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The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste. Image: MIFF.
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MIFF 2024 Shorts Awards winners

The MIFF 2024 Shorts Awards winners were announced at a ceremony at ACMI, Melbourne, on the weekend.

Blink Twice. Image: Amazon MGM Studios
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New films coming this week – cinema movie guide and release dates 

Your guide to new films in cinemas from 19 to 25 August 2024, including Blink Twice, Australian film Take My…

Cast of documentary Left Write Hook.
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Left Write Hook to get national cinema release

The Australian documentary about the healing power of boxing and writing for trauma survivors will release in October.

Justice Smith as Owen in I Saw The TV Glow. Image: A24.
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I Saw The TV Glow review: it draws you in then tears you apart

I Saw The TV Glow explores the pain of hidden trans identity via an allegorical TV show obsession.

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Left Write Hook review: survivor documentary stings like a bee

Donna Lyon and Shannon Owen's Australian film documents the physical and psychological healing journey of eight women who have experienced…

Cate Blanchett as Sister Eileen in The New Boy. Image: Roadshow Films.
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Nuns are a habit on the Hollywood screen – but why?

From The Sound of Music to Immaculate, nuns have been on a run, even as their real-life counterparts dwindle.

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Despite Barbie, 2023 was not the Year of the Woman in film

White men are still the overwhelming majority on screen and behind the camera, according to the latest damning report by…

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Australian Workers Film Guide goes live with archive of historical films

The Australian Workers Film Guide is a new archival website documenting key labour history films.

Jack Braddy as Graham Sloane in The Organist. Image: Weird Neighbour/MIFF
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The Organist, film review: Australian indie leaves a bad aftertaste

Melbourne-made dark comedy The Organist has plenty of interesting ideas, but ultimately fumbles the execution.

Addition, Teresa Palmer. Roadshow.
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Addition: adaptation of Toni Jordon's novel to premiere at TIFF 24

Teresa Palmer stars as a woman obsessed with numbers in Addition, an Australian romantic drama based on the best-selling novel.

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