Winner · Audience Award · World Cinema Dramatic · Sundance Film Festival. Denmark’s entry for the Best International Feature for the 2020 Academy Awards, Queen of Hearts follows Anne (Trine Dyrholm, The Commune SWIFF’18), a high-flying lawyer, living in a beautiful modernist home with her two daughters and physician husband, Peter (Magnus Kreppe, The Girl …
Some life events are so powerful they are defined by “then” and “now”. For Mathew (Tyriel Mora, The Castle, Book Week SWIFF’19), a sensitive near-retiring real estate caring for his mentally incapacitated wife, it’s the car crash that killed his daughter Sarah (Georgia Adamson) and Indigenous son-in-law Jayden (Damion Hunter). The crash spared his grandson, …
Nominee · 2019 Palme d’Or · Cannes Film Festival. From socially conscious director Ken Loach and longtime collaborator Paul Laverty comes the understandably angry film about life in Britain’s gig economy – at once deeply moving and incredibly timely. Ken Loach’s latest look at life in today’s Britain is a mighty successor to his 2016 …
“Our motivation for making the film was to release more wicked and wonderful stories by women into the world, much as our protagonist unleashes powerful ideas with each page she turns. It’s a metaphor for the darkness that lurks within us all” – Megan Riakos, creator. Showcasing the works of eleven female directors from six …
Topping both best of the year and best of the decade lists, Céline Sciamma’s (Girlhood, SWIFF ’16) latest is a devastatingly beautiful period drama about the romance between artist and subject. Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne (Noemie Merlant), a painter, is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adele Haenel, Deerskin SWIFF’20). A reluctant bride-to-be, …
