Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Joel Anderson’s mockumentary horror classic. Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns tragically while swimming in the local dam. In the days that follow, her grieving family begins to experience a series of strange and inexplicable phenomena. Seeking the help of a parapsychologist, their search for answers reveals Alice’s disturbed past and dark, hidden secrets. Something had haunted their daughter before her death, and the terrifying truth awaits at Lake Mungo. Programmer's note: Discovered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2008, and screened the following March at SXSW in Austin, Lake Mungo, a contender for one of the most unnerving horror films of all time, is above all, a tour-de-force of independent filmmaking. Constructed from the well-worn fabric of the “found-footage horror” genre, Lake Mungo reinvents the wheel The Blair Witch Project set in motion a decade earlier and turns it into high art: a devastating story of the ways grief can ravage a family and a deft exploration of the ways we use technology to capture what will inevitably become dust, memento mori. —Ariel Esteban Cayer The screening on Saturday 21 Oct will be proceeded by an extended intro with star Rosie Traynor.