The Lucerna cinema will come to life with Australian and New Zealand movies from Friday, 10 November to Sunday, 12 November 2023. The showcase will then move on to Edison FilmHub on Monday, 13 November where the festival will culminate two days later. The opening of the festival will be accompanied by an exhibition of posters inside the Lucerna Café from the festival’s 10 year history and for the festival’s closing night, festival audiences can look forward to a small degustation of Raven and Volt beers following the screening of Muriel’s Wedding at Edison FilmHub.
Buy tickets for Lucerna sessions here.
Buy tickets for Edison Filmhub sessions here.
We will be celebrating a decade of the festival on opening night at the Lucerna cinema on Friday from 7:30pm with the New Zealand comedy Red, White and Brass. After opening remarks by festival director Martina Vacková and guests of honour from the Australian and New Zealand Embassies, we will also screen the short film Marungka Tjalatjunu – Dipped in Black, which you can read about here.
Visually captivating shots of the Australian outback
Australia in the 1940s. In a remote convent, a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett), runs a mission for Indigenous children. A new boy is brought in in the dead of night who appears to have special powers, but the boy’s Aboriginal spirituality is incompatible with life in a Christian environment and his mysterious powers become a threat to the deeply religious nun.
Buy tickets to The New Boy here. Read more about the film here.
Indigenous teenager Muura has a lonely, boring, even pitiful life with her alcoholic mother. One day, she runs out of patience and goes to live with her uncle. He doesn’t want Muura to end up as another welfare case so he signs her up for a photography trip with other troubled teenagers to the Australian outback. A unique road movie Sweet As not only for its scenes of the breathtaking Australian outback, but also as a story about friendship, first love, courage and responsibility. This movie is the feature debut of Indigenous director Jub Clerc, inspired by her own desire to become a filmmaker. Buy tickets to the movie here.
Check out the other festival movies at Edison Filmhub here.
