Heatwave

Year: 1982

Runtime: 91 mins

Language: English

Director: Phillip Noyce

Drama

A community activist fights to halt a redevelopment scheme forcing residents out of Sydney’s Kings Cross, unfolding during an unseasonal Christmas heatwave that heightens tension. The story follows a man and a woman whose lives become entangled amid the crisis, confronting the terror of displacement and the sweltering heat of activism.

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