The Airport Chaplain
The Best Summer
Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Bikini Kill, Pavement and more, all at one fateful Aussie music festival. Get in line – we’re heading to 1995.
Dead Man’s Wire
A top-notch cast play out a hair-raising real-life 1970s hostage situation in this blackly comedic thriller from Gus Van Sant.
Death of a Shaman
As Ecuador erupts in protest, the custodian of a threatened way of life contemplates the future of his family line and his people.
Digby & Camille
Extra Geography
A self-assigned summer project leads to tough lessons in life, love and friendship for a precocious pair of boarding school BFFs.
Guided by Horses
Amid the breathtaking vistas of the Kimberley, a groundbreaking equine sanctuary helps First Nations teenagers discover reconnection and healing.
Hard as Puck
Hear My Eyes: Memento
See the film that introduced Christopher Nolan to the world, complete with an all-new live score.
The History of Concrete
When a cult filmmaker decides to make a Hallmark-style documentary on concrete, he paves a path to something far more profound and hilarious.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Five working-class Gen Z friends drift apart in this deeply felt study of adulthood that won the Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes.
Jebediah: Are We OK?
Take a 30-year journey with the beloved Australian alternative rock band, from humble beginnings to the harder aspects of growing up.
John Cameron Mitchell Presents: Hedwig and the Angry Inch 25th Anniversary
Watch a cult-classic genderqueer musical in the best way – with a witty live commentary by its transgressive and talented director/star.
Mad Rush
A young woman gets caught in an elaborate phone scam which sends her on a twisted odyssey through the Melbourne CBD.
Minotaur
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
A twentysomething homebody is stuck carrying more than she bargained for in this gleefully gloopy Kiwi body-horror comedy.
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
John Turturro stars as a pavement-pounding old-school thief who needs all his Big Apple savvy to save his wife and way of life from a young crypto gangster.
Phenomena
A filmmaker’s chemistry experiments produce dazzlingly psychedelic results in this spectacular, scientifically illuminating Australian debut.
Queen at Sea
Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay star in this unflinchingly knotty drama about a woman and her stepfather at odds over her dementia-stricken mother.
Rose
Sandra Hüller’s knockout, Silver Bear–winning performance anchors this tragic folktale about a woman who poses as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Fresh from Cannes, this knockout historical thriller from genre master Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds mysteries afoot in a castle’s locked rooms.
The Story of Documentary Film
The premier chronicler of all things cinematic shines a projectionist’s lamp on more than a century of reality-based storytelling.
The Sun Never Sets
A radiant Dakota Fanning anchors indie cinema luminary Joe Swanberg’s long-awaited return: a canny and heartfelt love-triangle dramedy set in Alaska.
Sweet Milk Lake
After being mistaken for his brother, a young trans man adapts to a precarious new life in his estranged father’s rural town.
We Are Aliens
This poignant Cannes-premiering animation traces the friendship and falling-out of two boys after an incident at school changes their lives forever.