23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

Spider

Nash Edgerton

Australia

2007, 9'

A film that starts by quoting something that every parent, in the history of the world, will have said or thought: it’s all fun and games, until someone loses an eye.

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INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

National

ORIGINAL TITLE

Spider

LANGUAGE

English

SCRIPT

David Michôd, Nash Edgerton

CAST

Jill Mirrah Foulkes, Nash Edgerton, Warwick Thornton

PHOTOGRAPHY

Greig Fraser

EDITING

Luke Doolan

PRODUCER

Nicole O’Donohue

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