“There is not a day that goes by when I don’t think of The Wizard of Oz.” – David Lynch. A deep dive down the rabbit hole of film obsession and how the things we love make us who we are, Alexandre O. Philippe’s elegant and entertaining film explores the enduring symbiosis between David Lynch’s …
Hélène (Vicky Krieps), also starring in Corsage (SWIFF’23), and Mathieu (Gaspard Ulliel, in his final screen performance), have been happily sharing their lives together for many years. When faced with a life-threatening illness, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace, an act that will test the strength of their love and shape their future …
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 …
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Brilliant molecular physicist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) has unlocked the secret of teleportation, using Telepods to break his body down at a molecular level, then rebuilding it in a sister Telepod located metres away. But what happens if Seth isn’t the only living thing in the Telepod? Jeff Goldblum and …
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski dares us to confront the way we perceive the world by presenting a different vision: one through the eyes of a gentle grey donkey named EO. Unconventional and empathetic, we follow EO on a modern-day fable across Poland as he experiences outrageous twists of fortune through a series of vignettes: a …
Filmmaker Richard Yelland charts California surfer Dick Metz’s journey around the world, and his role in inspiring one of the most beloved surf docs of all time. “A perfect movie,” said the New Yorker. Every surfer’s dream in the 1960s was to explore foreign places, finding waves that had never been ridden. But what was …