🎬 Screening of “Frozen 2” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 18th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop – The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Elsa the Snow Queen and her sister Anna embark on an adventure far away from the kingdom of Arendelle. They are joined by friends, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven.

🎬 Screening of “Joker” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 19th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
In Gotham City, mentally-troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: “The Joker”.

🎬 Screening of the “Charlie’s Angels” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 21st of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
When a systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, Charlie’s Angels from across the globe are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect society.

🎬 Screening of “Last Christmas ” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 22nd of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa’s elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.

🎬 Screening of “Knives Out ” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 23rd of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell, KNIVES OUT is a witty and stylish whodunit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing until the very end.

🎬 Screening of “The Adams Family” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 24th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Members of the mysterious and spooky Addams family — Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester and Grandma — are readily preparing for a visit from their even creepier relatives. But trouble soon arises when shady TV personality Margaux Needler realizes that the Addams’ eerie hilltop mansion is standing in the way of her dream to sell all the houses in the neighborhood.

🎬 Screening of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 25th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more as Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron’s journey continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle commences.

🎬 Screening of the “Dirty Dancing” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 26th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances “Baby” Houseman falls in love with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle. In 1963, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains.

🎬 Screening of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 28th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more as Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron’s journey continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle commences.

🎬 Screening of the “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 29th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age.

🎬 Screening of the “Jojo Rabbit” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 30th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop – The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend — Adolf Hitler — Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.

🎬 Screening of the “Cats” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 31st of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop – The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Over the course of a single night, a tribe of cats called the Jellicles make what is known as “the Jellicle choice” and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

🎬 Screening of “Joker” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 1st of February / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop – The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny on the plains of Africa. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother — and former heir to the throne — has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is soon ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s exile. Now, with help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba must figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.

🎬 Screening of the “Ford v Ferrari” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 2nd of February / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop – The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
American automotive designer Carroll Shelby and fearless British race car driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary vehicle for the Ford Motor Co. Together, they plan to compete against the race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

🎬 Screening of “Joker” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 4th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop – The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Joker centers around an origin of the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Todd Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study but also a broader cautionary tale.

🎬 Screening of the “Cats” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 5th of February / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Over the course of a single night, a tribe of cats called the Jellicles make what is known as “the Jellicle choice” and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

🎬 Screening of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 6th of February / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

Bottomless Popcorn 🍿

MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more as Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron’s journey continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle commences.

🎬 Screening of “Jumanji 2 ” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 7th of January / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

🎬 Screening of the “Spies in Diguise ” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ 8th of February / Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍Rooftop of the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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MOVIE SYNOPSIS 🎥
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can’t learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril.

🎬 Screening of “Pulp Fiction” at Mov’In Bed.
⏱ Gate opens at 6PM – Movie Starts at 7.30PM.
📍The Showring – Inside the Entertainment Quarter Moore Park.

THE COMFIEST OUTDOOR BED CINEMA IS BACK IN SYDNEY !

Hottest venue: Rooftop “The Showring” at the Entertainment Quarter, for the most breathtaking view of Sydney’s skyline.

🍔 DINE IN BED
Food is delivered straight to your comfy bed, we take care of everything to make this night the most romantic date ever.

Fratelli Fresh: Pizza, Pasta, Salads & Gelato
El Camino: Buffalo wings, Nachos, Burritos & Quesadillas
The Bavarian: Pretzel, Hot dogs, Mac & Cheese Balls & Fries
(Full menu available on site)

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Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town.

Two drama queens go head to head in this feisty Hong Kong-set comedy-drama. Stanley Kwan’s FIRST NIGHT NERVES screens on 12 Feb as part of the #SpotlightOnAsia series at Event Cinemas George Street.

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All eyes are on Hong Kong City Hall as rival actors, veteran thespian Xiuling and moviestar Yuwen, share the stage for the first time. Will the two drama queens get through rehearsals unscathed?

Stanley Kwan, one of Asia’s few openly gay directors, creates a fun, feisty female-centred drama. Starring real-life Cantopop Queen Sammi Cheng and Gigi Leung, Kwan’s FIRST NIGHT NERVES is also a love letter to Hong Kong cinema and melodrama. In Cantonese with English subtitles.

