Feature
Past Event

Voice

An inspirational insider’s look at a youth-led cross-country road trip to gather grassroots support for the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.

Dir. Krunal Padhiar, Semara Jose / 2024 / 92 mins / Australia / English
Feature
Past Event

Vulcanizadora

Underground auteur Joel Potrykus returns with a mind-bending and hilariously shocking trip into the existential terror of middle age.

Dir. Joel Potrykus / 2024 / 85 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

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
Feature
Past Event

We Were Dangerous

Executive-produced by Taika Waititi, this fiercely feminist Māori-led debut is an emotive subversion of the ‘coming-of-age delinquent’ narrative.

Dir. Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu / 2024 / 82 mins / New Zealand / English
Feature
Past Event

Welcome Space Brothers

Hop aboard as this engrossing film takes you to the world of the Unarians: cosmic visionaries who believe in higher planes, therapy and movie-making.

Dir. Jodi Wille / 2023 / 100 mins / USA / English
Feature
Past Event

Who by Fire

Egos clash in this tense coming-of-age tale set in an isolated cabin in the Canadian wilderness, which won the Berlinale Generation 14plus Grand Prix.

Dir. Philippe Lesage / 2024 / 161 mins / France, Canada / French
Feature
Past Event

Who Do I Belong To

In this evocative and ethereal mystery, a soothsaying matriarch wrestles with the darkness when her jihadist son returns from Syria.

Dir. Meryam Joobeur / 2024 / 118 mins / France, Canada, Tunisia / Arabic
Feature
Past Event

Wilding

Letting it all go to seed is the answer to revitalising the land and its visitors, suggests this soul-nourishing film about innovative farming.

Dir. David Allen / 2023 / 75 mins / UK / English
Feature
Past Event

Winners

Using football as her vehicle, Soleen Yusef references her own refugee tale through the poignant journey of an 11-year-old’s new life in Germany.

Dir. Soleen Yusef / 2024 / 119 mins / Germany / German
Short
Past Event

Withered Blossoms

Direct from Cannes, this gentle, tender work chronicles the relationship between a twentysomething and her ageing grandmother.

Dir. Lionel Seah / 2024 / 14 mins / Australia / English, Cantonese
Feature
Past Event

The World According to Allee Willis

A kaleidoscopic ride through the 50-year career of the mega-hit songwriter behind the Friends theme song, Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ and more.

Dir. Alexis Manya Spraic / 2024 / 97 mins / USA / English
Shorts Package
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WTF Shorts

Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.

99 mins
Short
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Yakka

As two brothers get up to mischief in a fishing town, the cycles of toxic masculinity above the water reflect the hierarchies of predation below.

Dir. Jack Shepherd / 2024 / 15 mins / Australia / English
Short
Past Event

You Are My Tomorrow

The dynamics of a contentious yet co-dependent mother–daughter relationship are explored in this drama set among Melbourne’s Turkish community.

Dir. Lara Köse / 2023 / 12 mins / Australia / English, Turkish
Feature
Past Event

You Burn Me

This phantasmagoric experimental drama puts Ancient Greek poet Sappho in conversation with the nymph Britomartis.

Dir. Matías Piñeiro / 2024 / 64 mins / Spain, Argentina / Spanish
Feature
Past Event

You Should Have Been Here Yesterday

Be swept up in this homage to the birth of Aussie surf culture compiled from 200 hours of home movies, iconic documentaries and restored 16mm footage.

Dir. Jolyon Hoff / 2024 / 79 mins / Australia / English