Screenings with English subtitles – More to be added
Truffle Hunters
Documentary
Language: Italian with English subtitles
All Ages
A film for everyone who loves dogs, everyone who loves food, everyone who…well, just everyone.
15 October 4:50pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
18 Oct 7:15 PM Wallis Cinemas Mitcham Cinema 04
24 October 7.15 pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 4
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I WeirDo
Feature Fiction: black comedy, drama
Language: Taiwanese with English subtitles
All Ages
At last, a film that dares to ask the question: can two Obsessive Compulsive Disorder sufferers find true love together?
15 Oct 9:20 pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 4
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Another Round
Feature Fiction: black comedy, drama
Language: Danish with English subtitles
Unclassified 18+
Four middle age buddies, all teaching at the same school, decide to test the theory that humans suffer from a deficit of alcohol in our blood, which increases our inhibitions, and limits our sociability and creativity. Initially they aim for a constant level of intoxication through the working day, but inevitably, things are going to get out of hand
15 October 6.45pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
15 October 6.55pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 4
15 October 7.05pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 8
18 October 7.40pm Palace Nova Prospect
24 October 6.30pm Mitcham Wallace
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Memory House
Feature Fiction: Avant-garde, Latino, Magical Realism, Surreal
Language: Portuguese, German with English subtitles
Unclassified 18+
Director João Paulo Miranda Maria uses spiritual and fantastical storytelling to encapsulate the social and racial tensions of modern Brazil.
15 October 5pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema
23 October 9.15pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 8
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Uncle
Feature Fiction: Coming of Age, Disability, Drama
Language: Danish with English subtitles
All Ages
Twenty-something Kris has put aside her ambitions to become a vet in order to run the family farm and look after her elderly, infirm uncle. Uncle is a beautiful portrait of rural life and the tug of family responsibilities against the needs of the individual.
15 October Palace Nova Eastend Cinema
18 October 5pm Mitcham Wallace Cinema
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Identifying Features.
Feature Fiction: Drama, Latino, Magical Realism
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Unclassified 18+
Magdalena’s son has left their central Mexican home to cross the border in the hope of finding work in the US. When he vanishes, she embarks on a journey to re-trace his path to discover his fate. With Trump’s vicious politicisation of illegal immigration, this film tells it from the southern side of the border and with a woman’s perspective.
16 October 12.15pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
22 October 7.20pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 4
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Beginning
Drama
Language: Georgian with English Subtitles
Yana has given up her acting career to follow her husband’s initiative to become a Jehovah’s Witness missionary in a remote Georgian village. When locals burn down their place of worship during a service, pressure falls squarely on Yana. Unsympathetic and manipulative men surround her -nthe police, her husband, God, her son – and searches with quiet desperation for a space where she can know peace
16 Oct 7.30pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema
23 Oct 2.50pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
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Epicentro.
Documentary: History, Latino, Social Issue
Language: English, Spanish with English Subtitles
As a result of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba is the epicentre of two things: it was the start of American internationalism imperialism, and it was the first war in which cinema played a significant role. Austrian Hubert Sauper ponders questions about the lingering effects. He’s not going to resort to the opinions of experts, instead foregrounding the views of children (“little prophets” as he calls them) and people he encounters in the streets.
16 October 5pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema
23 October 4.45pm Palace Nova Eastend Cinema 8
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The Perfect Candidate
Dramedy, Social Issue, Women
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Unclassified 15+
Maryam is a modern young woman, a doctor who drives a car (no small thing in Saudi Arabia) and who is sick of the state of the road outside her clinic. Her decision to stand for the local council calls for immense reserves of courage and perseverance. It also brings out the harsh but sometimes hilarious contradictions at the heart of the Kingdom.
16 Oct 2.20pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
22 Oct 3.15pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
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Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness
Drama
Language: Farsi with English subtitles
Unclassified 15+
In Iran many crimes are punishable by death, but this can be averted if the victim’s family forgives and accepts blood money. Maryam, forced into a “temporary marriage” with a much older man, fronts a voting TV audience to plead for her life. Based on a real, top- rating Iranian TV show, this is a cleverly-scripted and impassioned overview of the patriarchal structures that enmesh the unfortunate young woman at the eye of the televisual storm, facing the prospect of paying an eye for an eye.
17 Oct 4:30pm Palace Nova Prospect 01
23 Oct 5:15pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
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2000 Songs of Farida
Drama
Language: Uzbek with English subtitles
Unclassified 15+
An isolated landowner brings home a new wife as his other wives have not produced an heir. Tensions inevitably surface, heightened by the fact that it is 1920 and the Bolsheviks are advancing. This house cannot endure, and the climax is pure Tarkovsky. But if you appreciate the careful construction of images, this is a film that will amaze. The care and intricacy of the flowing long takes is truly impressive. In the hands of an inventive filmmaker, there is infinite variety in limited means.
17 Oct 1:45pm Palace Nova Eastend 08
24 Oct 12:00pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
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Jumbo
Coming of Age, Romance, Youth/Teen
Language: French with English subtitles
Unclassified 18+
You want weird? We’ve got you covered. Jeanne (Noémie Merlant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire) falls in love with a giant tilt-a- whirl. You want stranger still? The machine falls in love with her too. But despite some steamy, or rather oily, sex, the path of true love between woman and fairground attraction is rarely smooth. Spielberg meets Freud in this delirious film, and the moral? It doesn’t matter who you love, so long as you’re prepared to go all the way.
17 Oct 9:15pm Palace Nova Eastend 04
22 Oct 9:15pm Palace Nova Eastend Eximax
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Wild Swords
Action, Drama, Mystery
Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Unclassified 15+
The martial swordfight film is one of the glories of Chinese cinema, and recent years have seen a move to combine the visceral pleasures of graceful action with a more artistic reflection on style and narrative intrigue. Amidst forests of saturated green and rainstorms of sudden ferocity, two clans are engaged in all-consuming rivalry, but the wildcard is a mysterious outsider. Produced by Feng Xiao-gang (I Am Not Madame Bovary), Wild Swords follows in the rich tradition of Crouching Tiger as master swordsmen circle each other intent on reputation and revenge.
17 Oct 9:00pm Palace Nova Eastend 08
21 Oct 8:45pm Palace Nova Eastend 04