History meets patisserie in this extravagant feast for the senses, from director Laura Gabbert (City of Gold), exploring the mouth-watering intersection between food, culture, and history. Documenting the collaboration between world-renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Gabbert follows five visionary pastry chefs as they work to craft a …
By the 1970s the global counter-culture movement had well and truly reached Australia, seeing young, educated hippies from well-to-do families moving to the Bellingen region to live an alternate lifestyle. Back then, Bellingen was a rundown, very quiet country town with many businesses quietly suffering. New ideas, new ways of living – and a new …
The year is 1919. Australian colonial soldier Travis (Simon Baker, Breath) leads a military operation that goes horribly wrong, ending in the massacre of nearly an entire tribe of Indigenous Dharrpa people. Twelve years later, a campaign of vengeful attacks upon white settlers rocks the region. A feared Dharrpa warrior, Baywara (Sean Mununggurr), seeks retribution, …
WINNER · RISING STARS AWARD · TIFF In Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s deeply disturbing debut feature, a traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity. Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) is a woman treading water. In a loveless marriage, Miriam hopes to find direction through a weekend reunion with her estranged younger sister Greta her …
WINNER · BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE · HOT DOCS Meet Zeytin (the Turkish word for ‘olive’) a stray dog living on the streets of Istanbul, in this deceptively simple documentary all about the dogs of Istanbul by Elizabeth Lo. Bringing the camera to Zeytin’s level, we see the world through her eyes, her seemingly impossible world …
A food and wine celebration comes to SWIFF! The festival hosts acclaimed executive chefs Richie Dolan and Carla Jones from The Hilltop Store and Hilltop At The Lodge as they prepare a four course plus canapes degustation menu. Paired together with matching wines by Treasury Wine Estates at CHEC’s Osprey Restaurant. Carla and Richie are …
