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 …
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 …
“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 …
It’s 1993, and 16-year-old Brandon is the new kid in school. Soon he’s top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical. He’s the model pupil, until he’s unmasked… Pressing into the “truth is stranger than fiction” genre, with the main subject refusing to be filmed, but still agreeing …
A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about finding connection in the smallest corners. Marcel (Jenny Slate) is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colourful existence with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now …
Set in northwest Italy’s spectacular Aosta Valley region and adapted from Paolo Cognetti’s novel with transfixing beauty, The Eight Mountains explores the extraordinary lifelong friendship between two men, Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) and Pietro (Luca Marinelli), who, once divided as children, now find themselves reconnected as they embark on building a mountain cabin – reforging and …
“Surgery is the new sex” Body horror master David Cronenberg (see The Fly, Videodrome at SWIFF’23), returns with his first film in eight years, a seductive and haunting vision of the future where the lines between technology and humanity have been blurred and humans have moved beyond their natural state. As the human species adapts …