The Screen Show

Iranian film My Favourite Cake explores issues of freedom, second chances, and women's rights in a country with strict restrictions. Travel-banned directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha join us from Tehran, where they are awaiting trial for themes they've brought to the surface in this film.

Taiwanese superstar Eddie Peng on his role in Guan Hu's Black Dog, about a troubled loner who returns to his hometown and bonds with a wild dog, a film that took home the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Cate Blanchett and Nikki Amuka-Bird on Rumours, Guy Maddin's black comedy that follows the leaders of seven wealthy democracies who get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis.+ 

Piece by Piece is directed by our guest Morgan Neville in his animated directorial debut. It follows the life and career of American musician Pharrell Williams, who stars in the film through the lens of Lego animation.

As a near-complete career survey of Malaysia-born Taiwan-based  Tsai Ming-liang screens at GOMA, Jason meets the great filmmaker. 

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

Viggo Mortensen on The Dead Don't Hurt, a spin on the Western and the actor-director's second film behind the camera.

Winner of the APSA Young Cinema Award, and nominated for Best Film and Best Screenplay, Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora discusses Happyend, his debut fiction feature set in a near-future Tokyo as a catastrophic earthquake looms.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Harvey O'Sullivan
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood director Jon M. Chu on Wicked, the musical fantasy phenomenon starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, that puts a new spin on the Wizard of Oz's meanest character.

NYC-based filmmaker Caroline Lindy on her debut Your Monster, a charming, genre-defying indie musical.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Danish actor Connie Nielson on starring in the big blockbuster of the week, Ridley Scott's sumptuous swords and sandals melodrama, Gladiator II.

Director James Bradley on Welcome to Babel, a documentary about Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland’s tumultuous recent history.

As it launches on SBS on Demand, we revisit some of Jason's interview with the director of Flee, a three-time Oscar-nominated documentary about the hidden past of a man fleeing his home country.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Documentary filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker on Slice of Life, a road movie serving insights into how former Pizza Hut buildings around the U.S. have been repurposed.

As a new doc releases at the British Film Festival exploring the classic films and iconic pairing of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, the legendary, Academy Award winning James Ivory joins us.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Director Jason Reitman and cast, including Gabriel Labelle, Rachel Sennott, and Dylan O’Brien, discuss Saturday Night, a film that captures the behind-the-scenes energy of SNL, and the impact the long-running sketch show had on American culture when it arrived on TV screens in the 1970s. 

Shari Sebbens stars in The Moogai, where she plays a young mother who becomes increasingly unstable due to a malevolent spirit she believes is trying to take her children. 

Ahead of the screenings at the Adelaide Film Festival, director Sarra Tsorakidis discusses Ink Wash, a film that follows a painter grappling with a break-up as she approaches her 40th birthday.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Alice Springs based filmmaker Dylan River on his binge-able new TV series Thou Shalt Not Steal, one of the best things we’ve made in this country in the streaming era. It’s a love story, a road trip, a coming of age fable and a political critique, told from a black perspective, the perspective of a 17 year old, illiterate but streetwise juvenile delinquent named Robyn.

A discussion about Lee, a biographical film starring Kate Winslet, about Lee Miller, the extraordinary woman who gave the world some of the most indelible, shocking photographic images of World War 2. We're joined by one of the film’s producers, Kate Soloman, and Miller’s son, Antony Penrose.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Beth Stewart
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot is back with Memoir of a Snail, a bittersweet memoir of a melancholic misfit who learns how to find confidence amid the clutter of her everyday life.

Starring real-life mother-daughter duo Greta Scaachi and Leila George, He Ain't Heavy is an impressive debut feature about a young woman who sets out to rescue her drug-addicted brother. Director David Vincent Smith joins us.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi on The Apprentice,  a film that depicts Trump’s early years as a property developer in New York City in the 70s and 80s.

British actor Himesh Patel discusses  The Franchise, a comedy satire from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes that zooms in on the cast and crew working on a superhero  movie.

Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern discuss new Netflix film Lonely Planet, an unexpected romance set at a writers' retreat in Morocco.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown