Films in Thrill
Nerve-shredders that’ll get your adrenaline pumping and keep you on the edge of your seat.
In association with
Thrill gala
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Bacurau
Dir-Scr Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles | Brazil-France
This brazen Brazilian weird western snatched the Cannes Jury Prize and is coming for your mind next!
Features
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The Cave (Thailand)
Dir-Scr Tom Waller | Thailand-Ireland
This Thai production is the first film to dramatise 2018’s astonishing rescue of the Wild Boars football team from Tham Luang cave.
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Earthquake Bird
Dir-Scr Wash Westmoreland | USA
In this dark thriller set in 1989 Tokyo, Alicia Vikander plays a murder suspect at the centre of a tumultuous love triangle.
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Guest of Honour
Dir-Scr Atom Egoyan | Canada
David Thewlis excels in this story of family secrets, a typically complex and mischievous offering from Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan.
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Incitement
Dir Yaron Zilberman | Israel
This slow-burn study of religious obsession tries to fathom what drove a young law student to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Jallikattu
Dir Lijo Jose Pellissery | India
This thrilling, nightmarish ride into the depths of human bloodlust, finds a rampaging buffalo hunted by a violent mob.
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Muscle
Dir-Scr Gerard Johnson | UK
A directionless call centre salesman gets more than he bargained for when he joins a local gym.
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Only the Animals
Dir Dominik Moll | France-Germany
A hypnotic and elusive French thriller weaves together the stories of various individuals connected with the disappearance of a woman, her car found abandoned on a remote mountain roadside.
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Piranhas
Dir Claudio Giovannesi | Italy
A teenage Scarface meets Romeo and Juliet, in Claudio Giovannesi’s gripping depiction of young gangsters running amok in Naples.
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Savage
Dir-Scr Sam Kelly | New Zealand
In a story spanning three decades, the sergeant in a violent New Zealand biker gang reflects on the defining moments that turned him into a feared outsider.
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The Traitor
Dir Marco Bellocchio | Italy-France-Germany-Brazil
Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio’s bravura epic gangster odyssey dramatises the extraordinary real life story of Tommaso Buscetta, the first major Camorra boss to turn state’s informant.
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The Warden
Dir Nima Javidi | Iran
In an ambitious follow up to his award-winning Melbourne, Nima Javidi’s thrilling second feature is as astutely crafted as it is suave and seductive.
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The Whistlers
Dir-Scr Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania-France-Germany
Under surveillance by his own force, a corrupt Romanian cop becomes involved in a plot to spring a money-laundering businessman from police custody.
Short films programme
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Drive It Like You Stole It!
Films that live for the moment.
