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Wed Jun 8 at 6:10pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Emily the Criminal

In this electrifying Aubrey Plaza-led heist thriller, an art-school dropout and credit card scammer is entangled in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Sundance 2022.
Wed Jun 8 at 6:15pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4

Incredible but True

The latest hilarious offering from French absurdist and cult favourite Quentin Dupieux has taken critics and audiences on a ludicrous ride since its Berlinale premiere.
Wed Jun 8 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

The Humans

Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun star in this haunting film striking an uncanny balance between family dramedy and subtle psychological horror.
Wed Jun 8 at 6:30pm Palace Norton Street

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Finnish director Teemu Nikki’s unique and powerful thriller has been wowing audiences around the world with its bold visual approach and sensitive portrait of disability.
Wed Jun 8 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

The Burning Sea

Nail-biting tension and richly drawn characters are the winning ingredients of this eco-disaster thriller from action movie ace John Andreas Andersen (The Quake).
Wed Jun 8 at 8:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

A Love Song

This achingly beautiful romantic drama centres on a widow waiting for an old flame to visit her lakeside campsite in Colorado. Sundance (Next), Berlinale (Panorama) 2022.
Wed Jun 8 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Private Desert

A provocative exploration of masculinity and loneliness from Brazil’s hottest new director, Aly Muritiba. Audience Award, Venice, 2021.
Wed Jun 8 at 8:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Gentle

Competitive bodybuilder Eszter Csonka stars in the haunting tale of Edina, an athlete willing to sacrifice everything for perfection and success. In Sundance 2022.
Thu Jun 9 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Hinterland

A returned POW tracks a serial killer in this visually stunning thriller set in the underbelly of post-WWI Vienna. Audience award winner, Locarno Film Festival.
Guest
Thu Jun 9 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Inu-oh

From Masaaki Yuasa, director of cult anime hit Mind Game, comes a Japanese folklore-glam-rock-musical-anime epic awash in his hallmark psychedelic imagery.
Guest
Thu Jun 9 at 6:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

The Plains

Documentary and fiction converge in this intimate portrait of a middle-aged Australian driving home from work over the course of a year. In competition, Rotterdam.
Thu Jun 9 at 8:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4

The Tasting

Love, desire and wine are on the menu in this charming French romantic comedy adapted from the award-winning stage hit by writer-director Ivan Calbérac. A delicious drop.
Thu Jun 9 at 8:30pm Palace Norton Street

A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love

Romance blooms between a fading actress and a young misfit in this offbeat charmer from Nicolette Krebitz (Wild, SFF 2016). Presented in competition at Berlinale 2022.
SELLING FAST
Guest
Fri Jun 10 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Inu-oh

From Masaaki Yuasa, director of cult anime hit Mind Game, comes a Japanese folklore-glam-rock-musical-anime epic awash in his hallmark psychedelic imagery.
Fri Jun 10 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

One Year, One Night

Two of the brightest stars of French cinema, Noémie Merlant and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, play a hipster couple coming to terms with surviving a terror attack. Berlinale 2022.
Fri Jun 10 at 6:15pm Palace Norton Street

Anatolian Leopard

A lonely zoo director conceals the death of his prize attraction – an endangered leopard – in order to stave off an uncertain future in this award-winning Turkish drama.
Fri Jun 10 at 7:45pm Casula Powerhouse

A Love Song

This achingly beautiful romantic drama centres on a widow waiting for an old flame to visit her lakeside campsite in Colorado. Sundance (Next), Berlinale (Panorama) 2022.
Guest
Fri Jun 10 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Millie Lies Low

Emerging star Ana Scotney (Cousins, The Breaker Upperers SFF 2018) shines in a darkly comic Kiwi caper about impostor syndrome. Praised at Berlin, SXSW and in its hometown.
Fri Jun 10 at 8:30pm Palace Norton Street

Incredible but True

The latest hilarious offering from French absurdist and cult favourite Quentin Dupieux has taken critics and audiences on a ludicrous ride since its Berlinale premiere.
Fri Jun 10 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Alice

Keke Palmer (Hustlers), Jonny Lee Miller and Common star in a riveting thriller about an enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation – only to discover that it’s actually 1973.
Fri Jun 10 at 8:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4

