Movies: Jane Oehr

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what...

A trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people....

An orphan girl seeks her true inheritance in this Australian TV movie. On an isolated Tasmanian mountain, 12-year-old Ada lives with her wealthy father Justus. Housekeeper Martha is plotting to secure the family fortune for herself. Ada is orphaned...

Tea With Madame Clos is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years with Madame ...

Women open up about menstruation, childbirth and their bodies in this cathartic 1974 feminist documentary....