Looking to Spring: Fear and Regeneration in Noora Niasari’s Shayda

To Hell with Elevation: Ritual, Power and Transformation in Talk to Me

Valley of Iniquity: Escaping Subjugation in Gloriavale

Haunting Portraits: Intimacy and Identity in Alena Lodkina’s Petrol

No Turning Back: Temporality, Displacement and Desire in Goran Stolevski’s Of an Age

First Person Plural: Art and Provocation in Larissa Behrendt’s You Can Go Now

‘Enter My House Justified’: Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Man on Earth and Assisted Suicide on Screen

In Hot Pursuit: The Spirit of Alfred Hitchcock in Roadgames

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Focus on Asia and the Middle East

Interrupted Youth: Forced Marriage in Hà Lệ Diễm’s Children of the Mist

Open Investigations: Love and Obsession in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave

Out of Water: Genre, Turkish Cinema and Emin Alper’s Burning Days

No Place to Run: Inescapable Politics in Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon

Screen Education

Toys Are Us: Feminism, Consumerism and Becoming in Barbie

Cinema Science: Plumbing the Depths of Avatar: The Way of Water

Assembling the Debris: Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone

Stoking the Fire: The Rousing Fictions of RRR

The NFSA Restores Collection

Australia Daze

Strictly Ballroom

Celia

Rocking the Foundations

Floating Life

From the Archive

Telling Our Love Story: AIDS, Adaptation and Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man

The Home Song Stories: Making It Real

An Independent Vision: An Interview with Rolf de Heer

beDevilling

Australian Film Industry Profile: Paul Cox

My Brilliant Career

The Electric Artist

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Film Appraisals

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