SWIFF is proud to present the Australian Premiere of George Gittoes’s new feature documentary, Ukrainistan Artist War, following artists behind the frontline, waging a war on war in the face of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces. An anti-war film in the tradition of Picasso’s Guernica, Gittoes and …
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 …
Scoring Ruben Östlund (The Square – SWIFF’18), his second Palme d’Or plus an eight-minute standing ovation – and walkouts – at Cannes, Triangle of Sadness is a wickedly, wild and outrageous satire of the vulgarly rich and beautiful. Male model Carl (Harris Dickinson) and professional influencer Yaya (Charlbi Dean) are comp’d tickets aboard a $250 …
Andrea Riseborough (see Please Baby Please, SWIFF’23) offers up a masterclass in performance, including a Best Actress Oscar nomination, as a down-and-out Texan lottery winner. Leslie (Riseborough), a single mother struggling to provide for her son, has won the literal lottery. But within a few short years of living hard and fast, the money is …
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, and Anthony Hopkins star in Florian Zeller’s dramatic follow-up to The Father, scoring a nomination for Venice Film Festival’s coveted Golden Lion Award. Peter (Hugh Jackman) is a New York lawyer, just having had a baby with his second wife Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and is happy in his domestic …
In one of the most buzzed-about films of the 2023 awards season, and the narrative debut of acclaimed documentarian Alice Diop (Nous), a young novelist is forced to confront her personal traumas as she observes the trial of a woman accused of infanticide. Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence …
This delightful Irish-language comedy follows a grieving widow, and the mysterious shaggy dog determined to connect with her. Róise (a heartfelt and authentic performance from Bríd Ní Neachtain) lost the love of her life Frank two years ago and struggles to get out of bed; her son can only watch her descent into melancholy. That …
The pulsing megacity of Seoul attracts the young and glamorous from around the globe to its infamous nightclubs and bar scenes – including French national, Freddie (Park Ji-min). But the nightlife isn’t the only thing pulling Freddie back to Seoul. Born to Korean parents and adopted out at birth, Freddie spontaneously finds herself tracking the …
Charlotte Gainsbourg (also in Lux Aeterna, SWIFF 23), shines in this warmly optimistic portrait of a 1980’s Parisian family, pulling through together in troubled times. On election night in 1981, there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end, and she will now have …
The luminous Léa Seydoux, also in Crimes of the Future (SWIFF’23), stars in this deeply personal new drama from festival favourite, writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve (Bergman Island, SWIFF’22). Hansen-Løve returns to Parisian home-turf with a nuanced, bittersweet tale of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), a widowed single mother and translator, whose life revolves around nurturing her young daughter …