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2024

With or Without You

2024

With or Without You

World Premiere.

Guest in attendance.

With or Without You tells the moving mother-daughter story of Chloe (Melina Vidler) and her free-spirited, alcoholic mother, Sharon (Marta Dusseldorp). When their lives intersect with Dalu (Albert Mwangi), a West African man, they find themselves on a journey of emotional discovery.

Director

Kelly Schilling

Runtime

114 Minutes

Country

Australia

Classification

Unclassified 15+

A young woman, her alcoholic mother and a West African man find themselves on an unexpected road trip that leads to emotional transformation.

With or Without You marks the debut feature film from talented South Australian writer/director, Kelly Schilling (MaveriX, Two Twisted), starring Melina Vidler (800 Words, Elvis), and Albert Mwangi (Bump, Blueback) with award-winning actress Marta Dusseldorp (Bay of Fires, Janet King, Jack Irish) in a powerful Australian ensemble cast.

Inspired by Schilling’s own experiences, With or Without You tells the mother-daughter story of Chloe (Melina Vidler), a young woman with a traumatic past, who is intent on helping her alcoholic mother, Sharon (Dusseldorp), recover from lifelong addictions.

A series of chance encounters sees Chloe cross paths with Dalu (Albert Mwangi), a struggling West African man. Sparks fly and together, Chloe, Sharon and Dalu find themselves on an unexpected road trip that leads to new possibilities of love and self-realisation, hope and healing.

By turns touching and hilarious, With or Without You is a South Australian road movie with a difference – featuring emotionally compelling performances from Dusseldorp as the free-spirited but troubled Sharon, Vidler as the resilient Chloe and Mwangi as the charismatic Dalu.
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Film Credits

Director

Kelly Schilling

Year

2024

Country

Australia

Language

English

Type

Feature & Fiction

Program Strand

AFF Investment Fund, Guest in attendance & World Cinema

Producer

Su Armstrong & Carolyn Johnson

Writer

Kelly Schilling

Cinematographer

Michael Tessari

Editor

David Banbury

Cast

Marta Dusseldorp, Melina Vidler & Albert Mwangi

Music

Amanda Brown

Film Source

Icon Films

Genre

Drama, Feel-Good, Romance & Women

With or Without You Red Carpet

Red carpet – from 6:30pm
Screening – 7pm

When: Saturday 26 October
Where: The Piccadilly

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