END CREDITS FILM CLUB

END CREDITS FILM CLUB -AGM and Short Film Screening The Annual General Meeting of the End Credits Film Club on Saturday 17 May at the Machans Beach hall will be followed by the launch of their newly acquired Small Halls Cinema setup with a program of locally produced short films. If you’d like to find out more about the plans for the Small Hall Cinema program or are keen to get involved, come to the AGM and contribute to the discussion following the formal business. Or just turn up for the film program which will feature MATE a locally produced AFI award winner and local director/producer Molly Pointing's documentary An Australian Music Odyssey. Times: AGM 4:30pm Film Program 6:30pm Admission: MBCA and EC members - Free. Non Members - by donation online or at the door (cash or card).

Awards ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER: BEST ACTOR - Adrien Brody GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD WINNER: BEST MOTION PICTURE - Drama Structurally beautiful and suffused with Adrien Brody's soulful performance, writer-director Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a towering tribute to the immigrant experience. A thrillingly ambitious, 3 1/2-hour (including a 15-minute intermission) character study and portrait of mid-century America that leaves an indelible impression. - Cary Darling - Houston Chronicle Brady Corbet’s engulfing masterpiece about an immigrant architect (an Oscarbound Adrien Brody) is the best movie of the year, but it’s also way more than that— an unsentimental; uncompromising thunderbolt of pure cinema that Corbet has built to last. - Peter Travers - ABC News The Brutalist finally hands us the bewitching epic for adults that 2024 otherwise lacked. - Johnny Oleksinski - New York Post In English (MA) 215 mins. Screens with a short intermission.

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.

- 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.

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’. TWILIGHTTIMETHEFILM.COM.AU In English. (CTC) 89 mins.