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Wed Jun 5 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

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.

Wed Jun 5 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Crossing

Feature A Georgian woman traverses contemporary Istanbul in a tender, soul-searching pilgrimage to find her runaway transgender niece. Berlinale’s Teddy Jury Award winner from Levan Akin (And Then We Danced).

Wed Jun 5 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

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).

Wed Jun 5 at 6:30pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3

The Rye Horn

Feature Winner of the top prize at San Sebastian, this elemental, visually ravishing film spotlights a rural Galician midwife in 1971 flees after an illegal operation goes wrong. A powerful exploration of bodies, motherhood and female solidarity.

Wed Jun 5 at 6:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World

Feature Romanian maverick Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, SFF 2021) returns with a darkly absurdist, hilarious comedy about a woman casting a corporate safety video in Bucharest.

Wed Jun 5 at 8:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind

Feature In this fantastical rom-com hit from Japan, two lonely souls are quite literally a step out of time in each direction and will need each other to unlock the mystery of a lost day.

Wed Jun 5 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Unicorns

Feature A stirring queer romance, set in the Gaysian scene of London, between an effervescent drag queen and a questioning mechanic from the tough streets of Essex. Toronto and London selected.

Thu Jun 6 at 10:00am State Theatre

City Of Wind

Feature In one of the most highly regarded debuts of the year, a 17-year-old Mongolian shaman steeped in ancient tradition is confronted – and tempted – by the modern world.

Thu Jun 6 at 12:15pm State Theatre

Pepe

Feature The true-ish story of Pepe the hippo who broke free of Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, featuring deeply philosophical narration from the (multi-lingual) hippo himself. Winner, Silver Bear, Berlinale.

Thu Jun 6 at 3:10pm State Theatre

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).

Thu Jun 6 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Woman Of...

Feature This Venice Golden Lion nominee is a visually resplendent epic about a woman transitioning in contemporary Poland, tracing the arc of a life – and a country – to extraordinarily moving effect.

Thu Jun 6 at 6:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

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.

Thu Jun 6 at 6:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Sex

Feature When a modern-day chimneysweep has sex with a man whose chimney he’s, ahem, cleaning, then tells his wife and his colleague, each is forced to question the quirks of sexuality.

Thu Jun 6 at 8:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Veni Vidi Vici

Feature The uber-rich hunt human beings for sport in this blackly comic satire produced by cinema’s reigning king of the grotesque Ulrich Seidl (Rimini, SFF 2022).

Thu Jun 6 at 8:35pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

More Than Strangers

Feature Five misfits on a road trip from Berlin to Paris bond and clash, take many detours, and find themselves smuggling a refugee in this comedy-drama with a social conscience.

Thu Jun 6 at 8:35pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

The Rye Horn

Feature Winner of the top prize at San Sebastian, this elemental, visually ravishing film spotlights a rural Galician midwife in 1971 flees after an illegal operation goes wrong. A powerful exploration of bodies, motherhood and female solidarity.

Fri Jun 7 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 9

City Of Wind

Feature In one of the most highly regarded debuts of the year, a 17-year-old Mongolian shaman steeped in ancient tradition is confronted – and tempted – by the modern world.

Fri Jun 7 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Ghostlight

Feature A listless construction worker with no acting experience joins a community production of Romeo and Juliet in this Sundance charmer, featuring a brilliant supporting performance from Dolly De Leon (Triangle of Sadness, SFF 2022).

Fri Jun 7 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Ezra

Feature Stand-up comic Max (Bobby Cannavale) and his autistic son Ezra (amazing newcomer William A. Fitzgerald) take a road trip to Hollywood in this hilarious and very moving film also starring Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro. Toronto selected.

Fri Jun 7 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Hesitation Wound

Feature This taut and engaging Turkish legal thriller follows a criminal lawyer over the course of 24 hours as she deals with a major case, a personal crisis – and a moral dilemma.

