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Abiding Nowhere

Tsai Ming-liang continues his meditative, monastic Walking series with another hypnotic shrine to seeking transcendence in a chaotic world.

Dir. Tsai Ming-liang / 2024 / 79 mins / USA, Taiwan / No Dialogue
Short
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Alarms

Part social-realist drama, part thriller, this workplace portrait depicts the pressure-cooker stresses of an overworked construction site.

Dir. Nicolas Panay / 2023 / 17 mins / France / French
Feature
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Alemania

A teenager must choose between family and a life-changing adventure abroad in this tender coming-of-age story.

Dir. Maria Zanetti / 2023 / 87 mins / Spain, Argentina / Spanish
Feature
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Like a visual poem, this ode to a Black woman’s joys and tragedies in the Deep South is rendered exquisitely tactile on the big screen.

Dir. Raven Jackson / 2023 / 92 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Animale

In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.

Dir. Emma Benestan / 2024 / 99 mins / France / French
Feature
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As the Tide Comes In

Amid the climate crisis, an eight-square-kilometre island off the Danish coast is a microcosm of the rest of the world in this witty portrait.

Dir. Juan Palacios / 2023 / 88 mins / Denmark / Danish
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Audrey

In this brutally hilarious black comedy, an Aussie teen’s coma is her family’s time to shine.

Dir. Natalie Bailey / 2024 / 96 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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The Balconettes

In actor-turned-director Noémie Merlant’s dark French farce, three friends must conceal a #MeToo murder while haunted by the ghosts of abusive men.

Dir. Noémie Merlant / 104 mins / France / French
Feature
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Behind the Mountains

A downtrodden father literally takes flight from the strictures of society in this supernaturally tinged, Tunisia-set odyssey.

Dir. Mohamed Ben Attia / 2023 / 98 mins / France, Tunisia, Belgium, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Tunisian Dialect
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Blackout

A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.

Dir. Larry Fessenden / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English
Short
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Blood Like Water

A powerful, queer-focused story about a Palestinian family who are forced to make an impossible choice.

Dir. Dima Hamdan / 2023 / 14 mins / Palestine / Arabic
Feature
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Blue Sun Palace

The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.

Dir. Constance Tsang / 2024 / 116 mins / USA / Mandarin
Feature
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Bookworm

Elijah Wood stars as a wayward but well-meaning dad in this magical father–daughter quest set in the New Zealand wilderness.

Dir. Ant Timpson / 2024 / 103 mins / New Zealand / English
Short
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Break No.1 & Break No.2

A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.

Dir. Lei Lei / 2024 / 18 mins / China / Mandarin
Feature
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By the Stream

A bucolic university is the site of scandal, boozy meals and mildly subversive theatre in prolific cult hero Hong Sang-soo’s 32nd film.

Dir. Hong Sang-soo / 111 mins / South Korea / Korean
Short
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Calf

In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.

Dir. Jamie O'Rourke / 2023 / 15 mins / Ireland / English
Short
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Canard

Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.

Dir. Elie Chapuis / 2023 / 9 mins / Switzerland / No Dialogue
Feature
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The Carriage Driver

Nosrat Karimi’s 1971 film about ‘marriage Iranian style’ – a kind of commedia all’iraniana.

Dir. Nosrat Karimi / 1971 / 117 mins / Iran / Farsi
Short
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A Catholic Schoolgirl

A student at an all-girls boarding school is incredibly devoted to God. Or is it just to saintly Sister Agnes?

Dir. Myra Angeline Soriaso / 2023 / 18 mins / Philippines / Tagalog
Feature
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Caught by the Tides

Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.

Dir. Jia Zhang-ke / 2024 / 111 mins / China / Mandarin
Episodic
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A Century in Sound

Slip into the serene surrounds of Japanese ‘listening cafés’, where music lovers, audiophiles and locals come together to hear records.

Dir. Nick Dwyer, Tu Neill / 2024 / 101 mins / Japan / Japanese
Feature
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Cidade; Campo

Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

Dir. Juliana Rojas / 2024 / 119 mins / Brazil / Portuguese
Feature
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Close Your Eyes

Legendary Spanish auteur Víctor Erice’s long-awaited return to feature films is a mystery-fuelled meditation on cinema itself.

Dir. Víctor Erice / 2023 / 169 mins / Spain / Spanish
Feature
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The Concierge

In this sparkling anime comedy set in a vibrant alternate world, the customer is always right – but they’re never human.

Dir. Yoshimi Itazu / 2023 / 70 mins / Japan / Japanese
Short
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Cookies

Revenge is a dish best served during a coffee break for an overworked, under-slept new father.

Dir. Alessandro Stigliano / 2023 / 10 mins / Sweden / Swedish
Short
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A Crab in the Pool

On a scorching summer day, two siblings are reminded of their mother.

