STORIES FROM AUSTRALIA – A FESTIVAL OF AWARD WINNING FILMS

Love Marriage in Kabul (84 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Directors: Pat Fiske and Amin Palangi, Bower Bird Films
 
Winner of the Foxtel Audience Award for Best Documentary, Sydney Film Festival 2014; and Best Documentary Award, Canberra International Film Festival 2014
 
Pat Fiske will introduce the film and screening will be followed by a discussion
 
Mahboba Rawi is a strong-willed Afghan-Australian woman who has dedicated her life to help orphans in Afghanistan. Abdul, one of these orphans, is in love with Fatemeh, the girl next door. The two hope to marry each other one day. But Fatemeh’s father has other plans
 
At 19:45
Scarlet Road (106 min; 2011; dvd; English)
Directors: Catherine Scott & Pat Fiske
 
Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specialises in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability