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Journey
Stories to shift our perspective.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Raven Jackson’s mesmerising feature debut is an intimate portrait of the loves and losses of one Southern Black woman’s life over the course of four decades.
The Bride
Rwandan scholar Eva’s childhood is abruptly cut short when she is snatched away from home to become a stranger’s bride, in this striking feature debut.
The Delinquents
This smart, playful heist movie with a twist follows the (mis)adventures of two bank clerks as they commit a near-perfect crime.
The Echo
Expanding her empathetic gaze and tender approach, Tatiana Huezo has produced an achingly beautiful portrait of a remote Mexican village.
Expats
Writer-director Lulu Wang delves into the complex dynamics of Hong Kong’s wealthy expat community in this series adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s bestselling novel.
Haar
Jef is stranded in Budapest and so spends a day reckoning with past and present lovers, as well as an estranged family, in this gorgeous low-fi indie drama.
How to Have Sex
This startlingly frank and stylish UK debut, about a wild teen holiday gone awry, tackles thorny issues of coercion and consent head on.
If Only I Could Hibernate
In her first feature, Zoljargal Purevdash chronicles a family navigating the poor living conditions in the Mongolian district of Ulaanbaatar.
Inshallah a boy
The challenges of single motherhood in an oppressive society are exposed in this gripping Jordanian drama, anchored by an empowering central performance.
The Lost Boys
Two young men find love in a hopeless place – a youth correctional facility – in Zeno Graton’s powerful and politically resonant feature debut.
The New Boy
Six years after his searing Western Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton returns to the Festival with an artful and fiercely political tale of spiritual worlds colliding.
Ramona
A teen actor’s quest to gain authenticity in her performance as a pregnant runaway becomes a rich study of Dominican girlhood, in this powerful documentary.
The Settlers
This masterful revisionist Western tackles the genocide of Chile’s Selk’nam people and skilfully probes the unsettling relationship between myth, truth and history.
Shayda
An Iranian woman in Australia attempts to cut her abusive husband out of her life and retain custody of their daughter, in Noora Niasari’s compelling drama.
The Spectre of Boko Haram
Have you ever wondered how war looks from a child’s perspective? Cyrielle Raingou captures life for young refugees in this powerful documentary.
The Sweet East
A high-school senior escapes a Washington school trip and takes her own subversive journey through underground America, in this darkly comic travelogue.
That They May Face The Rising Sun
A rural Irish community in the 1980s is portrayed with quiet beauty in this heartfelt drama, based on acclaimed writer John McGahern’s novel.
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