Fri Jun 7 at 6:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

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).

Fri Jun 7 at 8:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

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.

Fri Jun 7 at 8:20pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

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.

Fri Jun 7 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Pepe

Feature The true-ish story of Pepe the hippo who broke free of Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, featuring deeply philosophical narration from the (multi-lingual) hippo himself. Winner, Silver Bear, Berlinale.

Sat Jun 8 at 2:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Cottontail

Feature In this prize-winning and wistful road trip drama, a Japanese widower travels to England with his estranged son to scatter the ashes of his Beatrix Potter-obsessed wife.

Sat Jun 8 at 4:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

About Dry Grasses

Feature Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (SFF 2012) director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film returns to that region to tell the tale of an art teacher accused of impropriety by a student.

Sat Jun 8 at 5:30pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 4

More Than Strangers

Feature Five misfits on a road trip from Berlin to Paris bond and clash, take many detours, and find themselves smuggling a refugee in this comedy-drama with a social conscience.

Sat Jun 8 at 5:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Sex

Feature When a modern-day chimneysweep has sex with a man whose chimney he’s, ahem, cleaning, then tells his wife and his colleague, each is forced to question the quirks of sexuality.

Sat Jun 8 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Unicorns

Feature A stirring queer romance, set in the Gaysian scene of London, between an effervescent drag queen and a questioning mechanic from the tough streets of Essex. Toronto and London selected.

Sat Jun 8 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Alienoid / Alienoid: Return To The Future

Feature Strap yourself in for an epic two-part sci-fi/martial arts/fantasy/thriller of blockbuster proportions from Korean action master Choi Dong-hoon. See both films in this time travelling adventure for a double feature that will have you cheering in your seat.

Sat Jun 8 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

The Moon Is Upside Down

Feature With a stellar cast, this funny and poignant NZ romantic drama follows three women at a crossroads in their apparently unconnected lives.

Sat Jun 8 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

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.

Sat Jun 8 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 3

Death Of A Whistleblower

Feature In this edge of your seat thriller from South Africa, a journalist investigates the death of her colleague. Was he murdered for exposing government corruption?

Sat Jun 8 at 7:15pm Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1

Crossing

Feature A Georgian woman traverses contemporary Istanbul in a tender, soul-searching pilgrimage to find her runaway transgender niece. Berlinale’s Teddy Jury Award winner from Levan Akin (And Then We Danced).

Sat Jun 8 at 7:30pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 4

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).

Sat Jun 8 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4

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.

Sat Jun 8 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Stress Positions

Feature This hilariously sharp Sundance comedy of (queer) errors, set during New York lockdowns and starring John Early (Search Party), takes aim at identity politics and millennial posturing.

Sat Jun 8 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

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.

Sat Jun 8 at 8:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Veni Vidi Vici

Feature The uber-rich hunt human beings for sport in this blackly comic satire produced by cinema’s reigning king of the grotesque Ulrich Seidl (Rimini, SFF 2022).

Sun Jun 9 at 4:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

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).

Sun Jun 9 at 5:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind

Feature In this fantastical rom-com hit from Japan, two lonely souls are quite literally a step out of time in each direction and will need each other to unlock the mystery of a lost day.

Sun Jun 9 at 6:00pm Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1

Essential Truths Of The Lake

Feature Filipino master Lav Diaz takes on the police procedural, exploring the injustices of his country’s recent political history with hypnotic, provocative results.

Sun Jun 9 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Stress Positions

Feature This hilariously sharp Sundance comedy of (queer) errors, set during New York lockdowns and starring John Early (Search Party), takes aim at identity politics and millennial posturing.

Sun Jun 9 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 3

The Moon Is Upside Down

Feature With a stellar cast, this funny and poignant NZ romantic drama follows three women at a crossroads in their apparently unconnected lives.