A movie that gives even the smallest female parts more dimension than most movies offer their ostensible leading ladies. — Peter Debruge, Variety

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) | Opening Night MGFF20 | Thu 13 Feb 7:00pm Event Cinemas, George St. BOOK TIX: bit.ly/MGFF20-Ellie

This heartfelt lesbian rom-com, shot entirely in Sydney by writer-director Monica Zanetti (Skin Deep MGFF15) and based on her beloved play, is the first Australian feature to open Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival in its 27 year history.

Sophie Hawkshaw plays school captain Ellie, who is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie (Wentworth’s Zoe Terakes). Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara (Julia Billington, Starting from…Now MGFF16) reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she’s been brought back from the dead to be Ellie’s fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the 80s.

Marta Dusseldorp (Stateless, Janet King) plays Ellie’s high strung mother whose concern about Ellie’s coming out is more than it seems, and Rachel House (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) gives a wonderfully deadpan performance as Ellie’s adopted aunt with secrets of her own.

Don’t miss this intergenerational film which pays homage to Sydney’s LGBTIQ+ activist history — as well as bringing us a fresh take on the universal ‘first love’ story.

World Premiere. Join us for a Q&A after the screening and Opening Night Party in the Gold Class Lounge!

If you have a flexipass and wish to attend the party, please purchase a Flexi Party Add On.

UPDATE: PARTY SOLD OUT

Film only
$19.90 Full
$17.90 Concession
$16.90 Queer Screen Member

BOOK NOW: bit.ly/MGFF20-Ellie

Presented with AGL

Imagine watching a classic movie that you love, under the stars, on the top deck of a boat after a cruise around Sydney harbour.

Sydney’s only floating cinema returns to the harbour this summer! Once the sun disappears we will dock in some of Sydney’s most iconic locations screening movie classics. So dust off your boat shoes and grab your skippers hat because you don’t want to miss this boat!

Tickets available here: https://events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/floating-cinema-season-two

SCREENINGS:
30th October – Sixth Sense
31st October – The Blair Witch Project
3rd December – Jingle All The Way
4th December – Elf
23rd December – Die Hard
24th December – Home Alone
14th February – Crazy Stupid Love
26th February – Mardi Gras Special Screening (TBA)

01 What is Floating Cinema?
Floating cinema is outdoor cinema experience where we cruise round on a boat and show you classic films on the top deck with the iconic Sydney harbour as a back drop.

02 What is included in the ticket price?
Cruise and a movie. The whole event will last approximately 3 hours depending on the length of the movie. Food & drink are not included in the ticket. A fully licensed bar is available onboard that serves drinks and snacks (crisps, chocolate etc.). NO BYO ALLOWED

03 What date does it take place?
Floating cinema with have screenings throughout the summer from October 2019 to Februay 2020

04 Where does it take place?
Sydney harbour

05 Where does the boat pick-up and drop off?
Pick-up & drop-off: See map below. King Street Wharf, Darling Harbour (wharf number will be emailed out closer to the date)

06 What time is pick-up and drop off?
Departure is approximately 30 minutes before sunset so will vary throughout the season. Please check event page and your ticket for exact timings.
October screenings – Pick-up: 7pm (please arrive by 6:45pm)
December screenings – Pick-up: 7:30pm (please arrive by 7:15pm)
February screenings – Pick-up for 14th Feb: 7:15pm (please arrive by 7pm) Pick-up for 26th Feb: 7pm (please arrive by 6:45pm)
Drop-off times will vary depending on the length of the film but you will be dropped off within 10 minutes of the film ending.

07 What if the weather is poor?
This is an all weather event. The event will still go ahead come rain, hail or shine. If it is raining or too windy and we are unable to screen the movie on the top deck of the vessel we will move the screening onto the main deck downstairs. Our beautiful vessel has glass walls so you will still be able to enjoy spectacular views of Sydney harbour.

