Andrew Dominik (Chopper, Blonde) collaborates with Nick Cave, holding the spotlight like only an international rock star can, and Warren Ellis, the creative musical genius-savant behind Dirty Three, in the spiritual follow-up to 2016’s deliberate, heartfelt feature performance One More Time With Feeling – a warehouse performance piece created specifically for film audiences. Where its …
It’s 1922, and in the Australian desert, colonial justice must be upheld for the murder of a white woman. Suspicions are cast on The Fugitive (Noel Wilton), an Aboriginal man last seen deep in Country. Three white colonialists, The Fanatic (Gary Sweet), The Veteran (Grant Page), and The Follower (Damon Gameau) form a posse to …
Andrea Riseborough (see Please Baby Please, SWIFF’23) offers up a masterclass in performance, including a Best Actress Oscar nomination, as a down-and-out Texan lottery winner. Leslie (Riseborough), a single mother struggling to provide for her son, has won the literal lottery. But within a few short years of living hard and fast, the money is …
Subversive Australian film visionary, Rolf de Heer (Ten Canoes, Charlie’s Country), will present the NSW Premiere of his first feature film in nine years at SWIFF’23, The Survival of Kindness. BlackWoman (Mwajemi Hussein), locked in a cage under the desert’s scorching sun, has been abandoned by her masked captors. Escaping, she ventures through apocalyptic landscapes, …
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, and Anthony Hopkins star in Florian Zeller’s dramatic follow-up to The Father, scoring a nomination for Venice Film Festival’s coveted Golden Lion Award. Peter (Hugh Jackman) is a New York lawyer, just having had a baby with his second wife Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and is happy in his domestic …
Boasting a stellar central performance from Aisha Dee (The Bold Type), Sissy is a delightfully schlocky, Aussie comedy satire of influencer culture. Cecilia and Emma were home-video-making, matching bracelet-wearing childhood besties – until it all went sour when Emma swapped Sissy for a new bestie, the bully Alex. Now, Cecelia/Sissy is internet famous, slinging wellness …
Metal may be dominated by male acts, but Slave To Sirens, the only all-female Middle Eastern thrash band, have more reason to scream truth to power than anyone in this Sundance smash hit. Director Rita Baghdadi gets backstage access, capturing what shifting the cultural pendulum really looks like – a poorly advertised Glastonbury gig, venues …
World-renowned Geelong theatre company Back to Back takes their acclaimed play to film with Shadow, which ponders whether an AI-led society would further disenfranchise those living with disabilities in this ground-breaking crowd pleaser. A trio of intellectually disabled activists call a Town Hall meeting to discuss the impacts of AI on their community. Fearing the …
In one of the most buzzed-about films of the 2023 awards season, and the narrative debut of acclaimed documentarian Alice Diop (Nous), a young novelist is forced to confront her personal traumas as she observes the trial of a woman accused of infanticide. Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence …
This delightful Irish-language comedy follows a grieving widow, and the mysterious shaggy dog determined to connect with her. Róise (a heartfelt and authentic performance from Bríd Ní Neachtain) lost the love of her life Frank two years ago and struggles to get out of bed; her son can only watch her descent into melancholy. That …