Sun Jun 9 at 6:00pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3

My New Friends

Feature A police officer (Isabelle Huppert) learns that her new friend and neighbour is a staunchly anti-police activist in this taut moral tale from French auteur Andre Téchiné (Being 17, SFF 2016).

Sun Jun 9 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Thelma

Feature June Squibb is priceless as a 93-year-old on the trail of crooks who scammed her. This funny and poignant winner has charmed audiences everywhere since its 2024 Sundance premiere.

Sun Jun 9 at 6:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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.

Sun Jun 9 at 8:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Hesitation Wound

Feature This taut and engaging Turkish legal thriller follows a criminal lawyer over the course of 24 hours as she deals with a major case, a personal crisis – and a moral dilemma.

Sun Jun 9 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

Death Of A Whistleblower

Feature In this edge of your seat thriller from South Africa, a journalist investigates the death of her colleague. Was he murdered for exposing government corruption?

Sun Jun 9 at 8:20pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Pepe

Feature The true-ish story of Pepe the hippo who broke free of Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, featuring deeply philosophical narration from the (multi-lingual) hippo himself. Winner, Silver Bear, Berlinale.

Mon Jun 10 at 12:00pm State Library of NSW

About Dry Grasses

Feature Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (SFF 2012) director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film returns to that region to tell the tale of an art teacher accused of impropriety by a student.

Mon Jun 10 at 4:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

Something Like An Autobiography

Feature A heavily pregnant woman is left searching for answers when her husband fails to return home. One of Bangladesh’s leading filmmakers, SFF regular Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Television, SFF 2013) plays a version of himself in this Busan selected thriller also starring his wife.

Mon Jun 10 at 4:00pm State Library of NSW

Ghostlight

Feature A listless construction worker with no acting experience joins a community production of Romeo and Juliet in this Sundance charmer, featuring a brilliant supporting performance from Dolly De Leon (Triangle of Sadness, SFF 2022).

Mon Jun 10 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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).

Mon Jun 10 at 8:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Toll

Feature A Brazilian single mother and tollbooth attendant team with local criminals to fund gay conversion therapy for her teenage son, in this tensely unpredictable and slyly satirical crime drama

Tue Jun 11 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Essential Truths Of The Lake

Feature Filipino master Lav Diaz takes on the police procedural, exploring the injustices of his country’s recent political history with hypnotic, provocative results.

Tue Jun 11 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Achilles

Feature An isolated hospital worker forges a tentative and dangerous connection with a mysterious patient, in this Iranian road trip-cum-fugitive movie about the quest for freedom in an unjust system.

Tue Jun 11 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Memory

Feature Peter Sarsgaard won Venice’s Best Actor award alongside the faultless Jessica Chastain (The Forgiven, SFF 2022) in this intricate New York romance from seasoned festival auteur Michel Franco (Sundown).

Tue Jun 11 at 6:30pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3

Woman Of...

Feature This Venice Golden Lion nominee is a visually resplendent epic about a woman transitioning in contemporary Poland, tracing the arc of a life – and a country – to extraordinarily moving effect.

Tue Jun 11 at 6:45pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 9

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.

Wed Jun 12 at 12:15pm State Theatre

House Of The Seasons

Feature A tofu factory in Daegu, Korea, is the setting for this tender, moving, and funny inter-generational family saga – an award-winning highlight of the Busan International Film Festival.

Wed Jun 12 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Flathead

Feature This acclaimed Australian debut combines social realism and an immersive documentary feel, to tell the story of an elderly man returning home to Bundaberg on a spiritual quest.

Wed Jun 12 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Death Of A Whistleblower

Feature In this edge of your seat thriller from South Africa, a journalist investigates the death of her colleague. Was he murdered for exposing government corruption?

Wed Jun 12 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Crossing

Feature A Georgian woman traverses contemporary Istanbul in a tender, soul-searching pilgrimage to find her runaway transgender niece. Berlinale’s Teddy Jury Award winner from Levan Akin (And Then We Danced).

