



2025
Birthright
Evicted and jobless, Cory and his pregnant wife move back in with his boomer parents. What begins as uneasy dependence spirals into paranoia, as both generations confront their failures and fears. Birthright is a sharp, unsettling family satire of housing, inequality and the collapse of middle-class dreams.
Director
Zoe Pepper
Runtime
102 Minutes
Country
Australia
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Birthright lays bare the seismic chasm between the wealth of baby boomers and the precarity of their millennial children.
Evicted and jobless, Cory and his pregnant wife Jasmine are forced to move back in with his parents. What begins as temporary refuge quickly festers into unease, as his parents grow fearful he may never leave and Cory’s own desperation to measure up unravels into paranoia. His grasp at an unexpected path to success detonates the fragile balance, turning family life into generational war.
Writer-director Zoe Pepper infuses the story with biting humour and theatrical flair, crafting a dark satire of housing, inequality and the collapse of middle-class ideals. Both unsettling and disturbingly fun, Birthright transforms a suburban household into a crucible for privilege, resentment and fear. The result is a generational showdown where millennial despair and boomer entitlement collide, and where neither side escapes unscathed.
Evicted and jobless, Cory and his pregnant wife Jasmine are forced to move back in with his parents. What begins as temporary refuge quickly festers into unease, as his parents grow fearful he may never leave and Cory’s own desperation to measure up unravels into paranoia. His grasp at an unexpected path to success detonates the fragile balance, turning family life into generational war.
Writer-director Zoe Pepper infuses the story with biting humour and theatrical flair, crafting a dark satire of housing, inequality and the collapse of middle-class ideals. Both unsettling and disturbingly fun, Birthright transforms a suburban household into a crucible for privilege, resentment and fear. The result is a generational showdown where millennial despair and boomer entitlement collide, and where neither side escapes unscathed.
Sydney, Melbourne

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Film Credits
Director
Zoe Pepper
Year
2025
Country
Australia
Language
English
Subtitles
English
Type
Feature & Fiction
Program Strand
World Cinema
Producer
Cody Greenwood
Writer
Zoe Pepper
Cinematographer
Michael McDermott ACS
Editor
Luca Cappelli
Cast
Michael Hurst, Linda Cropper, Maria Angelico & Travis Jeffrey
Music
James Peter Brown
Film Source
Madman Entertainment
Genre
Australian, Black Comedy & Family
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