Questions? Please refer to our FAQs https://www.floatingcinemaaustralia.com/ or email support@viralventures.freshdesk.com

Season of Love | Australian Premiere | Open Captioned
Fri 14 Feb, 7:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
BOOK TIX: bit.ly/MGFF20-Season

For anyone who loved Love Actually, but felt that there was one thing missing: lesbians. Season of Love is a lively, enthusiastic comedy following the ups and downs of three queer female relationships in the lead-up to Christmas. From left-at-the-altar breakdowns, to first kisses and friendships, this film weaves together the lives and loves of six very different women. Full of allusions to your favourite queer and Christmas classics (spot Love Actually, Carol, Rent and more!), Season of Love is a sweet, refreshingly queer, feel-good Christmas film.

BOOK NOW: bit.ly/MGFF20-Season

Presented with Deaf Rainbow NSW

Queering the Script | Australian Premiere
Thu Feb 20, 9pm at Event Cinemas George St
BOOK TIX: http://bit.ly/MGFF20-Script

* Screening followed by a panel discussion, The Power of Queer Fandom, featuring Danielle Jablonski (Director of ClexaCon) *

Highlighting how important it is to see ourselves represented on screen, Queering the Script takes us on a nostalgic exploration of the influence that queer female fandoms have had on shaping the rise of accurate LGBTIQ+ character portrayals on screen, from Xena: Warrior Princess to The 100.

Join us after the screening for The Power of Queer Fandom, a panel discussion featuring Danielle Jablonski, Co-Owner and Executive Director of ClexaCon, with other special guests who will explore the influence that queer female fandoms have had on shaping accurate character portrayals.

Queer Doc Shorts
Sat 15 Feb, 2:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
BOOK TIX: http://bit.ly/MGFF20-Doc

This diverse selection of documentaries profile LGBTIQ+ people carving out space for themselves in communities, societies, and even families that weren’t built with them in mind. Originating in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, these shorts delve into an HIV+ gay couple’s artistic collaboration, a lesbian stripper’s day-to-day life, a boy’s journey towards acceptance by homophobic parents, the Taiwanese queer community’s marriage equality celebrations, long-buried interviews with trans people from the 1950s, the importance of a safe space for Lebanese women and queer people, and reflections from children with same-sex parents.

Sequin In A Blue Room
Sun 16 Feb, 6:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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The winner of the Audience Award at the Sydney Film Festival, Sequin in a Blue Room explores the exciting and alienating world of hook-up culture. With stunning visuals and a gripping soundtrack, Sequin in a Blue Room brings to the screen the world of Sequin (Conor Leach), a teenager who finds himself ensnared in a cycle of sex, obsession, and mystery. Determined to find someone he met at an anonymous sex party, the question becomes will Sequin be able to find them before he loses himself?

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Out Here Shorts | World Premiere
Mon 17 Feb, 7:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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Three fascinating, short-form documentaries shine a light on the LGBTIQ+ experience in regional and rural Australia in Out Here, a new joint initiative between Screen Australia and Network 10.

Alone Out Here
In a moment of catastrophic climate change, Jon Wright, a gay farmer, is faced with a dilemma. His 22-year commitment to transform the genetics of his herd are pitted against the attitudes of the beef industry, who hold the future of his families 4th generation farm in their hands. Through his incredible journey of loss and survival, we learn what it takes to be true to yourself, at any cost.

The Rainbow Passage
The Rainbow Passage is the love story of Cadance and Amanda. Following a year in their gender transition, this intimate documentary charts not only their personal transformation but the building of a life and community together in regional New South Wales.

Belonging
Belonging follows 18- year-old LGBTIQ+ activist Sam Watson as he takes a road trip from Hobart to north-west Tasmania to examine the impact and influence of gay rights activist Rodney Croome’s public fight for gay law reform, which began in the 1980s and continues today.

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More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Tues 18 Feb, 7:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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Australian Premiere

Award-winning director Nicole Conn’s (Elena Undone MGFF11, A Perfect Ending MGFF13) new film is a heartfelt drama about the power of love and the importance of living each day as it comes.

Grieving the loss of her mother, battle-scarred FBI agent McKenzie (Aussie actress Zoe Ventoura) takes refuge in the beautiful lakeside town she remembers from childhood. After meeting ten-year-old Freddie (Cale Ferrin), a boy with special needs, she’s gradually drawn into the lives of an eccentric group of locals, including a former fling who’s struggling with sobriety (Harley Jane Kozak) and Freddie’s beautiful single mother, Samantha (Kayla Radomski). As Freddie’s positivity and unique view of the world helps McKenzie heal from past trauma, a passionate love affair with Samantha beckons.