The Outfit

Mark Rylance stars as a British suit maker caught up in a 1956 Chicago mob war in this precision-tooled crime thriller from Oscar winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).
Sat Jun 11 at 11:50am Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

The Tasting

Love, desire and wine are on the menu in this charming French romantic comedy adapted from the award-winning stage hit by writer-director Ivan Calbérac. A delicious drop.
Guest
Sat Jun 11 at 2:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Commitment Hasan

A farmer in Turkey sets about clearing the slate before his pilgrimage to Mecca in this incisive and visually impressive morality fable. Selected for Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Sat Jun 11 at 4:00pm Palace Central Cinemas

Anatomy of Time

Thai filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong unveils a hypnotic journey into the life of a woman whose story reflects the turbulent changes seen in Thailand. Venice (Horizons) 2021.
Sat Jun 11 at 4:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Nr. 10

One whispered word sets into motion a precisely executed, unpredictable, and sinister mystery from renowned Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam (Grimm, Borgman, SFF 2013).
Guest
Sat Jun 11 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Millie Lies Low

Emerging star Ana Scotney (Cousins, The Breaker Upperers SFF 2018) shines in a darkly comic Kiwi caper about impostor syndrome. Praised at Berlin, SXSW and in its hometown.
Sat Jun 11 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Flux Gourmet

A deliciously deadpan comedy by outré cinema master Peter Strickland (In Fabric, SFF 2019) serves an outrageous recipe of food, music, and arts funding. Berlinale 2022.
Guest
Sat Jun 11 at 8:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

The Plains

Documentary and fiction converge in this intimate portrait of a middle-aged Australian driving home from work over the course of a year. In competition, Rotterdam.
Sat Jun 11 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

One Year, One Night

Two of the brightest stars of French cinema, Noémie Merlant and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, play a hipster couple coming to terms with surviving a terror attack. Berlinale 2022.
Sat Jun 11 at 8:55pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Please Baby Please

A Streetcar Named Desire by way of John Waters, Andrea Riseborough leads this leather-clad, gender-bending treatise on lust, marriage and camp. Opening film, Rotterdam 2022.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 12 at 4:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Incredible but True

The latest hilarious offering from French absurdist and cult favourite Quentin Dupieux has taken critics and audiences on a ludicrous ride since its Berlinale premiere.
Sun Jun 12 at 6:00pm Palace Norton Street

Unrest

Time is indeed money in this delicately comic portrait of a watchmaking town caught between industry and political anarchy in 1870s Switzerland.
Sun Jun 12 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Fairy Folk

Thorny questions of love and sexuality take centre stage in this magical realist drama in which a genderless woodland being crashes into the lives of a jaded couple.
Sun Jun 12 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

The Outfit

Mark Rylance stars as a British suit maker caught up in a 1956 Chicago mob war in this precision-tooled crime thriller from Oscar winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).
Sun Jun 12 at 6:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

The Stranger

In the Golan Heights border zone, a Syrian med-school dropout finds new purpose in life when a wounded civil war fighter begs him for help.
Sun Jun 12 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

The Humans

Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun star in this haunting film striking an uncanny balance between family dramedy and subtle psychological horror.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 12 at 8:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Flux Gourmet

A deliciously deadpan comedy by outré cinema master Peter Strickland (In Fabric, SFF 2019) serves an outrageous recipe of food, music, and arts funding. Berlinale 2022.
Sun Jun 12 at 8:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Private Desert

A provocative exploration of masculinity and loneliness from Brazil’s hottest new director, Aly Muritiba. Audience Award, Venice, 2021.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 12 at 9:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

The Longest Weekend

A true indie from Sydney’s Inner West in which three siblings reunite, feud and reunite. The impressive ensemble cast includes screen veterans Tammy MacIntosh and John Batchelor.
Mon Jun 13 at 3:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4

The Burning Sea

Nail-biting tension and richly drawn characters are the winning ingredients of this eco-disaster thriller from action movie ace John Andreas Andersen (The Quake).
SOLD OUT
Mon Jun 13 at 3:45pm Palace Central Cinemas

Nr. 10

One whispered word sets into motion a precisely executed, unpredictable, and sinister mystery from renowned Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam (Grimm, Borgman, SFF 2013).
Mon Jun 13 at 3:45pm Palace Norton Street

