Externally Produced Event

12/12/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Australian 1950s Outback DramaTo conclude this year marking our 70-year existence, let’s watch a 1956 Australian film classic about an imaginative young boy who lives in the fictional small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. Listen to an older generation of Australian accents; watch two-up games and immerse yourself in a 1950s country sensibility.…

13/02/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Pumping Northern Irish Comedy Kneecap is a comedic and musical start to our 2025 program. Rich Peppiatt’s raucous Irish-language debut feature is a semi-fictionalised biopic of the anarchic Belfast hip-hop band Kneecap and their rebellious civil rights mission to save the Irish language. Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap are the stage names of two erudite working-class hopefuls who exploded…

13/03/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Cinephile Comedy-drama This film, adapted from Chilean writer Hernan Rivera Letelier’s 2009 novel of the same name, is set in 1969 in the Atacama Desert, where saltpeter miners and their families work and live in precarious conditions. Far from their world, the rest of Chile is experiencing the death of Allende and the sudden military…

10/04/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Indie Texas Trash Sean Baker is well known for his caustic social observation of the frenetic lives of American marginalised people, especially migrants and sex orkers.  After a 17-year absence, energetically delusional hustler Mikey "Saber" Davies returns to his home town of Texas City after spending years as a washed-porn star in L.A.  Set in…

08/05/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Italian Neorealist Drama ​The Bicycle Thief is regularly voted one of the greatest films of all time. It was a key example of the Italian ‘cinema of the real’ which heralded a new kind of cinematic naturalism, employing non-professional actors and filming on the streets of a post-war Europe.  Antonio, a poor father, is on the…

12/06/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Archaeological Romance La Chimera is the latest film from Rohrwacher, a delightfully singular Italian writer-director who, with just a handful of feature-length films, has become one of the must-see filmmakers on the international circuit. Arthur, a British archaeologist just released from prison and grieving his lost love, soon falls back in with a rag-tag gang of…

10/07/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Indigenous Coming of Age Story Filmed in the stunning Pilbara over five weeks, Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman Jub Clerc’s debut feature film is the first Western Australian film by a First Nation’s director.  16-year-old Murra, whose abandonment by her drug-fuelled mother puts her at risk of being sent into the Child Protection system, instead finds herself…

11/09/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Sudanese Moral Drama Only a handful of films originate in Sudan due to the civil war  from 1983 to 2005, and this is the first to participate in the Cannes Film Festival. This debut feature film from Mohamed Kordofani follows the story of Mona, a retired Northern Sudanese singer who is wracked with guilt after covering…

09/10/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Award Winning Australian Documentary Best Melbourne Documentary 2024 at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, To Thank the Room is about the last 100 days of the iconic Brooklyn Arts Hotel in Fitzroy.  This heart-warming and inspiring documentary is an intimate portrait of Maggie Fooke, the creator of the hotel, as she navigates the final days of this…

13/11/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Compelling Cold War Political Thriller In 1961, the charismatic Swedish diplomat, economist and implacable idealist Dag Hammarskjöld was in his seventh year as Secretary-General of the United Nations. By some, he was considered the ‘clearest thinker in the room,’ but by others as the victim of a ‘saviour complex’ (Cineuropa). Torn between his personal life…

11/12/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Musical Doco ‘The south is the home of all things queer,’ says scholar Zandria Robinson as we witness the exhilarating jam-packed story of Little Richard’s complex life and musical career, ending only in 2020. Born in 1932 as Richard Wayne Penniman, by 1955 Little Richard was declared a world rock ‘n’ roll star with his…