SWIFF 20
Step inside the doors of Carmine Street Guitars and you step out of time; from the increasingly gentrified streets of NYC’s West Village, and into an oasis, where the bones of old New York still hum. A quiet place devoted to artistry, craftsmanship, and music, Rick Kelly is the owner and master luthier. Crafting electric …
Australian Premiere. Visionary director and seasoned Cinema Du Corps regular Gaspar Noe (Climax, SWIFF’19) returns with a completely new recut of his controversial 2002 masterpiece Irreversible – famous for the reverse chronological order it was released in – starting with the end of the film and ending with the beginning. Irreverisble- Inversion Intergrale has been …
Veteran French master, François Ozon (Franz, Swimming Pool), turns from his run of twisted thrillers and suspenseful comedies to shine a spotlight on a ripped-from-the-headlines story of Lyon’s Catholic Church abuse scandal. Based on true events surrounding the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin for concealing the crimes of Father Bernard Preynat, By the Grace …
Australian Premiere. Locked up on a short stint in an Alabama prison for car theft, Sean (Logan Lerman, Fury) receives a final visit from his terminally-ill mother, Anna. As a last request, she wills Sean to travel to Ireland with his estranged father Frank (an exceptional John Hawkes, The Peanut Butter Falcon, SWIFF’20) to cast …
“Snake handlers are spiritual renegades belonging to an obscure, but growing, sect of American Pentecostalism: part of a century-old tradition of worshipping with venomous snakes during church services. Seeing themselves as the vanguards of salvation in a morally bankrupt world, these fundamentalists put their lives on the line — each and every week — to …
Winner · World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award · Sundance Film Festival. “We work for The Organisation! The Organisation is our family!” On a windswept geographically ambigious South American mountain top, a ragtag group of child soldiers with cartoonish noms de guerre such as Rambo, Boom-Boom, and Bigfoot, are charged with the task of holding …
Winner · FIPRESCI Prize · Toronto International Film Festival. Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv draws from his own lived experience in this electric feature debut inspired by true events. Byron Widner (Jamie Bell, child star of Billy Elliot) is the adopted son of fiercely loyal neo-Nazi sect leaders, whose life has been shaped in the …
“In my films, I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.” – Agnes Varda. The grande-dame of the French New Wave, and the voice behind many of cinemas most beloved works – The Gleaners and I, Cleo from 5 to 7 …
Artist and activist, internationally acclaimed Australian icon George Gittoes has embedded himself in almost all conflict zone hotspots since Vietnam, creating artworks that reveal the horror and complexity of war. Gittoes chose his most unlikely warzone yet for White Light – the streets and corners of Southside Chicago. The largely black population give it the …
Topping both best of the year and best of the decade lists, Céline Sciamma’s (Girlhood, SWIFF ’16) latest is a devastatingly beautiful period drama about the romance between artist and subject. Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne (Noemie Merlant), a painter, is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adele Haenel, Deerskin SWIFF’20). A reluctant bride-to-be, …