“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 …
East of Siberia lies Kamchatka, an arctic peninsula along the frozen, largely unexplored coastline of Russia. The idea of a frozen coastline dotted with 150 volcanoes on the far eastern coast of Russia isn’t every Aussie surfer’s ideal location for the perfect wave – but that’s exactly why these guys went there. With 150kg of …
Sometimes we do get to choose our family. Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters (SWIFF’19), Academy Award nominee Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with his cherished themes of forsaken childhood, adoption, and broken families, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite). Sang-hyeon runs a humble laundry business but also a more lucrative …
Nan Goldin’s raw portraiture redefined contemporary photography in the 1970s, and in the early 1980s, she was among the first to document the rising AIDS crisis and raise funds for those suffering from the disease. Goldin next founded advocacy group P.A.I.N (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) to hold the pharmaceutical dynasty, the Sackler family, accountable for …