MATT REEDER

THE LITTLE DEATH (2014)
Starring Josh Lawson, Bojana Novakovic, Damon Herriman, Lisa McCune, Kim Gyngell, Lachy Hulme and Ben Lawson. Directed by Josh Lawson.

A darkly comic look at the perverse lives of “ordinary people”. It looks at what happens to a couple when a fetish drives them into dark, unexpected and hilarious places. A woman with a rape fantasy and a man’s struggle to please. A man who starts an affair with his own wife without her knowing anything about it. A woman trying to love a man who loves himself. A woman who can only find pleasure in the pain of her husband. A call centre operator caught in the middle of a dirty phone call. And the distractingly charming new neighbour who links them all together.

REVIEWS The Little Death - Sex and comedy... is there a better combination?
The Little Death - Josh Lawson opens up about sex

HEARTS AND BONES
Starring Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney, Bolude Watson, Ling Cooper Tang, Alan Dukes, Ava Caryofyllis, Michael Kotsohilis, John Puckeridge-Webb and Karim Zreika. Directed by Ben Lawrence.

A war photographer has just returned home to prepare for his latest exhibition when a South Sudanese refugee appears at his door with a request - that he not exhibit any photographs of the massacre in his village, taken 15 years earlier. What emerges is an unlikely friendship between the two men. While sifting through the photographer’s archive, they make a startling discovery – the refugee’s daughter, thought dead, may still be alive. As more revelations arise, both men begin to question their past and in their search, they discover salvation.