2024 Screening program
Friday 9 February - The Big Steal (1hr 39m) Australia 1990
An Australian teen comedy film set in Melbourne. A shy teenager dates his dream girl after buying a used Jaguar bought from a crooked car dealer.
Director: Nadia Tass
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Steve Bisley
Friday 8 March - The Lost City of Melbourne (1hr 20m) Australia 2022
The attempted modernisation of Melbourne in the 1950s destroyed much of the city, including elegant cinemas and picture palaces. Now, a new locally made documentary brings them back to life.
Director: Gus Berger
Friday 12 April - The Forgiven (2hr 9m) UK 2021
A fatal accident disrupts the lives of Western visitors to a lavish party in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and will ultimately lead to a reckoning in the desert.
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes
Friday 10 May - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1hr 50m) USA 1988
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly
Friday 14 June - Margrete Queen of the North (2hrs) Denmark/Sweden 2021
Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life’s work: the Kalmar Union.
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Starring: Trine Dryholm, Soren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen
Friday 12 July - The Secret Life of Bees (1hr 54m) USA 2008
In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah
Friday 9 August - High Ground (1hr 44m) Australia 2020
In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle.
Director: Stephen Johnson
Starring: Guruwuk Mununggurr, Wakarra Gondarra, Mark Garrawurra
Friday 13 September - The Duchess (1h 50m) UK 2008
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper
Friday 11 October - Farewell Mr Haffmann (1hr 55m) France/Belgium 2021
After the Nazi occupation of Paris, a talented jeweller, Joseph Haffmann, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers one of his employees the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides.
Director: Fred Cavaye
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche, Sara Giraudeau
Friday 8 November - Empire of Light (1h55m) UK/USA 2022
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, revolving around the local cinema.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth
Saturday November 23 - Cool Climate Cinema - Short Film Festival
Detail to follow soon . .
Friday 13 December - Julie and Julia (2h 3m) USA 2009
Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messin