Noomi Rapace (Angel of Mine, SWIFF’20, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) stars in Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski’s ravishing, gothic, mythological folk fable. After escaping from her overprotective mother’s clutches, 16-year-old Nevena encounters the Wolf-Eateress, the witch that terrorises her 19th-century Macedonian village, and discovers a mysterious shared power between them. Upon this revelation, Nevena …
World-renowned Geelong theatre company Back to Back takes their acclaimed play to film with Shadow, which ponders whether an AI-led society would further disenfranchise those living with disabilities in this ground-breaking crowd pleaser. A trio of intellectually disabled activists call a Town Hall meeting to discuss the impacts of AI on their community. Fearing the …
The pulsing megacity of Seoul attracts the young and glamorous from around the globe to its infamous nightclubs and bar scenes – including French national, Freddie (Park Ji-min). But the nightlife isn’t the only thing pulling Freddie back to Seoul. Born to Korean parents and adopted out at birth, Freddie spontaneously finds herself tracking the …
Psychedelic spirals and hypnotic escalations in this daring Cannes short, as a woman records her anxiety attack, ruminating on home and the perception of memory as she becomes more entangled within a labyrinth of conscious and subconscious fear. Actors Charlotte Gainsbourg, also in The Passengers of the Night (SWIFF’23), Béatrice Dalle, and Australia’s Abbey Lee, …
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 …
A heartsore story of a hardbody that flexes all the right muscles. Day and night, Edina and her partner/trainer Adam obsessively plan for her success: with an exhaustive training schedule, restrictive dieting, and steroid shots that push her body and mind to the brink. When Edina secretly joins a niche escort service where men can …
Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi spend the long summer holidays in innocent intimacy, making fort’s in Léo’s family dahlia farm and dreaming of the future. Come the new school year, their friendship is the subject of comments and questions which neither quite know the answer to, or how to fit in. Suddenly, a rift develops. Lukas …
Just four months after giving birth, principal dancer Giulia Tonelli is returning to the prestigious stage of the Zurich Opera. But in an environment where commitment to art is apex of aspiration, is there a place for her? Filmed over 3 years between 2019 to 2021, Laura Kaehr’s elegant and empathetic documentary peeks into the …
Scottish director Charlotte Wells makes her spellbinding feature debut with this deeply affecting familial drama of a father-daughter bond. Taking place over the course of a brooding weekend at a fading coastal resort in Turkey, 11-year-old Sophie (newcomer Francesca Corio) and her idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal), share a close and loving bond that creates …