The Road to Patagonia
6 Nov NSW

The Road to Patagonia

Encore screening due to huge demand!

A love story with a hoofbeat.

Following a sold-out world premiere at Byron Bay International Film Festival (where it won Best Film and Best Documentary awards), and garnering multiple accolades including the prestigious Audience Choice Award at both the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and Florida Surf Film Festival, it is now Australia’s highest grossing documentary of 2024.

The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary — firstly a love between two people, and secondly between humanity and the Earth. We follow Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure, to surf the west coast of the Americas by motorbike, from the top of Alaska to the tip of Patagonia. But deep in the wilderness — alone with the wolves and the bears — the journeyer’s plans unexpectedly fall to pieces. After losing everything, and on the cusp of quitting he meets the girl of his dreams, a permaculture farmer named Heather Hillier who throws caution to the wind and sells her urban-farm to buy a bike of her own. Together riding south, the duo meet with Zapatista rebels, Amazonian shamans and Mapuche leaders whose salient words crack the adventurers’ cultural veneer, leaving them with existential questions.

The 50,000km surfing odyssey becomes beautifully complicated by their decision to downshift from motorcycles to horseback, presenting a relational approach to the breathtaking landscapes and a host of challenges that ultimately become extremely rewarding. Hannon and Hillier succeed in beautifully capturing deeply human moments during the world-first expedition, and the noticeable lack of camera-crew becomes The Road to Patagonia’s strength. The theme of deep ecology underpins the entire film, visually communicated through exquisite cinematography and emotional verité sequences. Shot over 16 years, the result is an adventurous exposé on the more-than-human world, offering a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our place in Nature.

Directed by Matty Hannon. Cast: Matty Hannon, Heather Hillier. Documentary. 90 minutes.

Dates:
THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER @ 7PM

Our kiosk is always open for food and drink one hour before showtime. For the bar menu and what’s on offer, please check out our Dine & Drink page.
Age restrictions: M
— Duration: Approximately 90 minutes
— Doors 6:40pm

TICKET PRICES

GENERAL $25 (plus booking fee)
General admission unallocated seating.

HOUSEMATE TICKET PRICES
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HOUSEMATE PRICE GENERAL $20 (plus booking fee)
General admission unallocated seating.

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