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Reality

Directed by Tina Satter
2023
USA
83 minutes
Unclassified 15+
Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The White Lotus) plays an American veteran turned yoga teacher who would become the first whistleblower of the Trump era, in this tense Berlinale-premiering docudrama.
When a 25-year-old named Reality Winner (Sweeney) pulls into the driveway of her Augusta, Georgia, rental on a Saturday afternoon in June 2017, she is met by two FBI agents in possession of a search warrant. Seemingly unfazed, Winner hands over her mobile phone, tends to her animals and packs away her perishables before leading Agents Garrick (Josh Hamilton) and Taylor (Marchánt Davis) to a dingy backroom of her house where an hour-long interview unfolds. Using dialogue taken entirely from the FBI’s actual transcript of the interrogation, debut filmmaker Tina Satter creates a tense thriller that offers an unobstructed view of one of the most polarising political events in recent US history.

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Reality can be stranger than fiction, but Reality fuses the two to become stranger, and more riveting, still.
Jessica Kiang, Variety
Not only is Reality inventively mounted and extraordinarily tense, but it proves something we already knew deep down: that Sydney Sweeney is the real deal.
Steph Green, IndieWire

Tickets

Sun 11 Jun
8pm
Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Mon 12 Jun
8pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Sat 17 Jun
7pm
State Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Mon 19 Jun
6:15pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Thu 22 Jun
6pm
Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
Special Presentations
Year
2023
Classification
Unclassified 15+
Country
USA
Language
In English
Director
Tina Satter
Producer
Noah Stahl, Brad Becker-Parton, Riva Marker, Greg Nobile
Cast
Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
Screenwriter
Tina Satter, James Paul Dallas
Cinematographer
Paul Yee
Editor
Jennifer Vecchiarello, Ron Dulin
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Genre
Politics & Economics, Women Directors, Crime, By Popular Demand
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: Kismet
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