Launceston Film Society

MA 15+ (Infrequent strong coarse language)

Taking a controversial subject for many Australians, co-writer and director Michael James Rowland adopts a different, yet engaging approach to the story of refugees arriving illegally in Australia.
The journey starts on a remote West Australian beach when an Indonesian fishing boat unloads a group of Cambodian and Iraqi men. After […]

MA 15+ (Strong drug use and themes)
Dan Dunne, played beautifully by Ryan Gosling, is an inspirational yet troubled inner-city history teacher, a lonely man with a secret drug addiction. An unlikely friendship develops when one of his 13 year old students Drey, played by Shareeka Epps, discovers Dan’s secret.
Like the wrestling hold it was named […]

MA 15+ (Strong sex scenes)
Jean, played by Brenda Blethyn, is still chasing her own dreams of stardom by performing as a standup comedian in clubs and bars, and lives with her two sons. Tim (Khan Chittenden) is a shy introverted boy who is her driver and assistant, and has almost as many hopes riding on […]