Twelve features are selected for Official
Competition, SFF's flagship program, on the basis that they
demonstrate `emotional power and resonance; are audacious,
cutting-edge, courageous; and go beyond the usual treatment of the
subject matter'.
Emotionally resonant, precisely scripted drama from
award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (About Elly)
portrays the turmoil and human toll of a marriage in the process of
breaking apart in contemporary Iran.
A young immigrant worker living in Spain finds a summer job -
and a friend - looking after an elderly man whose family is away in
this black comedy laced with subtle social critique.
Coming-of-age drama set in a Greek factory town follows a young
woman who copes with isolation by mimicking the behaviour of
animals in her favourite David Attenborough documentaries.
This tense, topical drama intertwines the tales of three young
women in Cairo who fight back against pervasive sexual harassment,
and the sardonic detective assigned to track down the female
suspect responsible for a series of stabbings on a city bus.
Director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya)
brings a perfectly honed outsider's eye to this delicate, visually
ravishing adaptation of the bestselling novel about a student
romance haunted by tragedy.
This unsettling, erotic fairy tale - Australian novelist Julia
Leigh's debut feature film - was selected for Official Competition
at Cannes. Emily Browning stars as a bewitching but
self-destructive university student.
Daring psychological thriller stars Oscar®-nominated
actor Michael Shannon as a blue-collar father and husband whose
increasingly vivid premonitions of impending doom begin to affect
his family.
Spectacular mix of science fiction, style and flagrant consumer
excess set in a dystopian Russian future.
The latest drama from Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) concerns a
carefree Albanian teenager whose life is suddenly put on the line
when his family become entangled in a dispute that leaves a fellow
villager dead.
Miranda July's (Me and You and
Everyone We Know) second feature follows 30-something couple
Sophie and Jason as they try to live out all their dreams before
adopting the cat who narrates the film!
Renowned director Terrence Malick's fifth feature film stars
Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in a dreamlike, labyrinthine epic of lost
innocence and family ties.
This raw, brutally honest drama from director Ivan Sen (Dreamland), about a 10-year-old boy
living in an Aboriginal community and being trained up to be a
gangster, was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes.