OPENING NIGHT QLD PREMIERE WITH FILMMAKER Q&A

Festival Patron, Michael Caton opens the 5th annual Capricorn Film Festival with the QLD Premiere of feature film, Bellbird including post screening Q&A with a filmmaker,

ONE LINER
Set over four seasons on a humble Northland dairy farm, Bellbird is the story of a dairy farmer struggling to cope with the sudden death of his beloved wife, and the gradual bond he builds with his gentle only son and the local community.

QLD PREMIERE OF AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY

Winner: Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival
Winner: Special Jury Prize at Istanbul Film Festival

SHORT SYNOPSIS
Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb have been friends for over 45 years. They left their motherland in the 1960s and 1970s to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true; to bring cinema to Sudan.
 

 

PRESENTED BY KEPPEL COAST ARTS, AUSTRALIA PREMIERE 

Winner: Golden Door International Film Festival Best Actor
Winner: Best Movie Camerawork Golden Eye
Winner: Golden Door Int Film Festival Best Cinematography

LOGLINE

A Syrian refugee with traumatic memories of the war, battles the local racism and his over protective cousin, endangering his application for residence permit while falling in love with a local woman only to find out how deep the racism really goes.

CQ PREMIERE OF MAYBE TOMORROW WITH Q&A

Winner: Best Independent Film at the Gold Coast Film Festival

SHORT SYNOPSIS
As a young couple struggle with the demands of life with a new baby, they plow forward on production for their latest self-funded independent feature film. From the prolific indie duo Caitlin Farrugia & Michael Jones, this is a gentle comedy-drama that investigates the ways young artists can balance the challenge of starting a new family while still scratching that creative cinematic itch.
 

FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING WITH FILMMAKER Q&A

The Central Queensland Premiere of inspiring and powerful documentary, Happy Sad Man.

SHORT SYNOPSIS
HAPPY SAD MAN is a charming and uplifting insight into the lives of five very different Australian men.
 

QLD PREMIERE OF AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY

Winner: Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Best Music Doc
Winner: El Dorado Film Festival, Best Music Doc

LOGLINE
From the Australian outback to Music City USA, a child guitar prodigy dedicates his life to become the world’s greatest acoustic guitarist, even as revelations of dark family secrets send him into a battle with addiction that threatens to destroy his career, his family and his life.