Explore: Thriller

Shorts Package
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Accelerator Shorts 2

Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.

82 mins
Short
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Alarms

Part social-realist drama, part thriller, this workplace portrait depicts the pressure-cooker stresses of an overworked construction site.

Dir. Nicolas Panay / 2023 / 17 mins / France / French
Feature
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Black Dog

A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.

Dir. Guan Hu / 2024 / 106 mins / China / Mandarin
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Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.

Dir. Tilman Singer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany, USA / English
Feature
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Hesitation Wound

A steely criminal lawyer juggles a murder case and tending to her dying mother in this Turkish drama that unspools over a tense 24 hours.

Dir. Selman Nacar / 2023 / 84 mins / Türkiye / Turkish
Short
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The Horn

A teenage girl’s mother begins to drift out of daily life, inexorably drawn to a mysterious sound.

Dir. Mark Wills / 2023 / 13 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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In Vitro

A disturbing secret threatens a couple’s relationship in this rural-set sci-fi thriller starring Succession’s Ashley Zukerman.

Dir. Will Howarth, Tom McKeith / 2024 / 89 mins / Australia / English
Shorts Package
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International Shorts 1

An awarded and acclaimed cornucopia from directors known and new.

117 mins
Shorts Package
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International Shorts 2

Remarkable short-form favourites from Cannes, Berlin, Tribeca and more.

116 mins
Short
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The Masterpiece

In this Sundance award-winner, race and class complicate the transaction between a wealthy couple and the scrap dealers they invite to their mansion.

Dir. Àlex Lora Cercós / 2024 / 20 mins / Spain / Spanish
Feature
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The Organist

A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.

Dir. Andy Burkitt / 2023 / 97 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Santosh

Premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, this scathing, subversively feminist take on the police procedural puts modern-day India under scrutiny.

Dir. Sandhya Suri / 2024 / 125 mins / Germany, UK, France, India / Hindi
Feature
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Modern and traditional values clash in acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring family drama, which won two prizes at Cannes.

Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof / 2024 / 168 mins / Iran / Farsi
Feature
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Sujo

A young boy orphaned by the cartel is up against inheriting a life of crime in this coming-of-age story from an award-winning Mexican filmmaking duo.

Dir. Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez / 2024 / 126 mins / USA, Mexico, France / Spanish
Feature
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Wake Up

In this slasher, six Gen Z activists get more than they bargained for when they break into a furniture store and face a bloodthirsty security guard.

Dir. RKSS / 2023 / 83 mins / France, Canada / English