Australia
Australia’s leading showcase of local filmmaking returns with an exciting line-up of stories from across the nation, highlighting the voices shaping contemporary Australian cinema.
The Airport Chaplain
Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez lead the cast of this compelling new drama series about a chaplain with an unorthodox approach to solving an airport’s daily crises, consistently overstepping boundaries to help passengers and workers alike.
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.
Body Blow
A disgraced, sex-addicted cop is thrust into Sydney’s crime-ridden gay district – and into a raunchy entanglement – in this neon-soaked queer erotic thriller.
Boss Cat
Desperate for independence, Sonja discovers the vibrant world of krump dancing, where she embraces expressiveness, challenges social judgement and finds her people.
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
In this tender, intimate and humorous documentary, experience the adventures and frustrations of a pair of inseparable lovers as they dream of building a life together.
Facing the Numbers
A unique mixture of different forms of Indigenous storytelling, this vibrant documentary finds the humanity behind all-too-familiar statistics.
The Fox
Jai Courtney stars – and Olivia Colman and Sam Neill voice a fox and a magpie respectively – in this absurdist black comedy about small-town duplicity and discontent.
French Girls
An inspired act of micro-budget filmmaking, this playful gig economy parable set in the Sydney fashion scene introduces an impressive array of new Australian talent.
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
A motley crew of para ice hockey skaters fight to keep their grassroots sporting club on the rink in this stirring, often hilarious documentary.
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.
The Latcher
Accelerator Lab alum James Hunter makes his feature debut with this psychological thriller about motherhood and the monstrous clutches of grief.
Look Both Ways
Winner of four AFI Awards, Sarah Watt’s prismatic and improbably funny tale of looming tragedy is independent Australian cinema at its off-kilter best.
Mad Rush
A young woman gets caught in an elaborate phone scam which sends her on a twisted odyssey through the Melbourne CBD.
My Life Without Steve
Almost as controversial as it was lauded, this gorgeous, rigorously composed reflection on a break-up is a landmark work of Australian feminist cinema.
My Year Without Sex
Watt’s warm and keenly funny follow-up to Look Both Ways offers a portal into a suburban Aussie family home rocked by a health crisis.
Of Womb
Evading the hard truth of their religious matriarch’s death, three sisters gestate dark ecstasies of faith and folk horror. Blessed be Mother.
Our Effed Up World
To save Earth from an insatiable alien, this slacker will need her dad and her effing loyal mates, who make a crap planet worth fighting for.
Phenomena
A filmmaker’s chemistry experiments produce dazzlingly psychedelic results in this spectacular, scientifically illuminating Australian debut.
Phillip Philadelphia
Crude, lust-riddled and brilliantly cracked, this Gold Coast–set fever dream is the latest twisted caper from maverick auteur Adam C. Briggs.
Replica
Like a gender-flipped Her, this empathetic documentary follows three Chinese women whose yearning for intimacy is met by their AI partners.
Rodeo Dreams
In rural Queensland, four determined young bull riders try to make it in one of the most dangerous sports on Earth.
Sentient
In his directorial debut, veteran Australian journalist Tony Jones explores the moral, emotional and clinical questions – as well as answers – around why we still test on animals, and what it will take us to stop.
Silenced
Jennifer Robinson, Amber Heard and Brittany Higgins have all experienced the full force of weaponised defamation laws – but these indomitable activists and survivors of gendered violence won’t keep quiet.
Sukundimi Walks Before Me
Papuan Indigenous communities mobilise to fight a planned mine on the sacred Sepik River in this stirring portrait of ecoactivism.
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.
Time and Tide
A Melbourne filmmaker returns to the small Chinese town of his childhood, reconnecting with his family under difficult, emotionally profound circumstances.
Tina Arena: Unravel Me
How do you separate a Melbourne-born Oz music treasure and cosmopolitan star from a resilient woman? Follow the threads of her story, in her own words.
Whistle
Welcome to the Masters of Musical Whistling, where the competitors require monumental skill, massive determination and a mighty wind.
Wilderness
A Melbourne doctor spiralling into full midlife crisis sets out on a primal pilgrimage into the Victorian Alps.
Yesterday Island
In this award-winning Australian indie comedy, an unsuccessful writer, stuck living the same day on repeat on a subantarctic island, must find another unwitting victim to take his place.
Yumburra
Following the Dark Emu phenomenon, Bruce Pascoe pursues sustainable farming and connection to Country in this gentle documentary portrait.