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The CurbAustraliaMitchell Withers & Sofia Viegas on the pride of their tender short film For the Boys In our second part of two interviews about the tender short film For the Boys , director Mitchell Withers and producer Sofia Viegas talk about their journey into filmmaking, creating a safe space for Mitch Brown to share
The CurbAustraliaMitch Brown on finding a safe space to share his story with the short film For the Boys In 2025, in an interview with Sam Koslowski of The Daily Aus, Mitch Brown became the first openly bisexual footy player in Australia. To give some perspective, the VFL was founded in 1896. That's 129 years since the V/AF
The CurbAustraliaChouwa Liang on finding empathy for AI relationships with her documentary Replica Chouwa Liang's documentary Replica invites viewers to empathise with a world of Chinese women who are finding romance and relationships with AI partners or companions. When human-to-human relationships don't work, Qin, S
The CurbAustraliaAnnemarie Jacir on reclamation and telling hidden histories in Palestine 36 All the details of how to control and occupy a people are placed from that (British colonial) moment. The British were experts at it by the time they came to Palestine.
The CurbAustraliaProducer Blayke Hoffman on the importance of listening to women with the impactful documentary Silenced Documentarian Selina Miles has crafted a filmography that gives space to women's voices and stories. From her debut feature, Martha: A Picture Story , which took us into the world of street art, to the stunning Harley &
The CurbAustraliaRidley Scott’s The Dog Stars delivers an uninspired post-apocalyptic drama with thin characterisation and a cliched plot Scott seems to be going through the motions with The Dog Stars by not greatly concerning himself with pacing (the first act is tediously long), not particularly interested in adding to the whisper-thin characterisation a
The CurbAustraliaThe Evolving Cinema of Alice Maio Mackay Alice Maio Mackay is the kind of filmmaker who seems incapable of sitting still. At only 22, and already with seven features under her belt, she has built a filmography that feels remarkably expansive for someone still s
The CurbAustraliaWilderness is a profoundly misguided attempt to bring environmental issues to the forefront in a film that consistently brushes them aside Martin McKenna’s long-gestating film Wilderness very occasionally allows glimpses of a better film he chose not to make. It gives me absolutely no pleasure to write a review of a small budget Australian film and deem it
The CurbAustraliaInventive and absurd, Yesterday Island is a terrific low-budget Australian black comedy Perhaps the best thing about Sam Voutas’ inventive black comedy is that it’s near impossible to avoid thinking of people you’d willingly send to the island, proving that there’s a bit of pettiness to all of us, and certa
The CurbAustraliaMontreal, My Beautiful: It’s Never Too Late to Find Yourself Montreal, My Beautiful is a quiet, deeply tender film about the parts of ourselves that can disappear beneath the weight of responsibility, and the extraordinary feeling of discovering that they were never truly gone. Xi
The CurbAustraliaSophy Romvari on the unreliability of memory in Blue Heron and merging fiction and documentary I feel very strongly that we are when you are given the opportunity to make a film, you get to build your own world around it, and you get to build the environment that you shoot in, and I think I feel that I think that
The CurbAustraliaPaloma Schneideman on staying true to her instincts Instinctually, you know what you know. No one really knows the film better than you. I mean, there are logistical things that people know better, and there are technical things that people know better. But there's no one
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The CurbAustraliaVee Shi’s family docudrama Time and Tide shows China’s Filial Piety Law as emotionally and financially complex It is steadfast in its portrait of the family at their best and at their most exhausted and frayed. With the camera picking up not only the conversations and arguments, but also the physical dynamic of the family, Shi in
The CurbAustraliaArlo Cook & Ness Thornton the ten year journey to bringing Jebediah: Are We Ok? to life on screen When I think of the sounds of Western Australia, the licks of Wide Open Road by the Triffids hits my mind, or maybe The Waifs yearning to be back in London, or occasionally it'll be a wistful memory of a cleaner dancers
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