ACMI Cinemas presents in association with Sydney Film Festival: Focus on Girls 24/7.

From desperate housewives to rampaging teenage anarchists, 'the girls' are up front in these stylistically brazen films by women directors from the sixties and early seventies. The films brought together in Focus on Girls 24/7 are stylistically brazen, each signalling a unique creative vision behind the lens. The contradictory impulses of the modern woman are rendered on screen in bold, unfettered performances from the leading actresses. Seen collectively, these films raise questions about the attainability of personal and social freedom in an era when 'liberation' was the main prize. Seen apart, each film is an enduring classic from one of the most vital eras in the history of cinema.

Films:
Cleo From 5 To 7 (Cleo de 5 à 7)
Daisies (Sedmikrasky)
Jeanne Dielman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
Wanda
Sparrows Can't Sing
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)
Wings (Krylya)
The Girls (Flickorna)