The Screen Show

Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival, A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon.

Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost, a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Australia's Pilbara region that has been digitally restored and is undergoing screenings in Melbourne and Sydney as part of Cinema Reborn's 2025 program.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

As the German Film Festival  rolls out across the country, we meet two directors featured in this year's lineup...

Acclaimed director Andres Veiel discusses his documentary Riefenstahl, a captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl and her complex relationship with the Nazi regime.

Award-winning director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's second feature, Hysteria, comes to Australia directly from the 2025 Berlinale...a suspenseful behind-the-scenes conspiracy thriller about a real-life 1993 arson incident on the set of a film production.

• Presenter: Jason Di Rosso
• Producer: Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer: Ross Richardson
• Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown

British actor Will Poulter, who has starred in The Bear, Black Mirror, The Revenant and Midsommar, talks about his latest film role in the gripping war thriller Warfare.

Kriv Stenders and Richard Roxburgh on The Correspondent, the story of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste.

Beloved actor and comedian Steve Coogan discusses The Penguin Lessons, a comedy-drama based on a true story that follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a turbulent period in Argentine history.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Isabella Tropiano
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Brisbane-born Hollywood star Jacob Elordi fronts Justin Kurzel's TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

In Lost and Found, filmmaker Raoul Peck follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa.

Jason meets the directors of The Count of Monte Cristo in Paris, the new French adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of romance and redemption.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tim Jenkins
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

A highlights edition looking at some films that dominated the 2025 Oscars...

Jesse Eisenberg on A Real Pain, which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), in a story that centres around a pair of mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their Jewish grandmother.

American filmmaker Sean Baker discusses his film Anora, which took home five Oscars, including Best Film, for its portrayal of a feisty sex worker's unexpected Cinderella story.

A Complete Unknown depicts the story of folk hero Bob Dylan's transition to electric music. Jason meets Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

These conversations were recorded before the film's respective Oscar wins and nominations.

Director Jonathan Ogilvie discusses his nostalgic coming-of-age film Head South, where it's the late 1970's and teenager Angus is discovering the underground post-punk music scene in Christchurch. 

From the archives, David Nichols, historian and lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, on Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space, a story takes place during the late 70s to the early 80s in the underground music scene in Melbourne and the action that happens in and around a share household in the inner city.

In The Cats of Gokugo Shrine, renowned Japanese documentarian Kazuhiro Soda takes us to the coastal town of Ushimado and a shrine where cats have taken up residence.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Matthew Crawford
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Legendary Hollywood director Barry Levinson discusses working with Robert De Niro on gangster movie The Alto Knights.

New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft on his nursing home set horror The Rule of Jenny Pen.

Plus, This Life of Mine, a delicate chronicle of mental illness screening as part of this year's French Film Festival.

• Presenrer, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Mellis
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Australian actor Daniel Henshall talks about his latest role, in Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17, where he stars alongside Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson in a black comedy about the dangers of cloning and colonisation.

As the latest season of Severance rolls out, a show about a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives, another Australian actor, Dichen Lachman, joins us from London.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Mellis
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Cult British director Mike Leigh reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies) in Hard Truths,  a challenging yet compassionate exploration of modern family life in London.

Meet the filmmakers behind Sugarcane, nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars, it's a powerful portrayal of Native resilience and its exploration of the devastating legacy of Indian residential schools in Canada.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Mellis
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Oscar nominated for Best International Feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a film shot in secret that centres on paranoia and political unrest in Tehran. Jason meets director Mohammad Rasoulof.

A conversation with Oscar Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres about her role in I'm Still Here, a film that follows a mother whose life is shattered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Carey Dell
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown