Real to Reel: A Documentary Showcase to
This program brings together five stories that aim to explore the range and depths of the documentary genre - showcasing diverse filmmaking and storytelling techniques possible, from gripping investigative journalism to heartwarming human portraits, these documentaries shine a light on extraordinary real-life narratives and illuminate untold histories.
Featuring critically acclaimed documentary films such as the 2025 Academy Award - Best Documentary Winner No Other Land, and Academy Awardnominees Black Box Diaries (2025), Flee (2022), and festival favourites like Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023) and The Sinking of Lisbon Maru (2024).
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- History
- Music
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Black Box Diaries
-Date: 27 July-
Sunday, 27 July 1.30pm Screening will be accompanied with a post-screening virtual Q&A with Director Shiori Ito.
BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
TW: This film has themes on sexual assault.
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- 1. Fully vaccinated
- 2. Recovered from COVID-19 within the last 180 days after infection with valid memo.
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- 4. Children aged 12 years and below (i.e. born in or after 2010)
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AnimationBiographyDocumentary
FLEE
-Dates: 5 & 13 July-
3 Oscar Nominations (2022)
A stunning documentary experience and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, FLEE follows the life of Amin Nawabi - from his time as a child refugee from Afghanistan. Featuring a potent mix of animation, live interviews, 80s music and archive footage, we follow Amin as he looks back over his life, struggling to live with a painful secret that he has kept hidden for close to 20 years - one that threatens to upend his entire life with his soon-to-be husband.
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- 1. Fully vaccinated
- 2. Recovered from COVID-19 within the last 180 days after infection with valid memo.
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Documentary
No Other Land
Rated: R21
-Dates: 12, 16, 20, 26 July-
2025 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary feature
Fundraiser Screening
55% of ticket sales proceeds for all 4 screenings, will be donated to the Palestinian Scholarship Initiative.
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, being forcefully displaced by Israel‘s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist, Yuval who wants to join his fight.
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- 2. Recovered from COVID-19 within the last 180 days after infection with valid memo.
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DocumentaryMusic
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
-Dates: 6, 12 & 22 July-
Ryuichi Sakamoto's last performance, a concert film featuring just him and his piano playing for the last time before passing away.
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- 2. Recovered from COVID-19 within the last 180 days after infection with valid memo.
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The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (里斯本丸沉没)
-Dates: 20 July and 9 August-
Filmmaker Fang Li and his crew explore exhaustive historical investigation, as far as possible to find the core of the British, American, Japanese and Chinese parties and descendants, trying to infinitely close to the truth of the World War II "Death Ship" — "Lisbon Maru", which is 30 meters under the sea off the East Polar Island in Zhoushan, China.
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- 1. Fully vaccinated
- 2. Recovered from COVID-19 within the last 180 days after infection with valid memo.
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