WILD SIDES
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 …
WINNER · BEST DIRECTOR · BEST FILM · SITGES Set in an alternative reality 2008, Andrea Riseborough (Mandy) is Taysa Vos, a corporate assassin who parasitically enters the minds of strangers with brain implant technology, using them as vessels to take out her targets. Vos’ tenuous grip on reality starts to slip while inhabiting the …
WINNER · RISING STARS AWARD · TIFF In Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s deeply disturbing debut feature, a traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity. Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) is a woman treading water. In a loveless marriage, Miriam hopes to find direction through a weekend reunion with her estranged younger sister Greta her …
WINNER · JURY PRIZE · CANNES NOMINEE · PALME D’OR · CANNES Following the death of her grandmother, Teresa returns to her arid Brazilian village, Bacurau. With resources running low and mobile signal basically non-existent, it’s clear the people have been abandoned by their government. After the sinister discovery that Bacurau has been erased from …
Meek, god fearing palliative care nurse Maud (show-stealing newcomer Morfydd Clark) questions the foundations of her faith when tasked with caring for the hedonistic and secular famed dancer-choreographer Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), who is facing the end of her life in at-home care. Wracked with guilt, confused, and with a clouded past, Maud becomes convinced that …
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 …
