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For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a program that combines boxing and writing turns into a journey of recovery and friendship.
Experimental Shorts
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Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.
An eerie trip across the landscape takes a dark turn into Australian Gothic.
Postwar memories of the Taiwanese Kinmen Islands are seen as if through broken glass, summoned by way of incense, ceramics, sand, light and shadows.
A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.
A hypnotic interplay between footage of fireworks shot during a Japanese summer festival.
Winner of the Berlinale’s Teddy Award for Best Short Film, this story of a matriarchal family repurposes archival footage from communist Poland.
Monkeys overrun the remains of an ancient civilisation in this rich reflection on myth and reality.
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photo on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
Time collides and collapses in this kaleidoscopic reflection on change in Hong Kong.
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.
The Substance
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Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Black Box Diaries
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This daring work of first-person journalism charts the case that not only launched #MeToo in Japan but changed the country’s legal system for good.
To a Land Unknown
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Acclaimed documentarian Mahdi Fleifel makes his fiction debut with a Midnight Cowboy–inspired Palestinian refugee story.
Tensions explode in a family’s country home in the Zürcher brothers’ follow-up to their acclaimed The Girl and the Spider.
With this twist on the jingoistic, action-packed war movie, Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Director winner Roberto Minervini asks: what’s it all for?
Inside
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Guy Pearce stars in this prison-set portrait of incarceration and salvation – the feature debut from Short Film Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams.
This effusive documentary explodes onto the screen as it chronicles the remarkable rise and staying power of the 80s new-wave band behind ‘Whip It’.