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The biggest films of the fest return for one week only. Get in quick, these sessions will sell out.

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Death of an Undertaker
A Leichhardt funeral parlour provides the unlikely setting for this singular debut docufiction feature from actor-turned-director Christian Byers (Bump, The Narrow Road to the Deep North).
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Dreams (Sex Love)
Winner, Golden Bear, Berlinale 2025. Dag Johan Haugerud (Sex, SFF 2024) crafts a potent, nuanced examination of a teenage girl’s forbidden crush and the creative awakening it triggers.
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Eddington
Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler star in Ari Aster’s (Hereditary, Midsommar) incendiary modern parable about a small town torn apart by politics. Direct from the Cannes Competition.
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The Golden Spurtle
A crowd-pleaser set in a picturesque Scottish village where contestants from around the globe have gathered for the annual World Porridge Making Championship. CPH:DOX 2025.
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Happyend
Set in a near-future Tokyo, a high school introduces intense surveillance of its students, inspiring revolt. An engrossing debut feature about politics, rebellion and friendship. Venice 2024.
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It Was Just An Accident
Winner of the 2025 Palme d'Or, Jafar Panahi’s road movie thriller melds moral dilemmas, comic moments and shocking revelations to extraordinary, potent effect.
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The Mastermind
Kelly Reichardt brings her unique sensibility to this breezy, 1970s-set art heist drama, a Cannes Competition contender starring Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro and Gaby Hoffman.
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Mistress Dispeller
This Venice award-winning and startling doc introduces us to Teacher Wang, a Chinese “mistress dispeller” – that is, a professional for-hire whose job it is to end marital affairs.
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Move Ya Body: The Birth Of House
Raising the roof at Sundance, this doc unearths the Black, queer roots of house music in Chicago – born in underground clubs as a radical refuge from repression and segregation.
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin
This urgent, Sundance prize-winning documentary follows a brave and charismatic Russian teacher as he exposes shocking new propaganda at his school amid the invasion of Ukraine.
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Orwell: 2+2=5
Direct from Cannes, Raoul Peck’s (I Am Not Your Negro, SFF 2017) powerful exploration of George Orwell and his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four reveals just how deeply his warnings resonate today.
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The Secret Agent
Sydney Film Prize winner for Aquarius (SFF 2016), Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with his Cannes Competition entry – a rousing and tense political thriller starring Wagner Moura (Narcos; Praia do Futuro, SFF 2014). Winner of Best Actor, Best Director and the International Critic’s Prize (Fipresci) at Cannes 2025.
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Vie Privée
Jodie Foster leads a stellar cast in this gently comic, Cannes-selected murder mystery in which a psychiatrist becomes convinced that the death of her patient is suspicious.
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