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SWIFF’21 full line-up announced, including over 120 sessions of feature films, special events, live soundtrack performances, and more!
FEELS GOOD MAN
WINNER · EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER · SUNDANCE What if the easygoing, much-loved cartoon frog from your underground zine was co-opted into an alt-right hate symbol? When San Fran artist Matt Furie first conceived the character of Pepe the Frog for his online comic ‘Boy’s Club’, he could never have fathomed what would happen to his …
COCKROACH
Umbrellas. Gas masks. Riot shields. Crackdown. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei takes viewers to the streets to march alongside Hong Kong’s political protesters. Protests started in February 2019 when the Hong Kong government proposed a bill for criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China to face trial. Over two million of the citiy’s seven million …
BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS
“A brilliant, boozy hangout movie.” – Indiewire What happens in the last 24 hours of a Las Vegas dive bar, The Roaring 20s? It’s last call for the regulars, the rookies, the barflies, and the broken as they give a send-off to the bar that has served them so well and the micro-community that makes …
THE LEADERSHIP
Set against one of Earth’s last pockets of glorious untouched wilderness, The Leadership follows the maiden voyage of the first Homeward Bound program, designed to prepare women in STEMM for leadership roles within their respective fields – set against the sublime icy backdrop of the southern continent. Onboard the mammoth ocean liner is Australian Fabian …
THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF
WINNER · DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE · SUNDANCE When two paintings are stolen from an Oslo gallery, authorities are quick to arrest the culprits, yet unable to find any trace of the enormous, photorealistic artworks. Czech painter Barbora Kysilkova, whose paintings hold deep personal sentiment, attends the hearing of Karl-Bertil Nordland, her drug-addicted art thief, …
A THOUSAND CUTS
Australian Premiere “Essential…an immersive political thriller” – Hollywood Reporter On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she had to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive. Upon taking power in 2016, the newly elected …