Filter by dateAllTHU 15 APRFRI 16 APRSAT 17 APRSUN 18 APRMON 19 APRTUE 20 APRWED 21 APRTHU 22 APRFRI 23 APRSAT 24 APRSUN 25 APRMON 26 APRTUES 27 APRWED 28 APRTHU 29 APR A Boy Called Sailboat - SWIFF live TUE 27 APR · 6.30PM · JMT WED 28 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC "Imbued with the kind of unique indie-quirk that made Napoleon Dynamite a cult smash" - Sydney Morning Herald Acclaimed guitarists Slava & Leon... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS A THOUSAND CUTS THU 22 APR · 1.45PM · CHEC Australian Premiere "Essential…an immersive political thriller" – Hollywood Reporter On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty o... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ALIENS MON 26 APR · 8PM · JMT Celebrating its 35th anniversary this year and hosted on World Alien Day (April 26th commemorating the brave souls on colony LV-426), SWIFF is screeni... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS AND THEN WE DANCED FRI 16 APR · 1.30PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 6PM · JMT A rhythmic tale of secret love set in conservative modern-day Tbilisi, And Then We Danced follows the burgeoning romance between two dancers at a prom... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ANOTHER ROUND THU 15 APR · 6PM · JMT SAT 17 APR · 6PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 4PM · JMT Vinterberg and Mikkelsen reunite after their masterful 2012 Oscar-nominated drama, The Hunt, to deliver an intoxicating and heartfelt comedy about a g... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ASMF SWELL CHASERS - TO SWELL AND BACK SAT 17 APR · 3PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 3.30PM · CHEC For the first time in 3 years, the amaysim Australian Surf Movie Festival (ASFM) returns to venues across Australia, and SWIFF is proud to bringing yo... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BACURAU THU 15 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC WINNER · JURY PRIZE · CANNES NOMINEE · PALME D'OR · CANNES Following the death of her grandmother, Teresa returns to her arid Brazilian village, B... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BELLINGEN, THE PROMISED LAND WED 21 APR · 3.30PM · JMT TUE 27 APR · 10.15AM · JMT By the 1970s the global counter-culture movement had well and truly reached Australia, seeing young, educated hippies from well-to-do families moving ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS THU 22 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC "A brilliant, boozy hangout movie." – Indiewire What happens in the last 24 hours of a Las Vegas dive bar, The Roaring 20s? It’s last call for the ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BREAKER MORANT SUN 25 APR · 3.30PM · JMT NOMINEE · PALME D'OR · CANNES WINNER · BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Jack Thompson) · CANNES In celebration of ANZAC Day, SWIFF hosts a special screening... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BREAKING BREAD SUN 25 APR · 1PM · CHEC For the first time in history, a Muslim Arab won Israel’s Masterchef competition – and now she is on a mission to create meaningful social change thro... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS COCKROACH FRI 23 APR · 2PM · CHEC Umbrellas. Gas masks. Riot shields. Crackdown. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei takes viewers to the streets to march alongside Hong Kong's political protes... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS COLLECTIVE WED 28 APR · 4PM · JMT "One of the greatest movies about journalism ever made" - Indiewire A 2015 nightclub fire in Bucharest ironically became a tinderbox across Romania... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS COUNTY LINES TUE 20 APR · 4.15PM · JMT WED 28 APR · 8.15PM · JMT Australian Premiere The practice of using children to pass drugs from cities to rural and coastal areas, ‘county lines’, is condemned through this ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA SAT 17 APR · 1.30PM · JMT SUN 25 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC David Byrne and Spike Lee burn down the house in this once in a lifetime collaboration. A timely, earnest, and joyous experience, American Utopia i... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS DINNER IN AMERICA FRI 16 APR · 8.45PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 8.45PM · CHEC "This sweet and sour coming-of-age comedy smashed into Sundance with anarchy on its mind and a kickass soundtrack on its turntable. The bad boy-meets-... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FAITH TUE 20 APR · 8.30PM · JMT Lights strobing. Bodies flailing. Unflinching in their love and devotion to The Master, The Warriors of Light dance ecstatically in a mansion-turned-m... