SWIFF 19
Winner · Best Screenplay, Best Actor · Cannes Film Festival Joe, (Joaquin Phoenix) has returned home from war, plagued by personal demons, now a gun (and hammer) for hire, and unafraid of violence to solve his clients’ problems. Living with his ailing mother in the quiet outer suburbs of New York, Joe gets sent on …
Inspiration from the next generation of bright thinkers, on the road to the world’s largest science fair. In Bangalore, Sahithi works to reduce toxic waste pouring into the ‘city of a thousand lakes’. Across the globe, in one of Mexico’s most industrial cities, Jesus, Jose and Fernando are exploring ways to improve air quality. Nuha …
Journey to the centre of the Flat Earth movement, where the only thing they fear is sphere itself. You’d be forgiven for thinking belief in a flat Earth was left behind in the dark ages. But in the age of fake news, a community who believe that NASA is covering up a flat, terrarium style …
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 …
Winner of the Audience Award at both Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals. A group of troubled boys are on a perilous course towards jail until they meet up with the rough talking, free-wheeling cowboy, Bernie Shakeshaft, and hit the road with his legendary dog jumping team. This observational documentary, filmed over two years, follows boys …
The untold story behind Taylor Steele’s 1992 pivotal surf epic, executive produced by Robert Redford. Steel’s 1992 home movie, Momentum has played endlessly on loop worldwide in surf shops, ironically gathering its own speed as it follows a ragtag pack of teenage surfers spending a summer chasing their perfect waves on Oahu. The moment when …
World Premiere SWIFF proudly presents the World Premiere of Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe That Fits – the heartfelt true story of a Coffs Harbour woman negotiating her gender transition later in life. The first Coffs Harbour feature to ever screen at the SWIFF, Becoming Colleen offers an important and timely discussion about diversity in …
Legendary provocateur Gaspar Noé returns to screen with a liberal dose of sex, drugs and music in this audacious and viscerally-affecting Cannes award-winner. Artistic, unnerving, and out of control, Climax takes place on the outskirts of Paris in the dead of winter. Shot in real time, in a dance studio at the end of year …
Documentarian Jennifer Fox makes her feature debut with a bold blend of fact and fiction, investigating her own adolescent trauma, as portrayed by an exceptional Laura Dern. When Fox’s mother (Ellen Burstyn) finds a story that Jennifer wrote as a teenager, she is immediately alarmed to find it depicts abuse at the hands of Jenny’s …
What happens when your friends are kidnapped, and forced into the world of brides for sale – where money speaks louder than basic human rights? Newcastle filmmaker Ben Randall documents his real-life investigation to find two of his Vietnamese friends, after they have been sold off to bidding husbands deep in mainland China. Capturing his …