WINNER · DOCUMENTARY AWARD · LONDON FILM FESTIVAL In 1977, racist rhetoric divides Britain. What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo? With the exploding punk scene in Britain clashing with the growth of the xenophobic National Front in the late 1970s, and famous musos making anti-immigration statements on stage, a group of …
“Imbued with the kind of unique indie-quirk that made Napoleon Dynamite a cult smash” – Sydney Morning Herald Acclaimed guitarists Slava & Leonard Grigoryan have expanded their creative output by crafting and recording the soundtrack to the big-hearted, award-winning indie film, ‘A Boy Called Sailboat’, performed as a live soundtrack to the film on stage …
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After hitchhiking lost along the highway, Lisa (Gaia Weiss, Vikings) awakens encased in a tube with a bracelet on her wrist. It pulses with an illuminated countdown, her only source of light in the enclosed darkness not much wider than her shoulders. Imprisoned in a labyrinthian nightmare of tubes, Lisa’s countdown timer ticks down from …
Christine (Catherine Frot), a woman in her 60s, has been living rough on the streets of Paris. Her lonely routine is divided by free food bank visits and wandering the city. On a frosty winter night, she discovers Suli, an eight-year-old Burkinabe refugee boy, sobbing in front of her makeshift shelter under a bridge, separated …
NOMINEE · GRAND JURY DOCUMENTARY PRIZE · SUNDANCE Three elderly truffle hunters ruminate on ritual, aging, dining delicacies, canine companionship, and changing ecology in this unique slice of life documentary with echoes of Honeyland (SWIFF’20). Deep in the lush forests of Northern Italy resides the prized white Alba truffle. Coveted by the wealthy, the cult …
