SWIFF 20
Following on from his brutal and uncompromising feature debut Snowtown, Justin Kurzel has cemented himself as an auteur director, bringing Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel True History of the Kelly Gang to the screen in a raw, unfiltered telling of the rise of Ned Kelly from young petty thief to fearsome outlaw bushranger. A young …
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SWIFF shines a spotlight on the Prince of Darkness in this funny, entertaining and intelligent documentary on the rise of The Satanic Temple in America. The Arkansas State Capitol has just erected a statue of the 10 commandments on its front lawn. In the name of religious freedom, Lucien Greaves, activist and co-founder of The …
Antonio Banderas in a career high, earned himself the Best Actor Award at Cannes for this reflection of life, love and pain from legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, a director in the autumn of his life and career with a range of medical ailments in artistic limbo. This, and the fleeting …
Winner · Special Jury Award (Cinematography) · Sundance Film Festival. In Mexico City, 9 million people are serviced by 45 government ambulances. This lack of available services has super-charged the privatised ambulance industry, with fleets of opportunists, mavericks, and cowboys literally racing each other to be the first to arrive at horrific emergencies in the …
Winner · Special Jury Award (Cinematography) · Sundance Film Festival Winner · Best Documentary · Hong Kong Film Festival. In Mexico City, 9 million people are serviced by 45 government ambulances. This lack of available services has super-charged the privatised ambulance industry, with fleets of opportunists, mavericks, and cowboys literally racing each other to be …
In Extra Ordinary, the debut from Irish rising-star duo Enda Loughman and Mike Ahern, when you need an exorcism for your haunted recycling bin, you call the local ghost whisperer/driving instructor, Rose. But alas, Rose has turned her back on her supernatural sensibilities after an accident involving a possessed pothole. But when charming local widow …
“Shia LaBeouf shines in this funny, heartwarming adventure … [but] Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, is a real find, and is the heart and soul of the entire film.” – The Playlist. Tyler (Shia LaBeouf in a career-best performance) skirts conflict wherever he goes, scratching out a simple life fishing for crabs in sun-drenched …
Jesse Eisenberg sweeps the leg in this jet-black, deadpan comedy that hits the American man where it hurts. Jesse Eisenberg plays Casey, an objectively weak human being – meek in his personal relationships, timid in his workplace, and generally terrified in public interactions. After failing to flee from conflict, Casey is attacked and mugged by …
NSW Premiere. “It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.” – H.P Lovecraft. Adapted from the legendary H.P …
Winner · Documentary Prize · Cannes Film Festival. Winner · Audience Award, Grand Jury Prize · SXSW. An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war, For Sama is told as a cinematic love letter from mother to daughter in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, which rages on right now, today …
