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20,000 Species of Bees

20,000 Species of Bees

Featuring a remarkable lead performance from nine-year-old Sofia Otero, 20,000 Species of Bees is an empathetic exploration of gender and generations.

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27

The winner of the 2023 Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or is a colourful orgy of ennui and desire.

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48 Hours

48 Hours

This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.

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Abebe – Butterfly Song

Abebe – Butterfly Song

Director Rosie Jones

Discover the musical legacy and enduring friendship between celebrated Papuan musician George Telek and Not Drowning, Waving’s David Bridie.

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After Work

After Work

A South London playground prompts an abstract meditation on work and play.

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AliEN0089

AliEN0089

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

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Ama Gloria

Ama Gloria

From Cannes Critics’ Week comes a heartbreaking and unforgettably tender portrait of a six-year-old French girl’s bond with her Cape Verdean nanny.

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Anatomy of a Fall

Anatomy of a Fall

Bristling with emotional depth, this Palme d’Or–winning courtroom drama puts the complexities of a relationship on trial.

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Animalia

Animalia

A mix of sci-fi genre-bending and apocalyptic tension, this debut uses an alien invasion to peer across the stakes of faith and family in Morocco.

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Apostles of Cinema

Apostles of Cinema

Three devoted individuals in Tanzania reintroduce a classic piece of the country’s film history to an audience.

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Art Talent Show

Art Talent Show

This dryly humorous, Wiseman-esque film about an esteemed Czech art school asks: who gets to decide what art is?

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Baba

Baba

A gripping, darkly funny portrait of a middle-aged Iranian man whose life is rapidly unravelling.

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Banel & Adama

Banel & Adama

Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s first longform work is a haunting fable of star-cross’d lovers set in a rural village.

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Beyond Utopia

Beyond Utopia

This pulse-racing nonfiction thriller follows the individuals risking their lives to defect from North Korea and the pastor granting them passage.

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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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birth/rebirth

birth/rebirth

Director Laura Moss

In this modern reimagining of Frankenstein, the give-and-take of motherhood is tested through a collision of grief, creation and horror.

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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

A charming character study about love, liberty and the pursuit of forbidden fruit, set in the Georgian countryside.

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Blinded by Centuries

Blinded by Centuries

Director Parinda Mai

A hypnotic, futuristic reimagining of a Buddhist folk tale that speaks to our chaotic moment.

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Blond Night

Blond Night

A chance encounter after dark offers an autistic man a moment of transcendence.

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Blue Jean

Blue Jean

This multi-award-winning debut is an intimate, deeply felt portrait of a lesbian teacher living a double life in Thatcher’s England.

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The Buriti Flower

The Buriti Flower

This Cannes-winning blend of documentary and fiction is an intoxicating portrait of the Indigenous Krahô people and their unwavering resistance.

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Call Me Mommy

Call Me Mommy

An intimate portrait of a single mother who turned to sex work during the pandemic.

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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 Carnival

The Carnival

Amid bushfires, the pandemic and punters’ changing tastes, the family behind the Bells Family Carnival fight to preserve its century-long legacy.

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Charcoal

Charcoal

A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.

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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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Closing Night Gala: Theater Camp

Closing Night Gala: Theater Camp

Waiting for Guffman meets Wet Hot American Summer as a ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp.

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Club Zero

Club Zero

In Jessica Hausner’s bold satire, a charismatic teacher convinces her teenage students that disordered eating can produce many kinds of enlightenment.

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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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Development

Development

Flirtation and violence are dangerous bedfellows in a budding teen romance.

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Earth Mama

Earth Mama

This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.

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The Eternal Daughter

The Eternal Daughter

Director Joanna Hogg

Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton star in Joanna Hogg’s Gothic coda to her two Souvenir films, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.

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The Eternal Memory

The Eternal Memory

This stirring Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner chronicles the love story of a Chilean couple navigating Alzheimer’s disease.

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F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

Director Fox Maxy

A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.

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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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Fledglings

Fledglings

Director Lidia Duda

Three children spread their wings as they farewell their parents and enter a boarding school for students who are blind or have low vision.

