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Date: 1-3 November 2003 Click here for full schedule
The festival will showcase Australian film ranging from Indigenous drama in Beneath Clouds and One Night the Moon to the modern psychological thriller Lantana. Other notable films include Walking on Water and Palme d'or best short film winner at Cannes 2003, Crackerbag. Beneath Clouds Lena is a fair skinned teenage girl with a dark skinned mother in an isolated town. She rejects the Indigenous family that surrounds her and longs for the love of her Irish father. Vaughn, a dark skinned teenage boy lives in an isolated prison camp. He is angry at the white world that surrounds him and lashes out when provoked. Incarceration has made him old before his time and has separated him from the love of his family. These two hardened young souls escape from their worlds and hitchhike together towards Sydney in a struggle for purpose, identity, and love.
Lantana A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex, and death. Not all of them survive. Lantana is a psychological thriller about love. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer, and the attempts we make to fix things up. Walking on Water Charlie and Anna make a pact to assist their terminally ill friend Gavin to die. This traumatic event is the catalyst for an emotional roller-coaster ride for both the friends and family. From illicit affairs and leftover morphine, to devastating accusations and unwitting betrayal, Walking on Water is a refreshingly unsentimental film about friendship, loss, loyalty, and love. One Night the Moon A musical drama about a young girl who runs away from home in outback Australia and her racist father who won't allow Aboriginal tracker Albert to search for her. Albert watches on helplessly as her tracks are stamped into the ground by the "white fellas". Crackerbag (Short Film) Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. In the frosty air on the big night Eddie lights the first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment, one of the seemingly small experiences that affect us for the rest of our lives. Set in the 1980s, Crackerbag is a gentle suburban observation which subtly reflects a disenchanting prelude to the coming age.Australian Film Focus is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in partnership with the Australian Film Commission.
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Australian actors and filmmakers are taking the world by storm winning international awards and acclaim. As part of Ancient Future - Australian Arts Festival Japan 2003, the Australian Film Commission and the Australia International Cultural Council will present a weekend of world class Australian films at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from 1-3 November.
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