Celebrate 25 years of The Dude with team trivia at Diggers Tavern, hosted by Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival director Simon Foster! Don your best cardigan, leave your rug at home, and settle in for some movie themed questions that’ll span multiple genres, with some seriously cool prizes to be won. This is a free …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The lives of two strangers are changed forever when they cross paths on the surfing adventure of a lifetime, discovering love, downshifting and four charismatic Chilean horses. Ecologist Matty Hannon heads out on an incredible solo adventure, from the top of Alaska to the tip of Patagonia. But the joy of travel lies in twists …
Give yourself to desire! Bohemian newlyweds Suze and Arthur, become dangerously entangled with a uniquely alluring greaser gang, The Young Gents. The two plunge into a queer underworld, embarking on an identity-odyssey fuelled by musical numbers and leather-clad West-Side-Story surrealism. This hyper-stylised, technicolour dream boasts some of the most playful performances of the year, as …
1938. Two European Jewish immigrant brothers escape fascist Germany for America, right before World War II. They open a movie theatre. Over four generations and over 85 years, the Laemmle family dedicated themselves to elevating the art of film. Bringing foreign film to Los Angeles, popularising independent cinema, documentary films and their makers, and opening …
Summer, 1999. Two freshly graduated teens, reserved Kol (Elias Anton) and fiery Ebony (Hattie Hook) are partners in a ballroom dance competition. On the big day, Ebony calls Kol in a panic from the other side of Melbourne, needing a ride ASAP. Kol enlists her older brother, the suave Adam (Thom Green) to get him …
A hilarious, cringe-inducing cautionary tale for the modern age, I Love My Dad follows Chuck, a dad who takes reconnecting with his son to magnificently desperate and awkward lows. Frank (played by director James Morosini), fresh out of a mental health facility, decides its best for him to block his estranged dad on socials. Chuck …
Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi spend the long summer holidays in innocent intimacy, making fort’s in Léo’s family dahlia farm and dreaming of the future. Come the new school year, their friendship is the subject of comments and questions which neither quite know the answer to, or how to fit in. Suddenly, a rift develops. Lukas …