Loosely based on Conn’s own experiences as a mother, as shown in her intimate documentary Little Man (queerDOC05), More Beautiful embraces the Japanese idea of ‘kintsukuroi’, that we are stronger and more beautiful for our flaws.

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Presented with AGL

End of the Century
Tue 18 Feb, 8:30pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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A festival favourite from QSFF19, End of the Century is back due to popular demand. Ocho, an Argentinian poet, and Javi, a Spanish filmmaker, meet by chance while in Barcelona. Initially intended as a brief hook-up, the two men realise that they met twenty years earlier. This serendipitous relationship unfolds in a non-linear fashion in three parts. Lucio Castro’s sensual film captures the romanticism of a balmy European summer, and explores the role of fate and chance in our sexual encounters. Is this just a summer fling or are they meant for each other?

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Sid & Judy | Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020 | Wed 19 Feb 6:30pm Event Cinemas, George St.
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Judy Garland fever is upon us! After Renée Zellweger’s powerhouse performance in biopic Judy,
spend more time getting to know the star in this insightful new documentary.

The unpublished memoirs of Judy’s third husband, Sid Luft are brought to life by narrator Jon Hamm, with Jennifer Jason Leigh voicing Garland. Sid & Judy explores the performer’s rise from child vaudevillian to entertainment legend, taking a fresh look at a journey that was beset with troubles and often subject to the whims of male power players who thought they knew best, even while she was crumbling.

What rings out is Garland’s incredible, goosebump-inducing voice, and the film features plenty of interviews, live recordings, and archival footage of the star. This is a fascinating profile told from the perspective of someone who knew and loved this icon intimately.

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Presented with The Bookshop Darlinghurst

Double feature: Cloudy River & Without A Tracey
World Premiere
Wed 19 Feb, 7:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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Pairing two different but equally exciting Australian episodics, both the hilarious Without a Tracey and the riveting Cloudy River are not to be missed. Boasting laugh-out-loud performances and a killer script, Without a Tracey sees ex-cop Tracey stumble across a murder case, in a comedy about a very serious crime that is anything but serious. While pansexual painter Cloudy and musician boyfriend River navigate the complications of an open relationship in Cloudy River, a sexy drama about jealousy, mental health, and finding something solid in a life filled with fluidity.

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T11 Incomplete | World Premiere
Thu 20 Feb, 6:30pm, Dendy Cinemas Newtown
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Recovering alcoholic Kate (Karen Sillas, Female Perversions) is working as a home health aide striving to rebuild her life and her relationship with her adult son (Zachary Booth, After Louie QSFF17) who now has a child of his own. Laura (Kristen Renton from Sons of Anarchy) is a fiercely independent paraplegic who is fighting her own demons. When circumstances bring the two together they find commonality in their struggles that may go beyond what they are ready for. As their undeniable connection deepens and they begin to fall in love, issues of trust come to the fore and threatens to derail both their lives again.

The hallmark of this film is that both cast and crew are comprised of people who identify with disability, helping to deliver an authentic, romantic and heartfelt character study about people striving to be better.

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Presented with Red Raw

Monsoon | Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020
Thu 20 Feb 7:00pm Event Cinemas, George St.
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Crazy Rich Asians’ sexy leading man Henry Golding stars in this poetic tale from director Hong Khaou (MGFF15’s Lilting).

Golding plays a gay man whose family left Vietnam when he was a child, and who returns to Saigon from the UK to distribute his parents’ ashes. As well as reconnecting with a cousin who reminds him of the world he left behind, he also hooks up with an American, Lewis (Parker Stevens) who has his own personal connection to Vietnam – their liaison offering both men a sympathetic ear.

Monsoon looks at the complexity of home and place, and how our culture, history, sexuality, and family history forms our identity. With the dreamy Golding as our guide, this beautifully shot and evocative film finds that the answers can sometimes be wondrously elusive.

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Crystal City | Australian Premiere
Thu 20 Feb, 9pm at Event Cinemas George St
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* Screening will be followed by a post-screening discussion *

The manic rush of crystal meth is powerfully brought to life in this confronting yet inspirational tale of addiction and recovery. Beautifully cinematic, this is one for anyone whose life has been touched by drug use and addiction.

