Provocateur. Poet. Piss-taker. 50 years of First Nations activism with artist Richard Bell. Richard Bell is a self-styled ‘activist masquerading as an artist’. His confrontational art and attitude have stirred the Australian art scene while being lauded internationally, having seen the prestigious walls of the Tate Modern. But Bell has one goal: justice and land …
Scoring Ruben Östlund (The Square – SWIFF’18), his second Palme d’Or plus an eight-minute standing ovation – and walkouts – at Cannes, Triangle of Sadness is a wickedly, wild and outrageous satire of the vulgarly rich and beautiful. Male model Carl (Harris Dickinson) and professional influencer Yaya (Charlbi Dean) are comp’d tickets aboard a $250 …
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, …
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 …
Charlotte Gainsbourg (also in Lux Aeterna, SWIFF 23), shines in this warmly optimistic portrait of a 1980’s Parisian family, pulling through together in troubled times. On election night in 1981, there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end, and she will now have …
From Japan to Cavan, filmmaker Ahsen Nadeem is on the hunt for enlightenment. Crashing into monks and his own inner conflict, a story of love and contradictions unfolds. After decades of living a secret life, Nadeem travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance as he questions the traditions of his Muslim parents, …
For as long as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop will be their last, as they soon discover, the landowners of the orchards they farm plan to replace peach trees with solar panels. As …
Scottish director Charlotte Wells makes her spellbinding feature debut with this deeply affecting familial drama of a father-daughter bond. Taking place over the course of a brooding weekend at a fading coastal resort in Turkey, 11-year-old Sophie (newcomer Francesca Corio) and her idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal), share a close and loving bond that creates …