Music and the Makers

THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE

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 …

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NOTHING COMPARES

“Everybody felt it was OK to kick the shit out of me.” – Sinéad O’Connor At the peak of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to worldwide fame her iconoclastic actions resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-1993, director Kathryn Ferguson shows O’Connor as a guiding light for …

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MOONAGE DAYDREAM

An immersive, genre-defying, cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey, five years in the making and featuring never-before-seen footage. Narrated via archival audio, by Bowie himself, Moonage Daydream ricochets from the familiar (clips from the final Ziggy Stardust performance in the ’70s, restored to astonishing new life) to the thrillingly obscure (Bowie’s experimental …

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ENNIO: THE MAESTRO

A celebration of the life and legacy of legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, from Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, SWIFF’23). Centered around an in-depth interview with Morricone recorded shortly before his death in 2020, aged 91, and conducted by Tornatore, this affectionate, career-spanning portrait of the maestro weaves together archival footage, music, and testimonies …

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Beats

BEATS

Shot in the stark black and white of a xeroxed night club flyer, Beats is an energetic, nostalgic flashback to 1990’s Scotland, set over one last night out as new laws now criminalise youth culture and those found ‘gathering around repetitive beats’ of the housing commission’s thumping underground electronic dance music uprising. Against this backdrop, …

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Mr Jimmy

MR. JIMMY

Winner · Festival Director’s Award · Cinetopia Film Festival. Think there’s only one way to play “Stairway to Heaven”? Think again. Akio Sakurai can perform distinct note-for-note versions from any era of Led Zeppelin you’d care to name, down to the specific bootleg recording. For 35 years Sakurai was a Tokyo salaryman by day, and …

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BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

During the doldrums of the Thatcher years, there’s not much for a bright UK teenager to do in the drab factory town of Luton, England, except plot how to get out. It’s worse if you, like Javed (Viveik Kalra), are pressured by your embittered workaholic father, worse still if you’re menaced by racist skinheads. But …

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Hearts beat loud

HEARTS BEAT LOUD

The ultimate low-key, feelgood comedy, starring Nick Offerman, Toni Collette, Blythe Danner and Ted Danson. When his landlady (Toni Collette) reluctantly raises the rent, Frank’s (Offerman) life choices are pulled into sharp focus, helped along by his friend and local barkeep Dave (Ted Danson) along with his quiet determination to dust off his old music …

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