The Stranger

In the Golan Heights border zone, a Syrian med-school dropout finds new purpose in life when a wounded civil war fighter begs him for help.
Mon Jun 13 at 3:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

Ahed's Knee

Nadav Lapid’s provocative follow-up to Synonyms (SFF 2019) has an Israeli filmmaker railing against threats to artistic freedom in his country. Winner, Cannes 2021 Jury Prize.
Mon Jun 13 at 4:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Finnish director Teemu Nikki’s unique and powerful thriller has been wowing audiences around the world with its bold visual approach and sensitive portrait of disability.
Mon Jun 13 at 4:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

A Love Song

This achingly beautiful romantic drama centres on a widow waiting for an old flame to visit her lakeside campsite in Colorado. Sundance (Next), Berlinale (Panorama) 2022.
Mon Jun 13 at 4:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Please Baby Please

A Streetcar Named Desire by way of John Waters, Andrea Riseborough leads this leather-clad, gender-bending treatise on lust, marriage and camp. Opening film, Rotterdam 2022.
SELLING FAST
Mon Jun 13 at 6:00pm Palace Central Cinemas

Unrest

Time is indeed money in this delicately comic portrait of a watchmaking town caught between industry and political anarchy in 1870s Switzerland.
Mon Jun 13 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Emily the Criminal

In this electrifying Aubrey Plaza-led heist thriller, an art-school dropout and credit card scammer is entangled in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Sundance 2022.
Mon Jun 13 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

Stars at Noon

Grand Prix winner, Cannes 2022. A steamy, erotic feature from acclaimed director Claire Denis (High Life), starring Margaret Qualley (Maid) and Joe Alwyn (Conversations with Friends).
Mon Jun 13 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Gentle

Competitive bodybuilder Eszter Csonka stars in the haunting tale of Edina, an athlete willing to sacrifice everything for perfection and success. In Sundance 2022.
SOLD OUT
Mon Jun 13 at 6:15pm Palace Norton Street

The Tasting

Love, desire and wine are on the menu in this charming French romantic comedy adapted from the award-winning stage hit by writer-director Ivan Calbérac. A delicious drop.
SELLING FAST
Mon Jun 13 at 7:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Alice

Keke Palmer (Hustlers), Jonny Lee Miller and Common star in a riveting thriller about an enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation – only to discover that it’s actually 1973.
Tue Jun 14 at 12:15pm State Theatre

Return to Dust

Two lonely middle-aged strangers enter into an arranged marriage in Li Ruijun’s finely observed love story set in remote rural China. In competition, Berlinale 2022.
Tue Jun 14 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Tori and Lokita

Winner of the Cannes 75th Anniversary Prize, this powerful new drama by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night, SFF winner 2014) follows two young African refugees as they try to make a life in Belgium.
Tue Jun 14 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Anatolian Leopard

A lonely zoo director conceals the death of his prize attraction – an endangered leopard – in order to stave off an uncertain future in this award-winning Turkish drama.
Tue Jun 14 at 8:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4

The Humans

Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun star in this haunting film striking an uncanny balance between family dramedy and subtle psychological horror.
Tue Jun 14 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Klondike

Disaster and the threat of war punctuate this urgent film that tracks the lives of a dysfunctional couple in 2014 Ukraine, as their way of life collapses around them.
Wed Jun 15 at 11:15am State Theatre

A Love Song

This achingly beautiful romantic drama centres on a widow waiting for an old flame to visit her lakeside campsite in Colorado. Sundance (Next), Berlinale (Panorama) 2022.
Wed Jun 15 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Anatomy of Time

Thai filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong unveils a hypnotic journey into the life of a woman whose story reflects the turbulent changes seen in Thailand. Venice (Horizons) 2021.
Wed Jun 15 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Fairy Folk

Thorny questions of love and sexuality take centre stage in this magical realist drama in which a genderless woodland being crashes into the lives of a jaded couple.
Wed Jun 15 at 6:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Costa Brava, Lebanon

Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri star in this story of a family that quits Beirut only to discover that escaping its chaos is not so easy. Award-winner at Toronto and London.
Wed Jun 15 at 8:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Joyland

The first Pakistani film to make the Cannes Official Selection, Joyland is a daring love story in which a married man falls for an ambitious transgender dancer. Winner, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and Queer Palm.
Wed Jun 15 at 8:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

