Films by Strand

Nocturnal

A late-night strand devoted to films that revel in genre, irreverence, and the unexpected.

Alpha

Julia Ducournau

Titane director Julia Ducournau’s third feature tackles the late 20th-century AIDS crisis in France through her distinctively vivid and brutal lens, a fiery film as visceral as it is profound.

Body Blow

Dean Francis

A neon-soaked plunge into Sydney's seductive queer underworld, Body Blow is an unashamedly camp genre-bending odyssey, on the cusp of bursting off-screen and into the audience.

Buffet Infinity

Simon Glassman

Mining from hundreds of hours of footage, Buffet Infinity tracks a town's descent into chaos though local TV footage that slowly grows more unhinged in one of the most original films of the festival.

Ghost in the Cell

Joko Anwar

Indonesian genre maestro Joko Anwar returns with a wild mashup of martial arts, horror and comedy, set inside a corrupt prison system, where an evil entity is literally turning prisoners inside out.

The Good Boy

Heel

Jan Komasa

When a picture-perfect middle-class family turns out to be dangerously twisted behind closed doors, Jan Komasa's darkly funny psychological thriller asks who really needs ‘fixing’... and how far is too far.

I Want Your Sex

Gregg Araki

Provocative and horny as ever, New Queer Cinema icon Gregg Araki’s first film in over a decade is a riotous antidote to the Gen Z sex recession.

Saccharine 

Natalie Erika James

A medical student creates a sinister diet drug to fight her own eating disorders in this witty, gory body-horror shocker.