MUMBAI: The Palm Springs International Film Festival that runs from 5 to 18 January will spotlight Australian cinema.

The program, ‘G‘Day USA: A Showcase of Australian Cinema‘, that will be shown on 9 January will showcase nine films of which a good number of star actors are known to American audiences.

Anthony LaPaglia, who was on the CBS drama Without a Trace stars in The Balibo Conspiracy about five Australian journalists who were murdered by the Indonesian army during the invasion of East Timor. 

Beautiful Kate that tells the story of a man who returns to his childhood home in the Australian outback to find out how his family‘s dysfunctional past stars actress Rachel Griffiths.

Last Ride stars Hugo Weaving as a man who takes his son on an unknown journey through the desert dealing with not just the elements but each other.

Weaving‘s Lord of the Rings co-star Miranda Otto stars in Blessed that is a film broken into two parts: one from the view of troubled children wandering the streets and then the point of view of the mothers who are struggling at home.

Hugh Jackman‘s wife Deborra-Lee Furness also stars.
The other films being shown include In My Father‘s Country, My Year Without Sex, Lucky Country, Samson & Delilah and the 1971 thriller Wake in Fright.