Movies: Anni Finsterer

  • 1969
    Purity

    Purity (1969)

    Purity

    101969HD

    When her rebellious older sister returns to their Australian coastal town for Christmas, Marianne is torn between her mother's conservatism and a new idea of womanhood....

    Purity
  • 2019
    Backpedal

    Backpedal (2019)

    Backpedal

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    A collage of an American poem, exploring the universality of womanhood....

    Backpedal
  • 2024
    Yakka

    Yakka (2024)

    Yakka

    02024HD

    As two teenage brothers get up to mischief on summer holidays in a coastal fishing town, the cycles of toxic masculinity above the water reflect the hierarchies of predation below....

    Yakka
  • 2022
    Basil: Parts 1 & 2

    Basil: Parts 1 & 2 (2022)

    Basil: Parts 1 & 2

    02022HD

    Basil is an ongoing 16mm film, currently comprised of two chapters — the first shot in 2012, the second in 2019. The third chapter in the triptych is slated to be shot in 2026. All three chapters will eventually be merged together to make a single pi...

    Basil: Parts 1 & 2
  • 1969
    Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country

    Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country (1969)

    Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country

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    Four years after the events of “Sweet Country” and revolving around David Tranter’s Alyawarra family history, three irrepressible kids who escape from their cruel white masters and embark on a journey across the sweet country of central Australia to ...

    Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country
  • 2000
    Thomson of Arnhem Land

    Thomson of Arnhem Land (2000)

    Thomson of Arnhem Land

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    In the 1930s tensions between the government and the Indigenous peoples of Australia's north were on a knife-edge. Donald Thomson, an anthropologist, volunteered to go to Arnhem Land to make peace. For over two years, he lived with the Aboriginal peo...

    Thomson of Arnhem Land