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18 Sep, 1 Oct, Sat 7pm; Fri 9pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Khoa Doh (Australia 2009) Feature

Each day the newspapers remind us of the arrival of yet another boat. The stories remain the same - Australia is unable to handle any more refugees. But have we forgotten about the plight of those on the boats? What is it really like being ...

18 Sep, 1 Oct, Sat 9.15pm; Fri 6.30pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Lu Chuan (China 2009) Feature

The epic City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanki...

18 Sep, 4.30pm

Hong Kong On Screen

MA 15+

Hong Kong, 1993 Cast: Joan Chen, Wu Hsing-kuo, Lisa Lu

This sumptuous period film, full of breathtaking imagery shot by Australian cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, represents Law’s closest involvement with commercial Hong Kong cinema....

19 Sep, 2 Oct, Sun 6pm; Sat 2.30pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director David Bradbury (Australia 2009) Documentary

Twice nominated for an Oscar© and recipient of an AFI for best documentary direction, David Bradbury is one of Australia’s finest documentary filmmakers. His most recent film is a fascinating insight into the ...

20 Sep - 2 Oct, Mon 7.30pm; Sat 8.45pm

Hong Kong On Screen

Taiwan, 2009. Cast: Daniel Wu, Yolanda Yuan

“Which is more true—life or dream? Is our life actually a bigger dream?” (Clara Law). Max, an American-born Chinese, is a wanderer between continents. He dreams constantly of a woman, and this darkly fascinating fable takes off from the point...

19 Sep, 4pm

Hong Kong On Screen

MA 15+

Australia, 1996 Cast: Annie Yip, Edwin Pang, Anthony Wong, Annette Shun-Wah

Law’s Australian debut remains the most memorable study of the recent migration experience. A fractured Chinese family tries to discover a way of being at home in the strange new ...

19 Sep, 25 Sep, Sun 8.00pm-Sat 6.30pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Miwa Nishikawa (Japan 2009)Feature

A young medical intern student named Keisuke Soma (Eita) is assigned to work in a remote countryside village. Keisuke at first takes the attitude that this assignment is below his creditentials. His thoughts soon change. Keisuke Soma then ...

23 Sep, 7.30pm

Hong Kong On Screen

MA 15+

Australia, 2000 Cast: Rose Byrne, Kurokawa Rikiya, Nicholas Hope.

The Blind Girl, the Japanese Man, the vintage Citröen. Law has re-created the Australian road movie through fresh eyes. The girl is on a quest to confront an unbearable memory, the man a fug...

16 Sep, 7.30pm

Hong Kong On Screen

MA 15+

Hong Kong, Japan, 1992, Cast: Nagase Masatoshi, Li Pui-wai

Law’s break-through success won the Gold Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival establishing her as a major international director. A teenage schoolgirl left behind when her family mig...

30 Sep, 7.30pm

Korea On Screen

Director BONG Joon-ho Feature

In a peaceful middle-class apartment building, part-time lecturer Yoon-ju becomes hyper-sensitive to a dog’s barking. He puts his ear to the walls in an attempt to pinpoint the source. Then one day, returning from his recycling ritual, he discovers a puppy in fron...

17 Sep, 26 Sep, Fri 9pm; Sun 6pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Uruphong Raksasad (Thailand 2009) Documentary

“How can we dream of utopia while our stomach is still grumbling?” This exquisite docu-drama examines the economic and environmental dilemmas and the challenge of survival faced by farmers. As the son of a rice farmer, direct...

17 Sep, 25 Sep, Fri 6.30pm; Sat 9pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Asghar Farhadi (Iran 2009) Feature

A joyful party of friends—three married couples with kids plus the newly divorced Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini) and young kindergarten teacher Elly (Taraneh Alidousti)—drive to the Caspian Sea for a three-day holiday. The plan, masterminded ...

26 Sep, 2 Oct, Sun 3.30pm; Sat 6.30pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Riri Riza (Indonesia 2009) Feature

The Dreamer is the sequel to the Indonesian box office hit The Rainbow Troops both directed by Riri Riza and based on the popular novels by Andrea Hirata about growing up in the remote Sumatran island of Belitung.

27 Sep, 7.30pm

Korea On Screen

Director LEE Chang-dong Feature

Recently widowed, Shin-ae (JEON Do-youn) and her son move from Seoul to a small town, her late husband’s birthplace. Having given up a career as a concert pianist when she married, she sets up a piano school in town and enrols her son in school but the mov...

24 Sep, 7pm

Our first ever Short & Sweet Film component! Come along for a screening of 6 fab shorts...
Celestial Avenue
Directors Cameron & Colin Cairnes (Australia 2009)

Kath has been looking for love in...

24 Sep, 9pm

Korea On Screen

Directors LEE Hae-joon and LEE Hae-youngFeature

Oh Dong-gu dreams of being a pop singer like Madonna but there are obstacles... He has an alcoholic father, is chubby, unfit and suffers unrequited love for his Japanese teacher, yet the belief in his dreams drives him to find a solution to t...

25 Sep, 4.30pm

Hong Kong On Screen

M

Australia, 2004

Many of Law’s films have been about the perils of migration so it was only natural that she should take an interest in a young Afghan refugee held at the Port Hedland detention centre. What follows is a documentary odyssey across the length of ...

26 Sep, 8.15pm

Korea On Screen

Directors JUNG Brothers Feature

Hailed by some as the best Korean horror film of 2007, Epitaph intelligently weaves three stories that send shivers down the spine and leave one pondering philosophical questions about life and love after death. In 1979, elderly Dr. PARK receives an o...

26 Sep, 2 Oct, Sun 1pm; Sat 4pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Riri Riza (Indonesia 2008) Feature

Officially the most viewed films in Indonesia, The Rainbow Troops is based on Andrea Hirata’s immensely popular novels. Set on the Sumatran island of Belitong, the story begins on the first day of schoo...

15 Sep, 25 Sep, Wed 7pm; Sat 2.45pm

OzAsia On Screen

Director Dev Benegal (India/ USA 2009) Feature

Desperate to escape his destiny of inheriting his father’s hair oil business, Vishnu hits the road, finding a battered old truck as if by fate. Years ago it must have been a spectacular vehicle, ferrying projectors and an eclectic col...

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