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Guy Pearce stars as a British preacher caught up in 1830s Māori wars in The Convert, a sweeping historical drama. Pioneering, legendary New Zealand director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) joins us.

In 18th-century Denmark, an impoverished war hero played by Mads Mikkelsen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land. Nikolaj Arcel, director of the very good The Promised Land, is our guest.

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Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Direct from its Best First Film win at Cannes and screening at SFF, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel discusses Armand, which stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows.

Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal on his experience in front of and behind the camera on Apple TV's remake of legal thriller Presumed Innocent.

Artist & filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich talks about The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, her anti biopic about the French-Martinican surrealist, also screening at Sydney Film Festival.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Nathan Turnbull
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

 

Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) discusses her debut feature, a horror thriller starring Dakota Fanning called The Watchers.

Director Jaydon Martin on his award winning docu-fiction film Flathead which screens as part of Sydney Film Festival.

Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the couple behind cult Australian TV series Colin From Accounts talk about Season 2.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Bella Tropiano
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

We go behind the scenes on smash-hit stalker drama Baby Reindeer with cinematographer Krzysztof Trojnar. 

Academy Award winning director Kevin Macdonald on High & Low - John Galliano, a gripping look at the rise-and-fall story of one of the most influential names in couture fashion.

Cult Mexican star Eugenio Derbez talks about his role in Radical, where he plays a frustrated school teacher in a dangerous Mexican border town.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Jason is joined by Australian director George Miller and producer Doug Mitchell to talk Mad Max: Furiosa, the latest instalment in the post-apocalyptic action adventure film franchise starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Brazilian filmmaker Ana Vaz on It Is Night in America, a post-colonial eco-critique of modern day Brasilia which screens at ACMI as part of Senses of Cinema.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls + Roi Huberman
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Ahead of its second season, American actor Josh Brolin chats with Jason about his role in Outer Range, the sci-fi neo-Western story of a family's encounter with a mysterious black void. 

British production designer Christopher Oddy on The Zone of Interest, a film which took home multiple Oscars for its portrayal of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, as they strive to build a dream life for their family living beside the camp. 

In Australia for the German Film Festival, multi award-winning director Andreas Dresen on his affecting historical drama From Hilde, With Love, which depicts the true story of a young German woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. 
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown