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Alcarràs

Feature The land and livelihood of a Catalonian farming family is threatened in Carla Simón’s beautifully observed drama about changing times. Golden Bear (Best Film), Berlinale 2022.

Return to Seoul

Feature From Cannes Un Certain Regard, Davy Chou’s (Golden Slumbers, SFF 2012; Diamond Island, SFF 2017) moving, delightful film follows a young French woman’s quest to discover her Korean roots. Previously known as All the People I'll Never Be.

Before, Now & Then

Feature Kamila Andini’s (The Seen and the Unseen, SFF 2018) beguiling period drama chronicles an unlikely female friendship against the backdrop of Indonesia in political turmoil.

Blaze

Feature Acclaimed Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton makes her stunning feature debut, combining live action, puppetry and animation and starring Simon Baker, Yael Stone and Julia Savage.

The Box

Feature Award-winning director Lorenzo Vigas delivers a tense drama about a Mexican teen’s search for his long-lost father and a poignant look at the struggles of migrant workers.

Burning Days

Feature From Cannes Un Certain Regard, Emin Alper’s (A Tale of Three Sisters, SFF 2019) riveting political thriller revolves around a prosecutor who moves to a small Turkish town and is embroiled in a political scandal.

Close

Feature Straight from the Cannes Competition, the new film from Lukas Dhont (Girl, SFF 2018) is a stunningly beautiful examination of an intense teen friendship torn asunder.

Fire of Love

Documentary The spectacular true story of a pair of unconventional French scientists with two obsessions – each other, and volcanoes. Narrated by Miranda July. Award winner Sundance 2022.

Godland

Feature Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard, award-winning Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason’s new film is a stunning historical drama inspired by true events.

The Quiet Girl

Feature A moving coming-of-age story. A girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents. She blossoms, but in a house where there were meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.

Utama

Feature Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Utama is an astonishing love story about an elderly Quechea couple in the Bolivian highlands fighting to preserve their way of life.

You Won't Be Alone

Feature Goran Stolevski’s astonishing debut, starring Noomi Rapace, is a visually spectacular supernatural tale about a young shape-shifting witch trying to understand what it means to be human.

Special Presentations

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Feature This Sundance comedic drama sees a college grad (writer-director Cooper Raiff) fall for a local mum (Dakota Johnson) when enterprising as a bar and bat mitzvah party starter.

Fire Island

Feature Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang (SNL) star in this hilarious queer rom-com, inspired by Pride and Prejudice, in which a group of friends go on a debauched summer holiday.

The Forgiven

Feature Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain star in this blackly comic study of clashing cultures by the inimitable John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, SFF 2011; Calvary, SFF 2014).

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Feature Emma Thompson is brilliant in Sophie Hyde’s (Animals, SFF 2019) sparkling comedy about an older woman who hires a sex worker and the unexpected relationship that blooms.

Huda's Salon

Feature An innocent Palestinian woman becomes trapped in blackmail and deceit in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from two-time International Oscar nominee Hany Abu-Assad (Omar, SFF 2014).

Lonesome

Feature Craig Boreham’s follow up to Teenage Kicks (SFF 2016) explores desire, sexuality and isolation as two very different young men form an unlikely and surprising connection.

Navalny

Documentary Filmed in secret, this revealing and suspenseful documentary on Alexei Navalny – the Russian opposition leader poisoned with a nerve agent – won the Audience Award, Sundance 2022.

Nude Tuesday

Feature Bored couple Bruno and Laura try to save their marriage at a new-age retreat in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind Kiwi comedy spoken in gibberish and subtitled in English.

One Fine Morning

Feature Direct from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Léa Seydoux stars in the sensitive, deeply personal new drama from director Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, Bergman Island, SFF 2021).

The Passengers of the Night

Feature Charlotte Gainsbourg shines in a warm family drama set in 1980s Paris – a time of vinyl LPs, political optimism and talkback radio. Screened in Competition, Berlinale 2022.

The Phantom of the Open

Feature Oscar-winner Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins star in this heart-warming, laugh-out-loud true story about the worst golfer to ever play the British Open.

Seriously Red

Feature A vivacious, misguided redhead (Krew Boylan) trades her 9-to-5 to become a Dolly Parton impersonator in Gracie Otto’s utterly enjoyable Australian comedy. A hit at SXSW 2022.

TchaÏkovsky's Wife

Feature Straight from Cannes 2022, Kirill Serebrennikov’s historical drama focuses on an obsessive, one-sided love affair between the revered composer and his devoted wife.

Where is Anne Frank

Feature The new animated feature from Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir) is a visionary retelling of the Anne Frank story that connects her legacy to oppression in the modern world.

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