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Film: The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon
Melbourne International Film Festival
Tue 4 Aug, Sun 9 Aug

With his new film, Michael Haneke ploughs his customary fields of collective guilt, invididual crime, shrouds of secrecy and social dysfunction. Set in an Austrian village…

Film: Treeless Mountain


Treeless Mountain
Melbourne International Film Festival
Sun 26 July, Thu 30 July

Yet another gorgeous film on children, Treeless Mountain looks at two teeny tiny girls, whose mother drops them off to an aunt in the South Korean…

Film: Still Walking

Still Walking
Melbourne International Film Festival
Screening Wednesday July 29 at 12.15pm

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films – a retrospective of which Melbourne International Film Festival presented in 2007 – all share a preoccupation with death and loss. His cinematic…

Preview: Focus on Girls 24/7

Focus on Girls 24/7 is in turns entertaining, infuriating and eye-opening: from somnambular victims of society to pragmatic bread-winners and defiant rebels, girlhood is examined in all its aspects.

Theatre: Oedipus – A Poetic Requiem

At its peaks, Oedipus, performed in a Brunswick garage, touches on theatre heaven. Although it requires a jump-start.

Theatre: The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest

Twelve Restless performers, with different levels and types of disability, are confronted with twelve fully-able Rawcus performers in this fascinating exploration of the mystery of the other.