three’s a crowd when sea captain finds love in old age

In My Sailor, My Love, a retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Big dreams, little keyboards in story of the world’s first smartphone

BlackBerry takes viewers back to the 1990s, offering a fictionalised story based on the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Priest’s soul-shaking journey across Iceland

In Godland, a young Danish Lutheran priest sails to Iceland to build a church, travelling the rugged terrain and testing his faith. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Chilling true story of child trafficking

Sound of Freedom is an American drama based on the true story of a former federal agent who rescues children from being trafficked in Colombia. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Ward gets her hands dirty saving the farm

Besieged by drought, bushfires and ecological despair, Rachel Ward begins a journey of discovery to regenerate the land on her farm in the Nambucca Valley in northern New South Wales in her documentary, Rachel’s Farm. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Alien lands in Wes Anderson’s unique world

A sci-fi comedy-drama, Asteroid City tells the story of a Junior Stargazer convention in the United States, which is disrupted by an alien from another planet. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Pilgrimage to Lourdes provides framework for period drama

In The Miracle Club, a group of Irish women have a tantalising dream – to escape the gauntlet of domestic life by winning a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. Source: Australian Catholics.

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Stepping out of the shadow to save the world

In Shadow, a group of activists hold a public meeting, desperate to save the world. As the meeting unravels, they discover the greatest threat to their future is already in the room. Source: Australian Catholics.