Operation Filmmaker is a disquieting, and blackly humorous portrayal, screening at the World Cinema Showcase, of good intentions and its far-reaching consequences. BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM talks to director Nina Davenport about the Iraq War, liberal guilt, and the personal nightmare into which she was sucked.

Annie Goldson’s An Island Calling is a sobering documentary looking at the murder of John Scott and Greg Scrivener in Suva in 2001. Drawing in complex issues such as postcolonial identity, evangelicism, and ethnic conflicts, it’s one of the more thought-provoking documentaries at this year’s World Cinema Showcase. BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM had a chat with Goldson about the film.

Sarah Watt’s Look Both Ways – a delicate, melancholy debut exploring the lives (and deaths) of a cluster of interrelated characters in suburban Australia – scooped the AFI Awards in 2005, including Best Picture and Director. CATHERINE BISLEY caught up with Watt in Melbourne during preproduction of her forthcoming feature, My Year Without Sex.