A documentary about the history of physical media, the rise of boutique specialty collector labels and the role they have played in film restoration, preservation and elevation of underrepresented voices.
The production values here are a cut above what one would normally expect for something with this theme and these characters.
A mother battling trauma faces a surreal nightmare when toilets mysteriously transform into killer beings, forcing her to confront both her personal demons and these bizarre supernatural threats.
An unassuming, funny family film with an unexpected ending that is well worth seeing.
The difficult life of a boy and his single mother looks set to change when they take in an Edo-era samurai warrior who has been magically transported to their time.
The hand-drawn beauty of the images always connects to ideas, something grander that we have yet to find out about.
A teenager, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, who bears a striking resemblance to his mum. His strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who dubs him the “long-awaited one.”
Things here don't work the way they do in most action movies. People get tired. Wounds keep hurting. Sometimes Bobby taken on tasks that prove too much for him.
When two boys are kidnapped, one manages to escape, but he's determined not to abandon his friend.
A woman finds a jewel of a home in New York until realising her downstairs neighbour is her ex whose heart she broke. Like a true New Yorker, she keeps the apartment.
The film goes at it with all the manic intensity of an old Saturday morning kids TV show: Wacaday cruentus.
A dystopian fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
Frequent close-ups build on the chemistry between the actors to capture that feeling when one individual suddenly seems bigger and brighter and louder than everything else in the world.
A brief encounter in a Berlin nightclub changes the course of two lives.
Far from being lascivious, Nurlan is wistful, and Manojlovi, who has the look of a sort of hangdog Walter Mathau, favours expressions of surprise, puzzlement and resignation over anything so low-brow as lust.
After the train of a retiring driver snags a blue bra, he embarks on a quest to return the under garment.
Kernell’s drama feels embedded within the community and the landscape.
Ejva inherits her late father's reindeer herd. As she struggles to keep the herd thriving, local leader Heaika falls for her, and though hesitant, she feels compelled to accept. But everything changes when Nejla, Heaika's cousin, arrives.
The iconography of the feminine is twisted into something deadly.
Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.
Densely packed as this film is, only so much can be squeezed into an hour and 47 minutes. Menkes succeeds, however, in delivering a pretty thorough primer.
Based on Nina Menkes' acclaimed talk "Sex & Power: The Visual Language of Cinema", a mesmerising journey into how shot design intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women.
A fertiliser used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass?
Although Brando With A Glass Eye boldly delves into the complex intricacies of method acting, it lacks an engaging style that hooks the audience throughout.
A method actor's ill-fated heist forces an unexpected connection to the accidental victim.
While Brave may occasionally shy away from darker territory in order to retain its appeal for even the youngest of audiences, there are still plenty of 'big' ideas here for small minds to think about.
A princess gets more than she bargains for when she asks for a spell.
What really holds it all together is Hawco’s down to earth performance as a detective striving to retain his focus on the practical side of the job.
John Hawkins, who is set to retire as police chief is tucked away in deep wood. Following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he's pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.
At key moments, director Damian Kocur slows his camera right down. We drift through the estate, through the sort of spaces which an architect might have thought would look pretty, with no idea how disaffected young people would use them.
A pianist returns to his home town, where he finds a new kebab bar in town, which begins to generate friction between the employees and local youths.
Dorothea and her partner Greta have devoted 40 years to transforming their small-town’s disused bread
factory into a civic centre promoting theatre, dance and film. As they prepare to stage Hecuba, they learn that
their funding may be cut in favour of a glitzy, commercial rival.
In the second part of this sometimes musical drama, two women rehearse a production of Hecuba while fighting to save the arts centre to which they have devoted their lives.
A sweet-natured romcom, Breaking Fast takes on some difficult issues around what it takes to love somebody and to accept love.
Mo, a practising Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
It’s impressively polished given its modest budget, and is elevated by a score which adds an epic element to scenes with only a handful of people in them.
Liam is a scientific researcher who has been unstuck in time, as his jumps through time get more extreme, he is guided to the future by a mysterious old man where he witnesses the end of the world that he may have caused.
Stern takes her time letting us discover what really concerns her characters, their hard shells and vulnerable cores.
An Austrian woman escapes from the pressure of running her family’s vineyard by playing ice hockey. Then a new player arrives to challenge her rigid worldview, leading to a life-changing night on the streets of Vienna.
