WILD SIDES
NSW Premiere. “It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.” – H.P Lovecraft. Adapted from the legendary H.P …
“Wanna get weird?” Mystery and mishaps abound in this Fargo-esque comedy from Daniel Scheinert—the self-described redneck half of directing duo, Daniels, who created the terrifically inventive Swiss Army Man. Best buds and bandmates, Dick, Earl and Zeke share a love of drinking, fireworks and getting high. When their raucous night of misbehaven’ goes way too …
NSW Premiere. Winner · Best Picture · Fantastic Fest. Winner · Best Motion Picture · Sitges International Film Festival. A heartbroken heart surgeon seeks therapeutic benefits from a demanding dominatrix in this audacious and darkly comic study of the knife edge between pleasure and pain. Juha (a riveting performance by Pekka Strang, Tom of Finland), …
NSW Premiere. It’s the not too distant future and the newest drug craze to hit the streets, Hype, has turned America into a John Carpenter-esque warzone. But when the favourite watering hole of a tightknit group of Veteran of Foreign Wars buddies is threatened by a maniacal drug lord and his crazed army of mutated …
Australian Premiere. Visionary director and seasoned Cinema Du Corps regular Gaspar Noe (Climax, SWIFF’19) returns with a completely new recut of his controversial 2002 masterpiece Irreversible – famous for the reverse chronological order it was released in – starting with the end of the film and ending with the beginning. Irreverisble- Inversion Intergrale has been …
NSW Premiere. Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin is dressed to kill in a wickedly warped fable destined for cult status. French provocateur Quentin Dupieux, whose breakout hit Rubber, followed a rampaging homicidal tyre named Robert, points a parodic lens at the ‘auteur’ and the often ravine-like divide between artistic vision and reality in his killer style comedy, …
Winner · Fantastic Fest · Best Director. Cut from a different creative cloth, British visionary Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy, SWIFF ’16) delivers a screamingly funny, exquisitely tactile, deathly dark tale of a killer red dress. Lonely heart bank-teller Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Broadchurch) is divorced from her husband, distressed by her bosses (a delightful …
