- Closed Captions (CC) available for White Right: Meeting the Enemy, Milpirri – Winds of Change, The Godfather Part III, Precious, The Happy Prince, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale and The Death of Stalin
- Audio Description (AD) available for Heroes, The Godfather Part III, Precious and The Death of Stalin
MONDAY 19 JULY
Ghosts of Our Forest
9:00pm, NITV
M
Canada, Uganda, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Daniel Roher
What’s it about?
After an indigenous Ugandan tribe is violently removed from its forest home, the survivors are left to reconcile with the ghosts of their ancestors as they struggle to maintain their cultural identity.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
White Right: Meeting the Enemy
12:05am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, CC
UK, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Deeyah Khan
What’s it about?
In this BAFTA-nominated documentary, Emmy Award-winning Muslim film-maker Deeyah Khan meets US neo-Nazis and white nationalists face to face, and attends America’s biggest and most violent far right rally in recent years. Khan, who has received death threats in the past after advocating diversity and multiculturalism, tries to get behind the violent ideology, to seek and understand the personal and political reasons behind the apparent resurgence of far right extremism in the United States.
TUESDAY 20 JULY
Message from Mungo
11:20am, NITV (repeats Thursday 22 July, 150pm)
G
Australia, 2015
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Andrew Pike, Ann McGrath
What’s it about?
Lake Mungo is an ancient Pleistocene lake-bed in south-western New South Wales, and is one of the world’s richest archaeological sites. This documentary focuses on the interface over the last 40 years between the scientists on one hand, and, on the other, the Indigenous communities who identify with the land and with the human remains revealed at the site.
The Fifth Region
12:40pm, NITV
PG
Canada, 2018
Genre: English
Language: English
Director: Aeyliya Husain, Gabriel Nuraki Koperqualuk
Starring: Joshua Stribbell, Nancy Saunders
What’s it about?
This short narrative feature tells the story of Joshua (Stribbel) and Nancy (Saunders), two young urban Inuit who are carving out a place for themselves in southern Canada.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
Milpirri: Winds of Change
10:30pm, NITV
PG, CC
Australia, 2014
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Stewart Carter
What’s it about?
It’s early October in 2012, and Steve Jampijinpa is leaving Canberra for his home in outback Lajamanu. Once there, he’ll play a key part in something very important to him: Milipirri, a biennial community festival of dance, art and ceremony. But things are changing for Steve and his community. This documentary reveals what goes on behind the scenes of a controversial and ground-breaking Walpiri event.
WEDNESDAY 21 JULY
Heroes
11:00am, NITV
M, AD
Australia, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Nicole Minchin
What’s It About?
Heroes is a celebration of the history-making first AFL Women’s season, from its breathtaking opening night through to its dramatic conclusion – as told by football’s new wave of pioneers.
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The Godfather: Part III
9:30pm, SBS VICELAND
M, AD, CC
Italy, USA, 1990
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Language: English, Italian, German, Latin
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola
What’s It About?
Michael Corleone (Pacino) has a strong desire to escape the corruption of his ‘family business’, but fate and circumstance dictate otherwise. It seems all the power on Earth can’t change destiny – every time Michael tries to get out and ‘go legit’, he’s pulled back in.
NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
City State
1:00am, SBS VICELAND
M
Iceland, 2011
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Language: English, Icelandic, Serbian
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Starring: Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Sigurður Sigurjónsson
What’s it about?
This stylish thriller offers a realistic view of the Icelandic underworld by following several characters whose lives are connected: an immigrant, who vows revenge after losing his unborn child in an attack by a crime syndicate, a troubled policewoman, her corrupt police commander, and a crime lord who’s losing his edge.
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THURSDAY 22 JULY
Precious
8:30pm, NITV
MA15+, AD, CC
USA, 2009
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Bill Sage
What’s it about?
Set in Harlem in 1987. Precious (Sidibe, in an Oscar-nominated lead performance) endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. She’s pregnant for the second time to her abusive father; at home she must wait hand and foot on a poisonously angry mother (Mo’Nique, winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). In these conditions she grows up unloved and generally unnoticed. But underneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her.
NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
Jackson: The Last Abortion Clinic
12:40am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+
USA, 2016
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Maisie Crow
What’s it about?
With a single abortion clinic remaining in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has become ground zero in the nation’s battle over reproductive health-care. Jackson is an intimate portrait of the interwoven lives of three women in this town. Wrought with the racial and religious undertones of the Deep South, the lives of two women are deeply affected by the director of the local pro-life crisis pregnancy centre and the movement she represents.
FRIDAY 23 JULY
Almost Christmas
8:00pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 24 July, 10:30am)
M
USA, 2016
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Language: English
Director: David E. Talbert
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Omar Epps, Danny Glover, John Michael Higgins
What’s it about?
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died. In a review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman described it as “a heartwarming gripe-and-grouchfest that pushes a lot of buttons, though with a vivacity that’s exuberantly funny and sincere.”
NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
The Fade
10:05pm, NITV
M
Ghana, 2012
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Andy Mundy-Castle
What’s it about?
An intimate portrait of four Afro barbers across the world (Ghana, Jamaica, USA, UK) over seven days. Unravels what barbering really means to four men, what inspires their desire to succeed and explores the cultural importance of barbering as an institution throughout marginalised communities.
SATURDAY 24 JULY
Homeland Story
8:30pm, NITV
PG
Australia, 2019
Genre: Documentary
Language: English, Yolngu Matha
Director: Glenda Hambly
What’s it about?
An intimate portrait of Donydji (pronounced doy-n-ji), a small Aboriginal community in North East Arnhem Land, about 800 kms east of Darwin, in the far north of Australia. The film charts the Donydji community’s transition from traditional life to the digital age, from the 1960s to the present day.
The Happy Prince
9:35pm
MA15+, CC
UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium, 2018
Genre: Drama
Language: English, French, Italian, Latin
Director: Rupert Everett
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas
What’s it about?
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (Everett) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas (Morgan), son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
10:00pm, NITV
M, CC
Finland, 2010
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Action
Language: Finnish
Director: Jalmari Helander
Starring: Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi
What’s it about?
This darkly hilarious Christmas tale follows the capture of Santa during an archaeological dig in the depths of Finland’s mountains. But this is a murderous Santa, and his psychotic elves are determined to free him.
NOTE: No Catch-up at SBS On Demand
Sharknado
1:00am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+
USA, 2013
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Starring: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard, Jason Simmons, Cassie Scerbo, Audrey Peeples
What’s it about?
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin (Ziering) sets out with his friends Baz (Simmons) and Nova (Scerbo) to rescue his estranged wife April (Reid) and teenage daughter Claudia (Peeples).
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
The Death of Stalin
1:15am, SBS
MA15+, AD, CC
UK, 2017
Genre: Comedy, History
Language: English
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Jeffrey Tambor, Adrian McLoughlin
What’s it about?
When tyrannical dictator Josef Stalin (McLoughlin) dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov (Tambor), the wily Nikita Khrushchev (Buscemi) and Lavrenti Beria (Beale), the sadistic secret police chief. From Armando Iannucci, creator of The Thick of It, In the Loop and Veep.
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