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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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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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About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) presents an ambitious epic of maladjusted male ego.

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Absence

Absence

Director Wu Lang

Lee Kang-sheng brings undeniable star power to this graceful, pensive story of a man trying to find his place in a world that has left him behind.

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The Adults

The Adults

Siblings can drive us to the edge. This visceral car crash of love and fury revs this American indie vehicle led by Michael Cera.

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Afire

Afire

In Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear–winning drama, a summer getaway on Germany’s Baltic coast unravels against the backdrop of looming wildfires.

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Allensworth

Allensworth

James Benning invites us to contemplate Black history as he turns his structuralist lens on the first African American municipality in California.

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All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

Love seeps through the cracks in this touching tale of same-sex desire in metropolitan Nigeria, which won the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.

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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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Anselm

Anselm

Director Wim Wenders

German auteur Wim Wenders’s majestic 3D portrait of compatriot, artworld luminary and friend Anselm Kiefer.

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Art College 1994

Art College 1994

Director Liu Jian

Auteurs Jia Zhang-ke and Bi Gan join the voice cast for this acerbic animated wonder about Chinese art students facing a rapidly changing world.

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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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Australia's Open

Australia's Open

Director Ili Baré

Relive the most thrilling moments of Australia’s beloved tennis tournament in this chronicle of its ascent to top-seed status on the global stage.

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Autobiography

Autobiography

In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.

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Bad Behaviour

Bad Behaviour

Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw star in this blackly comic debut about an ex–child star who attends a spiritual retreat in search of enlightenment.

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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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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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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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BlackBerry

BlackBerry

The genius and hubris of the tech industry collide in this wildly entertaining account of the dramatic rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone.

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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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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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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

An enchanting animated take on Haruki Murakami’s short stories starring a gregarious talking frog, an existential bank teller and an elusive cat.

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Blood

Blood

Director Pedro Costa

Now magnificently restored, Pedro Costa’s oneiric debut film declared the arrival of an essential new voice in world cinema.

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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 Breaking Ice

The Breaking Ice

The French New Wave lives on in this luminous, snow-covered Gen Z love triangle from Wet Season and Ilo Ilo director Anthony Chen.

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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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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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Casa Susanna

Casa Susanna

Deep in the US’s Catskill Mountains of the 50s and 60s sat a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men to experience life without fear.

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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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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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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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Cobweb

Cobweb

Parasite’s Song Kang-ho stars as a 1970s filmmaker-in-crisis in this chaotic comedy from the director of I Saw the Devil.

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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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Conann

Conann

A deliriously defiant, all-female reimagining of Conan the Barbarian that’s feted to become a new cult classic.

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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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A Couple

A Couple

Frederick Wiseman’s third foray into dramatic features centres on Sophia Tolstoy’s complicated marriage to her novelist husband.

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Creature

Creature

Oscar-winning Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia fuses horror and expressionistic dance in this haunting ballet inspired by Woyzeck and Frankenstein.

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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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Deep Sea

Deep Sea

Heed the call of the waves and dive headfirst into this innovative and visually resplendent Chinese animation.

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The Delinquents

The Delinquents

In this gently surreal, formally bold Argentinian take on the heist film, two bumbling bandits try to buy their liberty.

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Deserts

Deserts

In this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit, two debt collectors face the absurdity of their jobs while dwarfed by the majestic Moroccan desert.

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The Disappearance of Shere Hite

The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Pioneering sexologist Shere Hite is rescued from history’s margins in this fascinating portrait from Oscar-nominated documentarian Nicole Newnham.

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Disco Boy

Disco Boy

Franz Rogowski propels this mesmeric musing on wounded masculinity, which is ignited by French electro superstar Vitalic’s feverish soundtrack.

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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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Drift

Drift

Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat shine in the stirring new work from Anthony Chen, which explores how friendship can salve the traumas of the past.

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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 Echo

The Echo

A double Berlinale award winner capturing the joys, heartaches and rhythms of rural Mexican life as seen through the eyes of children and young women.

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Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story

Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story

The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades.

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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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Eureka

Eureka

Slow cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

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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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Fairyland

Fairyland

This heartfelt Sofia Coppola–produced drama explores the intricacies of a father–daughter bond blossoming amid queer liberation and the AIDS crisis.

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Femme

Femme

After being attacked outside a London nightclub, a drag queen decides to turn the tables in this Hitchcockian queer noir.

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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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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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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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Fremont

Fremont

With a laconic Jarmuschian vibe, Fremont is a heartfelt comedic ode to the immigrant experience.

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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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Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism

Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism

This rare Aussie take on the popular exorcism subgenre builds to a brutal finale you won’t be able to excise from your mind.

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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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Goodbye Julia

Goodbye Julia

A moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.

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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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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Venture behind the pink tutu with the legendary Sex and the City stylist to discover the creative process that made her a New York icon.

