German Film Festival The 12th annual Audi Festival of German Films will screen 9-13 May at Cinema Paradiso. For ‘More Than Honey’, director Marcus Imhoof flew around the world four times to collect amazing footage of honey bee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia. He compares his grandfather’s bee keeping practices with modern day [...]
Warm Bodies (M) Directed by Jonathan Levine R (Nicholas Hoult) is not your typical Zombie. He is a bit of a collector and has made a home in a crashed aeroplane. He worries about his bad posture, pale skin, shuffling gait and the fact that he can’t connect with other Zombies at the abandoned airport [...]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (MA) Directed by Stephen Chbosky On his first day at his Pittsburgh high school, the extremely introverted Charlie (Logan Lerman) is saved from complete social embarrassment when two seniors let him sit at their lunch table. Openly gay Patrick (Ezra Miller) and extrovert-with-a-past Sam (Emma Watson) are step [...]
Dead Europe Directed by Tony Krawitz Vassili Raftis (William Zappa) is cursed, and so are his sons even though they don’t believe and all that stuff from the old country. Photographer Isaac (WAAPA’s Ewen Leslie) and his brother Nico (Marton Csokas) were born in Australia after their Greek parents migrated. Although their father forbade his [...]
Mental (mA) Directed by PJ Hogan The Australian director who shot to fame with Muriel’s Wedding had an interesting upbringing. At the launch of his latest Australian film, after spending the intervening time in Hollywood, PJ Hogan spoke about his mother having a nervous breakdown and being institutionalized when he was 12 years of age. [...]
Moonrise Kingdom Directed by Wes Anderson It is the summer of 1965, on an island off the coast of New England and 12 year-olds Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman) and Suzy Bishop (Kara Haywood) are in love. Sam is on a scouting camp and doesn’t get on with the other scouts or his foster family, [...]
The AICE Israeli FIlm Festival is heading to Perth next month, playing at Cinema Paradiso from September 4 – 12. OUTinPerth’s film buff Lezly Herbert took a sneak peak at the films on offer and reported back on the queer highlights contained within. Melting Away Directed by Doran Eran Returning home from a party, Assaf [...]
The film features a quartet of gay male friends- Eddie (Dylan Fergus), our hero, a gay cop with a fondness for rough trade (his handcuffs are in use both on and off duty); Hank Harris as Joey, a wannabe leatherdaddy (problem being that he looks about 12, so he’s less a leatherdaddy and more [...]
Directed by Mientras Duermes Spanish Film Festival Cesar (Luis Tosar) is a concierge at a small apartment in Barcelona. He seems like a friendly guy and even does extra favours for one of the elder residents. So why is the daughter of one of the families blackmailing him? Like all good horror films, the reason [...]
Directed by Genevieve Bailey Independent filmmaker Genevieve Bailey admits that the idea for I Am Eleven originated when she wanted to get away from things, to travel and make something interesting. She remembers being eleven years of age when the world felt big and everything seemed possible, so her excuse to film in every country [...]
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