Ambitious and experimental, sci-fi musical Neptune Frost is a radical, afro-futurist vision of anti-colonialism from slam poet and musician Saul Williams. A hacktivist group working from the hills of Burundi are attempting to take down the oppressive authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s people and resources. When an escaped Coltan miner and intersex outcast join forces, …
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 …
“The French Riviera is a sunny place for shady people”. Ex-dancer Adrien (Pierre Niney) now squanders his young adulthood in idleness, living off the opulence of former movie star Martha (a divine Isabelle Adjani). His bored life is transformed when he meets the captivating Margot (Marine Vacth) who would rather spend her youth pulling off …
A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about finding connection in the smallest corners. Marcel (Jenny Slate) is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colourful existence with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now …
A stay-at-home husband secretly takes on a job as a backup dancer in an erotic theatre in Lahore, Pakistan, in this fearless Cannes Film Festival favourite. Spirited daydreamer Haider happily bucks the status quo as a stay-at-home carer for his father and nieces, while his wife works as a make-up artist. But as generational pressure …
A hilarious, cringe-inducing cautionary tale for the modern age, I Love My Dad follows Chuck, a dad who takes reconnecting with his son to magnificently desperate and awkward lows. Frank (played by director James Morosini), fresh out of a mental health facility, decides its best for him to block his estranged dad on socials. Chuck …
A heartsore story of a hardbody that flexes all the right muscles. Day and night, Edina and her partner/trainer Adam obsessively plan for her success: with an exhaustive training schedule, restrictive dieting, and steroid shots that push her body and mind to the brink. When Edina secretly joins a niche escort service where men can …
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 …
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 …
Set in northwest Italy’s spectacular Aosta Valley region and adapted from Paolo Cognetti’s novel with transfixing beauty, The Eight Mountains explores the extraordinary lifelong friendship between two men, Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) and Pietro (Luca Marinelli), who, once divided as children, now find themselves reconnected as they embark on building a mountain cabin – reforging and …