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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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The Hidden Spring

The Hidden Spring

Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.

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Hounds

Hounds

Bringing echoes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino to the mean streets of Morocco, this Cannes prize-winner is not the Casablanca you think you know.

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The stakes are high but the cost of sitting idle is higher for a group of environmental activists who band together to disrupt the oil industry.

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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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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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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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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

This hypnotic, transcendental debut feature follows a young man’s mystical journey across a beguiling rural Vietnam.

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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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Iron Butterflies

Iron Butterflies

In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.

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It Lives Inside

It Lives Inside

An ancient Hindu demon stalks an Indian-American teen between two cultures in this terrifying and original monster movie.

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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 Used to Be Funny

I Used to Be Funny

Director Ally Pankiw

Rachel Sennott (Bodies Bodies Bodies; Shiva Baby) shines in this formally ambitious – and, yes, funny – portrait of a stand-up comedian battling PTSD.

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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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Kayo Kayo Colour?

Kayo Kayo Colour?

Naturalistic and brimming with empathy, this debut drama unfolds over 24 hours in a marginalised Muslim community in India.

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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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Kidnapped

Kidnapped

A pope’s audacious act tears the Catholic Church and all of Italy apart in this gripping true story.

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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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Kiss the Future

Kiss the Future

Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this film recounts how local musicians banded together with U2 to offer hope to Bosnians in war-torn Sarajevo.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

This essential music documentary asks: why is the 1970s’ most original and ethereal folk singer almost forgotten today?

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Lost Country

Lost Country

In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.

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Louder Than You Think

Louder Than You Think

A SXSW Audience Award winner, this doc traces the unlikely ascendancy of one of rock’s most influential yet under-sung figures: Pavement’s Gary Young.

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The Maiden

The Maiden

Director Graham Foy

In this exceptional debut feature, a supernatural discovery transfigures two teenagers’ world of graffiti, grief and suburban exploration.

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Master Gardener

Master Gardener

Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver deliver outstanding, nuanced performances in Paul Schrader’s latest explosive study of male guilt and redemption.

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May December

May December

Director Todd Haynes

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal.

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Medusa Deluxe

Medusa Deluxe

Scissors out! Someone literally slays at a hairdressing competition in this exuberant one-take murder mystery.

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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

Revered filmmaker Jeni Thornley (Maidens, MIFF 1979) composes an immersive cine-poem from her extensive super-8 archive spanning three decades.

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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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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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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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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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Monolith

Monolith

Director Matt Vesely

A disgraced journalist is confronted with an unexplained artefact that may not be of this world, but is about to become the centre of hers.

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Monster

Monster

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tender answer to the question ‘Who’s the monster?’, awarded Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes, will melt your heart.

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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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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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Selling Fast
Music on Film Gala

Music on Film Gala

The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski, who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry over five decades. Read More →
Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party

Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party

Director Ian White

The thrilling, debauched and frequently hilarious adventures of the legendary Melbourne post-punk band, in their own words.

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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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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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Neneh Superstar

Neneh Superstar

Put on your ballet shoes for this triumphant, feel-good tale of a 12-year-old Parisian dancer who overcomes the odds of institutional prejudice.

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No Bears

No Bears

In this gripping blend of fact and fiction, revered Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (3 Faces, MIFF 2018) decides whether to cross a line for his beliefs.

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Omen

Omen

Director Baloji

Four Congolese people accused of practising sorcery forge very different spiritual paths in this electrifying Cannes award-winning cinematic mixtape.

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One Last Evening

One Last Evening

Moving cities is the perfect excuse to throw a party … and unpack some awkward home truths.

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On the Adamant

On the Adamant

Winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, this empathetic film invites viewers to spend time with the residents of a floating art-therapy centre in Paris.

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Standby
Opening Night Gala - Shayda

Opening Night Gala - Shayda

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir-Ebrahimi anchors this Sundance award-winning portrait of a mother seeking a new life for herself and her daughter. Read More →
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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Paradise

Paradise

Abandoned by an indifferent government, a remote Siberian village stands united in the face of a massive forest fire that threatens its future.

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Passages

Passages

Director Ira Sachs

Love Is Strange (MIFF 2014) director Ira Sachs embraces the art of French cinema in this queer, Paris-set musing on a complicated relationship.

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Past Lives

Past Lives

Director Celine Song

What if the lover who never was is ‘the one’? This swooning romance follows a Korean woman whose heart is torn by the road not taken.

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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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Perfect Days

Perfect Days

Director Wim Wenders

In this triumphant return to narrative film, Wim Wenders tackles life’s little details – mess and all – with his trademark meditative movement.

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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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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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Pictures of Ghosts

Pictures of Ghosts

Brazil’s modern master returns with a haunting tribute to the film-going experience in this Cannes-touted documentary.

