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Return to the depths of space with ALIEN: ROMULUS, from director Fede Alvarez and producer Ridley Scott. Deeply indebted to the Weyland Yutani Corporation, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and Andy (David Jonsson) journey to a derelict space station with a group of ... more

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Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong star in Border and Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi's controversial drama inspired by the mentorship of a young Donald Trump (Stan) by lawyer Roy Cohn (Strong). The son of a landlord who owns properties in and aro ... more

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A compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, ... more

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Michael Cera (Juno) and Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade) lead a rambunctious holiday comedy from director Tyler Taormina (Ham on Rye). On Christmas Eve, a family gathers for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and g ... more

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Sebastian Stan is transformed in an A24-produced genre-bender that also features Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) and a scene-stealing performance by Adam Pearson (Under the Skin). ... more

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20TH ANNIVERSARY! Winner of the Academy Award for Original Screenplay, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry's comic romance stars ... more

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70TH ANNIVERSARY! Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition led by ... more

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Mean Girls meets Face/Off to absolutely wild results in Sasha Rainbow’s gory and uniquely Kiwi black comedy about a Chinese student who finds a new way of achieving popularity one body at a time. When a brilliant but disfigured Chinese scholarship ... more

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Until PARASITE surged to the top of the Cinema Nova box office during a 9 month season that commenced in ... more

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From the reunited director, writer, and stars of Forrest Gump, HERE is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form. Directed by Robert ... more

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OPENING NIGHT: Thursday August 29, 7.10pm. Following its acclaimed festival run, join us to celebrate the opening night of I SAW THE TV GLOW with a cocktail (or mocktail) on arrival. Director Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair)’s sophomo ... more

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Winner of this year’s Audience Award at Sundance, the beginnings of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap are retraced in Rich Peppiatt’s ground-shaking comedy-drama. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise ... more

Kate Winslet portrays Vogue model-turned-war correspondent Lee Miller in award-winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras’ (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) feature directorial debut. LEE portrays a pivotal decade in the life of Lee Miller. ... more

Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) realises his 40-years-in-the-making vision of a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) ... more

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From Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max), MEMOIR OF A SNAIL is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday l ... more

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard lead Michel Franco’s profound romance of two damaged New Yorkers. Sylvia (Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul (Sars ... more

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From multi-awarded Director/Producer Madeleine Hetherton-Miau and Producer Rebecca Barry, MOZART'S SISTER is a ‘musical-true-crime’ story that explores the lost talent of Maria-Anna Mozart. ... more

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Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal) stars alongside newcomer Maisy Stella in Megan Park’s (The Fallout) Sundance hit. In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracki ... more

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The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they ... more

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A multi-award winning and eye-opening documentary that follows a Palestinian community’s forced expulsion from their homes through the eyes of West Bank lawyer and activist, Basel, and his friend Yuval, an Israeli journalist. ... more

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40TH ANNIVERSARY! Out of nowhere, a gaunt man in a dark suit and a red baseball cap appears in the burning heat of the desert between the US and Mexico. Travis. He drinks the last sip from his water bottle, then he moves on, doggedly, into the inhospitabl ... more

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Vera Drew directs, writes, and stars in a dark comedy of an aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader. In an autobiographically inspired story, a painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Drew as Joker the Harlequin) ... more

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An adventurous exposé on the more-than-human world, offering a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our place in Nature. ... more

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AKIRA KUROSAWA RESTORED CLASSICS! Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed ... more

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At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television culture forever. Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up In The Air), SATURDAY NIGHT is based on the incredible but true story of what happened behind the sce ... more

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AKIRA KUROSAWA RESTORED CLASSICS! One of the most thrilling move epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This blockbu ... more

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"Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this new product called THE SUBSTANCE. It changed my life. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. You ju ... more

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Paola Cortellesi directs, writes, and stars in this comedy-drama that beat Barbie and Oppenheimer at the Italian Box Office. In Rome, during the second half of the 1940s, Delia (Cortellesi) plays exclusively the roles of wife and mother while her husband ... more

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Chinese-Australian Artist Jiawei Shen has a plan. His wife Lan Wang says it is crazy. But nothing can stop him on his obsessive mission to create a monumental 130 square metre painting of the turbulent history of Communism. ... more

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Based on the beloved Tony award-winning musical, WICKED reveals the untold stories of the Wicked Witch of the West and her friend, Glinda the Good. ... more

Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, and Bill Nighy lend their voice talents to Dreamworks’ latest animated adventure, adapted from Peter Brown’s beloved novel. THE WILD ROBOT follows the journey of a robot that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and mus ... more

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