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FALLING SAT 17 APR · 6.15PM · JMT SUN 18 APR · 6PM · CHEC Australian Premiere Formidable three-time Best Actor Oscar Nominee Viggo Mortensen (Green Book, Eastern Promises, Captain Fantastic) delivers his d... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FEELS GOOD MAN SAT 24 APR · 1.30PM · CHEC WINNER · EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER · SUNDANCE What if the easygoing, much-loved cartoon frog from your underground zine was co-opted into an a... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FIRESTARTER: THE STORY OF BANGARRA SAT 17 APR · 11AM · CHEC WINNER · DOCUMENTARY AWARD · ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL Bangarra is a Wiradjuri word for making fire, and over the 30 years of its existence, the Banga... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FIRST COW THU 22 APR · 8.15PM · JMT NSW Premiere | NOMINEE · BEST FILM · BERLINALE FILM FESTIVAL Five stars – The Guardian The milk of human kindness Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women, ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS GOLDEN VOICES MON 26 APR · 12PM · JMT Victor and Raya Frenkel were the ‘golden voices’ of the Soviet film dubbing for decades. All of the western movies that reached Soviet screens were du... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS GUNDA SAT 17 APR · 11.30AM · JMT SAT 24 APR · 11.30AM · CHEC NOMINEE · BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD · BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Viktor Kossakovsky’s follow up to big screen enviro-epic Aquarela (SWIFF’20),... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS HIGH GROUND WED 21 APR · 6PM · JMT The year is 1919. Australian colonial soldier Travis (Simon Baker, Breath) leads a military operation that goes horribly wrong, ending in the massacre... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH SAT 17 APR · 8.45PM · JMT Shaka King’s magnetic film carries themes that continue to resonate today and serves as a reminder of the potent power of the people. Based on true... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS JUMBO FRI 16 APR · 6PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC Fresh from her breakout role in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (SWIFF’20) Noémie Merlant shines in this offbeat romance between woman and machine. Jean... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS KAJILLIONAIRE THU 15 APR · 6.15PM · CHEC FRI 23 APR · 8.45PM · JMT Con-artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swi... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS LITTLE GIRL WED 28 APR · 12PM · JMT Australian Premiere NOMINEE · DOCUMENARY AWARD · BERLINALE “When I grow up, I’ll be a girl”, a three-year-old Sasha declares to her mother. Initia... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MADDY THE MODEL SUN 18 APR · 1.15PM · CHEC MON 19 APR · 11AM · JMT NSW Premiere Madeline Stuart is a professional supermodel, having strutted the world’s most prestigious runways and fashion weeks. But she’s much m... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MEANDER TUE 27 APR · 8.45PM · JMT 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 illumin... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MINARI SAT 17 APR · 3.45PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 11AM · CHEC FRI 23 APR · 6PM · CHEC WINNER · GRAND JURY PRIZE · AUDIENCE AWARD · SUNDANCE Hot Oscar contender, Minari is a tender, sweeping story that follows a Korean-American family... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MY LITTLE SISTER MON 26 APR · 2PM · JMT A heavyweight drama elevated by two outstanding performers, Lars Eidinger (The Clouds of Sils Maria) joins Nina Hoss (celebrated star of Barbara and P... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MY NAME IS GULPILIL FRI 23 APR · 6.30PM · JMT SAT 24 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC “Sublime, humane, elegant…an unforgettable film”– The Guardian. Molly Reynolds’ My Name Is Gulpilil expertly canvases the life, the work, the adven... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS TUE 20 APR · 6.15PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 4PM · CHEC WINNER · JURY GRAND PRIX · BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL “Perfectly pitched and sensitively played, this is truthful, powerful and profoundly moving fare fr... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS NEXTWAVE YOUTH FILM AWARDS SUN 18 APR · 3.30PM FOR 4PM · CE.X COFFS One of the most highly anticipated SWIFF events, the Nextwave Youth Film Awards (NYFA) celebrates the creative filmmaking achievements of young region... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS NOMADLAND SUN 18 APR · 3.30PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 6.30PM · JMT WINNER · BEST FILM · VENICE “Frances McDormand delivers the performance of her career” – The Guardian After losing everything in the Great Reces... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ONLY THE ANIMALS THU 15 APR · 11.45AM · JMT The disappearance of a woman in the highlands of Southern France pulls five people into a tangled web of half-truths and hidden agendas. An isolated f... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES WED 21 APR · 12PM · JMT History meets patisserie in this extravagant feast for the senses, from director Laura Gabbert (City of Gold), exploring the mouth-watering intersecti... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS POSSESSOR UNCUT SUN 18 APR · 8.45PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 8.45PM · JMT WINNER · BEST DIRECTOR · BEST FILM · SITGES Set in an alternative reality 2008, Andrea Riseborough (Mandy) is Taysa Vos, a corporate assassin who p... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SAINT FRANCES MON 19 APR · 4PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 4PM · CHEC WINNER · AUDIENCE AWARD · SPECIAL JURY AWARD · SXSW 34-year-old server Bridget (intimately played by writer Kelly O’Sullivan) finally manages to ca... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SAINT MAUD THU 15 APR · 8.30PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 8.30PM · JMT Meek, god fearing palliative care nurse Maud (show-stealing newcomer Morfydd Clark) questions the foundations of her faith when tasked with caring for... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SOME KIND OF HEAVEN SUN 18 APR · 11.30AM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 3PM · CHEC NSW Premiere In The Villages (the largest retirement home in America, dubbed Florida’s “Disneyland for retirees”) the good life is waiting, with ma... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS STRAY THU 15 APR · 4.15PM · JMT WED 21 APR · 1.45PM · JMT WINNER · BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE · HOT DOCS Meet Zeytin (the Turkish word for ‘olive’) a stray dog living on the streets of Istanbul, in this de... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY THU 22 APR · 11AM · JMT It’s 1956. Aussie gun shearer, Foley (Jack Thompson) has held the record for the number of sheep sheared for a decade. When he returns to his work - g... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SUPERNOVA FRI 16 APR · 4PM · JMT TUE 20 APR · 2.15PM · JMT What happens when the person you have loved for decades starts to fade? Longtime couple Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) are travelling... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE FURNACE FRI 16 APR · 6PM · CHEC FRI 23 APR · 4PM · JMT SUN 25 APR · 6PM · JMT NOMINEE · BEST FILM · VENICE HORIZONS AWARD · VENICE It’s 1897. Caravaneers, brought to Australia by the British from Persia, Afghanistan, and Indi... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE GO-GO'S SUN 25 APR · 4.45PM · CHEC Born from the LA punk scene, The Go-Go’s were an all-girl band who played their own instruments, wrote their own songs and made their own rules. The p... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS SAT 17 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC NSW Premiere “Its message is timeless. Its performances? Flawless … A cautionary tale dedicated to the fragility of the family structure…a showcase... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE LEADERSHIP FRI 23 APR · 11AM · CHEC Set against one of Earth’s last pockets of glorious untouched wilderness, The Leadership follows the maiden voyage of the first Homeward Bound program... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE MACALUSO SISTERS TUE 20 APR · 12.15PM · JMT Australian Premiere Adapted from her own acclaimed stage play by Emma Dante, The Macaluso Sisters is an affecting tale of both the anger and affect... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE MOLE AGENT FRI 16 APR · 11.30AM · JMT Detective Romulo places an ad for a mole to go undercover and gather intel for his client, a woman who suspects a local nursing home of mistreating he... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE PAINTED BIRD FRI 16 APR · 10.30PM · CHEC THU 22 APR · 1PM · JMT Australian Premiere Visually stunning, thematically unflinching, and nakedly brutal in its storytelling, The Painted Bird tells a critical perspect... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF SAT 24 APR · 11.30AM · JMT MON 26 APR · 6PM · JMT WINNER · DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE · SUNDANCE When two paintings are stolen from an Oslo gallery, authorities are quick to arrest the culprits... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE SUM OF US FRI 16 APR · 1.30PM · CHEC WINNER · BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY · AFI Widower father Harry Mitchell (Jack Thompson) and his openly gay 20s-something son Jeff (Russell Crowe) shar... