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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.
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 HurstLinda CropperMaria Angelico & Travis Jeffrey

Music

James Peter Brown

Film Source

Madman Entertainment

Genre

AustralianBlack Comedy & Family

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