Today, the Australian public mostly sees a conservative Australian Jewish communal leadership that has, since the 1990s, rarely spoken out on anything unrelated to Israel or the Holocaust. Both issues ...

Warwick Thornton’s “The New Boy” has been set as the opening title of next month’s Sydney Film Festival, which will celebrate its 70 th edition, June 7-18. The film, a tale of sprituality and survival ...

Taken into a monastery orphanage in 1940s Australia, a young Aboriginal boy's spirituality meshes uneasily with Christian doctrine in Warwick Thornton's ambitious, visually lustrous fable. Inspired by ...

This is going to be one to watch! SBS has dropped its first look at its new Original series, While The Men Are Away and we can’t stop watching! In the eight-part dramedy series, Australia’s at war, so ...

Shahar Burla co-edited a new collection of essays, Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship (Sussex Academic, 2015). Dashiel Lawrence co-edited a new collection of essays ...

CANNES – Australian actress Cate Blanchett, fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Tar, stars as an eccentric nun at a monastery in 1940s Australia that takes in an indigenous boy with ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can unveil the first clip for Australian writer and director Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Un Certain Regard on Friday. The 1940s Australia ...