Tag: 2016

From Thelma and Louise to Napoleon and Pedro, friendships have often been the motor that keeps a film moving.  Rodica and Rodica are another example of what an impact friendships…

In a film environment defined by fast pace, quick cuts, compulsive dialogue and music prompting our emotional responses, Ida’s stillness comes almost as a shock.  Apart from the last two…

I predict that by the time you will finish reading this post, you will want to know more about Pawel Pawlikowski and see all his films. My own research led…

Ida has been described as a masterpiece, made it on the BBC list of  the 21st century greatest films, and won the first Oscar for a Polish film. Only a…

Corneliu Porumboiu, the son of a soccer referee, is one of the directors who defined the Romanian New Wave. Not often a director gets their first feature film awarded at…

‘Everybody is a revolutionary in their own way,’  says Piscoci, the retiree in 12:08 East of Europe. In a plot determined to identify a specific type of hero, his reflection…

The Romanian revolution of 1989 was as much a live TV event as a street revolt, storming into people’s lives from behind the screens. Revolutionaries took refuge in the National…

An alcoholic history teacher, a widower and a small town TV presenter walk into a television studio… that is the premise of our next EuRaw Stories film. Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08…

We’re very happy to have with us in the audience one of Australia’s best television directors, Geoffrey Bennet! Geoff has set up and directed some of the most popular TV…