Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Shadowtime
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Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
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Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Taiwan With a Twist
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Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
Shadowtime
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Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
Best Director Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius crafts a stirring Holocaust fable – the first animated film to screen in Cannes competition since 2008.
Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Accelerator Shorts 1
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Bold works from emerging Australian and New Zealand filmmakers.
A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.
In this dark nocturnal world, small actions – and inactions – suggest heavy emotions.
Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.
In this self-reflexive short, an emerging filmmaker asks himself whether it’s possible to make something meaningful in 10 minutes.
A vision of wild, nightmarish childhood play stunningly shot on 16mm with vintage lenses.
A colourful riff on sibling rivalries and societal expectations.
This distinctively Māori spin on the mockumentary recounts the exploits of a staunch and charming police officer.
Iranian Subversive Documentaries, 1961-67
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Three works manifesting the subversive nature of Iranian New Wave documentary cinema as well as their deep roots in poetry.
Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Emperor
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An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Shadowtime
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Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Emperor
Standby
An interactive and surrealist voyage into the mind of a father experiencing aphasia.
Two XR works – one portraying the trap of greener pastures, the other framing the body as landscape – present novel takes on the here-and-now.
Bear witness to an ageing queer man’s recollections as he reconstructs his life from memories that are slowly fading away.
Join a mysterious guide through a double world that straddles time periods, realities and scales of matter.
Agnieszka Holland returns with this devastating drama that follows Middle Eastern and North African refugees trapped as pawns in a political game.
Two coal miners in love face their country’s buried trauma and reckon with their risky futures in this hypnotic Vietnamese queer romance.
I Saw the TV Glow
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Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.
The show really must go on as two locked-down actors take Shakespeare to the least likely stage imaginable: the streets of Grand Theft Auto.
A Simple Event
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Made clandestinely with little money and a skeleton crew, Sohrab Shahid Saless’s 1973 debut feature is a quietly, mysteriously simmering masterpiece.
Future Council
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Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to seek solutions to the climate crisis.
Kneecap
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A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this biopic that tracks their fictionalised roots and their real-life crusade to save the Gaeilge language.
We Were Dangerous
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Executive-produced by Taika Waititi, this fiercely feminist Māori-led debut is an emotive subversion of the ‘coming-of-age delinquent’ narrative.
The movement of a train arriving at Tehran’s central station is edited in sync with a maestro percussionist’s mesmerising use of the zarb.
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.