Wed Jun 12 at 6:30pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 4

Cottontail

Feature In this prize-winning and wistful road trip drama, a Japanese widower travels to England with his estranged son to scatter the ashes of his Beatrix Potter-obsessed wife.

Wed Jun 12 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 9

Eephus

Feature Straight from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Eephus is a delightful debut about a valedictory game of baseball. A joyous slice of Americana drawing lauded comparisons to Richard Linklater (Boyhood, SFF 2014).

Wed Jun 12 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Explanation For Everything

Feature In this clever satire about the culture wars, a Hungarian student is embroiled in a national scandal when he fails his exams, accidentally becoming a figurehead for the right.

Wed Jun 12 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Daddio

Feature Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

Thu Jun 13 at 9:30am State Theatre

Thelma

Feature June Squibb is priceless as a 93-year-old on the trail of crooks who scammed her. This funny and poignant winner has charmed audiences everywhere since its 2024 Sundance premiere.

Thu Jun 13 at 11:50am State Theatre

Shambhala

Feature A woman embarks on a physical and spiritual journey across the Himalayas to find her husband, in this magnificently shot and illuminating Nepalese odyssey selected for Berlinale 2024.

Thu Jun 13 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4

Ezra

Feature Stand-up comic Max (Bobby Cannavale) and his autistic son Ezra (amazing newcomer William A. Fitzgerald) take a road trip to Hollywood in this hilarious and very moving film also starring Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro. Toronto selected.

Thu Jun 13 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Ghostlight

Feature A listless construction worker with no acting experience joins a community production of Romeo and Juliet in this Sundance charmer, featuring a brilliant supporting performance from Dolly De Leon (Triangle of Sadness, SFF 2022).

Thu Jun 13 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

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.

Thu Jun 13 at 6:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Alienoid / Alienoid: Return To The Future

Feature Strap yourself in for an epic two-part sci-fi/martial arts/fantasy/thriller of blockbuster proportions from Korean action master Choi Dong-hoon. See both films in this time travelling adventure for a double feature that will have you cheering in your seat.

Thu Jun 13 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Achilles

Feature An isolated hospital worker forges a tentative and dangerous connection with a mysterious patient, in this Iranian road trip-cum-fugitive movie about the quest for freedom in an unjust system.

Thu Jun 13 at 8:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World

Feature Romanian maverick Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, SFF 2021) returns with a darkly absurdist, hilarious comedy about a woman casting a corporate safety video in Bucharest.

Thu Jun 13 at 8:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

Paradise

Feature A holidaying couple is caught up in Sri Lanka’s 2022 descent into economic, political and social chaos. Winner of the prestigious Kim Jiseok Award at Busan, 2023.

Fri Jun 14 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Rapture

Feature In this visually striking drama, a village in India’s northeast descends into paranoia when a child goes missing and the local churchman prophesies an apocalypse.

Fri Jun 14 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

My Sunshine

Feature A stirring Japanese charmer about a boy learning to figure-skate to impress his crush. Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard by SFF alumni Hiroshi Okuyama (Jesus, SFF 2019).

Fri Jun 14 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

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.

Fri Jun 14 at 6:15pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

My New Friends

Feature A police officer (Isabelle Huppert) learns that her new friend and neighbour is a staunchly anti-police activist in this taut moral tale from French auteur Andre Téchiné (Being 17, SFF 2016).

Fri Jun 14 at 8:05pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Explanation For Everything

Feature In this clever satire about the culture wars, a Hungarian student is embroiled in a national scandal when he fails his exams, accidentally becoming a figurehead for the right.

Fri Jun 14 at 8:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

He Ain't Heavy

Feature Leila George stars, alongside her mother Greta Scacchi, as a young woman so determined to save her drug-addicted brother that she locks him in a room to get clean. World Premiere.

Fri Jun 14 at 8:15pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Daddio

Feature Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

Fri Jun 14 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

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.

Fri Jun 14 at 8:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

Armand

Feature Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard, this incredible debut stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World, SFF 2021) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows. Camera d'Or Winner Cannes 2024.

Sat Jun 15 at 2:30pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

Shambhala

Feature A woman embarks on a physical and spiritual journey across the Himalayas to find her husband, in this magnificently shot and illuminating Nepalese odyssey selected for Berlinale 2024.

Sat Jun 15 at 3:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

House Of The Seasons

Feature A tofu factory in Daegu, Korea, is the setting for this tender, moving, and funny inter-generational family saga – an award-winning highlight of the Busan International Film Festival.

Sat Jun 15 at 5:30pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 4

Hesitation Wound

Feature This taut and engaging Turkish legal thriller follows a criminal lawyer over the course of 24 hours as she deals with a major case, a personal crisis – and a moral dilemma.

Sat Jun 15 at 5:45pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Flathead

Feature This acclaimed Australian debut combines social realism and an immersive documentary feel, to tell the story of an elderly man returning home to Bundaberg on a spiritual quest.

Sat Jun 15 at 6:00pm Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5

About Dry Grasses

Feature Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (SFF 2012) director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film returns to that region to tell the tale of an art teacher accused of impropriety by a student.

Sat Jun 15 at 6:00pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

Eephus

Feature Straight from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Eephus is a delightful debut about a valedictory game of baseball. A joyous slice of Americana drawing lauded comparisons to Richard Linklater (Boyhood, SFF 2014).

Sat Jun 15 at 6:00pm State Library of NSW

Memory

Feature Peter Sarsgaard won Venice’s Best Actor award alongside the faultless Jessica Chastain (The Forgiven, SFF 2022) in this intricate New York romance from seasoned festival auteur Michel Franco (Sundown).

Sat Jun 15 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

My Sunshine

Feature A stirring Japanese charmer about a boy learning to figure-skate to impress his crush. Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard by SFF alumni Hiroshi Okuyama (Jesus, SFF 2019).

Sat Jun 15 at 6:10pm Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1

Something Like An Autobiography

Feature SFF regular Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Television, SFF 2013) stars alongside his wife, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, in a romantic thriller that’s his most personal film to date. Busan selected.

Sat Jun 15 at 6:15pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Ezra

Feature Stand-up comic Max (Bobby Cannavale) and his autistic son Ezra (amazing newcomer William A. Fitzgerald) take a road trip to Hollywood in this hilarious and very moving film also starring Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro. Toronto selected.

Sat Jun 15 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

Paradise

Feature A holidaying couple is caught up in Sri Lanka’s 2022 descent into economic, political and social chaos. Winner of the prestigious Kim Jiseok Award at Busan, 2023.

Sat Jun 15 at 8:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

He Ain't Heavy

Feature Leila George stars, alongside her mother Greta Scacchi, as a young woman so determined to save her drug-addicted brother that she locks him in a room to get clean. World Premiere.

Sat Jun 15 at 8:20pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Toll

Feature A Brazilian single mother and tollbooth attendant team with local criminals to fund gay conversion therapy for her teenage son, in this tensely unpredictable and slyly satirical crime drama

Sat Jun 15 at 8:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

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).

Sun Jun 16 at 3:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

Shambhala

Feature A woman embarks on a physical and spiritual journey across the Himalayas to find her husband, in this magnificently shot and illuminating Nepalese odyssey selected for Berlinale 2024.

Sun Jun 16 at 4:30pm State Library of NSW

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).

Sun Jun 16 at 5:15pm Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3

Achilles

Feature An isolated hospital worker forges a tentative and dangerous connection with a mysterious patient, in this Iranian road trip-cum-fugitive movie about the quest for freedom in an unjust system.

Sun Jun 16 at 6:00pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 11

Rapture

Feature In this visually striking drama, a village in India’s northeast descends into paranoia when a child goes missing and the local churchman prophesies an apocalypse.

