CIFF47: PSQ March 22 – April 1, 2023 | Streams April 2 – April 9, 2023

ONLY THE BRAVE

Year: 1994
Country: Australia
Run Time: 59 minutes

ONLY THE BRAVE

Alex and Vicki are wild girls, torching hedgs, smoking dope, and just hanging out both in and out of school. Allegiance is owed to on one but each other and to a plan of escape. But the ground on which you base your hopes can shift and growing up tough in Melbourne's outer surburban fringe is a journey that can be made by only the brave. Director Kokkinos' vision of the contemporary teen war zone of ragged emotions, sex, boredom, and an all-prevading sense of abandonment swims before you eye in a heated haze of anger and longing. Assured, intense, incisive, tough, moving-the adjectives pile up in any assessment of this powerful film.

Screenplay
Anastasia Kokkinos, Mira Robertson

Director
Anastasia Kokkinos

Producer
Fiona Eagger

Cinematography
Jaems Grant

Editing
Mark Atkin

Principal Cast
Elena Manadalils, Dora Kaskanis, Maude Davey, Bob Bright

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