Eamon Farren – MRQE

Jimpa

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.

Addition

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Numbers are everything to Grace Lisa Vandenburg. The life of Grace, a Melbourne-based mathematician, is largely governed by her arithmomania, an obsessive-compulsive need to count (three times to ensure accuracy) everything from the poppy seeds on her cake to the bristles on her toothbrush. In a chaotic, sometimes tragic, and constantly changing world, Graces preoccupation gives her a sense of order and control. And she does her best to lead a normal life, spending time with her mother and sister, her beloved niece Larry and a manifestation of the late inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla who is Graces closest confidante.

Chained (2012/I)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor’s bloody footprints.

My First Film

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vitas eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.

T.I.M.

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI – T.I.M.

X

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder which sends them on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale.

Lingua Franca

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. When the man shes secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that shes a trans woman.

Girl Asleep

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can’t bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place; a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous – only there can she find herself.

Lucky Country

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

1902….the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom’s father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat’s dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence.

Mary (2024/II)

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A miraculous conception. A merciless king. A murderous pursuit. Mary’s journey to give birth to Jesus unfolds in this biblical coming-of-age epic.