Holy Spider

Ali Abbasi (Border) returns with a provocative true-crime serial killer thriller set in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her starring role.
Wed Jun 15 at 8:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

One Year, One Night

Two of the brightest stars of French cinema, Noémie Merlant and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, play a hipster couple coming to terms with surviving a terror attack. Berlinale 2022.
SELLING FAST
Wed Jun 15 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

The Longest Weekend

A true indie from Sydney’s Inner West in which three siblings reunite, feud and reunite. The impressive ensemble cast includes screen veterans Tammy MacIntosh and John Batchelor.
Guest
Thu Jun 16 at 1:45pm State Theatre

Hommage

A tantalising mystery starring Lee Jeong-eun (Parasite, SFF 2019) as a filmmaker searching for missing footage from one of the first feature films directed by a South Korean woman.
Thu Jun 16 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Yuni

A teenage girl’s ambitions in an austere Indonesian community poetically explored by Kamila Andini (The Seen and Unseen, SFF 2018). Winner of Toronto’s Platform Award.
Thu Jun 16 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

The Blue Caftan

Woven with exquisite care, Maryam Touzani’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-selected drama reveals a love triangle between a young gay man and a middle-aged couple in a small Moroccan town.
Thu Jun 16 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

The Outfit

Mark Rylance stars as a British suit maker caught up in a 1956 Chicago mob war in this precision-tooled crime thriller from Oscar winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).
SELLING FAST
Thu Jun 16 at 6:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Evicted! A Modern Romance

Four spuriously employed housemates on the verge of eviction trawl Sydney's fraught rental market in search of a new place to call home in this irreverent Aussie comedy.
Thu Jun 16 at 8:15pm Palace Norton Street

Klondike

Disaster and the threat of war punctuate this urgent film that tracks the lives of a dysfunctional couple in 2014 Ukraine, as their way of life collapses around them.
SOLD OUT
Thu Jun 16 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

No Land's Man

A South Asian man fleeing persecution creates a new identity. His life changes after meeting an Australian woman in New York. Audience Award, Vesoul Asian Film Festival.
Thu Jun 16 at 8:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Boy from Heaven

Winner of the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, Swedish-Egyptian director Tarek Saleh’s (The Nile Hilton Incident, SFF 2017) new film is a riveting political thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.
Thu Jun 16 at 8:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

The Night of the 12th

Direct from Cannes, a perfectly crafted, atmospheric police procedural set in southern France, based on true events and reminiscent of Zodiac and Memories of Murder.
Thu Jun 16 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Ahed's Knee

Nadav Lapid’s provocative follow-up to Synonyms (SFF 2019) has an Israeli filmmaker railing against threats to artistic freedom in his country. Winner, Cannes 2021 Jury Prize.
Guest
Thu Jun 16 at 8:35pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Millie Lies Low

Emerging star Ana Scotney (Cousins, The Breaker Upperers SFF 2018) shines in a darkly comic Kiwi caper about impostor syndrome. Praised at Berlin, SXSW and in its hometown.
Thu Jun 16 at 8:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 9

Rimini

Michael Thomas is dynamite as washed up pop star Richie Bravo in a darkly comic drama from Ulrich Seidl (In the Basement, SFF 2015). In competition, Berlinale 2022.
Fri Jun 17 at 11:30am State Theatre

Father's Day

Intertwined stories about women and children explore Rwandan patriarchy and feminism and the country’s history of violence in this moving drama from director Kivu Ruhorahoza.
Fri Jun 17 at 6:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Will-O'-The-Wisp

João Pedro Rodrigues (The Ornithologist, SFF 2017) returns with a randy musical romp about a queer prince who wants to be a firefighter. Cannes Directors Fortnight 2022.
Fri Jun 17 at 8:15pm Palace Norton Street

The Blue Caftan

Woven with exquisite care, Maryam Touzani’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-selected drama reveals a love triangle between a young gay man and a middle-aged couple in a small Moroccan town.
Fri Jun 17 at 8:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

The Night of the 12th

Direct from Cannes, a perfectly crafted, atmospheric police procedural set in southern France, based on true events and reminiscent of Zodiac and Memories of Murder.
Fri Jun 17 at 8:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

The Burning Sea

Nail-biting tension and richly drawn characters are the winning ingredients of this eco-disaster thriller from action movie ace John Andreas Andersen (The Quake).
Fri Jun 17 at 8:40pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Stars at Noon

