A stay-at-home husband secretly takes on a job as a backup dancer in an erotic theatre in Lahore, Pakistan, in this fearless Cannes Film Festival favourite. Spirited daydreamer Haider happily bucks the status quo as a stay-at-home carer for his father and nieces, while his wife works as a make-up artist. But as generational pressure …
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 …
Guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas’, Geographies of Solitude is a poetic immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a sliver of land off the Nova Scotia coast, measuring 30 by barely 2 kilometres. Originally visiting as a young artist, Lucas has lived 40 years making a daily pilgrimage across Sable, collecting marine …
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski dares us to confront the way we perceive the world by presenting a different vision: one through the eyes of a gentle grey donkey named EO. Unconventional and empathetic, we follow EO on a modern-day fable across Poland as he experiences outrageous twists of fortune through a series of vignettes: a …
Sisi the Empress gets an irreverent make-over in Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s exhilarating period drama. In a perceptive, mesmerizing performance, Vicky Krieps (also in More Than Ever, SWIFF’23), quietly dominates the screen as Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who begins to see her life of royal privilege as a prison as she reaches her 40th birthday. …
In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A feisty, free-spirited teen, Di is indifferent about her community’s tradition of kidnapping into child marriage. But when Lunar New Year approaches, Di …