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Firestarter, winner of this year’s Adelaide Film Festival feature documentary award, is the deeply affecting story of Bangarra Dance Theatre and the three brothers who fuelled its fire. It also highlights uncomfortable truths about our country.
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Content warnings of suicide, sexual assault and hate crimes preface Welcome to Chechnya, but not even these cautions prepare the viewer for what’s to come in this documentary about the persecution of LGBTQI+ people in the Russian republic.
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Ahead of the behind-the-scenes documentary about his film Ribspreader, showing at the Adelaide Film Festival this week, filmmaker Dick Dale tells CityMag how he’s spent seven years making a punk-rock feature film with no budget and no backing.
Set to open the Adelaide Film Festival next week, Seth Larney’s new movie 2067 is a science-fiction thriller with a strong environmental message that owes a lot to his early influences and unconventional childhood.
Yer Old Faither is a film about a Glaswegian immigrant to Whyalla who spent 40 years delivering babies, was a prolific letter writer and extreme recycler, and had a lifelong mission to green his town. Above all, though, it’s the celebration of a dad.
Closer Productions and the Adelaide Film Festival will together award four $5000 grants to filmmakers from underrepresented communities working in Australia’s film industry.
Films from more than 40 countries will screen during October’s Adelaide Film Festival, with world premieres including a new film by My Tehran for Sale director Granaz Moussavi and a very personal documentary by Adelaide Fringe’s Heather Croall.
