WILD SIDES
Noomi Rapace (Angel of Mine, SWIFF’20, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) stars in Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski’s ravishing, gothic, mythological folk fable. After escaping from her overprotective mother’s clutches, 16-year-old Nevena encounters the Wolf-Eateress, the witch that terrorises her 19th-century Macedonian village, and discovers a mysterious shared power between them. Upon this revelation, Nevena …
Boasting a stellar central performance from Aisha Dee (The Bold Type), Sissy is a delightfully schlocky, Aussie comedy satire of influencer culture. Cecilia and Emma were home-video-making, matching bracelet-wearing childhood besties – until it all went sour when Emma swapped Sissy for a new bestie, the bully Alex. Now, Cecelia/Sissy is internet famous, slinging wellness …
Give yourself to desire! Bohemian newlyweds Suze and Arthur, become dangerously entangled with a uniquely alluring greaser gang, The Young Gents. The two plunge into a queer underworld, embarking on an identity-odyssey fuelled by musical numbers and leather-clad West-Side-Story surrealism. This hyper-stylised, technicolour dream boasts some of the most playful performances of the year, as …
Psychedelic spirals and hypnotic escalations in this daring Cannes short, as a woman records her anxiety attack, ruminating on home and the perception of memory as she becomes more entangled within a labyrinth of conscious and subconscious fear. Actors Charlotte Gainsbourg, also in The Passengers of the Night (SWIFF’23), Béatrice Dalle, and Australia’s Abbey Lee, …
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 …
Sissy St. Claire has scored a television special, and she has some treats in store for her captive yet unseen audience. But who’s the masked figure waiting in the wings? Is Sissy being stalked, or is her desperation for fame giving way to something far more sinister? Sophie von Haselberg (daughter of the divine Bette …
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 …