END CREDITS FILM CLUB
Screening Art House, Independent Features, Festivals and Documentaries in a variety of locations around Cairns City and regions. CLICK THE EVENT TITLE NAME OR IMAGE TO BUY TICKETS.
Unseen Cinema - I'M STILL HERE (M) Brazil 137 mins
Sunday 27 April 2025
Awards
ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD WINNER: BEST ACTRESS FERNANDA TORRES
DIRECTED BY:
Walter Salles
STARRING:
Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship.
Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.
The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
"...It’s impossible not to be moved to tears by "I’m Still Here," an emotional powerhouse which finds its bruised heart in the understated, overwhelming performance by Torres, which represents acting at its finest, the kind of portrayal that awards were created to reward..."
- Peter Travers ABC News
Portuguese with English subtitles.
(M) 137 mins.
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
Unseen Cinema - TWILIGHT TIME (CTC) Au 89 mins
Sunday 20 July 2025
TWILIGHT TIME: DESMOND BALL – THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD
Nominated ‘Best Documentary Broadcast and Exhibition’, Australian Writers Guild, 2025
Twilight Time looks at the life and work of Desmond Ball, (1947-2016), a barefooted academic from ‘down under’ who was hailed by Jimmy Carter as “the man who saved the world”, as he proved the fallacy of the doctrine of limited nuclear war.
Des gazed at spy bases around the world and worked out what they did and why.
His investigation of the controversial US military base Pine Gap during the ’80s enraged ASIO—which kept a security file on him.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ball offered guidance on signals intelligence in Burma and Thailand, and his work in East Timor revealed secrets the government would have preferred to keep hidden.
An important though under-acknowledged Australian, Des Ball died in October 2016.
He is remembered as the ‘Insurgent Intellectual’.
TWILIGHTTIMETHEFILM.COM.AU
In English.
(CTC) 89 mins.
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
Unseen Cinema - GRAND TOUR (M) Portugal 129 mins
Sunday 30 March 2025
Awards
WINNER
Cannes Film Festival 2024 | Best Director
NOMINEE
Cannes Film Festival 2024 | Palme d’Or
Chicago International Film Festival 2024 | Best Feature
Sydney Film Festival 2024| Best Feature
Film Fest Gent 2024 | Best Feature
Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married.
During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy.
Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly…
Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
Chinese | Burmese | Filipino | French | Japanese | Thai | Portuguese | Vietnamese | with English subtitles.
(M) 129 mins.
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
Unseen Cinema - NO OTHER LAND (MA) Norway,Palestine 96mins
Sunday 16 March 2025
One of the most important films of the year — winner of this year's Academy Award Oscar (Documentary) and both the ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Audience’ awards at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival — NO OTHER LAND is a sobering yet inspiring tale of Palestinian resistance under occupation.
Basel Adra is a young Palestinian activist and lawyer from Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank.
Yuval Abraham, an Israeli investigative journalist, lives a starkly different life to Adra.
Striking up an unlikely friendship, the two commit themselves to documenting and protesting the demolition of Palestinian communities in the West Bank with the help of an Israeli-Palestinian filmmaking collective.
Audience award winner at numerous festivals worldwide, NO OTHER LAND is a vital and inspiring testament to the resilience of the Palestinian people.
In Arabic, Hebrew & English with subtitles (MA) 96 mins.
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
Unseen Cinema - PARTHENOPE (MA) Italy 136 mins
Sunday 2 March 2025
OFFICIAL SELECTION -
2024 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
A new film from Academy Award-winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, Youth, The New Pope) is always an event to celebrate, and PARTHENOPE – his visually and aurally stunning, decades-spanning romantic drama about a Neapolitan woman’s search for happiness and fulfilment - is no exception.
An intoxicating and complex reflection on the way people see themselves and others, Sorrentino’s film provocatively shifts between the sacred and the profane. With gasp-worthy visuals from award-winning cinematographer Daria D’Antonio (The Hand Of God), fashion design by Saint Laurent, and a perfectly pitched soundscape, PARTHENOPE does for Naples, Capri and the Amalfi Coast what The Great Beauty did for Rome. It’s a spectacular and immersive experience.
“Ravishing. What a world Paolo Sorrentino creates. A work of casual mastery; it’s great and it’s beautiful. - Steve Pond - THE WRAP
In Italian with English subtitles. (MA) 136 mins
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
Unseen Cinema - MY FAVOURITE CAKE (M) Iran 97 mins
Sunday 16 February 2025
A charming portrayal of a 70-year-old Iranian's appetite for romance, with Lily Farhadpour as a woman fiercely determined to revitalise her mundane existence and taste a better life.
Mahin (70) lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.
But as Mahin opens herself up to new romance, what begins as an unexpected encounter quickly evolves into an unpredictable, unforgettable evening.
As well as everything else, this wonderfully sweet and funny film will contribute to the debate about whether repressive regimes are the nursery of artistic greatness.
Peter Bradshaw - Guardian
100% Rotten Tomatoes Fresh score.
In Persian M 97 mins
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
Unseen Cinema - OUT OF SEASON (M) FR 116 mins
Sunday 9 February 2025
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2023 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (In Competition)
Two of contemporary European cinema’s brightest stars - Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher - are electric together in award-winning writer/director Stéphane Brizé's achingly tender and charming new romance about two former lovers who unexpectedly cross paths in a sleepy holiday town.
Lovely. Deeply, searchingly romantic and beautifully performed.
Guy Lodge - VARIETY
A beautiful film. Aided by two perfectly judged performances from his leads, Stephane Brize gives us a masterclass in how to make an unforced and fully engaging drama about relationships and lost love. Achingly touching.
Julian Wood - FILMINK
Brilliantly handled. A thought-provoking exploration of the idea of true love.
Stephen Romei - THE AUSTRALIAN
Very moving. Facing a luminous Alba Rohrwacher, Guillaume Canet is funny and charming.
Catherine Balle -LE PARISIEN
In French M 116 mins
Event Cinemas Cairns Central
