This year, Castlemaine Documentary Festival introduces a second venue – The Yurt – a beautiful micro-cinema located at Western Reserve within easy walking distance to the Theatre Royal.
The Yurt features an alternative program of family-friendly sessions across the Saturday and Sunday mornings and enticing programs for young people in the afternoons and evenings.
Here is what’s in store:
WEREWOLVES
Hunt down werewolves or tear villagers to shreds.
Fun for young and old in this interactive survival game in The Yurt.
As night falls on the town of Millers Hollow, there’s trouble afoot and werewolves are stalking the innocent villagers.
As each morning breaks, the death toll rises and it’s up to the villagers to try and find the werewolves lurking in plain sight among them.
In this immersive game of accusation, deceit and fun/murder, a room full of strangers are each given a card with their role and pitted against each other as they try to work together to weed out the werewolves and avoid hanging their own.
MONGOLIAN BLING
In an ancient culture with a rich history, the beats and rhymes of Mongolia’s rappers are breaking down social and political boundaries and helping to forge a new identity.
SECRETS IN THE SCAT
From the mysterious cubic poop of wombats to the precious pink waste of whales, join scientists as they explore nature’s smelliest secrets on an ingenious hunt for the clues hidden in animal poop.
KEEP STEPPING
On the urban fringe, two young women, gifted with movement and empowered by dance, battle for a better life in the underground world of competitive street dance.
WALKING THE FISH
The story of the birth of the Castlemaine Fringe. With interviews of the original participants, footage of the festival and tales of scandal and intrigue, this film invites appreciation for the rich history of community arts that we all enjoy.
CAMP DIFFERENT
In July 2022, 50 young people of diverse ages and backgrounds with distinctly different backgrounds, each with their own unique abilities, interests and perspectives, came together in Maldon Victoria to share an extraordinary experience, attending a camp for three days to make a film about being different. This is what happened…
TERROR NULLIUS
Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, this political revenge fable offers an un-writing of Australian national mythologies.
Binding together a documentary impulse with the bent plot-lines of Australian film texts, Soda Jerk’s revisionist history opens a wilful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways.
The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, feminist motorcycle gangs rule the highways, and flesh-eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial insurgents.
CASTLEMAINE WARRIORS
A Revisionist History for the Post Truth Era
The discovery of a lost Chinese Junk (船, chuán) on the banks of the Yarra River Melbourne Australia, leads amateur archaeologist and artist Dale Cox to an extraordinary discovery in Castlemaine – a warrior army of mouse-like sculptures buried before European discovery and colonisation of Australia.
With a core premise to examine an alternative historical and cultural possibility, in a fun and challenging way it seeks to shift the conversation away from the Eurocentric perspective of Australia’s colonisation. It’s a collision of art and ideas.
See the website for session details – cdocff.com.au