Stick around for a post-screening discussion of the issues raised in Crystal City, providing local context to the film’s powerful portrayal of crystal meth use in New York’s gay community.

Lizzie | Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020
Fri 21 Feb 6:30pm
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Lizzie is a distinct feminist retelling of the notorious unsolved grisly axe murders of the wealthy Borden family in 1892.

At 32 years of age, unmarried and already deemed an outcast by her family and society, Lizzie Borden (Chloë Sevigny) strains against stifling social conventions and the domineering and abusive rule of her father, seeking solace in an intimate connection with the new housemaid Bridget (Kristen Stewart).

Lizzie dives deep into the possible psychology and motivations behind the murders that stopped a nation, speculating a passionate affair between the two women in an intense and unsettling character study that will have you squirming in your seat until the climactic finale.

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A perverse cyberthriller about corporate espionage, data and hardcore pornography from one of France’s best contemporary filmmakers.

Up-and-coming executive Diane (Connie Nielsen) lets nothing stand in her way when it comes to landing the lucrative Tokyo Anime contract for the Volf Corporation, guaranteeing worldwide exclusive rights to the latest in cutting-edge hentai. Despised by her assistant (Chloe Sevigny) and engaged in a risky game of corporate espionage, her ruthless ambition meets its match in Elaine (Gina Gershon), the charismatic representative of an American Internet pornography site called Demonlover. However, Demonlover is only a front for an online portal to the Hellfire Club, a site which gives its users control over the next big thing in interactive extreme pornography: real women, tortured according to subscribers’ whims, in real time.

An astoundingly prescient exploration of data hoarding, surveillance capitalism and violence, director Olivier Assayas’ (Personal Shopper, Irma Vep) fascinating slice of cyberpunk realism preempts the state of contemporary pornography distribution and the abhorrence of the dark web.

“…as one of the few examples of a film confronting contemporary media, its portrayal of a world inundated by visual demons is frightening, confusing, and very, very real.” – Michael Joshua Rowin, Reverse Shot

Directed by Olivier Assayas | 129 minutes | R 18+
Country: France
Year: 2002
Language: French, English, Japanese

Note: Contains scenes of actual sexual activity and dramatised depictions of sexual violence.

Girls Like Girls Shorts
Fri 21 Feb, 8:30pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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Winner of the Outfest Los Angeles Audience Award for Best Narrative Short 2019, Time & Again is just one from this assortment of shorts about queer women, regardless of how they identify. These are the stories of their discreet dalliances, stubborn grudges, cinematic escapades, roadside encounters, repressed crushes, long-awaited kisses and out-and-out romance in its purest form. Serious, silly, and even strange, these shorts stretch the bounds of genre, tone and the Kinsey scale whether it’s about going to karaoke, down memory lane, or to St Kilda beach in search of dolphins.

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An investigation of racial persecution in the form of a YouTube collage about a modern NFL legend.

Culling more than 700 video clips and placing them in dramatic, rapid, and radical juxtaposition, author David Shields explores the silence deployed by nonconformist NFL star Marshawn Lynch as a form of resistance. A powerful political parable about the American media-sports complex and its deep complicity with racial oppression.

“I couldn’t turn it off—smart, alive, brilliantly arranged, utterly fascinating.” – Guy Maddin

Directed by David Shields | 85 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Country: United States of America
Year: 2019
Language: English

A gonzo film diary about alienation set in Hong Kong’s contemporary art world.

Upon realising that the objective survey he intended to make about Art Basel Hong Kong – now the leading international art market in Asia – isn’t going according to plan, Andrew Hevia (co-producer of Moonlight) shifts focus, creating a personal and comedic study of heartbreak, culture shock, loneliness and the contemporary art world.

“Part travelogue, part essay film, and, in one surprising moment, part karaoke musical, Hevia’s doc is on-the-fly filmmaking that mirrors the all-encompassing attitude of its maker.” – Erik Luers, Filmmaker Magazine

Directed by Andrew Hevia | 69 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Country: United States of America
Year: 2019
Language: English, Cantonese

A model/sex worker deconstructs their identity through film and social media.

