Film Reviews

SPECIAL EVENT: This is a special DREAM Festival film event, screening two feature films from the 2022 Lebanese Film Festival.

Daughters of Abdul Rahman
Four estranged and very different sisters are forced back together to find their missing father. This film looks at the patriarchal society in the Arab world as it affects men and women.

Memory Box
Maia and her daughter Alex, living in Montreal Canada, receive a parcel containing items from Maia’s past, when she was living in Lebanon during the Civil War in the 1980’s. Secrets are revealed when Alex delves into the contents of the box which Maia does not want to revisit.

Don’t miss these two spectacular films screening on August 28. FIRST COW follows a highly skilled survivalist and cook as he stumbles upon a group of traders. PIG is about a truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness and must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

Join Dubbo Film Society for its 1-day film festival.
We have carefully selected 5 diverse films for you to enjoy throughout the day.
There will be a 1-hour lunch and dinner break, and the bar will be open during all intermissions. There is no catering provided for the film festival.
Remember to rug up and bring your blankets.

Set in Argentina in 2001, when the economy was on the brink of collapse, this film has a small group of neighbours banding together to steal back money from a shady bank manager and crooked lawyer who conned them out of their hard-earned savings.

RESPECT follows the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career — from a child singing in her father’s church choir to her international superstardom — the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul.

Teacher Antoinette is looking forward to a holiday with her lover. To her horror, however, he cancels on her and takes his family to the mountains. When she follows him, she ends up on a trekking tour with a donkey.

New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger.

Four teacher friends start a social experiment in Thomas Vinterberg’s smart and ultimately moving “Another Round.” Based on a belief that the human body is born with too low an alcohol level, they strive to maintain a 0.05% BAC at all times—buzzed but far from drunk

Fern (Frances McDormand) is grieving a life that’s been ripped away from her. It seems like she was relatively happy in Empire, Nevada, one of those many American small towns built around industry. When the gypsum plant there closed, the town of Empire quite literally closed with it.

This is possibly the most joyous, life-affirming film ever to be made about terminal disease. Australian director Shannon Murphy’s feature debut, Baby Teeth, is a marvel; the kind of skittish, reckless film-making that makes you want to rush headlong into bad decisions and savour every last messy moment of the fallout.