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE SURROGATE THU 15 APR · 1.30PM · CHEC WED 28 APR · 2PM · JMT NSW Premiere Eager-to-please Brooklynite Jess is thrilled when her best friend asks her to be a surrogate for him and his husband. After a prenatal... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN MON 19 APR · 8.15PM · JMT Premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival, Sandra Wollner's The Trouble With Being Born garnered controversy for its depiction of a relatio... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS SAT 17 APR · 1PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 1PM · JMT TUE 27 APR · 4PM · JMT NOMINEE · GRAND JURY DOCUMENTARY PRIZE · SUNDANCE Three elderly truffle hunters ruminate on ritual, aging, dining delicacies, canine companionship,... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE WORLD TO COME THU 22 APR · 4PM · JMT WED 28 APR · 6.15PM · JMT WINNER · QUEER LION · VENICE FILM FESTIVAL In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail (Katherine Waterston) begins a new year on the rural farm wher... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS TWO OF US THU 15 APR · 2PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 11.30AM · JMT "A decades-long secret love affair between two older women is severely tested in Italian director Filippo Meneghetti’s moving tribute to love’s abilit... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS UNDER THE STARS OF PARIS MON 19 APR · 2PM · JMT TUE 27 APR · 12.30PM · JMT Christine (Catherine Frot), a woman in her 60s, has been living rough on the streets of Paris. Her lonely routine is divided by free food bank visits ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS VIOLATION WED 21 APR · 8.30PM · JMT WINNER · RISING STARS AWARD · TIFF In Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s deeply disturbing debut feature, a traumatic betrayal drives a wo... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS WAKE IN FRIGHT - SWIFF Live Fri Apr 16 · 8:15PM · JMT To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Australia's stunning and awe-inspiring 'great lost film', SWIFF presents an original live soundtrack screening of... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS WELCOME TO CHECHNYA THU 15 APR · 4PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 1.30PM · JMT WINNER · DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY AWARD · SUNDANCE “With scorching power that will leave you quaking in your seat, Welcome to Chechnya dares to con... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS WHITE RIOT TUE 27 APR · 2.15PM · JMT WINNER · DOCUMENTARY AWARD · LONDON FILM FESTIVAL In 1977, racist rhetoric divides Britain. What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS WILDFIRE FRI 16 APR · 4PM · CHEC MON 26 APR · 4PM · JMT Australian Premiere Superbly performed and emotionally stirring, Cathy Brady’s debut is a masterclass study of two sisters – and a country – reckon... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS MON 19 APR · 6.15PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 1.30PM · JMT NSW Premiere Under Iranian law, those sentenced to death have a chance to be spared by the family of the victim, with a select few cases for clemen... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS Closing Night - MOGUL MOWGLI THU 29 APR · 6PM FOR 6.30PM · CHEC NSW Premiere WINNER · FIRPRESCI PRIZE · BERLINALE Spitting powerful lyrics, speaking to his culture, British Pakistani rapper Zed (Riz Ahmed, Nigh... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS
Filter by dateAllTHU 15 APRFRI 16 APRSAT 17 APRSUN 18 APRMON 19 APRTUE 20 APRWED 21 APRTHU 22 APRFRI 23 APRSAT 24 APRSUN 25 APRMON 26 APRTUES 27 APRWED 28 APRTHU 29 APR A Boy Called Sailboat - SWIFF live TUE 27 APR · 6.30PM · JMT WED 28 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC "Imbued with the kind of unique indie-quirk that made Napoleon Dynamite a cult smash" - Sydney Morning Herald Acclaimed guitarists Slava & Leon... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS A THOUSAND CUTS THU 22 APR · 1.45PM · CHEC Australian Premiere "Essential…an immersive political thriller" – Hollywood Reporter On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty o... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ALIENS MON 26 APR · 8PM · JMT Celebrating its 35th anniversary this year and hosted on World Alien Day (April 26th commemorating the brave souls on colony LV-426), SWIFF is screeni... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS AND THEN WE DANCED FRI 16 APR · 1.30PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 6PM · JMT A rhythmic tale of secret love set in conservative modern-day Tbilisi, And Then We Danced follows the burgeoning romance between two dancers at a prom... