Winner · Best Film In Competition · Venice Film Festival. Sweeping across three eras of German history, lauded director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Oscar-winning The Lives of Others) follows the life of a visionary artist through love and loss, inspired (perhaps controversially) by the revered artist Gerhard Richter. In post-war East Germany, artist Kurt Barnert …
Winner · Special Jury Prize · Venice Film Festival. Following her massively successful directorial debut The Babadook, Australian powerhouse Jennifer Kent turns her attention to colonial Australia with the feminist revisionist Western, The Nightingale, a tale of violence and retribution set against a wildly untameable backdrop of gothic Tasmania. 1820s Tasmania, young Irish convict, Clare …
SWIFF LIVE doubles down in 2020 – two live performance events expanding big screen conventions. Man, body, music and light as one. A cutting-edge fusion of technology, music, and visual arts, SWIFF audiences have an opportunity to experience sound artist and percussionist Alon Ilsar perform his 55-minute show, Trigger Happy ‘Visualised’. Working together with screen …
Actions speak louder than words in Bellbird, a heart-warming dramedy about loss and community spirit that just goes to show that sometimes it really does take a village. Ross (Marshall Napier, McLeods Daughters) is a dairy farmer in the Northland region of New Zealand, quite content with his lot. This quiet and unassuming snapshot of …
During the doldrums of the Thatcher years, there’s not much for a bright UK teenager to do in the drab factory town of Luton, England, except plot how to get out. It’s worse if you, like Javed (Viveik Kalra), are pressured by your embittered workaholic father, worse still if you’re menaced by racist skinheads. But …