Grand Prix winner, Cannes 2022. A steamy, erotic feature from acclaimed director Claire Denis (High Life), starring Margaret Qualley (Maid) and Joe Alwyn (Conversations with Friends).
Fri Jun 17 at 8:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 9

Alice

Keke Palmer (Hustlers), Jonny Lee Miller and Common star in a riveting thriller about an enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation – only to discover that it’s actually 1973.
SELLING FAST
Fri Jun 17 at 9:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Triangle of Sadness

Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or 2022, Ruben Östlund’s (Force Majeure, The Square, SFF 2017) hilarious, biting, stomach-churning satire on the mega-rich presents a motley crew on a luxury cruise captained by an alcoholic Marxist.
SELLING FAST
Sat Jun 18 at 3:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

Evicted! A Modern Romance

Four spuriously employed housemates on the verge of eviction trawl Sydney's fraught rental market in search of a new place to call home in this irreverent Aussie comedy.
Sat Jun 18 at 4:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Mediterranean Fever

This bittersweet and unpredictable comedy-drama about male friendship by Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj won Best Screenplay in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2022.
Sat Jun 18 at 4:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Yuni

A teenage girl’s ambitions in an austere Indonesian community poetically explored by Kamila Andini (The Seen and Unseen, SFF 2018). Winner of Toronto’s Platform Award.
SELLING FAST
Sat Jun 18 at 4:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

Costa Brava, Lebanon

Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri star in this story of a family that quits Beirut only to discover that escaping its chaos is not so easy. Award-winner at Toronto and London.
Guest
Sat Jun 18 at 5:15pm Palace Norton Street

Commitment Hasan

A farmer in Turkey sets about clearing the slate before his pilgrimage to Mecca in this incisive and visually impressive morality fable. Selected for Cannes Un Certain Regard.
SOLD OUT
Sat Jun 18 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Emily the Criminal

In this electrifying Aubrey Plaza-led heist thriller, an art-school dropout and credit card scammer is entangled in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Sundance 2022.
Sat Jun 18 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Holy Spider

Ali Abbasi (Border) returns with a provocative true-crime serial killer thriller set in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her starring role.
Sat Jun 18 at 6:15pm Palace Central Cinemas

Father's Day

Intertwined stories about women and children explore Rwandan patriarchy and feminism and the country’s history of violence in this moving drama from director Kivu Ruhorahoza.
Sat Jun 18 at 8:15pm Palace Norton Street

Boy from Heaven

Winner of the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, Swedish-Egyptian director Tarek Saleh’s (The Nile Hilton Incident, SFF 2017) new film is a riveting political thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.
Sat Jun 18 at 8:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

Triangle of Sadness

Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or 2022, Ruben Östlund’s (Force Majeure, The Square, SFF 2017) hilarious, biting, stomach-churning satire on the mega-rich presents a motley crew on a luxury cruise captained by an alcoholic Marxist.
Sat Jun 18 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Rimini

Michael Thomas is dynamite as washed up pop star Richie Bravo in a darkly comic drama from Ulrich Seidl (In the Basement, SFF 2015). In competition, Berlinale 2022.
Sat Jun 18 at 8:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Will-O'-The-Wisp

João Pedro Rodrigues (The Ornithologist, SFF 2017) returns with a randy musical romp about a queer prince who wants to be a firefighter. Cannes Directors Fortnight 2022.
Guest
Sun Jun 19 at 1:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Hommage

A tantalising mystery starring Lee Jeong-eun (Parasite, SFF 2019) as a filmmaker searching for missing footage from one of the first feature films directed by a South Korean woman.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 19 at 3:00pm State Theatre

Triangle of Sadness

Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or 2022, Ruben Östlund’s (Force Majeure, The Square, SFF 2017) hilarious, biting, stomach-churning satire on the mega-rich presents a motley crew on a luxury cruise captained by an alcoholic Marxist.
Sun Jun 19 at 3:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love

Romance blooms between a fading actress and a young misfit in this offbeat charmer from Nicolette Krebitz (Wild, SFF 2016). Presented in competition at Berlinale 2022.
Sun Jun 19 at 4:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Return to Dust

