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Tagged: Cate Shortland

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Berlin Syndrome: 'It's so quiet'
An Australian-French psychological thriller set in Germany, Berlin Syndrome is Cate Shortland's third feature film. In this clip Clare Havel (Teresa Palmer), an Australian backpacker travelling in...
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Lore: 'Where's Mutti?'
Cate Shortland's second feature film Lore is a historical drama set in Germany after the Second World War. In this clip Saskia Rosendahl as Hannelore 'Lore' Dressler confronts her Mutti (mother),...
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Cate Shortland talks about writing Flowergirl with Jun Tagami
Cate Shortland speaks with Deb Verhoeven in front of an audience at a Popcorn Taxi event in Melbourne on 12 December 2000 entitled 'Shorts by Jo Kennedy and Cate Shortland'. Here Cate talks about the...
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Cate Shortland: Writing female anti-heroes
This interview with Cate Shortland from 2000 gets to the heart of what makes her films so visceral, unsettling and refreshing all at once. She is prepared to go into terrain that others aren't. Cate...
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Berlin Syndrome Behind the Scenes: attention to detail
This short clip from a behind the scenes documentary about Berlin Syndrome (2017) focuses on how different departments worked with director Cate Shortland.  The clip begins with voice-over from...
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The Secret Life of Us: 'A Friend Indeed'
Cate Shortland directed 10 episodes of the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us from 2001–2003. This excerpt of Series 1 Episode 19 A Friend Indeed features Claudia Karvan (Dr Alex...
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Joy
Joy portrays an evening in the life of a teenage girl, set in the neon world of a late-night shopping centre in Sydney. Director Cate Shortland defltly creates an intense and complex portrait of the...
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Flowergirl: Recordings
Tensions emerge between housemates Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba) and Hana (Mikiko Ooka) as he prepares to leave Australia. Shortland and her production team bathe the screen with washes of colour that...
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Pentuphouse: ‘I’m gonna take her to Surfer’s Paradise'
This short film by Cate Shortland is a snapshot of a relationship in its last days. Della (Gillian Jones) exercises to music in her living room while her boyfriend Dale (Aaron Blabey) discusses a...
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Flowergirl: ‘The colour of bricks’
Cate Shortland brings her distinctive visual sensibility and mood-oriented storytelling to a tale of cross-cultural experience, departure and unrequited love. Surfer Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba) is...
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