Screenings

Explore the upcoming cinema screenings of Welcome to Babel across Australia. Stay tuned as more dates and locations are added!

Act

Dendy Canberra
• Season completed

QLD

Dendy Coorparoo
• Season completed
Dendy Southport
• Season completed

Wa

Screenings to be confirmed
Stay tuned for updates on screening locations in Western Australia.

Tas

Screenings to be confirmed
Stay tuned for updates on screening locations in Tasmania.

Sa

MERCURY THEATRE - ADELAIDE
• Sessions on 28 January, 7 & 9 February 2025 More info and tickets »

NT

BCC - CASUARINA
• Sessions on 26 January & 16 March 2025
More info and tickets »

NSW

JETTY THEATRE - COFFS HARBOUR

• Sessions on Thursday 27 February 2025 More info and tickets »

Dendy Newtown
• Season completed

Hayden Orpheum Cremorne
• Season completed

Vic

SHOWBIZ CINEMA - BALLARAT
• Session with Q&A on 9 February 2025

More info and tickets »

THEATRE ROYAL - CASTLEMAINE

• Session with Q&A on 8 February 2025

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Cinema Nova in Carlton
• Season completed

  • "Breathtaking doco"

    Letterboxd Review

    ★★★★★

  • "A beautifully made and thoughtful film that demonstrated the ambition to tell a global story."​

    Sydney Film Festival

    ★★★★★

  • "I watched with my heart in my throat, tears in my eyes and many laughs." ​

    Letterboxd Review

    ★★★★★

  • "Anybody can declare themselves a political artist nowadays, but few honestly believe that their work is actually helping to bring about social change." ​

    John McDonald 

    ★★★★★

  • "Captures the role of art in history-making while raising questions about who gets to make the art."

    Letterboxd Review

    ★★★★★

  • "For a veteran of the Cultural Revolution, to survive, to laugh, to make sense, and to shine a beam of light into the murky recesses of politics, is a kind of triumph."

    John McDonald 

    ★★★★★

  • "There's an entire world history in a single person's lifetime, no more so than in those of Chinese-born, Australian-based artists Jiawei Shen and Lan Wang."

    Letterboxd Review

    ★★★★★

  • "This is almost the definition of a lunatic project." ​ 

    John McDonald 

    ★★★★★

  • "The cinematography and editing were exceptional and tonally perfect."

    Sydney Film Festival

    ★★★★★

  • "Only an artist with great self assurance would call their work Babel but I think it's earned here." ​ 

    Letterboxd Review

    ★★★★★

  • "This is one of the most ambitious and far-reaching projects that anyone could imagine, anywhere" ​ 

    John McDonald 

    ★★★★★

  • "The ultimate exclamation mark on twentieth century history."

    John McDonald

    ★★★★★

  • James Bradley's documentary tells the story of how (Shen Jiawei’s) “Tower of Babel” wants to break the ideological taboo of a nation.

    Valérie Duponchelle in Le Figaro (Translated from French)