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AliEN0089

AliEN0089

Virtual and real-world violence blur in this terrifying, Sundance award-winning short.

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Biosphere

Biosphere

Director Mel Eslyn

Spoiler alert: humanity destroyed itself. How will the last two men standing ensure the survival of the species?

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Birdeater

Birdeater

A bachelor party takes a feral turn in this genre-defying debut from an exciting new Australian directing duo.

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The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

In Dario Argento’s assured and tense debut, an American expat in Rome is entangled in a serial killer’s web.

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The Black Cat

The Black Cat

Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.

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Camarera de Piso

Camarera de Piso

Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel weaves economic struggle, thriller and diva melodrama into a stunning exercise in bodily language.

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The Cat o' Nine Tails

The Cat o' Nine Tails

Do murderous thoughts lurk in our very DNA? Dario Argento interrogates nature vs nurture in his suspenseful second film.

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Cave Painting

Cave Painting

Cave paintings collide with cinema in this breathtakingly immersive trip through space, sound and film texture.

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Chomp It!

Chomp It!

Two crocodile men go to a public pool to cool off. It turns out one of them is distinctly more human – and the other is unable to contain his desire.

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Deep Red

Deep Red

Hailed as one of the greatest giallo works ever made, this oneiric fever dream about an amateur sleuth attracted praise from Alfred Hitchcock himself.

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Depersonalization

Depersonalization

A dark trip through the psychic soup, where the observer becomes the observed.

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Dog Apartment

Dog Apartment

A bizarre, imaginative and unforgettable animation from the legendary Estonian studio Nukufilm.

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Do You Like Hitchcock?

Do You Like Hitchcock?

If you like Hitchcock, you’ll love Dario Argento’s exhilarating 2005 homage to the Master of Suspense.

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Endless Sea

Endless Sea

This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.

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The Face of the Jellyfish

The Face of the Jellyfish

In this Kafkaesque comedy for the selfie age, a woman must confront just what makes her identity her own after her face abruptly changes overnight.

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Fairplay

Fairplay

A dark comedy about a teenager craving recognition, a worker who’ll do anything to win the jackpot and a senior executive at the end of his career.

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The Five Days

The Five Days

A rarely screened outlier in Argento’s career, this deliciously dark historical comedy follows a thief and a baker caught up in a political uprising.

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

A quirky and lesser-known piece of the Italian giallo maestro’s tapestry, and a lesson in cinematic innovation.

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FROM.BEYOND

FROM.BEYOND

An arresting mockumentary about first contact and alien sex, which won the Méliès d’Or prize at Sitges.

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fur

fur

Director Zhen Li

From Sundance comes a visceral and discombobulating depiction of a classroom crush.

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Hello Dankness

Hello Dankness

Director Soda Jerk

It’s the end of the world as we know it and no-one feels fine in Soda Jerk’s latest cinematic remix, which sassily swipes at deepfakes and Trumpism.

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In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats

Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.

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Invincible

Invincible

This deeply moving Clermont-Ferrand International Special Jury Prize winner follows a troubled teen’s last-ditch attempt at freedom.

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I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs

I Took a Lethal Dose of Herbs

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

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The Job

The Job

A multi-award-winning Melbourne director shows how trauma can radically reconfigure our worldview.

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Late Night With the Devil

Late Night With the Devil

The Aussie brothers behind 100 Bloody Acres mix frights and frivolity in recreating a 1970s talk show that goes straight to hell.

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Le Spectre de Boko Haram

Le Spectre de Boko Haram

Winner of Rotterdam’s top prize, this moving documentary explores the lives of Cameroonian children at the edge of a war zone.

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Limbotopia in VR

Limbotopia in VR

First-time director Hsieh Wen-Yee presents a surreal trip through a post-apocalyptic Taiwan.

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linda 4 eva

linda 4 eva

A wildly imaginative, hilarious and heartbreaking trip into a teenage girl’s mind, depicted as a phantasmagoria of self-loathing and angst.

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Mercy Road

Mercy Road

Director John Curran

The first virtually produced Australian feature, Mercy Road is an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller from Tracks director John Curran.

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Misaligned

Misaligned

The cyclical rhythms of a couple’s routines reach claustrophobic heights.

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Opera

Opera

After bringing bloodshed to a ballet school in Suspiria, the giallo maestro wreaks operatic havoc on a soprano tackling a Shakespeare adaptation.

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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

There’s no-one better to deliver an outré rendition of the Music of the Night than an underground maestro who loves mayhem and organ music.

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Phenomena

Phenomena

This oeuvre of outré, starring a then-14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, is widely regarded as one of Dario Argento’s most eccentric and bizarre films.

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Shut Eye

Shut Eye

A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.

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Slow Light

Slow Light

From its Clermont-Ferrand premiere comes a mythic fable exploring memory and nostalgia.

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Suspiria

Suspiria

With a title derived from the Latin phrase ‘sighs from the depths’, Dario Argento’s most famous film is a masterwork of skin-crawling terror.

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Take a Look at This Guy

Take a Look at This Guy

Director Tom Oxnam

A depressed young man must face his intrusive thoughts in lurid colour.

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Tenebrae

Tenebrae

Inspired by the director’s own brush with an obsessive fan, this stylish slasher offers meta-commentary on sexism and screen violence.

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This Is Not Here

This Is Not Here

A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

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Tomato Kitchen

Tomato Kitchen

Director Junyi Xiao

What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?

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Turbulence: Jamais Vu

Turbulence: Jamais Vu

From the team behind epic environmental VR installation Gondwana (MIFF 2022) comes an intimate experience of (mis)perception.

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White Plastic Sky

White Plastic Sky

Becoming one with nature takes a dystopian turn in this visionary rotoscoped romance.

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