Two lonely middle-aged strangers enter into an arranged marriage in Li Ruijun’s finely observed love story set in remote rural China. In competition, Berlinale 2022.
Sun Jun 19 at 5:30pm Palace Norton Street

The Night of the 12th

Direct from Cannes, a perfectly crafted, atmospheric police procedural set in southern France, based on true events and reminiscent of Zodiac and Memories of Murder.
Sun Jun 19 at 5:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Tori and Lokita

Winner of the Cannes 75th Anniversary Prize, this powerful new drama by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night, SFF winner 2014) follows two young African refugees as they try to make a life in Belgium.
Sun Jun 19 at 5:45pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

The Blue Caftan

Woven with exquisite care, Maryam Touzani’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-selected drama reveals a love triangle between a young gay man and a middle-aged couple in a small Moroccan town.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 19 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

The Burning Sea

Nail-biting tension and richly drawn characters are the winning ingredients of this eco-disaster thriller from action movie ace John Andreas Andersen (The Quake).
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 19 at 7:00pm State Theatre

Closing Night Ceremony: Broker

Direct from the Cannes Competition, where Song Kang-ho (Parasite, SFF 2019) won the Best Actor Award, Broker is a tender drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, SFF 2018).
SOLD OUT
Sun Jun 19 at 8:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

Broker

Direct from the Cannes Competition, where Song Kang-ho (Parasite, SFF 2019) won the Best Actor Award, Broker is a tender drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, SFF 2018).
Sun Jun 19 at 8:00pm Palace Norton Street

Mediterranean Fever

This bittersweet and unpredictable comedy-drama about male friendship by Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj won Best Screenplay in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2022.
SOLD OUT
Sun Jun 19 at 8:00pm Palace Central Cinemas

No Land's Man

A South Asian man fleeing persecution creates a new identity. His life changes after meeting an Australian woman in New York. Audience Award, Vesoul Asian Film Festival.
Sun Jun 19 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Hinterland

A returned POW tracks a serial killer in this visually stunning thriller set in the underbelly of post-WWI Vienna. Audience award winner, Locarno Film Festival.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 19 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Joyland

The first Pakistani film to make the Cannes Official Selection, Joyland is a daring love story in which a married man falls for an ambitious transgender dancer. Winner, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and Queer Palm.
SELLING FAST
Sun Jun 19 at 8:35pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Stars at Noon

Grand Prix winner, Cannes 2022. A steamy, erotic feature from acclaimed director Claire Denis (High Life), starring Margaret Qualley (Maid) and Joe Alwyn (Conversations with Friends).
Mon Jun 20 at 8:15pm Palace Norton Street

No Land's Man

A South Asian man fleeing persecution creates a new identity. His life changes after meeting an Australian woman in New York. Audience Award, Vesoul Asian Film Festival.
Wed Jun 22 at 6:00pm Palace Norton Street

The Tasting

Love, desire and wine are on the menu in this charming French romantic comedy adapted from the award-winning stage hit by writer-director Ivan Calbérac. A delicious drop.
Wed Jun 22 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

The Longest Weekend

A true indie from Sydney’s Inner West in which three siblings reunite, feud and reunite. The impressive ensemble cast includes screen veterans Tammy MacIntosh and John Batchelor.
SELLING FAST
Wed Jun 22 at 7:35pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Triangle of Sadness

Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or 2022, Ruben Östlund’s (Force Majeure, The Square, SFF 2017) hilarious, biting, stomach-churning satire on the mega-rich presents a motley crew on a luxury cruise captained by an alcoholic Marxist.
Thu Jun 23 at 6:00pm Palace Norton Street

Evicted! A Modern Romance

Four spuriously employed housemates on the verge of eviction trawl Sydney's fraught rental market in search of a new place to call home in this irreverent Aussie comedy.
SOLD OUT
Thu Jun 23 at 8:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Broker

Direct from the Cannes Competition, where Song Kang-ho (Parasite, SFF 2019) won the Best Actor Award, Broker is a tender drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, SFF 2018).
Thu Jun 23 at 8:15pm Palace Norton Street

Emily the Criminal

In this electrifying Aubrey Plaza-led heist thriller, an art-school dropout and credit card scammer is entangled in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Sundance 2022.
SOLD OUT
Thu Jun 23 at 9:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Broker

Direct from the Cannes Competition, where Song Kang-ho (Parasite, SFF 2019) won the Best Actor Award, Broker is a tender drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, SFF 2018).

