Movies and TvShows featuring "adelaide-festival-of-arts" theme.

In the 1920s, a tracker is hired to find an aborigine boy who has gone missing in the outback. As he embarks on a journey through the Australian wilderness, he must confront racism, violence, and the dark secrets of his own past.

Australian Rules is a heartfelt coming-of-age drama set in a small Australian town. It follows the story of a teenage boy as he experiences the harsh realities of racism and bigotry, while also navigating his own personal journey of self-discovery. The film explores themes of friendship, family relationships, tolerance, and the power of sport to bring communities together.

Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide. But though Gavin's pain has been laid to rest, the grief felt by everyone there has only begun, and Walking on Water compassionately follows the attempts of Gavin's closest friends Anna and Charlie to recover from their loss.

Follow joint artistic directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy in their most challenging year as they scour the globe and battle the clock to deliver the 2020 Adelaide Festival in its all-important 60th year.

A dramatized documentary about Daisy Bates, who promoted herself as a protector of Aboriginal Australian welfare and culture, but whose life was filled with lies and controversy.

This film shows events in the biennial Festival of Arts and the annual Flower Day of 1968. Adelaide celebrated Flower Day annually from 1938 to 1975 and it made a return in 2021. The footage includes a ‘welcome said with flowers’ to performers Marlene Dietrich, Marcella Reale, Morag Beaton, Lucero Tena, and the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Orchestra. There is also a look inside the Art Gallery’s display for the 5th Adelaide Festival of Arts. This is quite possibly the moment the phrase “Mad March” was coined!