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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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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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Come and Work

Come and Work

Director Safi Faye

The first ever African film to screen at Cannes, this detailed investigation of village life is a profound meditation on time, memory and community.

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The Coolbaroo Club

The Coolbaroo Club

Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.

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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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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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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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Fresh Kill

Fresh Kill

Radical lesbians, radioactive fish lips and toxic cat food collide in this sci-fi – a transgressive landmark of anarcho-satire and queer hacktivism.

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.

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I, Your Mother

I, Your Mother

Director Safi Faye

“When will you return?” This haunting question – familiar to many an expat – is asked of a Senegalese student in West Berlin.

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Letter From My Village

Letter From My Village

Director Safi Faye

This trailblazing work – the first feature made by a woman from Sub-Saharan Africa – sets a story of love and land against a postcolonial backdrop.

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Little by Little

Little by Little

Director Jean Rouch

In her first foray into cinema, Safi Faye acts in Jean Rouch’s comedy about two Nigeriens whose Paris trip becomes a lesson in ‘reverse ethnography’.

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Lord Shango

Lord Shango

Director Ray Marsh

Christianity clashes with African spiritualism when a mother summons a tribal priest to avenge her daughter in this oddity of 70s Black cinema.

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The Man Who Couldn't Leave

The Man Who Couldn't Leave

The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.

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MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration

MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration

MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.

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MIFF Bright Horizons Special Screening: Slam 4K Restoration

MIFF Bright Horizons Special Screening: Slam 4K Restoration

Director Marc Levin

Bright Horizons Jury member Saul Williams presents this restored indie classic in which he plays a young Black prisoner who seizes poetic justice.

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Millennium Mambo

Millennium Mambo

A dazzling 4K restoration of Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien’s sensual 2001 tale of an adrift bar hostess at the turn of the millennium.

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Mossane

Mossane

Director Safi Faye

In a rare work of pure fiction for Safi Faye, drawing from a Wolof legend, a teen brings disaster to her village after defying an arranged marriage.

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The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters

In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.

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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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Return to Reason

Return to Reason

Director Man Ray

Man Ray’s classic shorts are reimagined for their 100th anniversary alongside an ecstatic soundtrack from SQÜRL members Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan.

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Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)

Stay Alive, My Son (Chapters 1 & 2)

A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.

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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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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

William Greaves’s once-forgotten countercultural masterpiece about a beleaguered New York movie crew turns the conventions of filmmaking inside out.

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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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Trouble Every Day

Trouble Every Day

Claire Denis’s divisive, seductively erotic horror film rises again, with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo in all their grisly, sensuous glory.

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