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ANOTHER ROUND THU 15 APR · 6PM · JMT SAT 17 APR · 6PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 4PM · JMT Vinterberg and Mikkelsen reunite after their masterful 2012 Oscar-nominated drama, The Hunt, to deliver an intoxicating and heartfelt comedy about a g... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ASMF SWELL CHASERS - TO SWELL AND BACK SAT 17 APR · 3PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 3.30PM · CHEC For the first time in 3 years, the amaysim Australian Surf Movie Festival (ASFM) returns to venues across Australia, and SWIFF is proud to bringing yo... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BACURAU THU 15 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC WINNER · JURY PRIZE · CANNES NOMINEE · PALME D'OR · CANNES Following the death of her grandmother, Teresa returns to her arid Brazilian village, B... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BELLINGEN, THE PROMISED LAND WED 21 APR · 3.30PM · JMT TUE 27 APR · 10.15AM · JMT By the 1970s the global counter-culture movement had well and truly reached Australia, seeing young, educated hippies from well-to-do families moving ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS THU 22 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC "A brilliant, boozy hangout movie." – Indiewire What happens in the last 24 hours of a Las Vegas dive bar, The Roaring 20s? It’s last call for the ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BREAKER MORANT SUN 25 APR · 3.30PM · JMT NOMINEE · PALME D'OR · CANNES WINNER · BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Jack Thompson) · CANNES In celebration of ANZAC Day, SWIFF hosts a special screening... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS BREAKING BREAD SUN 25 APR · 1PM · CHEC For the first time in history, a Muslim Arab won Israel’s Masterchef competition – and now she is on a mission to create meaningful social change thro... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS COCKROACH FRI 23 APR · 2PM · CHEC Umbrellas. Gas masks. Riot shields. Crackdown. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei takes viewers to the streets to march alongside Hong Kong's political protes... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS COLLECTIVE WED 28 APR · 4PM · JMT "One of the greatest movies about journalism ever made" - Indiewire A 2015 nightclub fire in Bucharest ironically became a tinderbox across Romania... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS COUNTY LINES TUE 20 APR · 4.15PM · JMT WED 28 APR · 8.15PM · JMT Australian Premiere The practice of using children to pass drugs from cities to rural and coastal areas, ‘county lines’, is condemned through this ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA SAT 17 APR · 1.30PM · JMT SUN 25 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC David Byrne and Spike Lee burn down the house in this once in a lifetime collaboration. A timely, earnest, and joyous experience, American Utopia i... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS DINNER IN AMERICA FRI 16 APR · 8.45PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 8.45PM · CHEC "This sweet and sour coming-of-age comedy smashed into Sundance with anarchy on its mind and a kickass soundtrack on its turntable. The bad boy-meets-... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FAITH TUE 20 APR · 8.30PM · JMT Lights strobing. Bodies flailing. Unflinching in their love and devotion to The Master, The Warriors of Light dance ecstatically in a mansion-turned-m... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FALLING SAT 17 APR · 6.15PM · JMT SUN 18 APR · 6PM · CHEC Australian Premiere Formidable three-time Best Actor Oscar Nominee Viggo Mortensen (Green Book, Eastern Promises, Captain Fantastic) delivers his d... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FEELS GOOD MAN SAT 24 APR · 1.30PM · CHEC WINNER · EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER · SUNDANCE What if the easygoing, much-loved cartoon frog from your underground zine was co-opted into an a... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FIRESTARTER: THE STORY OF BANGARRA SAT 17 APR · 11AM · CHEC WINNER · DOCUMENTARY AWARD · ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL Bangarra is a Wiradjuri word for making fire, and over the 30 years of its existence, the Banga... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS FIRST COW THU 22 APR · 8.15PM · JMT NSW Premiere | NOMINEE · BEST FILM · BERLINALE FILM FESTIVAL Five stars – The Guardian The milk of human kindness Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women, ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS GOLDEN VOICES MON 26 APR · 12PM · JMT Victor and Raya Frenkel were the ‘golden voices’ of the Soviet film dubbing for decades. All of the western movies that reached Soviet screens were du... