Thursday 6 April 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
LOST IN PARIS is a 2016 French-Belgian comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. Fiona (played by Gordon) is a Canadian librarian who’s orderly life is disrupted when she receives a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha who is living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. As Fiona scours the city looking for her, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone.
LOST IN PARIS has an infectious absurdity with fanciful light-heartedness and charming performances.
LOST IN PARIS screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 6 April 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. 1hr 23min (not yet rated)
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
Thursday 2 March 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
To celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women – we are screening HIDDEN FIGURES a biographical drama that honours three brilliant African American women at NASA in the 1960s.
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
HIDDEN FIGURES screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 March 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated PG 2hr 7min
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
Thursday 2 February 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
BLIND AMBITION follows four friends who have conquered the odds to become South Africa’s top sommeliers after escaping starvation and tyranny in their homeland of Zimbabwe. Driven by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft and a sense of national pride, they form Zimbabwe’s first national wine tasting team and set their sights on the coveted title of ‘World Wine Tasting Champions’. From the moment they arrive in France to compete in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships (the Olympics of the wine world), this team of mavericks turns an establishment of privilege and tradition on its head.
BLIND AMBITION is a 2021 documentary from Australian writer-director-producers Robert Coe and Warwick Ross (Red Obsession). It won awards for Best Feature Documentary at Tribeca Festival and Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at Sydney Film Festival.
BLIND AMBITION screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 February 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 36min. In English, Shona and French with English subtitles
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
Thursday 1 December 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
Our gift to you… our FREE December film will be Three Summers, a 2017 feel-good comedy.
Three Summers is an Australian romantic comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton. It was filmed and is set in Western Australia, at a fictional summer music festival called ‘Westival’. The story revolves around a blossoming romance between two musicians, pretentious theremin player Roland (Robert Sheehan) and down-to-earth pub band fiddler Keevy (Rebecca Breeds), amidst a microcosm of Australian society.
In keeping with a ‘festival’ atmosphere, the film has a large ensemble cast including Magda Szubanski, Michael Caton, Deborah Mailman, Jacqueline McKenzie, John Waters and Kelton Pell.
THREE SUMMERS screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 December 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 35min
FREE entry (including supper and refreshments after the screening).
This event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend.
Thursday 3 November 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
Sami Blood is a 2016 Swedish coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Amanda Kernell, as her feature film debut. Inspired by the personal experience of Kernell’s grandmother, the deeply moving film is about what she calls an “untold” story and a “dark chapter” in Swedish history. Kernell is referring to the oppression of the Samis, also known as Lapps, an indigenous people who live in the far northern areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
The film is set in the 1930s with a frame story in the present day. At the start of the film, 78-year-old Christina, a Sami woman whose name as a child was Elle-Marja, comes with her son and granddaughter to a small town somewhere in Swedish Lapland to attend her younger sister’s funeral. Christina does not want to be there. She does not like the Sami people, and is disturbed when people speak to her in her first language, Southern Sami, which she can no longer understand. She even refuses to spend the night at her late sister’s family home and would rather check into a hotel. In the evening at the hotel, Christina remembers her childhood and the events that drove her away from her community.
SAMI BLOOD screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 3 November 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 48 min. English subtitles.
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
REMINDER: The 2021/2022 Annual General Meeting of the Corangamite Film Society will be held from 6.45pm – 7.15pm just prior to the screening of Sami Blood. All welcome to attend the AGM.
This event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend.
The 2021/2022 Annual General Meeting of the Corangamite Film Society will be held on Thursday 3 November 2022 at 6.45pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown. This will coincide with our November ‘Thursday Pictures’ film screening of Sami Blood at 7.30pm.
All are welcome to attend the AGM, and of course the film.
Thursday 6 October 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
One grey, foggy morning, a mysterious young man, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff, Stranger Things), crosses the border from the Ukraine into Poland, carrying only a massage table. When faced with a staid official at Warsaw’s immigration office, he secures the necessary residence permit by simply taking the man’s head in his huge, soft hands and massaging him into a trance.
From multi award-winning writer/director Małgorzata Szumowska (Elles) and her long-time cinematographer Michał Englert, NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN is a beguiling modern fable about an affluent gated community forever altered by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger who may – or may not – have powers of healing.
