Festival Programme

Films by Genre

Media and the Internet

#Manhole

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

A man is trapped after falling down a manhole in this delightfully bonkers single-space survival thriller from Japan that keeps the twists and surprises coming thick and fast until the very end.

Billion Dollar Heist

Daniel Gordon

A deep-dive into the audacious attempt by a trans-global criminal organisation to steal a billion dollars from the Bangladesh Central Bank, highlighting the vulnerability of even the world’s biggest corporations in cyberspace.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Nina Menkes

An eye-opening work which may change the way you look at movies, Nina Menkes’ documentary essay uses footage from hundreds of films to deconstruct and re-examine the male gaze in cinema.

Chop & Steele

Ben Steinbauer, Berndt Mader

Found footage pioneers and pranksters Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher embark on a nationwide tour showcasing the very worst America has to offer and put their friendship (and legal team) to the ultimate test in this hilarious doco.

Fantastic Machine

Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck

Leaping between Georges Méliès, Leni Riefenstahl, Ted Turner, YouTubers, and the Earth as a pale blue dot, this fascinating, foreboding documentary examines the world as we see it—and ourselves within it—through photography.

Hello Dankness

Soda Jerk

Cultural anarchists Soda Jerk remix hundreds of bootlegged clips into a gutbusting, memeified satire on the parlous period before and after the 2016 American elections.

Late Night with the Devil

Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes

A live television broadcast on Halloween 1977 goes horribly wrong, as all hell literally breaks loose. This pitch perfect period recreation serves up an equal mix of 70s showbiz cheese and demonic thrills.

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Amanda Kim

A thorough (and thoroughly enjoyable) deep dive into the life and work of Nam June Paik, the Korean visionary who brought the art world into the video age and coined the electronic superhighway decades before the Internet.

Total Trust

Jialing Zhang

A revealing, personal exploration of the new frontier in China’s surveillance state—and the reality for those who challenge it.