Digital celebrity Eva Collé left their conservative hometown in Italy at 17 in search of freedom, winding up an eternal subletter in Berlin like so many pseudo vagabonds before them. Broadcasting virtually all aspects of their life online, Collé quickly built an audience captivated by their honest approach to their body, sex work, and drug use. To Collé’s .Tumblr and Instagram followers, their unconventional life is like an inspiring film – one which has more plot strands and climaxes than any daily soap opera. An auto-biographical collaboration partially funded by Vice, Searching Eva sees Pia Hellenthal and Collé probing the distinction between persona and performance.

“As in Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not, in Searching Eva the audience’s boundaries, prejudices and tastes are most certainly challenged.” – Ola Salwa, Cineuropa

Directed by Pia Hellenthal | 84 minutes | 18+ | Australian Premiere
Country: Germany
Year: 2019
Language: English, German, Italian

Note: Contains scenes of actual sexual activity, intravenous drug use and references to sexual violence.

Lingua Franca | Australian Premiere
Sat 22 Feb, 6:30pm, Dendy Cinemas Newtown
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Enchanting and sensual, this gentle romance is a landmark drama written, directed, edited and starring critically acclaimed New York based transgender filmmaker Isabel Sandoval.

Fresh from the Venice Film Festival, Lingua Franca chronicles the struggles of Olivia – played by Sandoval – an undocumented Filipina transgender woman who cares for Olga, an elderly Russian grandmother in Brooklyn. Olivia’s search for love, security and a green card takes an unexpected turn following the arrival of an unlikely drifter who also happens to be Olga’s adult grandson and troubled abattoir worker, Alex.

Set against Trump-era immigration anxieties, Lingua Franca is both a sobering and visually mesmerising portrait of just some of the struggles facing the transgender community.

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Presented with Trans Pride Australia

A uniquely digital musical that’s Perfect Blue by way of machinima.

Set in a smoke-and-mirrors realm of fantastical architecture, sentient drones and snow-deluged jungles, AIDOL revolves around the long and complex struggle between humanity and Artificial Intelligence, telling the story of a fading superstar, Diva, who enlists an aspiring AI songwriter to mount a comeback performance at the 2065 eSports Olympic finale.

“…cyborgian imaginary, exaggerated Orientalist reveries, and the poetics of gaming culture cohere into an intensely compelling psychodrama.” – Michael Eby, The Brooklyn Rail

Directed by Lawrence Lek | 83 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2019
Language: English, Mandarin

Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life
Sat 22 Feb, 9:00pm, Event Cinemas, George St
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Offering explicit access to Israeli adult film star, Jonathan Agassi’s life, on camera and off, it’s often the unique bond with his supportive mum and their time together that’s the most fascinating to watch. Charting his rapid rise to fame and his attempts to cope with the pressures that brings, Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life is a personal story of addiction and survival. Filmed over eight years, it offers an at times confronting look behind the curtain at a man many think they know, but few have seen this naked and raw.

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Presented with Antenna Film Festival

A digital slacker double feature straight from America’s underground – a DIY proto-desktop film and the lo-fi/no budget answer to Good Time.

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0s & 1s

A loser’s life is thrown into disarray when he loses his laptop, in this proto-desktop film from the director of Spree (Sundance 2020) and Wobble Palace .

James Pongo has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest, all the click of a mouse away. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James’ hyper-connected reality takes a humiliating nosedive. Pre-empting the rise of desktop cinema, incorporating animated elements into its contemporaries’ more formally pure aesthetic, Kotlyarenko’s debut feature is a unique, prescient and above-all hilarious look at the ways in which technology has irrevocably trans/disfigured our lives.

“Kotlyarenko sees the ubiquity of the computer screen as a chance to redefine the language of cinema.” – Dylan Schenker, Vice

Directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko | 83 minutes | 15+ | International Premiere
Country: United States of America
Year: 2011
Language: English

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Jobe’z World

A rollerblading drug dealer discovers the power of viral video in this throwback to VHS-era trash cinema.

Jobe (Jason Grisell), a mysterious middle-aged rollerblader, spends his days selling drugs to an eclectic mix of downtown weirdos. When he gets the call to make a special delivery to his favorite actor (Theodore Bouloukos) he’s completely starstruck. What starts off as an exciting encounter with an A-list celebrity quickly devolves into a nightmarishly comedic trainwreck.