Dir. Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel / 2023 / 11 mins / Canada / French
Short
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Crushed

A harrowing account of an abusive and violent relationship during a woman’s early adulthood.

Dir. Camille Vigny / 2024 / 13 mins / Belgium / French
Feature
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Dìdi

This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.

Dir. Sean Wang / 2024 / 93 mins / USA / English, Mandarin
Feature
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The Damned

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?

Dir. Roberto Minervini / 2024 / 88 mins / USA, Belgium, Italy / English
Short
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Daphne was a torso ending in leaves

Winner of the KNF Award at Rotterdam, a playful and richly cinematic ode to the mythological Greek nymph.

Dir. Catriona Gallagher / 2023 / 13 mins / UK, Greece, Italy / No Dialogue
Feature
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Daughters

From EPs Kerry Washington and Joel Edgerton, this film joins four girls as they reunite with their incarcerated fathers for the Daddy Daughter Dance.

Dir. Natalie Rae, Angela Patton / 2024 / 107 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Dead End

A devastating 1977 portrait of love and longing in a country built on fear and surveillance, based on a story by Anton Chekhov.

Dir. Parviz Sayyad / 1977 / 95 mins / Iran / Farsi
Feature
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DEVO

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’.

Dir. Chris Smith / 2024 / 94 mins / USA, UK / English
Feature
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Dig! XX

A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Dir. Ondi Timoner / 2024 / 145 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Direct Action

Winner of the Berlinale’s Encounters Award for Best Film, this bold and vital documentary explores the militant activist community in France.

Dir. Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell / 2024 / 216 mins / Germany, France, South Korea / French
Feature
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Dory Previn: On My Way to Where

Her uniquely emotional songwriting fuelled the best revenge on her cheating husband: a brilliant second solo career.

Dir. Julia Greenberg, Dianna Dilworth / 2024 / 80 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Dream Team

If you think you’ve seen enough crime dramas that you can predict every twist, think again. This trippy investigation will keep you second-guessing.

Dir. Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn / 2024 / 91 mins / USA / English
Feature
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East of Noon

This dreamlike tale of youth and resistance set in a surreal modern-day Egypt is also a stirringly beautiful ode to creative expression.

Dir. Hala Elkoussy / 2024 / 109 mins / Netherlands, Qatar, Egypt / Arabic
Short
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Ever Since, I Have Been Flying

A profound portrait of survival set among the mountains of south-eastern Türkiye.

Dir. Aylin Gökmen / 2023 / 19 mins / Switzerland / Turkish, Kurdish
Feature
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Every Little Thing

In this big-hearted documentary, a Los Angeles teacher takes time off to nurture injured hummingbirds and finds herself on an uplifting journey.

Dir. Sally Aitken / 2023 / 93 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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The Falling Sky

A stunning doc that follows the Yanomami people of the Amazon as they perform a sacred rite and defend their homeland from the incursion of mining.

Dir. Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha / 2024 / 110 mins / Italy, Brazil / Yoanomam
Short
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Father's Letters

The true story of Professor Alexey Wangenheim, who writes hopeful letters home from a Gulag in Stalinist Russia.

Dir. Alexey Evstigneev / 2023 / 12 mins / France, Russia / Russian
Feature
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Flow

A menagerie adrift on a boat must work together to survive a catastrophic flood in this animated wonder arriving from Cannes Un Certain Regard.

Dir. Gints Zilbalodis / 2024 / 84 mins / France, Belgium, Latvia / No Dialogue
Short
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Flower Show

Victorian-era high society’s stifling views of women are shown in full bloom.

Dir. Elli Vuorinen / 2024 / 9 mins / Finland / English
Feature
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Fungi: Web of Life

Lose yourself in this immersive trip into the fascinating world of fungi, as narrated by Björk.

Dir. Gisela Kaufmann, Joseph Nizeti / 2023 / 45 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Gaucho Gaucho

A Sundance-awarded film about an Argentine cowboy community, elevated by sublime monochrome cinematography and sweeping western-inspired imagery.

Dir. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw / 2024 / 84 mins / Argentina / Spanish
Feature
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Ghost Cat Anzu

This unconventional and delightfully wacky anime conjures a rotoscoped dream world as a grief-stricken girl befriends a giant bipedal cat spirit.

Dir. Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita / 2024 / 94 mins / France, Japan / Japanese
Short
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Gigi

Aquatic and amphibious imagery act as motifs for a young woman’s recollections of her life.

Dir. Cynthia Calvi / 2023 / 14 mins / France / French
Feature
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Godzilla

The masterpiece that made the name ‘Godzilla’ known worldwide has been restored in 4K to mark 70 years of watching this kaiju ravage all in his wake.

Dir. Ishirō Honda / 1954 / 96 mins / Japan / Japanese
Feature
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Good One

A simple camping trip evolves into a life-changing experience in this sensitively told coming-of-age debut.

Dir. India Donaldson / 2024 / 90 mins / USA / English