Building the foundations for a new kind of Australian cinema – quite literally – as Nino (Walter Chiari) spends a sizeable chunk of screen time laying bricks for a suburban house in 1960s Western Sydney, They’re A Weird Mob paved the way for a number of Australian hits in the ‘curious outsider overcoming adversity through sheer charisma and pluck’ genre.

Frida says: The technicolour shenanigans of a post-WW2 Italian migrant hoping to fit into restrictive Anglo-Australian culture whilst fumbling around 1960s Sydney.