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Thursday 2 May 2024 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

THE GIANTS explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in a poetic portrait of environmentalist Bob Brown and the Forest. Brown’s trailblazing life helps narrate the exhilarating rise of the environmental movement in Australia. From a seedling to forest elder, the film is a masterclass that draws on Brown’s 50 years of inspiring activism, from the Franklin campaign for Tasmania’s last wild river, to today’s battle for the Tarkine rainforest. Told in Bob’s own words, his story is interwoven with the extraordinary life cycle of Australia’s giant trees, brought to the screen with stunning cinematography and immersive forest landscapes. The film combines monumental ‘tree portraits’ and animated ‘3D forest scans’ with spine-tingling sound design and a powerful soundtrack featuring human vocals – to literally give a voice to these trees.

One of Australia’s most successful documentaries of 2023, THE GIANTS aims to ignite a conversation about the right of the Forest to exist – and to inspire us to save it. The film inspired national rallies, put deforestation on the political agenda, and mobilised countless individuals and community groups to stand up for forests.

THE GIANTS screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 May 2024 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 1hr 53min. From Australia in 2023, Documentary/Animation/Biography.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening. No bookings required, just turn up before 7.30pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 4 April 2024 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

CONTENT WARNING: This story discusses sexual assault.

The 2022 film WOMEN TALKING, written and directed by Sarah Polley, is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Miriam Toews, who describes the novel as “an imagined response to real events”. The real events occurred between 2005 and 2009 when over 100 women and girls living in Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia, woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep. The attacks were denied or dismissed by the exclusively male elders of the colony, as the work of ghosts, or Satan, or that the women were lying to get attention. Finally it was revealed that a group of men from the colony were spraying animal anaesthetic to sedate entire households in order to sexually assault the women and girls.

While the men of the colony are away to post bail for the rapists, the women meet in secret to plot their response to the systemic male violence. Whether to stay and do nothing, stay and fight, or leave the colony. The women must grapple with the fundamentals of their faith and their lack of power and freedom within it. How do the women maintain their faith in light of the abuse, and will they be denied entry into heaven if they refuse to forgive their offenders?

The film features an ensemble cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand, who also served as a producer on the film. 

WOMEN TALKING screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 4 April 2024 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. USA Rated M 1hr 44min 

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening. No bookings required, just arrive before 7.30pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 7 March 2024 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

THE BLUE CAFTAN is 2022 Moroccan Arabic-language drama film directed by Maryam Touzani, and written by Touzani with the collaboration of Nabil Ayouch. 

Mina (Lubna Azabal) and her husband Halim (Saleh Bakri) run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. To keep up with the demands of their customers they hire Youseff (Ayoub Missioui) as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.

Woven with exquisite care, THE BLUE CAFTAN reveals a beautiful love triangle exploring mortality and sexuality in a small Moroccan town. Touzani presents a complex marriage with tenderness and grace in a sincere and superbly performed film that unfolds in unexpected and heartening ways. 

THE BLUE CAFTAN has won several awards including winner of Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2022 and Audience Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2022.

THE BLUE CAFTAN screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 7 March 2024 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated M 2hr 2min Arabic 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. No bookings required, just arrive before 7.30pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 1 February 2024 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

A BOY CALLED SAILBOAT is a 2018 American-Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Nugent and starring Lew Temple, Elizabeth De Razzo, Noel Gugliemi, Jake Busey and J. K. Simmons. 

In a slanted dwelling beyond the outskirts of a drought-ridden town, a close Hispanic family accept an impossible blessing and name their only son Sailboat. Sailboat stirs new love and hope in his family who forge a simple but proud life in the deep South West of America. One afternoon he brings home a “little guitar” and from this moment, Sailboat and his ukulele are inseparable. When his gravely ill grandmother instructs him to write a song for her, Sailboat meanders through adversity to deliver the unimaginable – the greatest song ever written.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2020, the soundtrack from A BOY CALLED SAILBOAT was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.

