Maria Angelico, Travis Jeffery, Linda Cropper and Michael Hurst in Birthright.

Interview: Zoe Pepper

Birthright is one of the best Australian films we’ve seen so far this decade! Don’t miss your chance to see this pitch-black generational satire of Australia’s housing crisis when it hits the road for a Q&A tour around the country. 

With the funny and twisted Birthright, Australian writer-director Zoe Pepper makes an auspicious debut heralding the arrival of an exciting new voice in the world of pitch-black comedy. 

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Pepper’s unique blend of absurdist humour and demented genre thrills provides the foundation for a scathing commentary on generational inequalities and toxic family dynamics. Consider it an intergenerational War of the Roses.

After an eviction, a son and his pregnant wife refuse to leave his parents’ home in this biting satire about intergenerational wealth. A breakthrough Aussie dark comedy debut.

Newly evicted and jobless, 30-something Cory (Travis Jeffery) and his heavily pregnant wife, Jasmine (Maria Angelico), have no choice but to move into his childhood home – but just until they get back on their feet, of course. 

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But this temporary measure slowly becomes a parasitic imposition on Cory’s baby-boomer parents (Michael Hurst and Linda Cropper), with absurd and ludicrous consequences. Cory is determined to prove that he can earn his stripes as “man of the house” – even if that house isn’t his.

Sharp and farcical, Western Australian director Zoe Pepper’s transition from stage to screen is a twisted take on privilege, the housing crisis, and a disillusioned generation that hits very close-to-home indeed.

Q&A screenings from May 11. In cinemas May 21. 

Here’s where you can see it!

VIC

Lido Cinemas
6.00pm Monday, 11 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and actors Travis Jeffery and Maria Angelico

Brunswick Picture House
8.15pm Monday, 11 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and actors Travis Jeffery and Maria Angelico

Cinema Nova
6.00pm Tuesday, 12 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and actors Travis Jeffery and Maria Angelico

Sun Theatre Yarraville
8.00pm Tuesday, 12 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and actors Travis Jeffery and Maria Angelico

NSW

Ritz Cinemas
6.00pm Wednesday, 13 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and actor Travis Jeffery

Dendy Newtown
6.30pm Thursday, 14 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and actor Travis Jeffery

QLD

Five Star Cinemas New Farm
6.30pm Friday, 15 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper and producer Cody Greenwood

WA

Luna Palace Leederville
6.30pm Tuesday, 19 May
Q&A with director Zoe Pepper

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