Waratah Australian Film Festival 2005 will be held on the consecutive weekends of 2 to 4 and 9 to 11 December 2005 in Guangzhou again.

Ten Australian movies  made in recent year will be showed to the public at Guangzhou Feiyang Cinema City in Zhengjia Guangchang in Tianhe.

Three famous Australian stars, Mr Garry McDonald, Mr Ben Mendelsohn, Mr Roy Billing also arrived in Guangzhou to promote the festival.

"Japanese Story"

Cast:  Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski, John Howard, Yukiko Tanaka, Kate Atkinson, Bill Young

Director:  Sue Brooks

Genre:  Drama   

Australia 2003, colour, 107 minutes, in English with Chinese subtitles

Synopsis:

Geologist Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), is assigned to baby sit Tachibana Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima), a visiting Japanese executive and show him round the red country of Western Australia's remote Pilbara region, where some of the world's largest deposits of iron ore are mined (and the oldest geological area in the world). She takes an instant dislike to the foreigner, and the cultural abyss between them seems to exaggerate the personal divide. When alone in the desert and in some danger, the two begin to discover things about each other and themselves.

Editor: Donald