A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love

Romance blooms between a fading actress and a young misfit in this offbeat charmer from Nicolette Krebitz (Wild, SFF 2016). Presented in competition at Berlinale 2022.

Ahed's Knee

Nadav Lapid’s provocative follow-up to Synonyms (SFF 2019) has an Israeli filmmaker railing against threats to artistic freedom in his country. Winner, Cannes 2021 Jury Prize.
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Alice

Keke Palmer (Hustlers), Jonny Lee Miller and Common star in a riveting thriller about an enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation – only to discover that it’s actually 1973.

Anatolian Leopard

A lonely zoo director conceals the death of his prize attraction – an endangered leopard – in order to stave off an uncertain future in this award-winning Turkish drama.

Anatomy of Time

Thai filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong unveils a hypnotic journey into the life of a woman whose story reflects the turbulent changes seen in Thailand. Venice (Horizons) 2021.

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Finnish director Teemu Nikki’s unique and powerful thriller has been wowing audiences around the world with its bold visual approach and sensitive portrait of disability.

The Blue Caftan

Woven with exquisite care, Maryam Touzani’s Cannes Un Certain Regard-selected drama reveals a love triangle between a young gay man and a middle-aged couple in a small Moroccan town.

Boy from Heaven

Winner of the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, Swedish-Egyptian director Tarek Saleh’s (The Nile Hilton Incident, SFF 2017) new film is a riveting political thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.
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Broker

Direct from the Cannes Competition, where Song Kang-ho (Parasite, SFF 2019) won the Best Actor Award, Broker is a tender drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, SFF 2018).
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The Burning Sea

Nail-biting tension and richly drawn characters are the winning ingredients of this eco-disaster thriller from action movie ace John Andreas Andersen (The Quake).
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Closing Night Ceremony: Broker

Direct from the Cannes Competition, where Song Kang-ho (Parasite, SFF 2019) won the Best Actor Award, Broker is a tender drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, SFF 2018).
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Commitment Hasan

A farmer in Turkey sets about clearing the slate before his pilgrimage to Mecca in this incisive and visually impressive morality fable. Selected for Cannes Un Certain Regard.
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Costa Brava, Lebanon

Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri star in this story of a family that quits Beirut only to discover that escaping its chaos is not so easy. Award-winner at Toronto and London.
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Emily the Criminal

In this electrifying Aubrey Plaza-led heist thriller, an art-school dropout and credit card scammer is entangled in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Sundance 2022.
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Evicted! A Modern Romance

Four spuriously employed housemates on the verge of eviction trawl Sydney's fraught rental market in search of a new place to call home in this irreverent Aussie comedy.

Fairy Folk

Thorny questions of love and sexuality take centre stage in this magical realist drama in which a genderless woodland being crashes into the lives of a jaded couple.

Father's Day

Intertwined stories about women and children explore Rwandan patriarchy and feminism and the country’s history of violence in this moving drama from director Kivu Ruhorahoza.
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Flux Gourmet

A deliciously deadpan comedy by outré cinema master Peter Strickland (In Fabric, SFF 2019) serves an outrageous recipe of food, music, and arts funding. Berlinale 2022.

Gentle

Competitive bodybuilder Eszter Csonka stars in the haunting tale of Edina, an athlete willing to sacrifice everything for perfection and success. In Sundance 2022.

Hinterland

A returned POW tracks a serial killer in this visually stunning thriller set in the underbelly of post-WWI Vienna. Audience award winner, Locarno Film Festival.

Holy Spider

Ali Abbasi (Border) returns with a provocative true-crime serial killer thriller set in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her starring role.
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Hommage

A tantalising mystery starring Lee Jeong-eun (Parasite, SFF 2019) as a filmmaker searching for missing footage from one of the first feature films directed by a South Korean woman.

The Humans

Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun star in this haunting film striking an uncanny balance between family dramedy and subtle psychological horror.
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Incredible but True

The latest hilarious offering from French absurdist and cult favourite Quentin Dupieux has taken critics and audiences on a ludicrous ride since its Berlinale premiere.
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Inu-oh

From Masaaki Yuasa, director of cult anime hit Mind Game, comes a Japanese folklore-glam-rock-musical-anime epic awash in his hallmark psychedelic imagery.
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Joyland

The first Pakistani film to make the Cannes Official Selection, Joyland is a daring love story in which a married man falls for an ambitious transgender dancer. Winner, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and Queer Palm.

