The Turning

Sep 25, 2013

3h 0m

★ 5.6

A unique cinema event.

Overview

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Arenamedia

Screen Australia

Madman Films

LevelK

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Film Victoria

ScreenWest

Lotterywest

Studio Balloon

Scarlett Pictures

8th In Line Productions

Film Camp

Sacred Cow Films

Matchbox Pictures

Savage Films

Brown Cab

Bangarra Dance Theatre

Little Window Pictures

Dirty Films

Soft Tread Enterprises

Warp Films

Circa Contemporary Circus

Carver Films

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Colin Friels

Davo

James Fraser

Biggie

Henri Phillips

Meg

Nikita Leigh-Pritchard

Narrator (voice)

Tim Winton

Vic Lang

Joseph Pedley

Melanie

Cheyanne Pearce

David Wilson

Callan Mulvey

Young David

Alex Bryans

Alan Mannering

Gwy McKenna

Alan's Friend

Chad Smith

Alan's Friend

Brooklyn Bathurst

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

6.0

Canine

Jul 20, 2016

Karin and Peter have been married for almost 15 years. From the outside, they seem happy, but behind the closed doors of the house there is a repression. Then the dog Orion steps into their lives ...

7.7

Dreams

May 11, 1990

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

6.5

The Last Supper

Sep 8, 1995

A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.

6.5

Titus

Dec 25, 1999

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

5.8

Day Night Day Night

May 25, 2006

A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision—she has made it already.

7.0

Children of Glory

Oct 23, 2006

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team, is torn between his love for a revolutionary student and his training for the Melbourne Olympics.

5.9

Catch and Release

Oct 20, 2006

For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

4.9

The Merry Widow

Nov 1, 2007

Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

7.4

Selma

Dec 25, 2014

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

5.5

The Weight of Water

Sep 9, 2000

A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.

6.0

The Dead Girl

Nov 7, 2006

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

5.6

Then She Found Me

Sep 7, 2007

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.

6.1

Meet Bill

Sep 7, 2007

A mild-mannered bank executive mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a doughnut merchant.

6.0

Broken English

Nov 22, 2007

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.

6.0

Death Defying Acts

Sep 13, 2007

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

6.3

Lost and Found

Feb 10, 2005

Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of 'generation'.

5.4

Sticky Notes

Feb 1, 2017

The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle while looking after six year old Honey Bunny who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.

5.0

Imitation Girl

Mar 4, 2017

A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.

7.2

Mädchen in Uniform

Nov 27, 1931

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

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