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 …
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 …
A heartsore story of a hardbody that flexes all the right muscles. Day and night, Edina and her partner/trainer Adam obsessively plan for her success: with an exhaustive training schedule, restrictive dieting, and steroid shots that push her body and mind to the brink. When Edina secretly joins a niche escort service where men can …
The first and last feature film role for magnetic jazz icon Miles Davis, Rolf de Heer’s Dingo is an ode to passion and chasing ambitions. When John ‘Dingo’ Anderson (Colin Friels) was twelve years old, jazz legend Billy Cross (Miles Davis) unexpectedly lands on the airstrip of Dingo’s outback town and puts on a spontaneous …