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Querelle

Querelle

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s iconic final film is a ravishing adaptation of Jean Genet’s homoerotic classic about a deadly sailor on shore leave.

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R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity

This time capsule of an extraordinary unseen history is a work of documentation and preservation – both of a moment in time and of the moving image.

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Radical

Radical

CODA scene-stealer Eugenio Derbez leads this luminous Sundance Festival Favorite Award winner about an inspiring teacher.

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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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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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Riddle of Fire

Riddle of Fire

Direct from Cannes comes a charming, lo-fi fantasy caper for adults and children alike that’s destined for cult status.

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Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams

In this beautifully bittersweet hand-drawn ode to friendship, a dog must find new meaning when misfortune separates him from his robot buddy.

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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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The Rooster

The Rooster

Hugo Weaving and Phoenix Raei play a hermit and cop who form an unlikely connection amid crisis in this wonderfully weird sucker-punch of tenderness.

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Rose Gold

Rose Gold

Sit courtside as the Boomers win their history-making Olympic medal and affirm Australia as a force to be reckoned with in global basketball.

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Sand

Sand

The hauntings of the Sri Lankan Civil War are explored with quiet, incisive force in this Rotterdam Special Jury Prize winner.

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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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The Shadowless Tower

The Shadowless Tower

Director Zhang Lu

This beguiling tale of a middle-aged man who’s lost his bearings doubles as a charming meditation on the frayed bonds of family.

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Shayda

Shayda

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir-Ebrahimi anchors this Sundance award-winning portrait of a mother seeking a new life for herself and her daughter.

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Shortcomings

Shortcomings

First-time director Randall Park (Fresh off the Boat; Always Be My Maybe) takes on social mores with this fresh and fun misanthropic comedy.

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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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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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Sleep

Sleep

Director Jason Yu

Bong Joon-ho protégé Jason Yu’s clever horror debut stars South Korean favourites Lee Sun-kyun (Parasite) and Jung Yu-mi (Train to Busan).

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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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Sorcery

Sorcery

Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.

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Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Music video auteur, photographer and Control director Anton Corbijn takes history for a spin, demystifing the vinyl record artwork of the masters.

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A Still Small Voice

A Still Small Voice

This Sundance U.S. Documentary Directing Award winner is a revelatory portrait of a hospital chaplain and the people under her care during COVID.

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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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A Storm Foretold

A Storm Foretold

Cartoon villain, master manipulator, traitor or true patriot? You decide in this engrossing portrait of Donald Trump’s wily adviser Roger Stone.

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Subtraction

Subtraction

A husband and wife get mixed up with their doppelgangers in this Hitchcockian thriller from Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi (Pig; A Dragon Arrives!).

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Sunflower

Sunflower

In this affecting Melbourne-set queer drama, a teenager’s coming of age is complicated by an unexpected sexual awakening.

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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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The Sweet East

The Sweet East

Sean Price Williams makes his feature directorial debut with this freewheeling picaresque trip through the cliques and communes of today’s USA.

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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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Terrestrial Verses

Terrestrial Verses

Director Ali Asgari

A series of formally daring vignettes about the absurdity and menace of state control in Iran, laced with both scathing irony and glimmers of hope.

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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 Going to Be Big

This Is Going to Be Big

A cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.

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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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Tommy Guns

Tommy Guns

A deft exploration of the brutal scars of colonialism whose genre twists and turns give new meaning to ‘the horror of war’.

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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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Trenque Lauquen

Trenque Lauquen

This dazzling rabbit hole of a film, which evokes cinephile Everest La Flor (MIFF 2019), sketches the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a woman’s disappearance.

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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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Selling Fast
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

When the laws of time and space are turned topsy-turvy, what would you give up for one last moment with a lost love?

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Ukraine Guernica - Artist War

Ukraine Guernica - Artist War

Activist and filmmaker George Gittoes follows the frontline artists daring to stand up to the Russian invasions of Ukraine and Afghanistan.

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Voices in Deep

Voices in Deep

Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this humanistic drama.

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Walk Up

Walk Up

Telling four stories (or maybe just one) over four storeys, Hong Sang-soo’s latest MIFF entry is a shrewd chamber play set within a single building.

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Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies

Director Béla Tarr

In this gorgeous new 4K restoration, Hungarian slow-cinema master Béla Tarr finds metaphysical horror in a nascent revolution.

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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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With Love to the Person Next to Me

With Love to the Person Next to Me

A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.

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You Can Call Me Bill

You Can Call Me Bill

From Star Trek to actual space travel, 92-year-old William Shatner has done it all. Alexandre O. Philippe beams us up with this touching tribute.

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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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Youth (Spring)

Youth (Spring)

Director Wang Bing

Revered auteur Wang Bing (Ta’ang; Alone) documents the breakneck pace of China’s garment factories.

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