Shayda | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 19, 2023
Australia’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award.
Australia’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award.
Eric Bana stars as a cop who returns to his dusty hometown to solve multiple murders, with red herrings aplenty.
A preternatural emotionally mature 12-year-old learns a lesson well, heals years of pain, and brings everyone together.
Based on the true stories of Cambodian fishermen survivors, the drama brutally depicts indentured servitude and slavery in Thailand’s fishing industry.
Part teen romance, disease-of-the-week weepies, and quirky comedy, Shannon Murphy’s debut film has a sheer sense of life that gives it a rare power.
The script walks a sometimes uneasy line between genuine darkness and a Monty Python–esque embrace of anachronism and the bizarre.
An arresting and alarming documentary scrutinizes racism on the football field and throughout Australian culture, as experienced by one of the country’s star players.
If Jennifer Kent’s first film, The Babadook (2014), had a sinister undercurrent, her new and more multifaceted film unleashes it in full force.