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Four Daughters

Four Daughters

A mother and two of her daughters are joined by actors to work through their family history and grasp the other two daughters’ heartbreaking choices.

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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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Fuck Me, Richard

Fuck Me, Richard

A twisted tale of broken legs, painkillers and phone sex that explores the dark heart of transactional relationships – and the sick thrill of a scam.

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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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Gate Crash

Gate Crash

‘Would you choose them as your mates?’ asks this dark and dreamlike snapshot of a teenage friendship group.

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Generations of Men

Generations of Men

Director Joanna Joy

A revisionist western inspired by author Judith Wright’s family history – the first narrative work to feature the Barada and Darumbal languages.

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Geometry of Faith

Geometry of Faith

A mystical experience unfolds as the movements of celestial bodies envelop the landscape and its inhabitants.

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Golden Eighties

Golden Eighties

Chantal Akerman puts love and capitalism in the crosshairs in this acidly funny, vibrantly coloured musical set entirely within a shopping mall.

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Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy

Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy

A jovial, dreamy rumination on love, time, what we collect and how we connect.

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Gush

Gush

Director Fox Maxy

A maximalist, kaleidoscopic visual essay of hurt and healing, and a one-of-a-kind statement of bodily sovereignty from wunderkind Fox Maxy.

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Hafekasi

Hafekasi

A 10-year-old girl becomes newly aware of her cultural identity in this impressive debut that received a Tribeca Narrative Short Special Jury Mention.

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Heat Spell

Heat Spell

Tensions rise along with the temperature gauge in this blistering snapshot of sibling rivalry.

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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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How to Have Sex

How to Have Sex

A sun-drenched, hormone-laden trip of teenage kicks turns dark in this compellingly contemporary navigation of sexual politics.

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Human Nature

Human Nature

The winner of the Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Short Competition’s top prize is a touching portrait of shared uncertainty.

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Inshallah a Boy

Inshallah a Boy

The first Jordanian film to screen at Cannes takes ferocious aim at the country’s ingrained misogyny.

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Invisible Beauty

Invisible Beauty

An intimate self-portrait of Black model, booking agent and fashion industry changemaker Bethann Hardison’s challenge to the colourist status quo.

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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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It's Only Life After All

It's Only Life After All

On Her Shoulders director Alexandria Bombach recounts how two unassuming childhood friends became lesbian icons as folk-rock duo Indigo Girls.

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It's Raining in the House

It's Raining in the House

Winner of the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes Critics’ Week, this coming-of-age drama is a stirring social-realist fiction debut.

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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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Japanese Story

Japanese Story

Director Sue Brooks

In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.

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Joan Baez I Am a Noise

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

Tracing her stratospheric rise, this portrait of the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist reveals a rich life not without its struggles.

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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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Keeping Hope

Keeping Hope

Mark Coles Smith (Sweet As) faces down a traumatic event from his past in the hope of helping young First Nations men in the Kimberley.

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Kindred

Kindred

An autobiographical story about the removal of Aboriginal children from their birth families and a celebration of friendship, love and resilience.

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La Chimera

La Chimera

A preternaturally skilled archaeologist goes on an Orphean quest for his lost love in Alice Rohrwacher’s latest and most romantically bewitching film.

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La Perra

La Perra

This lushly animated tale of sexual awakening, which screened in competition at Cannes, follows a humanoid bird as she matures from child to woman.

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Last Summer

Last Summer

Catherine Breillat (Abuse of Weakness) returns with a daring portrait of a woman’s intimate relationship with her teen stepson, starring Léa Drucker.

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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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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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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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Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be

Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be

In this Annecy Best Feature–winning adaptation of the Le petit Nicolas comic books, a mischievous character meets the men who brought him to life.

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Little Richard: I Am Everything

Little Richard: I Am Everything

A rollicking deep dive into the life of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most exhilarating personalities, whose queerness was hidden in plain sight.

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Lou

Lou

An unprecedented and enlightening chance to witness the world through an autistic child’s eyes.

