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Albania

“HUNTING FLIES” (2016 feature film directed by Izer Aliu)
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Hunting Flies [2016]
Izer Aliu
After losing his job on the first day of school, an idealistic teacher attempts to get rehired by locking his students in the classroom and forc… 
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CastBurhan Amiti
LanguageAlbanian   CountryAlbania
DISC$PG Video
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Algeria

“THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS” (1965 feature film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo)
Reviews ****½
The Battle of Algiers [1965]
Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo's gritty, stirring, and unabashedly anti-colonialist account of the urban war between battle-hardened French paratroopers and A… 
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CastSaadi Yacef, Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin
LanguageFrench, Arabic   CountryAlgeria
CTQFreePG Video
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“SHORT CUTS PROGRAMME 08” (2016 short films directed by Jia Zhang-ke, Eimi Imanishi,Josh Polon, Greg Loser)
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Short Cuts Programme 08 [2016]
Jia Zhang-ke, Eimi Imanishi,…
The Hedonists - What begins as an everyday tragedy about the hard lot of workers in our age of economic volatility becomes something unexpected … 
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CastLiang Jingdong, Han Sanming, Yuan Wenqian, M…
LanguageMandarin, Arabic, En…   CountryAlgeria
SC$18
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Argentina

“A DECENT WOMAN” (2016 feature film directed by Lukas Valenta Rinner)
Reviews ***½
A Decent Woman [2016]
Lukas Valenta Rinner
A Buenos Aires cleaning woman enters the strange world of upper-class nudism, in this wry, deadpan satire from Austro-Argentine writer-director … 
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CastMartin Shanly, Iride Mockert, Andrea Strenit…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
CWC$18 Video
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“HERMIA & HELENA” (2016 presentation)
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Hermia & Helena [2016]
Matías Piñeiro
The prolific, cinephilic, and endlessly imaginative Matías Piñeiro (Viola, The Princess of France) continues his multi-film meditation on Shakes… 
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CastAgustina Muñoz, Maria Villar, Mati Diop, Jul…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
WL$18
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“THE HUMAN SURGE” (2016 presentation)
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The Human Surge [2016]
Eduardo Williams
An ingeniously shape-shifting debut from director Eduardo Williams, which follows the lives of mostly young men in disparate parts of the world … 
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CastSergio Morosini, Shine Marx, Domingos Mareng…
LanguageSpanish, Portuguese,…   CountryArgentina
WL$18
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“KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ” (2016 presentation)
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Kékszakállú [2016]
Gastón Solnicki
The beguiling third feature from Argentine writer-director Gastón Solnicki (Papirosen) takes inspiration from Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Ca… 
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CastLaila Maltz, Katia Szechtman, Lara Tarlowski…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
WL$18
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“NERUDA” (2016 feature film directed by Pablo Larraín)
Reviews ****½
Neruda [2016]
Pablo Larraín
Pablo Larraín weaves an engrossing metafictional fable around the 1948 manhunt for celebrated poet and politician Pablo Neruda, who goes undergr… 
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CastGael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Luis Gne…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
SP$18A Video
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Armenia

“SHORT CUTS PROGRAMME 05” (2016 short films directed by Leo Matsuda, Haya Waseem, Raphaël Ouellet, Alexandre Dostie, George Sikharulidze, Elizabeth Nichols, Tanzania)
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Short Cuts Programme 05 [2016]
Leo Matsuda, Haya Waseem, Ra…
Inner Workings - Inner Workings goes inside a man’s psyche to show us the battle between his practical side and his carefree impulses. With grea… 
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CastYatharth Bhatt, Saad Siddiqui, Alderic Kenné…
LanguageEnglish, Urdu, Frenc…   CountryArmenia
SC$18
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Australia

