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Back By Popular Demand

We’re bringing 16 of the most-loved and sold-out films of this year’s program back by popular demand, for another four days after Closing Night until Thursday 20 June!

Please note: Flexipasses cannot be used for Back By Popular Demand sessions

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Agent Of Happiness

Documentary An agent for Bhutan’s Ministry of Gross National Happiness criss-crosses the country measuring people’s happiness, while searching for his own. Sundance selected.
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All Shall Be Well

Feature This year’s Berlinale Teddy Award winner and Hong Kong FF opener is an affecting and poignant drama about love, loss and legacy from acclaimed filmmaker Ray Yeung (Suk Suk).

All We Imagine As Light

Feature The first Indian film to appear in the Cannes Competition in 30 years, Payal Kapadia’s dreamy romantic drama follows two women in Mumbai who are thwarted in their quests for love but retain hope. Grand Prix Winner Cannes 2024.

Brief History Of A Family

Feature A quiet teenager seizes an opportunity to impress his new friend’s moneyed parents in this suspenseful and meticulously observed thriller. A breakout critical hit from Sundance 2024.
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Charmian Clift - Life Burns High

Documentary An intriguing portrait of Charmian Clift: a household name in the 1960’s and one of Australia’s finest writers.
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Dying

Feature Winner of the Silver Bear in Berlin, this multi-generational epic follows a conductor and his turbulent family. Equally funny and poignant, it’s anchored by a superb performance from Lars Eidinger (Personal Shopper, SFF 2016).

Grand Tour

Feature Direct from the Cannes Competition, the latest from Miguel Gomes (Tabu, SFF 2012; Arabian Nights, Sydney Film Prize, SFF 2015) is a mischievous and heartsick chronicle of a runaway groom with his sunny bride in pursuit across Asia. Best Director Winner Cannes 2024.

I Saw The TV Glow

Feature Two misfit teens bond over their obsession with a mysterious TV show but have an identity crisis when it’s suddenly cancelled, in this Sundance and Berlinale sensation.
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In Vitro

Feature Ashley Zukerman (Succession) stars in a gripping Australian sci-fi mystery thriller set on a remote cattle farm in the near future.

La Cocina

Feature Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones star in this intense comedic drama set during the hectic lunch rush at a New York restaurant, from Mexican maverick Alonso Ruizpalacios (A Cop Movie, SFF 2021).

Motel Destino

Feature Straight from the Cannes Competition, Karim Aïnouz (Praia Do Futuro, SFF 2014) fuses crime thriller and unbridled eroticism in this gloriously debauched tropical noir.

The Outrun

Feature Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, Little Women) is terrific as a recovering addict in this moving adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2017 bestseller set in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Sundance and Berlinale selected.

Problemista

Feature A queer, quirky farce written, directed by, and starring surrealist comedian Julio Torres as a man avoiding deportation by working for an eccentric art collector (a witty and wacky Tilda Swinton).

Sasquatch Sunset

Feature Witness a wild, epic, hilarious and surprisingly moving year in the life of a Sasquatch family, as they search for more of their own kind across a vast hinterland. A jaw-dropping hit at Sundance 2024.

There's Still Tomorrow

Feature A box office phenomenon in its native Italy, where it outperformed Barbie and Oppenheimer, There’s Still Tomorrow is a moving, empowering melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome.
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We Were Dangerous

Feature From director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu and executive producer Taika Waititi, We Were Dangerous is a funny yet frightening drama following three defiant girls caught in New Zealand’s history of eugenics.
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