A reflection on class, immigration, and global warming with touches of magical realism and moments of sober beauty and subtle humour.
NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 6 October 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. From Poland, released in 2020. Rated M Comedy/Drama 1hr 53min. In Polish, Russian, French and Vietnamese with English subtitles.
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
The event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend.
Thursday 1 September 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
FLEE is a 2021 Danish animated documentary film that tells the true story of Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee. Amin grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, which now threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.
Revealing his story for the first time to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, his close friend and high-school classmate, Amin recounts the extraordinary journey he undertook as a child refugee from Afghanistan to Denmark. Made with a striking blend of animation, intimate interviews between Jonas and Amin, ‘80s music and archival footage, FLEE details an unforgettable story of self-discovery and a relentless will to survive.
FLEE screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 September 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 29min. Danish with English subtitles.
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
The event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend.
Wednesday 3 August 7.00pm DARLINGTON Mechanics Institute Hall, 2 Ware Street
The Duke UK 2020 (M) Drama/Comedy 1hr 36min
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. He sent ransom notes saying he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly – he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge.
Entry $5 with supper, tickets at the door.
Thursday 4 August 7.30pm Theatre Royal, 2 Bath Street CAMPERDOWN
The Gold Rush USA 1925 (G) Comedy/Silent 1hr 35min
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm. A delightful blend of slapstick humor, poignant emotion and social commentary, this Charlie Chaplin silent classic will feature live musical accompaniment by Richard Tankard.
Entry $10 with supper, tickets at the door.
Friday 5 August 7.00pm Phoenix Project, 56 Curdie St COBDEN
Forrest Gump USA 1994 (PG-13) Drama/Comedy 2hr 22min
A gentle, friendly Alabama man navigates through the major events of the 1960s and ’70s – the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events. Slow-witted Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother (Sally Field), he leads anything but a restricted life. Whether a college football star, fighting in Vietnam or captaining a shrimp boat, Forrest inspires people with his childlike and perpetual optimism. But one person Forrest cares about most may be the most difficult to save — his childhood love, the sweet but troubled Jenny (Robin Wright).
Saturday 6 August 7.30pm Theatre Royal, 2 Bath Street CAMPERDOWN
ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL Australia 2022 (not yet classified) Various
The St Kilda Film Festival is Australia’s longest running short film festival. Enjoy a curated screening featuring a selection of Australia’s Top Short Films presented across two sessions: Award Winners and Director’s Choice (with a short intermission between sessions).
Entry $15 with supper, snacks available to purchase at start and intermission, tickets at the door.
Sunday 7 August 3.00pm PORT CAMPBELL Arts Space, 50 Lord Street
First Cow USA 2019 (PG) Drama/Western 2hr 2min
Two travellers, a skilled cook and a Chinese immigrant, are on the run from a band of vengeful hunters in 1820s Oregon. They dream of striking it rich and soon collaborate, but their tenuous plan to make their fortune on the frontier comes to rely on the secret use of a landowner’s prized dairy cow.
FREE for Port Campbell Film Society members, $10 non-members, tea & coffee afterwards, tickets at the door.
Thursday 7 July 2022 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown
Our July film celebrates NAIDOC Week and the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
TJ is a hard-edged Aboriginal man who’s sick of scraping out an existence in the city. He travels to the tiny frontier town of Five Rivers in search of his son. Upon his arrival, TJ is confronted by the equally tough local cop Texas… and so begins a story about hard men battling to do the right thing by their family.
The movie is steeped in the distinctive music of the Pigram Brothers in collaboration with multi-ARIA Award winner Alex Lloyd. Their lilting ukulele and mandolin melodies weave like a dream through the central story.
Real people, with no acting experience, play the lead roles. This brings a tremendous intimacy and freshness to the movie. Developed in close collaboration over many years with director Brendan Fletcher, the actors play characters based on their own lives and the true stories of local aboriginal communities. Fletcher’s debut feature has the stamp of authenticity.
Mad Bastards screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 7 July 2022 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated MA15+ 1hr 36min.
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this content may contain images of people who have died.
$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.
The event will follow the current Victorian State Government Covid-19 regulations. NOTE: Out of respect for your own health and the health of other members, if you are unwell, please do not attend.
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