“BOYS IN THE TREES” (2016 feature film directed by Nicholas Verso)
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Boys in the Trees [2016]
Nicholas Verso
Alienated teens Corey and Jonah begrudgingly find themselves walking home together on Halloween 1997 — their last night of high school — embarki… 
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CastToby Wallace, Gulliver McGrath, Mitzi Ruhlma…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
DISC$14A Video
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“GOLDSTONE” (2015 feature film directed by Ivan Sen)
Reviews ****
Goldstone [2015]
Ivan Sen
Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in the Australian outback town of Goldstone investigating a missing persons enquiry. What seems like a sim… 
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CastAaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Pei Pei Cheng,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
PLAT$14A Video
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“JOE CINQUE'S CONSOLATION” (2016 feature film directed by Sotiris Dounoukos)
Reviews ****
Joe Cinque's Consolation [2016]
Sotiris Dounoukos
Based on the prize-winning book by Helen Garner about the headline-grabbing 1997 murder case, this riveting drama chronicles how the romantic re… 
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CastMaggie Naouri, Jerome Meyer, Gia Carides, Jo…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
DISC$14A Video
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“LION” (2016 feature film directed by Garth Davis)
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Lion [2016]
Garth Davis
After a wrong train takes a five-year-old Indian boy thousands of kilometres from home and family, he survives many challenges before being adop… 
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CastDev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, and D…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$$PG
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“POP VR AT FESTIVAL” (2016 feature film directed by Tracy Rector, Maureen Fan, Eric Darnell, Michael Hutchinson, Michael Beets, Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, François Blouin, Khushboo Ranka)
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POP VR at Festival [2016]
Tracy Rector, Maureen Fan, E…
POP VR’s five selections will play consecutively, allowing viewers to experience all the projects in one sitting. Ch’aak’ S’aagi (Eagle Bone) -… 
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CastEthan Hawke
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SE$$18 Video
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“SHORT CUTS PROGRAMME 06” (2016 short films directed by Mirrah Foulkes, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Ziga Virc, Raymund Ribay Gutierrez, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Lee Chung-hyun)
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Short Cuts Programme 06 [2016]
Mirrah Foulkes, Maxwell McCa…
Trespass - A woman walking her dog alone in the forest finds company she didn’t expect and an enigma she can’t comprehend. Trespass is a thrille… 
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CastMaya Stange, Sara West, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos…
LanguageEnglish, Hungarian, …   CountryAustralia
SC$18
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Austria

“THE DREAMED ONES” (2016 presentation)
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The Dreamed Ones [2016]
Ruth Beckermann
Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann recreates the amorous correspondence between poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan through the voices and bo… 
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CastAnja Plaschg, Laurence Rupp
LanguageGerman   CountryAustria
WL$18
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“INTO THE INFERNO” (2016 feature film directed by Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer)
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Into the Inferno [2016]
Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenh…
The great Werner Herzog teams up with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer for this globe-trotting tour of some of the world’s most dangerous volcano… 
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CastClive Oppenheimer
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustria
DOC$18
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“THE IVORY GAME” (2016 feature film directed by Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani)
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The Ivory Game [2016]
Kief Davidson, Richard Ladk…
Wildlife activists and investigators put their lives on the line to battle the illegal African ivory trade, in this suspenseful on-the-ground do… 
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CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish, Swahili   CountryAustria
DOC$PG
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“MISTER UNIVERSO” (2016 feature film directed by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel)
Reviews ***
Mister Universo [2016]
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
After a superstitious lion tamer loses his good-luck charm, he sets out on a magical, picaresque odyssey across Italy to find "Mister Universo,"… 
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CastTairo Caroli, Wendy Weber, Arthur Robin
LanguageItalian   CountryAustria
CWC$18 Video
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“SAFARI” (2016 feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl)
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Safari [2016]
Ulrich Seidl
Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days) returns to Africa for this raw, grimly humourous portrait of European tourists hunting animals for … 
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CastGerald Eichinger, Eva Hofmann, Manuel Eichin…
LanguageGerman   CountryAustria
MAST$18 Video
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“WAVELENGTHS 1: THE FIRE WITHIN” (2016 presentation)
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Wavelengths 1: The Fire Within [2016]
Ana Mendieta, Ana Vaz, Antoi…
Bookended by two seminal films from the extraordinary multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta, this programme excavates political and personal his… 
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CastVarious
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustria
WL$18
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“WAVELENGTHS 3: POST-PERFORMANCE” (2016 presentation)
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Wavelengths 3: Post-performance [2016]
Björn Kämmerer, Nina Könnema…
In this programme, the idea of "performance" adopts many shapes and guises, and recasts the present through a prism of encounters. Untitled - B… 
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CastVarious
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustria
WL$18
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