Sun Jun 16 at 6:05pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5

Armand

Feature Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard, this incredible debut stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World, SFF 2021) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows. Camera d'Or Winner Cannes 2024.

Sun Jun 16 at 6:30pm Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

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.

Sun Jun 16 at 6:30pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

Daddio

Feature Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

Mon Jun 17 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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.

Mon Jun 17 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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).

Wed Jun 19 at 6:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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).

Wed Jun 19 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3

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.

Wed Jun 19 at 6:15pm Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5

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.

Wed Jun 19 at 8:00pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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.

Thu Jun 20 at 6:15pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

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).

Thu Jun 20 at 8:30pm Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1

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.

About Dry Grasses

Feature Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (SFF 2012) director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film returns to that region to tell the tale of an art teacher accused of impropriety by a student.

Achilles

Feature An isolated hospital worker forges a tentative and dangerous connection with a mysterious patient, in this Iranian road trip-cum-fugitive movie about the quest for freedom in an unjust system.

Alienoid / Alienoid: Return To The Future

Feature Strap yourself in for an epic two-part sci-fi/martial arts/fantasy/thriller of blockbuster proportions from Korean action master Choi Dong-hoon. See both films in this time travelling adventure for a double feature that will have you cheering in your seat.

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).

Armand

Feature Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard, this incredible debut stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World, SFF 2021) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows. Camera d'Or 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.

City Of Wind

Feature In one of the most highly regarded debuts of the year, a 17-year-old Mongolian shaman steeped in ancient tradition is confronted – and tempted – by the modern world.

Cottontail

Feature In this prize-winning and wistful road trip drama, a Japanese widower travels to England with his estranged son to scatter the ashes of his Beatrix Potter-obsessed wife.

Crossing

Feature A Georgian woman traverses contemporary Istanbul in a tender, soul-searching pilgrimage to find her runaway transgender niece. Berlinale’s Teddy Jury Award winner from Levan Akin (And Then We Danced).

Daddio

Feature Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn go head-to-head in in this tense yet tender two-hander shot almost entirely in a New York City taxi where confessions run up with the meter.

Death Of A Whistleblower

Feature In this edge of your seat thriller from South Africa, a journalist investigates the death of her colleague. Was he murdered for exposing government corruption?

Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World

Feature Romanian maverick Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, SFF 2021) returns with a darkly absurdist, hilarious comedy about a woman casting a corporate safety video in Bucharest.

Eephus

Feature Straight from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Eephus is a delightful debut about a valedictory game of baseball. A joyous slice of Americana drawing lauded comparisons to Richard Linklater (Boyhood, SFF 2014).

Essential Truths Of The Lake

Feature Filipino master Lav Diaz takes on the police procedural, exploring the injustices of his country’s recent political history with hypnotic, provocative results.

Explanation For Everything

Feature In this clever satire about the culture wars, a Hungarian student is embroiled in a national scandal when he fails his exams, accidentally becoming a figurehead for the right.

Ezra

Feature Stand-up comic Max (Bobby Cannavale) and his autistic son Ezra (amazing newcomer William A. Fitzgerald) take a road trip to Hollywood in this hilarious and very moving film also starring Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro. Toronto selected.

Flathead

Feature This acclaimed Australian debut combines social realism and an immersive documentary feel, to tell the story of an elderly man returning home to Bundaberg on a spiritual quest.

Ghostlight

Feature A listless construction worker with no acting experience joins a community production of Romeo and Juliet in this Sundance charmer, featuring a brilliant supporting performance from Dolly De Leon (Triangle of Sadness, SFF 2022).

He Ain't Heavy

Feature Leila George stars, alongside her mother Greta Scacchi, as a young woman so determined to save her drug-addicted brother that she locks him in a room to get clean. World Premiere.

Hesitation Wound

Feature This taut and engaging Turkish legal thriller follows a criminal lawyer over the course of 24 hours as she deals with a major case, a personal crisis – and a moral dilemma.