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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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Mast-del

Mast-del

Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

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Milisuthando

Milisuthando

This poetic, visually striking meditation on growing up under apartheid in South Africa is unlike any documentary memoir you’ve seen before.

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Misaligned

Misaligned

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

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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 Mother of All Lies

The Mother of All Lies

Winner of Un Certain Regard’s Best Director and L’Œil d’Or at Cannes, this Moroccan documentary sets out to untangle personal and national secrets.

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Mutt

Mutt

In this award-winning feature debut, one chaotic day sees a young trans man’s past chase him as he chooses his future.

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Nanitic

Nanitic

A snapshot of a Vietnamese-Canadian family’s routines during its matriarch’s final days.

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The Nature of Love

The Nature of Love

In this Cannes Un Certain Regard comedy, the ineffability of romance is put to the test by an unfaithful married philosopher.

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Paula

Paula

In this sensitively told drama, a teenager’s battle with body image is a microcosm for the crushing weight of beauty standards on all young women.

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Perpetrator

Perpetrator

Oozing blood, shapeshifting and a serial killer on the loose – this high school body horror is a feminist-charged frenzy, starring Alicia Silverstone.

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Rebel With a Cause - Part 1

Rebel With a Cause - Part 1

Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.

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Rebel With a Cause - Part 2

Rebel With a Cause - Part 2

Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future.

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Remembering Every Night

Remembering Every Night

Get lost with three women as they wander a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, whose discombobulating architecture mirrors the vastness of life.

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Room 999

Room 999

David Cronenberg, Baz Luhrmann, Claire Denis and a host of directors discuss cinema’s future in this riveting sequel to Wim Wenders’s 1982 classic.

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Scarygirl

Scarygirl

Anna Torv, Sam Neill, Tim Minchin and Deborah Mailman lend their voices to this Australian animated adventure based on the popular novel and game.

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Scrapper

Scrapper

A grieving girl connects with her estranged father in this Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize–winning debut infused with warmth and light.

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Selbé: One Among Many

Selbé: One Among Many

Director Safi Faye

Safi Faye’s groundbreaking 1983 ethnographic documentary uses one Senegalese woman’s experience to comment widely on gender and society.

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Shackle

Shackle

An ingenious and ethereal animation that combines puppetry and photography.

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Showing Up

Showing Up

As much an ode to the daily creative grind as it is to the creative partnership between director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams.

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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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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Director Anna Hints

In the southern Estonian woods, a group of women talk and embrace the soul-cleansing power of steam in this Sundance award-winning documentary.

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Snow in September

Snow in September

The winner of Best Short Film at both Toronto and Venice is a subtly menacing, Mongolia-set tale of sexual awakening.

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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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Stone Turtle

Stone Turtle

The supernatural encroaches on a woman’s simple existence in this FIPRESCI Prize–winning tale of folklore, deception and retribution.

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Stonewalling

Stonewalling

A Gen Z woman contends with shifting cultural values and the one-child policy’s lasting impacts to understand her place in the world.

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Surfacing

Surfacing

An immersive fairytale whose everyday heroes are mothers and children in Italian prisons.

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Theater Camp

Theater Camp

Waiting for Guffman meets Wet Hot American Summer as a ragtag cast and crew of theatre nerds bring extra drama to save their beloved summer camp.

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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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Tiger Stripes

Tiger Stripes

The beast is unleashed in this Cannes award-winning debut – and she’s a 12-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl whose body is changing in more ways than one.

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Time Bomb Y2K

Time Bomb Y2K

This archival explosion relives the wild and unhinged madness of the turn of the millennium.

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Tótem

Tótem

A spellbinding family portrait that presents a child’s-eye view of love, loss and life in all their messy, glorious, heartbreaking colour.

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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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The Tuba Thieves

The Tuba Thieves

Described by its maker as a “meditation on access and loss”, this trailblazing film reframes cinema from a d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing perspective.

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Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

Director Margot Nash

Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.

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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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You'll Never Find Me

You'll Never Find Me

An elderly caravan park resident tangles with a mysterious woman in this deliciously unpredictable horror debut from an Australian filmmaking duo.

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