Ain't No Time for Women
Hot Docs 2021’s Best Canadian Short Documentary winner turns the lens on Saïda’s, a salon where Tunisian women can talk politics while getting their hair done.
Annette
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star in Leos Carax’s bizarre, brazen musical – the Best Director–winning Cannes film on everyone’s lips.
Azor
Bach-Hông
A young Vietnamese-French woman is faced with the communist takeover of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Sex is fodder for black comedy in this scathing portrayal of life in the age of COVID-19.
Black Hole
Winner of two Locarno Leopards of Tomorrow awards, this stunning portrait of adolescent abandon unfolds at the threshold of emerging maturity.
Blind Ambition
Children of Montmartre
This 1933 French realist classic is a humane and subversive exploration of child poverty, the limits of schooling and the sanctuary offered by love.
Deux fois
A wild, experimental provocation, this black-and-white film features charismatic director Jackie Raynal in an assemblage of unconnected, often-repeating scenes.
The Gig Is Up
Subtitled A Very Human Tech Doc, this timely documentary exposes the true cost of the gig economy quietly powering our everyday lives.
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Misogynist or champion of women? This expansive portrait of a controversial fashion icon captures both light and shade.
Listen to the Beat of Our Images
As humans shoot for the stars, what do we lose along the way?
Love Songs for Tough Guys
Vanessa Paradis, François Damiens and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi lead this charming, lovestruck comedy set in a port of northern France.
Mandabi
Stunningly restored in 4K, the sagacious second feature from Senegalese author turned filmmaker Ousmane Sembène cements his legacy as the ‘father of African film’.
Maso and Miso Go Boating
Les Insoumuses tackle the French media’s sexism by taking playful aim at a misogynistic episode of a popular TV program hosted by Bernard Pivot.
Memory Box
A mysterious package reopens old wounds and breaks down walls of intergenerational silence in this drama about mothers and daughters, history and time.
The Men Who Wait
On a slag heap that once belonged to a coalmine, revellers seek erotic gratification.
The Monopoly of Violence
This timely, intelligent and emotional examination of state-sanctioned violence reveals a disturbingly universal story.
Moon, 66 Questions
In Jacqueline Lentzou’s exceptional feature debut, an already strained father–daughter relationship is put under pressure.
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
An unsettling, melancholic portrait of what fame did to the talented young star of Death in Venice.
Never Gonna Snow Again
You’re in excellent hands with this wicked class satire about a very special immigrant masseur and the affluent individuals who grow besotted with him.
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma returns with a delicate tale of childhood and an intergenerational connection that crosses through time.
Playlist
In this delightful slacker story, a young Parisian comic-book artist is on the hunt for stability, a career, self-confidence, love – but nothing seems to go her way.
Radiograph of a Family
A deeply personal portrait becomes a reflection on Iran’s turbulent political history in this striking, formally innovative memoir.
Sisters With Transistors
Laurie Anderson narrates the untold history of the women who blazed a trail through electronic music.
Social Hygiene
Denis Côté’s witty, theatrical battle of the sexes turns social distancing into an exercise in mutual estrangement.
Titane
Buckle up for the wildest, queerest car-fetish body-horror fable ever to win the Cannes Palme d’Or.
Trona Pinnacles
A family unravels while road-tripping near Death Valley in the California desert.
Une Belle Journée
A French couple travelling by campervan around Australia discover their relationship is at a crossroads.
