SWIFF audiences will be the first in the country to witness the highly anticipated Australian Premiere of Brandon Cronenberg’s latest cinematic disruption, Infinity Pool. Starring Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman, SWIFF’22), Mia Goth (Pearl, X), and Australian actress Cleopatra Coleman (Dopesick), Infinity Pool is a gripping and tense, visceral satire, further cementing Cronenberg’s reputation as a …
Provocateur. Poet. Piss-taker. 50 years of First Nations activism with artist Richard Bell. Richard Bell is a self-styled ‘activist masquerading as an artist’. His confrontational art and attitude have stirred the Australian art scene while being lauded internationally, having seen the prestigious walls of the Tate Modern. But Bell has one goal: justice and land …
It’s 1922, and in the Australian desert, colonial justice must be upheld for the murder of a white woman. Suspicions are cast on The Fugitive (Noel Wilton), an Aboriginal man last seen deep in Country. Three white colonialists, The Fanatic (Gary Sweet), The Veteran (Grant Page), and The Follower (Damon Gameau) form a posse to …
The luminous Léa Seydoux, also in Crimes of the Future (SWIFF’23), stars in this deeply personal new drama from festival favourite, writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve (Bergman Island, SWIFF’22). Hansen-Løve returns to Parisian home-turf with a nuanced, bittersweet tale of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), a widowed single mother and translator, whose life revolves around nurturing her young daughter …
It’s 1993, and 16-year-old Brandon is the new kid in school. Soon he’s top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical. He’s the model pupil, until he’s unmasked… Pressing into the “truth is stranger than fiction” genre, with the main subject refusing to be filmed, but still agreeing …
A hilarious, cringe-inducing cautionary tale for the modern age, I Love My Dad follows Chuck, a dad who takes reconnecting with his son to magnificently desperate and awkward lows. Frank (played by director James Morosini), fresh out of a mental health facility, decides its best for him to block his estranged dad on socials. Chuck …
East of Siberia lies Kamchatka, an arctic peninsula along the frozen, largely unexplored coastline of Russia. The idea of a frozen coastline dotted with 150 volcanoes on the far eastern coast of Russia isn’t every Aussie surfer’s ideal location for the perfect wave – but that’s exactly why these guys went there. With 150kg of …
Sometimes we do get to choose our family. Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters (SWIFF’19), Academy Award nominee Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with his cherished themes of forsaken childhood, adoption, and broken families, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite). Sang-hyeon runs a humble laundry business but also a more lucrative …