“Jobe’z World was obviously made on a shoestring; nonetheless, it features an independent-cinema all-star team of performers and crew members who’ve worked on a large and loosely linked series of films over the past decade…” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Directed by Michael M. Bilandic | 67 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Country: United States of America
Year: 2018
Language: English

A filmed social experiment that begins to resemble an internet comments section.

A renowned method of experimental social psychology is put to the test when artist Leigh Ledare takes a diverse group of twenty-eight participants (representing a cross-section of Chicago), as well as ten psychologists trained in the method, and asks them to study themselves—an abstract “task” that pushes the participants to examine their identities, roles, desires and biases. Far more revelatory than a standard documentary, this high concept art project/film hybrid speaks to the state of contemporary socio-political discourse

“…a two-hour glimpse of what happens when ‘people stop being polite and start getting real’—or at least, when they think they do.” – Steve Macfarlane, BOMB Magazine

Directed by Leigh Ledare | 118 minutes | 15+
Country: United States
Year: 2018
Language: English

Changing the Game
Sun 23 Feb, 1pm at Event Cinemas George St
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* Screening will be followed by a panel discussion, Game Plan: Affirmation and Inclusion in Australian Sport *

Changing the Game is a timely doco profiling three transgender teens fighting for their right to compete in the sports they love. Supported by their families, friends, and coaches, the film ultimately becomes a striking portrait of three teens chasing their dreams in a world yet to catch up to them.

Australian Premiere

Join Beau Newell, National Program Manager at Pride in Sport; trans athlete and pioneer Ricki Coughlan; Merrilee Barnes, Director of Inclusive Sport at the Australian Sports Commission; and Monique Schafter, Board Member of Twenty10, ABC journalist and Producer of the Well Played project, as they discuss Changing the Game and the hurdles faced by trans and gender diverse athletes in Australia.

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Presented with Pride in Sport

Two Japanese micro-influencers have a disappointing holiday abroad.

Missing phones, rooftop noise gigs, and a sudden dance sequence await two friends who win a trip to Singapore, as they get lost amongst the country’s tourist traps and urban sprawl. A departure from Daisuke Miyazaki’s low-key dramas about Japanese youth (Yamato and the upcoming Videophobia), Tourism is an amusing riff on materialism, alienation, and shopping centre design.

“Tourism isn’t a romantic comedy, rather it’s an exceedingly simple road movie that is no less entrancing for its lack of dramatic ambition” – Sean Gilman, MUBI Notebook

Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki | 77 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Country: Japan
Year: 2018
Language: Japanese, English, Malay

An intimate look at the lives of Ghanaian internet scammers.

Uncovering the secret lives of Ghanaian con-artists who trawl dumped e-waste for data, this intricate and meditative documentary centers on those who catfish unsuspecting Americans and Europeans as a means of escaping extreme poverty. A hyper-real aesthetic complicates Ben Asamoah’s exploration of his desperate subjects, as the film begins to resemble a narrative feature.

“Sakawa is compassionate without resorting to maudlin, one-dimensional sympathy, as dignifying of its subjects as it is willing to show some indelicate realities.” – Beatrice Loayza, MUBI Notebook

Directed by Ben Asamoah | 81 minutes | 15+ | NSW Premiere
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Year: 2018
Language: Akan, English, Ewe

An email to Miranda July kickstarts an amusing road trip in this Canadian quasi-doc.

When a Québécois filmmaker decides her creative practice needs a fresh start, she emails Miranda July out of the blue and, before getting any response, drives to Los Angeles with her cinematographer (Isabelle Stachtchenko, the film’s actual cinematographer). More than just a travelogue, Sophie Bédard Marcotte’s film is a playful take on documentary clichés (landscape film, op doc, the ‘cowboy film’) and a gently moving film about creative partnerships.

“Combining techniques of video installation art and documentary investigation, L.A. Tea Time is more than just a journey to meet a hero, or a journey to find one’s self; it’s a subtle process of finding the means to make sense of all the weird ideas we have rattling around our brains.” – Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Screen Anarchy

Directed by Sophie Bédard Marcotte | 82 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Country: Canada
Year: 2019
Language: French, English