A BOY CALLED SAILBOAT screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 February 2024 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. Rated PG 1hr 32min.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening. No bookings required, just turn up before 7.30pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 7 December 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

Our gift to you…  our FREE film for December will be EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. 

Incredible acting, stunning visuals, and a really deep, powerful story – Everything Everywhere All at Once has it all!

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American independent absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film incorporates elements from a number of genres and film mediums, including surreal comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts, an immigrant narrative, and animation.

Evelyn Quan Wang, a middle-aged Chinese-American immigrant who, while audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse. 

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 7 December 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown.  2hr 19min (MA15+) Action/Adventure/Comedy

FREE entry (including supper and refreshments after the screening). 

No bookings required, just turn up before 7.30pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown. 

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 2 November 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

A STITCH IN TIME is an Australian drama from 2022 described as ‘one of the most heart-warming films of the year’, that beautifully celebrates the joys of friendship, culture and never giving up on your dreams.

Former dressmaker Liebe (Maggie Blinco) reinvents herself after befriending young Chinese fashion designer Hamish (Hoa Xuande). When Liebe’s partner Duncan (founding frontman of Little River Band Glenn Shorrock) loses his job singing at the local pub, Liebe throws herself into helping Duncan realise his dream to record an album. Inspired by Hamish, Liebe decides to make clothes again to support Duncan financially, but quickly reignites a long-forgotten passion for her craft.

A STITCH IN TIME is a joyful and moving journey that beautifully celebrates age, culture, and the diversity of Australian life. From the executive producer of Ladies in Black and writer/director Sasha Hadden, and expertly shot by cinematographer Don McAlpine ACS ASC (The Dressmaker, Moulin Rouge!) A STITCH IN TIME is an ode to the power of community and friendships that come from the most unexpected places.

A STITCH IN TIME screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 2 November 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown.  1hr 38min (M)

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 5 October 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

A tender and sweeping story, MINARI follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, MINARI shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Led by arresting performances from Steven Yeun and Yeri Han, MINARI offers an intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of family and assimilation in 1980s America.

MINARI screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 5 October 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. 

USA 2020 (PG) Drama 1hr 55min English and Korean with some 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 2022/2023 Annual General Meeting of the Corangamite Film Society will be held from 6.45pm – 7.15pm just prior to the screening of MINARI. All are welcome to attend the AGM.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

The 2022/2023 Annual General Meeting of the Corangamite Film Society will be held on Thursday 5 October 2023 at 6.45pm at the Killara Centre, Camperdown.
This will coincide with our October ‘Thursday Pictures’ film screening of Minari at 7.30pm.

All are welcome to attend the AGM, and of course the film.

For any enquiries email thursdaypictures@gmail.com

Thursday 7 September 2023 – 7.30pm @ Killara Centre, Camperdown

In this 2017 charming French comedy, written and directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a battle-weary wedding planner working on his last luxury wedding in a 17th century French castle. The celebration soon gets out of control, as Max must deal with a volatile, foul-mouthed assistant, missing staff, rebellious waiters, an egocentric groom, broken electrical system and substitute DJ, turning every moment of joy and emotion into a disaster ending in chaos. They tackle it all, sometimes successfully, other times failing spectacularly, as the night builds toward an unexpected climax.

C’EST LA VIE! screens at 7.30pm on Thursday 7 September 2023 in the Killara Centre, Camperdown. 1hr 57min (M) French with subtitles.

$10 entry for guests or $30 for a 3 x film membership subscription. The entry fee includes supper and refreshments after the screening.

For more information, contact thursdaypictures@gmail.com

UPDATE: Friday 4 August 2023 ‘The Covenant’

We are now screening ‘The Covenant’ at 7.30pm in the Theatre Royal, 2 Bath St CAMPERDOWN.

If you purchased your ticket via Trybooking.com you will be fully refunded.
Tickets are available at the door at the Theatre Royal. Entry $10 BYO