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS GUNDA SAT 17 APR · 11.30AM · JMT SAT 24 APR · 11.30AM · CHEC NOMINEE · BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD · BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Viktor Kossakovsky’s follow up to big screen enviro-epic Aquarela (SWIFF’20),... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS HIGH GROUND WED 21 APR · 6PM · JMT The year is 1919. Australian colonial soldier Travis (Simon Baker, Breath) leads a military operation that goes horribly wrong, ending in the massacre... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH SAT 17 APR · 8.45PM · JMT Shaka King’s magnetic film carries themes that continue to resonate today and serves as a reminder of the potent power of the people. Based on true... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS JUMBO FRI 16 APR · 6PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC Fresh from her breakout role in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (SWIFF’20) Noémie Merlant shines in this offbeat romance between woman and machine. Jean... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS KAJILLIONAIRE THU 15 APR · 6.15PM · CHEC FRI 23 APR · 8.45PM · JMT Con-artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swi... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS LITTLE GIRL WED 28 APR · 12PM · JMT Australian Premiere NOMINEE · DOCUMENARY AWARD · BERLINALE “When I grow up, I’ll be a girl”, a three-year-old Sasha declares to her mother. Initia... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MADDY THE MODEL SUN 18 APR · 1.15PM · CHEC MON 19 APR · 11AM · JMT NSW Premiere Madeline Stuart is a professional supermodel, having strutted the world’s most prestigious runways and fashion weeks. But she’s much m... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MEANDER TUE 27 APR · 8.45PM · JMT 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 illumin... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MINARI SAT 17 APR · 3.45PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 11AM · CHEC FRI 23 APR · 6PM · CHEC WINNER · GRAND JURY PRIZE · AUDIENCE AWARD · SUNDANCE Hot Oscar contender, Minari is a tender, sweeping story that follows a Korean-American family... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MY LITTLE SISTER MON 26 APR · 2PM · JMT A heavyweight drama elevated by two outstanding performers, Lars Eidinger (The Clouds of Sils Maria) joins Nina Hoss (celebrated star of Barbara and P... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS MY NAME IS GULPILIL FRI 23 APR · 6.30PM · JMT SAT 24 APR · 6.30PM · CHEC “Sublime, humane, elegant…an unforgettable film”– The Guardian. Molly Reynolds’ My Name Is Gulpilil expertly canvases the life, the work, the adven... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS TUE 20 APR · 6.15PM · JMT THU 22 APR · 4PM · CHEC WINNER · JURY GRAND PRIX · BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL “Perfectly pitched and sensitively played, this is truthful, powerful and profoundly moving fare fr... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS NEXTWAVE YOUTH FILM AWARDS SUN 18 APR · 3.30PM FOR 4PM · CE.X COFFS One of the most highly anticipated SWIFF events, the Nextwave Youth Film Awards (NYFA) celebrates the creative filmmaking achievements of young region... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS NOMADLAND SUN 18 APR · 3.30PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 6.30PM · JMT WINNER · BEST FILM · VENICE “Frances McDormand delivers the performance of her career” – The Guardian After losing everything in the Great Reces... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS ONLY THE ANIMALS THU 15 APR · 11.45AM · JMT The disappearance of a woman in the highlands of Southern France pulls five people into a tangled web of half-truths and hidden agendas. An isolated f... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES WED 21 APR · 12PM · JMT History meets patisserie in this extravagant feast for the senses, from director Laura Gabbert (City of Gold), exploring the mouth-watering intersecti... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS POSSESSOR UNCUT SUN 18 APR · 8.45PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 8.45PM · JMT WINNER · BEST DIRECTOR · BEST FILM · SITGES Set in an alternative reality 2008, Andrea Riseborough (Mandy) is Taysa Vos, a corporate assassin who p... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SAINT FRANCES MON 19 APR · 4PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 4PM · CHEC WINNER · AUDIENCE AWARD · SPECIAL JURY AWARD · SXSW 34-year-old server Bridget (intimately played by writer Kelly O’Sullivan) finally manages to ca... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SAINT MAUD THU 15 APR · 8.30PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 8.30PM · JMT Meek, god fearing palliative care nurse Maud (show-stealing newcomer Morfydd Clark) questions the foundations of her faith when tasked with caring for... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SOME KIND OF HEAVEN SUN 18 APR · 11.30AM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 3PM · CHEC NSW Premiere In The Villages (the largest retirement home in America, dubbed Florida’s “Disneyland for retirees”) the good life is waiting, with ma... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS STRAY THU 15 APR · 4.15PM · JMT WED 21 APR · 1.45PM · JMT WINNER · BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE · HOT DOCS Meet Zeytin (the Turkish word for ‘olive’) a stray dog living on the streets of Istanbul, in this de... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY THU 22 APR · 11AM · JMT It’s 1956. Aussie gun shearer, Foley (Jack Thompson) has held the record for the number of sheep sheared for a decade. When he returns to his work - g... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS SUPERNOVA FRI 16 APR · 4PM · JMT TUE 20 APR · 2.15PM · JMT What happens when the person you have loved for decades starts to fade? Longtime couple Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) are travelling... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE FURNACE FRI 16 APR · 6PM · CHEC FRI 23 APR · 4PM · JMT SUN 25 APR · 6PM · JMT NOMINEE · BEST FILM · VENICE HORIZONS AWARD · VENICE It’s 1897. Caravaneers, brought to Australia by the British from Persia, Afghanistan, and Indi... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE GO-GO'S SUN 25 APR · 4.45PM · CHEC Born from the LA punk scene, The Go-Go’s were an all-girl band who played their own instruments, wrote their own songs and made their own rules. The p... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS SAT 17 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 8.30PM · CHEC NSW Premiere “Its message is timeless. Its performances? Flawless … A cautionary tale dedicated to the fragility of the family structure…a showcase... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE LEADERSHIP FRI 23 APR · 11AM · CHEC Set against one of Earth’s last pockets of glorious untouched wilderness, The Leadership follows the maiden voyage of the first Homeward Bound program... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE MACALUSO SISTERS TUE 20 APR · 12.15PM · JMT Australian Premiere Adapted from her own acclaimed stage play by Emma Dante, The Macaluso Sisters is an affecting tale of both the anger and affect... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE MOLE AGENT FRI 16 APR · 11.30AM · JMT Detective Romulo places an ad for a mole to go undercover and gather intel for his client, a woman who suspects a local nursing home of mistreating he... 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READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN MON 19 APR · 8.15PM · JMT Premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival, Sandra Wollner's The Trouble With Being Born garnered controversy for its depiction of a relatio... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS SAT 17 APR · 1PM · CHEC SUN 25 APR · 1PM · JMT TUE 27 APR · 4PM · JMT NOMINEE · GRAND JURY DOCUMENTARY PRIZE · SUNDANCE Three elderly truffle hunters ruminate on ritual, aging, dining delicacies, canine companionship,... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS THE WORLD TO COME THU 22 APR · 4PM · JMT WED 28 APR · 6.15PM · JMT WINNER · QUEER LION · VENICE FILM FESTIVAL In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail (Katherine Waterston) begins a new year on the rural farm wher... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS TWO OF US THU 15 APR · 2PM · JMT FRI 23 APR · 11.30AM · JMT "A decades-long secret love affair between two older women is severely tested in Italian director Filippo Meneghetti’s moving tribute to love’s abilit... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS UNDER THE STARS OF PARIS MON 19 APR · 2PM · JMT TUE 27 APR · 12.30PM · JMT Christine (Catherine Frot), a woman in her 60s, has been living rough on the streets of Paris. Her lonely routine is divided by free food bank visits ... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS VIOLATION WED 21 APR · 8.30PM · JMT WINNER · RISING STARS AWARD · TIFF In Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s deeply disturbing debut feature, a traumatic betrayal drives a wo... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS WAKE IN FRIGHT - SWIFF Live Fri Apr 16 · 8:15PM · JMT To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Australia's stunning and awe-inspiring 'great lost film', SWIFF presents an original live soundtrack screening of... READ MORE/BUY TICKETS WELCOME TO CHECHNYA THU 15 APR · 4PM · CHEC SAT 24 APR · 1.30PM · JMT WINNER · DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY AWARD · SUNDANCE “With scorching power that will leave you quaking in your seat, Welcome to Chechnya dares to con... 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