Festival Programme

Films by Genre

Drama

100 Nights of Hero

Julia Jackman

Based on a graphic novel, this dazzling sapphic fable is a whimsical ode to the power of storytelling.

Dead Man's Wire

Gus Van Sant

After a seven year hiatus, Gus Van Sant is back behind the camera with this star-studded true-crime thriller, earning an 11-minute standing ovation after its premiere in Venice.

Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch

Indie cinema’s long-time King of Cool Jim Jarmusch finds mystery and melancholy alike in this triptych of family short stories, each grappling with the weight of shared history.

Late Fame

Kent Jones

Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee bring heart and realness to this wistful, unromantic comedy about the fragility of creative ambition and a bygone, bohemian New York lost to a consumerist era of gentrification and influencers.

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Ṣawt Hind Rajab رجب هند صوت

Kaouther Ben Hania

With the last words of a five-year-old girl, Kaouther Ben Hania's devastating documentary puts a single, unbearable human story at the heart of an ongoing catastrophe.

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Olivier Assayas

Actors Jude Law and Paul Dano star as Putin and his propagandist in an epic political thriller by Olivier Assayas, that shows how brutal repression in Russia is puppet-mastered behind a veil of manufactured illusion.

Yellow Letters

Gelbe Briefe

İlker Çatak

Turkish filmmaker İlker Çatak follows up his Oscar-nominated The Teacher’s Lounge with this story of a liberal upper-class family’s downward spiral amidst political turmoil and authoritarian scrutiny, capturing the nation’s terrifying slide into far-right oppression.