From acclaimed director Jolyon Hoff (SWIFF Live: Surfing Soundwaves, SWIFF’22 – The Staging Post, SWIFF’18) comes a deeply touching journey of self-discovery, identity, and connection through the eyes of Afghan refugee, Muzafar Ali. Muzafar, a father, husband, and photographer living in Rural Australia discovers the rich history of cameleers in Australia, stretching back 160 years. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
The luminous Léa Seydoux, also in Crimes of the Future (SWIFF’23), stars in this deeply personal new drama from festival favourite, writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve (Bergman Island, SWIFF’22). Hansen-Løve returns to Parisian home-turf with a nuanced, bittersweet tale of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), a widowed single mother and translator, whose life revolves around nurturing her young daughter …
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 …
Two competitive, young street dancers train for a life-changing dance comp in this remarkable peak into the underground Sydney street dance scene. Patricia, Romanian-born and hanging out for a visa, is a break-dancer. Gabi, of Chilean-Samoan heritage, pops with power. Both hope a win at Australia’s largest dance comp, Destructive Steps, will be the platform …
The fates of wild forests and humans wrap around and intertwine in The Giants, a poetic portrait of environmentalist Bob Brown and the natural forests he has dedicated his life to protect, from seedlings to forest ancients. Told in Bob’s own words, The Giants interweaves his 50 years of inspiring activism – from the Franklin …
Winner of over 25 awards, Sara Dosa’s illuminating Fire of Love is an explosive true tale of volcanic passions between French celebrity volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft. As a student, Katia fell deeply in love with Maurice, entranced by his burning passion to further the scientific understanding of why Earth’s mountains occasionally explode. The …
From Michel Hazanavicius, Oscar-winning director of The Artist, comes a playful and stylish film set satire. Rémi (Romain Duris, the Spanish Apartment trilogy) is a down on his luck director, eager to please his Tarantino-loving teen with his next project – no matter how questionable the offer. Once on the film set, the cast and …