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Naman Ramachandran
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Invisible Republic What is Australian independent cinema making of the wider world right now? Five answers are set to emerge at the Cannes Film Festival next month, where the Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes program will present works in progress to international buyers and programmers.
The selection is notable for its geographic reach. Dan Jackson’s documentary “Death of a Shaman” is an Australia-Ecuador co-production documenting an Indigenous community’s confrontation with foreign oil interests. Agnes Burrell’s “Polina” – the lineup’s other documentary – follows a Ukrainian child whose family remains near the wreckage of their village outside Kyiv, tracing how armed conflict becomes simply the texture of growing up. Among the fiction titles, Dominic Allen’s “Tiber” moves through a Tuscany thick with cultural memory toward a moment of private reckoning.
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