Cultural Media

03/04/2026

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New movies to watch this week

The President’s Cake ★★★★

The President’s Cake, shortlisted among this year’s Oscar entries for Best International Feature. It was inspired by Iraqi writer-director Hasan Hadi’s memories of his childhood during the early 1990s when Saddam Hussein was still in power. International sanctions meant food was scarce yet, each year, Iraq’s schools were forced to celebrate the dictator’s birthday by making their pupils bring fresh fruit, festive decorations and a birthday cake. Tasks were assigned by ballot and nobody wanted to be chosen for the cake making.

Nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef) lives with her beloved grandmother, Bibi (Waheed Thabet Khreibat) in southern Iraq’s marshlands where the tranquil beauty of the landscape and its waters contrast poignantly with the harshness of the living conditions. She goes to school on the day of the ballot hoping desperately that luck will be on her side.

Instead, her name is called and she returns home with a list of ingredients poor Bibi has to fill. The next day, they set off for Baghdad and an unfolding series of adventures and misadventures, which present an unvarnished picture of Hussein’s Iraq and the imperatives dictating the day-to-day dealings of its citizens. As Lamia is to learn, acts of compassion, no matter how small, are very rare.

Continue reading at…
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/robert-pattinson-and-zendaya-s-romantic-drama-with-bite-and-other-new-movies-to-watch-this-week-20260401-p5zkno.html

03/04/2026

Have you got your tickets?

📍 Dendy Newtown
📍 Dendy Canberra
📍 Dendy Coorparoo
📍 Cinema Nova, Melbourne
📍 Luna Leederville, Perth
📍 Palace Nova, Adelaide
📍 State Cinema, Hobart
📍 HOTA, Gold Coast

Book tickets via www.allthatsleftofyou.au

03/04/2026

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Have you got your tickets yet?

All That’s Left of You opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 9 April 2026.

* Dendy Newtown (NSW)
* Dandy Canberra (ACT)
* Dendy Coorparoo (QLD)
* Cinema Nova, Carlton Melbourne (VIC)
* Luna Leederville, Perth (WA)
* Palace Nova, Adelaide (SA)

More locations to be announced soon.

Visit www.allthatsleftofyou.au for more info and to get your tickets.

28/03/2026

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DAAR - DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE ART RESEARCH (.ps)

Biennale of Sydney ()

Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney ()

13 March - 13 June 2026

The artistic research practice of DAAR (DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE ART RESEARCH) – led by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – is situated between architecture, art, pedagogy and politics. Over the last two decades, they have developed a series of research projects that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality. For DAAR, art exhibitions are both sites of display and sites of action that spill over into other contexts: built architectural structures, the shaping of critical learning environments, interventions that challenge dominant collective narratives, the production of new political imaginations, the formation of civic spaces and the re-definition of concepts.

More info: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/daar-decolonizing-architecture-art-research/

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23/03/2026

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Palestinian artist
At 2026
At
14 March to 14 June

Emily Jacir’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses film, photography, installation, performance, sound, and text. Her work explores both personal and collective movement in public space, examining its implications on the physical and social experience of trans-Mediterranean geographies and temporalities.

Through historical and archival research, she has built a layered and resonant body of work rooted in gathering, community, and social affiliations. Jacir has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and invested in creating alternative spaces for knowledge production internationally.

In 2014, she founded Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem, transforming her historic family home into a cultural space for artists, researchers, farmers, archivists, musicians and dancers. This gesture of reclaiming both space and narrative resonates in her practice: rooted, reparative, and generative.

More info: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/emily-jacir/

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17/03/2026

Cultural Media is incredibly privileged to be releasing the film All That's Left of You in Australia.

Thank you, , for trusting us with your film.

All That’s Left of You, a sweeping family saga about memory, love, and the ties that endure across generations.

Jordan's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards. All That's Left of You follows a Palestinian teenager who gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and experiences a moment of violence that rocks his family. The film unfolds as his mother recounts the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, the film traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, bearing witness to the scars of dispossession and the enduring legacy of survival.

15/11/2025

04/03/2024

Explore this year's films and get to know Palestinian life & culture with the Palestinian Film Festival Australia. Purchase tickets & see which films are playing near you!

03/02/2024

Middle East Monitor is proud to host the annual award ceremony to celebrate the best books written in English on the subject of Palestine.

28/11/2023

Take a gander at some of our favourite artists, crafters and designers that highlight Palestine’s unwavering artistic identity.

10/10/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT

The continuing crisis in Occupied Palestine is heartbreaking. Our thoughts, prayers and love are with the innocent and vulnerable people caught up in this latest war.

This is not the time to hold a film festival. It is time to mourn the dead, pay our respects to those suffering and work together to bring an immediate end to the ongoing atrocities against innocent civilians. It is for these reasons, we have decided to postpone the 2023 Palestinian Film Festival Australia.

In an effort to promote an increased understanding of what is happening in Occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Film Festival Australia is making two (2) documentaries, 1948: Creation & Catastrophe and Gaza, screened at previous Palestinian film festivals freely available for all Australians to see.

(1) 1948: Creation and Catastrophe by Andy Trimlett and Ahlam Muhtaseb. Through moving personal recollections of both Palestinians and Israelis, 1948: Creation and Catastrophe reveals the shocking events of the most pivotal year in the most controversial conflict in the world.

(2) Gaza by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell. A portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict and going beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters.

The films are available via our website - www.palestinianfilmfestival.com.au

06/06/2023

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There are 5 Arab films showing at the Sydney Film Festival from 7-18 June! Get your tickets now via SFF link below.

1. A Gaza Weekend (Palestine)
2. The Mother of All Lies (Morocco)
3. The Burdened (Yemen)
4. Four Daughters (Tunisia)
5. Inshallah A Boy (Jordan)

7-18 June 2023
www.sff.org.au