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Festival coverage

FilmFest Australia

2010

The Barbican-hosted festival reaches sweet 16 in 2010. It aims to showcase the best from the silver screen Down Under from the past 12 months and runs from March 18 to 28.

Featuring a host of European premieres, the festival showcases feature films and documentaries. There’s chance to see the best short films from Flickerfest and another free screening of highlights from Tropfest – the world’s biggest short film festival. Even if you're not in London, don't panic, the festival generally tours the UK afterwards.

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  • Road Train
    Review preview for Road Train

    Francis positively relishes taking his viewers on deranged, demonic detours down uncharted byroads of body horror, too, with grand guignol as icky as it is utterly irrational.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Supernatural chiller sees a camping trip to the outback turn sour.
  • Beautiful Kate
    Review preview for Beautiful Kate

    Beautiful Kate challenges familiar narratives of incest and abuse, presenting a far more subtle portrait of the disintegration of a group of people in a quietly desperate situation.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Drama sees old wounds reopened when a man returns home to his dying father.
  • Accidents Happen
    Review preview for Accidents Happen

    What emotional life there is in this set up - and with so much is going on, there isn't much - is crushed by dreadful narration.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    The struggles of a dysfunctional family in the years following a tragic accident.
  • Cedar Boys
    Review preview for Cedar Boys

    The scale is smaller and more personal, which adds to it credibility.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Crime is an irresistible temptation for first generation Lebanese Australians who want to rise above social racist barriers.
  • Bastardy
    Review preview for Bastardy

    Courtin-Wilson's approach is graceful, impressionistic and with the heart of a poet.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    The actor who founded Australia's first Aboriginal theatre company talks about his life, his heroin habit, and his criminal tendencies.
  • My Year Without Sex
    Review preview for My Year Without Sex

    Testing a family for breaking points within a comic framework is not exactly new territory, but Watt's scripting is sharp and she plays fast and loose with audience expectation in the cliche department.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Film traces a year of recovery in a family hit by sickness.
  • Balibo
    Review preview for Balibo

    Despite its structural instability, Connolly still manages to find plenty of poignancy and to gather an emotional head of steam.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing, a month later a veteran correspondent follows them, determined to find out the truth.
  • Contact
    Review preview for Contact

    The concept is flawed. The aboriginals have been exploited, not in a bad way, but in order to make a film.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The story of the indigenous Martu tribe, cleared from their land in 1964 to make way for rocket testing.
  • A Good Man
    Review preview for A Good Man

    A quite remarkable story of sacrifice, passion and commitment.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Tracking the life of an extraordinary family.
  • Bran Nue Dae
    Review preview for Bran Nue Dae

    On stage, energetic performances can overcome slight characterisation and shallow plotting but onscreen, the wafer-thin characters and lack of plot thrust are exposed.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A boy runs away from boarding school and goes on a surreal - and musical-number filled - roadtrip across Australia.

A–Z of FilmFest Australia 2010 reviews