House Of The Seasons

Feature A tofu factory in Daegu, Korea, is the setting for this tender, moving, and funny inter-generational family saga – an award-winning highlight of the Busan International Film Festival.

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.

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).

Memory

Feature Peter Sarsgaard won Venice’s Best Actor award alongside the faultless Jessica Chastain (The Forgiven, SFF 2022) in this intricate New York romance from seasoned festival auteur Michel Franco (Sundown).

The Moon Is Upside Down

Feature With a stellar cast, this funny and poignant NZ romantic drama follows three women at a crossroads in their apparently unconnected lives.

More Than Strangers

Feature Five misfits on a road trip from Berlin to Paris bond and clash, take many detours, and find themselves smuggling a refugee in this comedy-drama with a social conscience.

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.

My New Friends

Feature A police officer (Isabelle Huppert) learns that her new friend and neighbour is a staunchly anti-police activist in this taut moral tale from French auteur Andre Téchiné (Being 17, SFF 2016).

My Sunshine

Feature A stirring Japanese charmer about a boy learning to figure-skate to impress his crush. Direct from Cannes Un Certain Regard by SFF alumni Hiroshi Okuyama (Jesus, SFF 2019).

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind

Feature In this fantastical rom-com hit from Japan, two lonely souls are quite literally a step out of time in each direction and will need each other to unlock the mystery of a lost day.

Paradise

Feature A holidaying couple is caught up in Sri Lanka’s 2022 descent into economic, political and social chaos. Winner of the prestigious Kim Jiseok Award at Busan, 2023.

Pepe

Feature The true-ish story of Pepe the hippo who broke free of Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, featuring deeply philosophical narration from the (multi-lingual) hippo himself. Winner, Silver Bear, Berlinale.

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).

Rapture

Feature In this visually striking drama, a village in India’s northeast descends into paranoia when a child goes missing and the local churchman prophesies an apocalypse.

The Rye Horn

Feature Winner of the top prize at San Sebastian, this elemental, visually ravishing film spotlights a rural Galician midwife in 1971 flees after an illegal operation goes wrong. A powerful exploration of bodies, motherhood and female solidarity.

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.

Sex

Feature When a modern-day chimneysweep has sex with a man whose chimney he’s, ahem, cleaning, then tells his wife and his colleague, each is forced to question the quirks of sexuality.

Shambhala

Feature A woman embarks on a physical and spiritual journey across the Himalayas to find her husband, in this magnificently shot and illuminating Nepalese odyssey selected for Berlinale 2024.

Something Like An Autobiography

Feature A heavily pregnant woman is left searching for answers when her husband fails to return home. One of Bangladesh’s leading filmmakers, SFF regular Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Television, SFF 2013) plays a version of himself in this Busan selected thriller also starring his wife.

Stress Positions

Feature This hilariously sharp Sundance comedy of (queer) errors, set during New York lockdowns and starring John Early (Search Party), takes aim at identity politics and millennial posturing.

Thelma

Feature June Squibb is priceless as a 93-year-old on the trail of crooks who scammed her. This funny and poignant winner has charmed audiences everywhere since its 2024 Sundance premiere.

Toll

Feature A Brazilian single mother and tollbooth attendant team with local criminals to fund gay conversion therapy for her teenage son, in this tensely unpredictable and slyly satirical crime drama

Unicorns

Feature A stirring queer romance, set in the Gaysian scene of London, between an effervescent drag queen and a questioning mechanic from the tough streets of Essex. Toronto and London selected.

Veni Vidi Vici

Feature The uber-rich hunt human beings for sport in this blackly comic satire produced by cinema’s reigning king of the grotesque Ulrich Seidl (Rimini, SFF 2022).

Woman Of...

Feature This Venice Golden Lion nominee is a visually resplendent epic about a woman transitioning in contemporary Poland, tracing the arc of a life – and a country – to extraordinarily moving effect.

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