The Screen Show

Past Lives director Celine Song on her new rom-com Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who falls into a love triangle with her broke ex and a wealthy finance guy.The Rings of Power actor Charlie Vickers and showrunner Tony Ayres discuss working on the Netflix adaptation of Jane Harper's The Survivors, a story about a small coastal town haunted by the tragedy of three deaths.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Tony NortonSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

U.S. writer-director Jason Keller talks Stick, a new sports comedy starring Owen Wilson as a washed-up former golf pro and Peter Dager as his Gen Z protege.Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald on his doc One to One: John & Yoko... set in 1972 New York, the film explores John Lennon and Yoko Ono's world amid a turbulent era. White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on his latest role in The Salt Path, where he stars opposite Gillian Anderson in a sweet adaptation of the best-selling memoir about a couple who lose everything and start over on a 1000 km coastal trek.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Direct from Cannes, where it received a seven-and-a-half-minute standing ovation, Wes Anderson and Benicio Del Toro discuss The Phoenician Scheme.Adelaide’s Phillipou Brothers on their latest South Australian horror for A24, Bring Her Back, the follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut Talk To Me.Artistic director of Sydney Film Festival Nashen Moodley is also fresh from the Cannes Film Festival. He speaks to us about the Palme d'Or-winning film It Was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi, also set to screen at SFF.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettExecutive producer, Rhiannon BrownSound engineer, Ross Richardson

French director Gilles Lellouche on Beating Hearts, a genre-spanning romantic epic starring Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour) that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by social boundaries.Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin discusses his multi-award winning Universal Language...in a surreal interzone between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of several characters intertwine in unexpected ways.2025 Berlinale Grand Jury Prize winner The Blue Trail sees a remarkable woman try to evade a dystopian fate via a grand Amazonian quest. Ahead of Sydney Film Festival screenings, Jason sits down with Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

The newest chapter in the successful Final Destination horror franchise takes audiences back to the beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice. Jason meets directors Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky.Irish director Lorcan Finnegan on The Surfer, a psychological surf thriller starring Nicolas Cage which takes aim at Australian masculinity and localism on a W.A. beach.As it becomes available to stream on SBS on Demand, an excerpt from Jason's interview with Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari on her film Shayda, a work inspired by her childhood experiences in a women's shelter in Melbourne in the 1990s. (You can listen to the whole interview here.)Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

American film director Eli Craig discusses his horror Clown in a Cornfield...as teenagers start to go missing one by one in a Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real.Director Mehdi Idir on Monsieur Aznavour, a biopic about an iconic singer-songwriter who beat all odds to become one of France’s best-loved entertainers.Andrew Ahn on his adaptation of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, which re-imagines the original film's themes to explore LGBTQIA+ problems of a new kind in the 21st century.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival, A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon.Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost, a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Australia's Pilbara region that has been digitally restored and is undergoing screenings in Melbourne and Sydney as part of Cinema Reborn's 2025 program.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

As the German Film Festival  rolls out across the country, we meet two directors featured in this year's lineup...Acclaimed director Andres Veiel discusses his documentary Riefenstahl, a captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl and her complex relationship with the Nazi regime.Award-winning director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's second feature, Hysteria, comes to Australia directly from the 2025 Berlinale...a suspenseful behind-the-scenes conspiracy thriller about a real-life 1993 arson incident on the set of a film production.Presenter: Jason Di RossoProducer: Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Ross RichardsonExecutive producer: Rhiannon Brown

British actor Will Poulter, who has starred in The Bear, Black Mirror, The Revenant and Midsommar, talks about his latest film role in the gripping war thriller Warfare.Kriv Stenders and Richard Roxburgh on The Correspondent, the story of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste.Beloved actor and comedian Steve Coogan discusses The Penguin Lessons, a comedy-drama based on a true story that follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a turbulent period in Argentine history.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Isabella TropianoExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Brisbane-born Hollywood star Jacob Elordi fronts Justin Kurzel's TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.In Lost and Found, filmmaker Raoul Peck follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa.Jason meets the directors of The Count of Monte Cristo in Paris, the new French adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of romance and redemption.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tim JenkinsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown