2019 Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival program has been announced and trailer released!
The Festival will open with the cheeky, star-studded Danish comedy HAPPY ENDING from actress-turned-director Hella Joof (2015 Scandi FF smash hit All Inclusive). Top Danish actors Birthe Neumann (five Robert Awards from the Danish Film Academy, two Bodils from the Danish Film Critics) and Kurt Ravn (two Bodils) head up the cast, which also includes Mette Munk Plum (Borgen), Tammi Øst (The Killing) and Scandi FF 2017 guest Charlotte Sieling (The Man, Borgen, Homeland).
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Dendy Portside is hosting a special screening of Chololat as part of Chocfest at Portside Wharf!
Nobody could have imagined the impact that Vianne would make when she arrived in a tranquil, old-fashioned French town. In her very unusual chocolate shop, she creates mouth-watering confections that almost magically inspire the straitlaced villagers to abandon themselves to temptation and happiness. When a handsome Irish Gypsy arrives in town, Vianne is finally able to recognize her own desires.
Chocfest Chocolat Screening
2pm Sunday July 7
Dendy Portside, Brisbane
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Ibsen’s GHOSTS returns to haunt Brisbane audiences this July!
Originally banned from performance when first written in 1881, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is set to intrigue and electrify Brisbane when it returns to the stage after a 30-year hiatus. Opening Saturday 20 July 2019 at The Curators Vintage Pop Up Theatre in Red Hill, acclaimed director Michael Beh has adapted this new production of Ibsen’s classic, so it remains a relevant, scorching view of the destructive nature of secrets and the social codes that bind them.
The production brings ...
West End Film Festival calls action on 10th Birthday!
The short film competition, held in one of Brisbane’s most vibrant communities, will mark the milestone by doubling its major prize to $3000.
Two new co-directors will spearhead WEFF in 2019: documentary filmmaker Adam Finney and photographer and videographer Anthony Toci.
The duo is working with an industry and community judging panel to curate five screenings of officially selected films across three days.”
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A 30th Anniversary Screening of When Harry Met Sally is coming to Dendy Cinemas!
Featuring dazzling performances from Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby, When Harry Met Sally is an explosively funny commentary on friendship, courtships - and other hardships - of the modern age.
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Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate during their travels from Chicago to New York. Will these two best friends ever accept the attraction that's existed since the very first moment When ...
Queensland Theatre is bringing Storm Boy to QPAC this July!
Young Storm Boy lives a simple yet free life on the coastal wilds of the South Australian Coorong, combing the beaches with his reclusive father, Hideaway Tom.
During a long summer, he makes two friends who will shepherd him from childhood into adulthood: the jester Fingerbone Bill, who teaches him about his country; and Mr Percival, an orphaned pelican who prepares Storm Boy for the wider world with a poignant lesson about love, loss and letting go.
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The Boy Diver Exhibition at Metro Arts
Here, the artist returns to their tenth birthday party, where they would find a treasure at the bottom of a public pool: a $1 coin. The exhibition focuses, not on obtaining the coin, but on reaching for it and the potentiality of this moment of endeavour and expectation. As the coin’s glint is followed through the water, the uncertainty of the moment suggests a flow of energies, yet to be regulated, that have unrestricted potential.
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Laser Beak Man is coming to QPAC this October!
Power City was once the most beautiful city in the world – clean, pure, perfect – and local hero Laser Beak Man worked hard to keep it that way. Drawing energy from the underground Magna Crystals that power the city, his beak-shot lasers turn bad things to good. But now the city isn’t what it used to be, and Laser Beak Man is thoroughly over it. That is until his estranged childhood friends Peter Batman and Evil Emily return to steal the Magna Crystals. Robbed of his super powers, ...
Giantess – written and perfomed by Cassie Workman – is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse
Taken to a strange house, Sam’s captor tells her she is sick and can never ever leave. Now only the power of a giant can save her.
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Created by the multi-award-winning comedian Cassie Workman, Giantess is a story of self acceptance. Interweaving music, comedy, storytelling and illustration, Cassie’s one-person-show explores the anguish of coming to terms with a gender identity that doesn’t match your body.
Giantess
Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
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The Beatles’ Abbey Road Live 2019 Australia Tour
The album will be performed in full, from start to finish, followed by a second set comprising of a selection of Beatles hits.
Joining ARC live on stage will be special guests Ash Naylor, Linda Bull, Brett Wolfenden and James Fleming.
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'Abbey Road' is a stately, majestic, playful yet fiercely rocking masterpiece of pop music, often regarded as one of the greatest records of all time. It is the 11th studio album by The Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by ...
