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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (G)

Runtime: 88min

Event Cinemas Cairns Central 1/21 McLeod St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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In a surreal interzone between Tehran (Iran) & Winnipeg (Canada), the lives of eccentric characters intertwine. 

A brilliant kaleidoscope of encounters where international borders fade. 

Two schoolgirls, Negin and Nazgol, discover money frozen in the ice, while Massoud guides confused tourists through Winnipeg's offbeat architectural wonders. 
Meanwhile, Matthew quits his job in Québec and embarks on a cryptic journey to find his mother.. or maybe himself. 

Cannes Film Festival: Directors' Fortnight Audience Award

Melbourne International Film Festival: Bright Horizons Award

Toronto International Film Festival: Best Canadian Discovery Award

Vancouver International Film Festival: Best Canadian Film (Summit Award)

Filmfest Hamburg: Arthouse Cinema Award

Loft Film Fest: Arthouse Cinema Award

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards: Best Canadian Film

In Persian, French and English with English subtitles

(G) 89 mins.

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LIES WE TELL (MA)

Runtime: 88min

Event Cinemas Cairns Central 1/21 McLeod St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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WINNER: 3 Irish Film & Television awards | Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress -

The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud (Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) - just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle…

In a bewildering turn of events, Uncle Silas (David Wilmot, The Guard) is revealed as Maud’s guardian and in a world designed to constrain women, deploys society’s most underhand weapons to bend Maud to his will.

As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence.

Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes O’Casey.

In English (MA) 88 mins

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TWILIGHT TIME (CTC)

Runtime: 89 mins

Event Cinemas Cairns Central 1/21 McLeod St, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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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’.

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In English.

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