Klondike

Disaster and the threat of war punctuate this urgent film that tracks the lives of a dysfunctional couple in 2014 Ukraine, as their way of life collapses around them.
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The Longest Weekend

A true indie from Sydney’s Inner West in which three siblings reunite, feud and reunite. The impressive ensemble cast includes screen veterans Tammy MacIntosh and John Batchelor.

A Love Song

This achingly beautiful romantic drama centres on a widow waiting for an old flame to visit her lakeside campsite in Colorado. Sundance (Next), Berlinale (Panorama) 2022.

Mediterranean Fever

This bittersweet and unpredictable comedy-drama about male friendship by Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj won Best Screenplay in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2022.
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Millie Lies Low

Emerging star Ana Scotney (Cousins, The Breaker Upperers SFF 2018) shines in a darkly comic Kiwi caper about impostor syndrome. Praised at Berlin, SXSW and in its hometown.

The Night of the 12th

Direct from Cannes, a perfectly crafted, atmospheric police procedural set in southern France, based on true events and reminiscent of Zodiac and Memories of Murder.

No Land's Man

A South Asian man fleeing persecution creates a new identity. His life changes after meeting an Australian woman in New York. Audience Award, Vesoul Asian Film Festival.

Nr. 10

One whispered word sets into motion a precisely executed, unpredictable, and sinister mystery from renowned Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam (Grimm, Borgman, SFF 2013).

One Year, One Night

Two of the brightest stars of French cinema, Noémie Merlant and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, play a hipster couple coming to terms with surviving a terror attack. Berlinale 2022.

The Outfit

Mark Rylance stars as a British suit maker caught up in a 1956 Chicago mob war in this precision-tooled crime thriller from Oscar winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).
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The Plains

Documentary and fiction converge in this intimate portrait of a middle-aged Australian driving home from work over the course of a year. In competition, Rotterdam.

Please Baby Please

A Streetcar Named Desire by way of John Waters, Andrea Riseborough leads this leather-clad, gender-bending treatise on lust, marriage and camp. Opening film, Rotterdam 2022.

Private Desert

A provocative exploration of masculinity and loneliness from Brazil’s hottest new director, Aly Muritiba. Audience Award, Venice, 2021.

Return to Dust

Two lonely middle-aged strangers enter into an arranged marriage in Li Ruijun’s finely observed love story set in remote rural China. In competition, Berlinale 2022.

Rimini

Michael Thomas is dynamite as washed up pop star Richie Bravo in a darkly comic drama from Ulrich Seidl (In the Basement, SFF 2015). In competition, Berlinale 2022.
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Stars at Noon

Grand Prix winner, Cannes 2022. A steamy, erotic feature from acclaimed director Claire Denis (High Life), starring Margaret Qualley (Maid) and Joe Alwyn (Conversations with Friends).

The Stranger

In the Golan Heights border zone, a Syrian med-school dropout finds new purpose in life when a wounded civil war fighter begs him for help.

The Tasting

Love, desire and wine are on the menu in this charming French romantic comedy adapted from the award-winning stage hit by writer-director Ivan Calbérac. A delicious drop.

Tori and Lokita

Winner of the Cannes 75th Anniversary Prize, this powerful new drama by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night, SFF winner 2014) follows two young African refugees as they try to make a life in Belgium.
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Triangle of Sadness

Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or 2022, Ruben Östlund’s (Force Majeure, The Square, SFF 2017) hilarious, biting, stomach-churning satire on the mega-rich presents a motley crew on a luxury cruise captained by an alcoholic Marxist.
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Unrest

Time is indeed money in this delicately comic portrait of a watchmaking town caught between industry and political anarchy in 1870s Switzerland.

Will-O'-The-Wisp

João Pedro Rodrigues (The Ornithologist, SFF 2017) returns with a randy musical romp about a queer prince who wants to be a firefighter. Cannes Directors Fortnight 2022.

Yuni

A teenage girl’s ambitions in an austere Indonesian community poetically explored by Kamila Andini (The Seen and Unseen, SFF 2018). Winner of Toronto’s Platform Award.
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