IFF21: Opening Night Event - THE TIES(Lacci) 100 mins

Celebrate the opening night of the St. Ali Italian Film Festival with one of our renowned parties to kick off this festival favourite! Join us from 6:15pm for a limoncello cocktail, prosecco or a cold beer to wash down some authentic flavours of Italia bella from Golden Ravioli and Birraz  before the Australian premiere screening of Daniele ... more

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IFF21: Padrenostro 120 mins

Rome, 1976. Valerio (Mattia Garaci) is ten years old and has a vivid imagination. When he witnesses, together with his mother Gina (Barbara Ronchi, Feel Your Memories IFF20), the attack on his father Alfonso (Pierfrancesco Favino in his Venice Film Festival Best Actor-winning role, The Traitor IFF20) by a terrorist group, his childhood is turned ... more

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IFF21: Sirley(Maledetta primavera) 94 mins

Upcoming Roman director Elisa Amoruso’s semi-autobiographical fiction debut chronicles a young girl’s plight as she strives to make sense of her place in the world under the not-so-watchful eyes of her dysfunctional parents. It’s 1990 and 13-year-old Nina’s (Emma Fasano) incredibly messy family has been forced to move from ... more

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IFF21: The Ties(Lacci) 120 mins

Distinguished by an outstanding cast in top form, the stylish and involving new drama from award-winning writer/director Daniele Luchetti (La Nostra Vita, My Brother is an Only Child) charts the lives of a middle-class Italian family across three decades. Naples, early 1980s. The once-happy union between Aldo (Luigi Lo Cascio) and his wife ... more

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TOM PETTY: SOMEWHERE YOU FEEL FREE 105 mins

Winner of the 2021 SXSW Audience Award, Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers offers a unique take on the Petty legacy, diving deep into a condensed period of creativity and freedom for the legendary rock star. Capturing the period of 1993-1995, during which he created his seminal and most emotionally raw album ... more

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CCC: CITY LIGHTS 87 mins

Wandering the city streets, the Little Tramp happens upon a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich man. The Tramp later saves a drunken millionaire who is attempting to drown himself in the river. The millionaire becomes his best friend. That is, until he sobers up and no longer recognises the Tramp… In City Lights, friendship and ... more

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EOS21: RAPHAEL REVEALED ENCORE 88 mins

In his brief career, Raphael shaped the course of Western culture like few artists before or since. This landmark exhibition looks at Raphael’s celebrated paintings and drawings as well as his work in architecture, poetry, and design for sculpture, tapestry, and prints. Marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the greatest ... more

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Lamb(Dýrið) 106 mins

Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Angel of Mine) stars in this Un Certain Regard prize-winning supernatural drama about a couple who raise a very special child. In the beautiful but remote wilderness of Iceland, María (Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason, White Night Wedding) tend to their flock of sheep on ... more

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Alpinist, The 82 mins

As the sport of climbing turns from a niche pursuit to a mainstream media event, Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. On remote alpine faces, the free-spirited 23-year-old makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. Yet, he draws scant attention. With no cameras, no rope, and no margin for error, ... more

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Love Is Love Is Love 91 mins

Every relationship needs work to thrive—but that makes it easy to forget that you’ll find a shared effortlessness at the heart of the deepest friendships and romances. Four years after Paris Can Wait, Eleanor Coppola returns with a charming triptych of stories exploring love in all of its forms and coaxes a simmering chemistry from ... more

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Persian Lessons 127 mins

  Persian Lessons is a compelling WWII drama about a Jewish prisoner that pretends to be Iranian to escape execution. Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Perez Biscayart)is arrested by SS soldiers and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. The lie ... more

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Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period ...(FELKESZULES MEGHATAROZATLAN IDEIG TARTO EGYUTTLETRE) 95 mins

Luna Palace Cinemas and Pivot Pictures are excited to announce the highly anticipated multi-award-winning psychological thriller Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time. Márta Vizy (Natasa Stork) is a 39-year-old Hungarian neurosurgeon. After 20 years in the United States, she returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous ... more

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Riders of Justice(Retfærdighedens Ryttere) 116 mins

Mads Mikkelsen headlines this ingenious, pitch-black Scandi revenge comedy. Career soldier Markus cuts short his deployment to care for his teenage daughter, Mathilde after his wife is killed in a train crash. But then he has visitors: a fretful statistician and his hacker friends, who believe the crash was no accident – according to their ... more

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Miss 107 mins

The new film by Ruben Alves (The Gilded Cage) is a feel-good story about overcoming hardship and prejudice, with a fun and light-hearted commentary on how attitudes towards gender are shaped. It is the best kind of thought-provoking film: one that is celebratory and joyful. Ever since childhood Alex (Alexandre Wetter) had wanted to enter the ... more

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Nitram 112 mins

A narrative depiction of the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in modern Australian history from MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown). Nitram, (Caleb Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and ... more

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Rhapsody of Love 87 mins

Rhapsody of Love is Australia’s first-ever, Asian Australian Rom-Com. This lighthearted romantic comedy is in the tradition of Crazy Rich Asians and Love Actually. It's the first Australian film of its kind to have two Asian Australian actors as romantic leads. You never know when love will surprise you… Love takes Jessica Flowers ... more

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Diana's Wedding(Diana's Bryllup) 90 mins

It’s July 29, 1981. In the majestic St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles. The same day, another celebration takes place in the canteen of a Norwegian small-town factory. It’s the newlywed's Liv and Terje’s wedding party. In the pram lies their newborn daughter, Diana, who, like her famous ... more

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Joe Bell 93 mins

From filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters And Men; upcoming King Richard), along with the Academy Award-winning writing team behind Brokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana & Larry McMurtry) and Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg. Joe Bell tells the intimate and emotional true story of an Oregonian father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son ... more

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Killing Of Two Lovers, The 84 mins

Writer/Director Robert Machoian elicits a career-best performance by Clayne Crawford (who also produces) as a husband/father dealing with a relationship breakdown. In a small Utah town, in the shadow of distant snow-covered mountains, David (Clayne Crawford, The Perfect Host, Lethal Weapon) and Nikki (Sepideh Moafi The Deuce, The L Word: ... more

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Pig 92 mins

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. A million miles from ‘Peggy Sue Got Married,’ Cage goes searching for his beloved truffle pig — and himself — in Michael Sarnoski’s intimate character ... more

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Ride the Eagle 89 mins

Academy Award winners Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons, and New Girl’s Jake Johnson star in this feel-good, life-affirming and uplifting, light-hearted heartfelt comedy. When Leif’s (Jake Johnson) estranged mother Honey (Susan Sarandon) dies, she leaves him a ‘conditional inheritance.’ Before he can take ownership of her ... more

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Eiffel(Eiffel) 108 mins

Having just finished collaborating on the Statue of Liberty, Gustave Eiffel is at the high point of his career. The French government has requested he create something spectacular for the “Exposition Universelle” of 1889 in Paris but Gustave Eiffel is only interested in the city’s subway project. His life is turned upside-down ... more

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Summer Of Soul 117 mins

Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a feature documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African American music and culture, and promoted Black pride and unity. In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting ... more

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Shiva Baby 77 mins

At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy. “A playful, brilliantly anxious, sex-positive coming-of-age set inside a tight-knit Jewish community.” - Variety This sharp-witted dark comedy from first-time feature writer/director Emma Seligman is a quirky yet sensitive exploration of the ... more

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