Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, and Anthony Hopkins star in Florian Zeller’s dramatic follow-up to The Father, scoring a nomination for Venice Film Festival’s coveted Golden Lion Award. Peter (Hugh Jackman) is a New York lawyer, just having had a baby with his second wife Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and is happy in his domestic …
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 …
In one of the most buzzed-about films of the 2023 awards season, and the narrative debut of acclaimed documentarian Alice Diop (Nous), a young novelist is forced to confront her personal traumas as she observes the trial of a woman accused of infanticide. Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence …
This hilarious and gorgeously vulgar tragicomedy storms out the gate with such fierce abandon and outlandish beauty, it would make John Waters and Yorgos Lanthimos blush. Living together in their pink pastel-hued, museum-like abode, Lili and Mateo are mother and son who have a profound relationship of mutual dependence. Their fragile harmony is shattered when …
A hilarious, black comedy about a teenage cartoonist, who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul. Robert (Daniel Zolghadri) is missing the lived experience that gives his cartoonist idols, like Robert Crumb, their edge. Trading in his parent’s middle-class home for a dingy basement apartment, Robert meets a bizarre …
In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A feisty, free-spirited teen, Di is indifferent about her community’s tradition of kidnapping into child marriage. But when Lunar New Year approaches, Di …
A delicate, human three-hander, Maryam Touzani (Adam) tenderly explores a complex marriage in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas, weaving an elegant tale about the convergence of tradition, culture, and love. Mina and Halim run a bespoke caftan business, built on a lifetime together. But to keep up with modern demands, they must hire new help. …
For as long as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop will be their last, as they soon discover, the landowners of the orchards they farm plan to replace peach trees with solar panels. As …
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 …