SWIFF 20
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, …
NSW Premiere. Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin is dressed to kill in a wickedly warped fable destined for cult status. French provocateur Quentin Dupieux, whose breakout hit Rubber, followed a rampaging homicidal tyre named Robert, points a parodic lens at the ‘auteur’ and the often ravine-like divide between artistic vision and reality in his killer style comedy, …
Australian Premiere. The diverse glories of the city of Galway in the West of Ireland, celebrated in song, performance and image, make this lyrical bilingual documentary a must for any lover of all things Irish. Cumar (the Irish word for confluence) is an artistic exploration of Galway, set in a lush green countryside at the …
Winner – Sundance Documentary Special Jury prize. Jacqueline Olive’s multi award-winning documentary asks a disturbing question: Does lynching still exist today? Always in Season looks into the case of Lennon Lacy, a 17-year-old African-American from Bladenboro, North Carolina, who was found hanging from a swing set in August 2014. Despite inconsistencies in the case, local …
“Maternal longing is a key theme in director Kim Farrant’s psychological thriller…which takes what could have been a simple stalker movie premise and fills it out with an intense array of emotions.” -The Guardian. Set against a moody Melbourne backdrop, Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) plays Lizzie, a grieving mother trying to …
The bright, Adelaidean voice of Sophie Hyde (director, 52 Tuesdays) and bestselling Mancunian novelist Emma Jane Unsworth transport audiences to Dublin for a shiningly authentic tale of female friendship at a crossroads, described as a female Withnail & I. Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat (Blaze, SWIFF’19) star as best friends, soul mates even, as Laura …
Winner · Cinematography Award · Grand Jury Prize · Special Jury Prize · Sundance Film Festival. With over 20 festival award wins, including the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Honeyland is a sumptuous film that will touch hearts and inspire action – an an ode to two endangered and priceless treasures: human …
A story of personal discovery through the Latin American wilds. Two friends quit their jobs in Australia, booked flights to America, bought an old car and set off on the journey of a lifetime. For the next two years, Christian and Chris chased swells, climbed mountains when the sea fell quiet, immersed themselves in local …
Nominee · Documentary Foundation Australia Award. Four years after controversial, temporarily-banned film, Gayby Baby (SWIFF’16), Maya Newell crafts another powerful portrait of Australian youth, this time focusing her lens on the world of Northern Territory’s Indigenous children. “I was born a little Aboriginal kid,” explains Dujuan. “That means I had a memory – a memory …
Journalist Freddy McConnell is ready to start his family, solo if necessary. Freddy is in a unique position. As a transgender man, he desires to carry and give birth to his child. With candid access to Freddy’s journey, documentarian Jeanie Finlay follows the three-year journey at every scan, doctor’s visit, and emotional challenge. At first, …