Hotel Coolgardie

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Sunday, February 5th, 2017
9:00 PM to 10:20 PM

At a remote pub, on a dusty highway between Australia’s most isolated city and its largest gold pit, the arrival every three months of a new pair of foreign backpackers to work the bar is a keenly anticipated event. Fresh off a plane from Bali, in need of cash after being robbed, and drawn to the idea of having an authentic outback adventure, Finnish travellers Lina and Steph find themselves en route to a dot on the map – to pour beer, replenish depleted travel funds, and live amongst the locals. But their working holiday quickly deteriorates ¬-into a baptism of fire. Hounded by their new boss, relentlessly pursued or pilloried by booze-addled patrons, and prey to the madness and malaise of an environment as claustrophobic as it is isolated, the girls soon realize that to meet expectations out here, they’ll need to do more than just serve drinks. Sometimes humorous, often shocking, Hotel Coolgardie is a raw, wryly-observed journey into an outback Australia rarely depicted on screen. Welcome to the nightmare version of Cheers.