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Here Out West
Directed byFadia Abboud
Lucy Gaffy
Julie Kalceff
Ana Kokkinos
Leah Purcell
Written byNisrine Amine
Bina Bhattacharya
Matias Bolla
Claire Cao
Arka Das
Dee Dogan
Vonne Patiag
Tien Tran
Produced byBree-Anne Sykes
Annabel Davis
Sheila Jayadev
CinematographyTania Lambert
Edited byMartin Connor
Music byAmanda Brown
Running time
100 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguagesEnglish
Arabic
Bengali
Cantonese
Kurdish
Tagalog
Turkish
Vietnamese
Spanish

Here Out West is a 2021 Australian anthology film set in the culturally diverse Western Sydney. It is made up of eight stories from eight writers and features nine languages. It was the opener for the 2021 Sydney Film Festival.[1][2]

Cast

  • Geneviève Lemon - Nancy
  • Christian Ravello - Jorge
  • Arka Das - Robi
  • Leah Vandenberg - Ashmita
  • De Lovan Zandy - Keko
  • Khoi Trinh - Tuan
  • Christine Milo - Roxanne
  • Jing Xuan Chan - Angel
  • Befrin Axtjärn Jackson - Xoxe
  • Mia-Lore Bayeh - Amirah

Reception

Tania Lambert, writing in the Converation, states "Consisting of stories from the Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, Bangladeshi, Lebanese, Kurdish, Chinese, Turkish and Chilean migrants who call Western Sydney home, the film while imperfect in that some stories are stronger than others, is a nuanced examination of race and class."[3] The Guardian's Luke Buckmaster gave it 3 stars and concluded "But the film comes across more as a number of parts rather than the sum of them. This is a drama of modest qualities, more adept at painting pockets of time in the characters’ lives rather than self-contained (or thematically related) narratives."[4] Wenlei Ma of news.com.au gave it 3 1/2 stars saying "The result is a collection of stories that is genuine, moving and revealing. They have something to say about a community that’s home to millions of Australians and whose stories are often told by outsiders and without compassion."[5]

Reviewing for The Sydney Morning Herald Paul Byrne awards the film 4 stars finishing "It’s a clever construction, and it helps that there is only one editor, Martin Connor, keeping the tone consistent throughout."[6] Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, Debi Enker gives it 4 1/2 stars stating "Getting the tone, pace and balance right on an anthology isn’t easy. This inventive and insightful production nails it."[7]

Awards

12th AACTA Awards

Logie Awards of 2023

References

  1. ^ Hayman, Rani (3 November 2021), "New film Here Out West seeks to paint a different picture about living in Western Sydney", ABC News
  2. ^ Maddox, Garry (29 October 2021), "'Magic happened in the room': Here Out West is a rare contemporary take on western Sydney", Sydney Morning Herald
  3. ^ Lambert, Tania (7 February 2022), "Here Out West: a film that centres Western Sydney through tales of marginality", The Conversation
  4. ^ Luke Buckmaster, Luke Buckmaster (4 November 2021), "Here Out West review – western Sydney anthology is tender, but modest", The Guardian
  5. ^ Ma, Wenlei (3 February 2022), "Here Out West brings out the humanity in western Sydney's stories", news.com.au
  6. ^ Byrne, Paul (2 February 2022), "This brilliant comedy-drama breaks the 'skip ceiling' in 10 languages", The Sydney Morning Herald
  7. ^ Enker, Debi (10 August 2022), "Many standouts in a vibrant portrait of Sydney's inner west", The Sydney Morning Herald
  8. ^ a b Cartwright, Lexie (23 October 2022), "AACTA reveals 2022 film, TV nominations", news.com.au
  9. ^ Riga, Jessica (19 June 2023), "2023 Logie Award nominations: Leigh Sales, Mark Coles Smith and Shaun Micallef to battle it out for the top honour", ABC News

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