80 mins |
Rated
TBC
Playing as part of the NEW DIRECTIONS: FILM SERIES from 13-15 April 2023, brought to you by the Goethe Institut.
Entry to the series is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies, due to the ticketing system the ticket appears with a cost of $0.01 and a booking fee of $1.50) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.
Isabell Šuba’s daring, queer-feminist satire and first feature is a bold and thrilling synthesis of high-concept and low-brow. Shot swiftly over three days ‘on location’, Suba follows an actress playing her during their trip to Cannes, where the 65th edition of the film festival has invited her short film to screen. While there, she encounters a litany of chauvinistic behavior—her ineffectual producer sublets their apartment to other guests, and she realizes that there are no other films in competition directed by women. Combined with devastating investor feedback on her new project, these incidents come together and make this real-life comedy of errors a more hyperbolic comment on the rampant hypocrisies and sexism of the film industry than any fictionalized parody ever could.
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Playing as part of the NEW DIRECTIONS: FILM SERIES from 13-15 April 2023, brought to you by the Goethe Institut.
Entry to the series is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies, due to the ticketing system the ticket appears with a cost of $0.01 and a booking fee of $1.50) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.
Isabell Šuba’s daring, queer-feminist satire and first feature is a bold and thrilling synthesis of high-concept and low-brow. Shot swiftly over three days ‘on location’, Suba follows an actress playing her during their trip to Cannes, where the 65th edition of the film festival has invited her short film to screen. While there, she encounters a litany of chauvinistic behavior—her ineffectual producer sublets their apartment to other guests, and she realizes that there are no other films in competition directed by women. Combined with devastating investor feedback on her new project, these incidents come together and make this real-life comedy of errors a more hyperbolic comment on the rampant hypocrisies and sexism of the film industry than any fictionalized parody ever could.