Releases
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
In 1960s Australia, a generation travelled Australia’s coastline seeking waves - and a different kind of life. Their odyssey was captured on 16mm film, now lovingly restored by The Surf Film Archive.
- 83 min Australia
- Umbrella Entertainment
Grafted
When a brilliant but disfigured Chinese scholarship student is shunned by her fellow classmates at a New Zealand university, she decides to achieve popularity by putting her science studies to a new and terrifying use.
- 95 min New Zealand
- Monster Pictures
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
An extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays. Before the evening is over, two teenage cousins take advantage of the chaos to sneak out into the night and make the holiday their own.
- 107 min USA
- Rialto Distribution
Memory
Carer and single mother Sylvia is helping a family to look after Saul, a victim of early onset dementia and her former classmate. As their friendship grows, she confronts further aspects of her family's past.
- 103 min USA, Mexico
- Potential Films
Aquarius
When thousands of young people travelled the back roads of Northern New South Wales 50 years ago to camp and explore a new way of living at Nimbin Aquarius Festival something unexpected happened.
- 83 min USA, Australia
- Madman Entertainment
Gladiator II
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist.
- 148 min USA, UK
- Paramount Pictures
Welcome To Babel
Chinese-Australian painter Jiawei Shen creates a series of giant mural paintings depicting the history of 20th Century Communism from its utopian origins to dystopian execution in China and Russia.
- 95 min Australia
- Bonsai Films
The Piano Lesson
Set in 1936 Pittsburgh after the Great Depression. The Charles family and an heirloom, the family piano, which documents the family history through carvings made by their enslaved ancestor.
- 126 min USA
- Netflix
Sasquatch Sunset
A family of Sasquatches forage for food, build shelters, and mate in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. But after tragedy strikes, the family makes a shocking discovery that changes everything.
- 89 min USA
- Umbrella Entertainment
Shoshana
1930s/1940s British Mandatory Palestine. Two British police officers Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton in their hunt for charismatic poet and Zionist freedom fighter Avraham Stern, who was plotting to evict British authorities.
- 121 min UK, Italy
- Kismet Movies, Moving Story Entertainment
The Pool
A stunning cinematic experience with a 60s soundtrack. At Bondi Icebergs, no matter your background, everyone is equal in their swimsuits showing off the power of community and our collective longing to find it.
- 95 min Australia
- Madman Entertainment
Audrey
When daughter Audrey falls into a coma, her selfish mother Ronnie has no choice but to keep her daughter’s acting career alive by assuming her identity and allowing the family to flourish in their own ways.
- 96 min Australia
- Rialto Distribution
Slice Of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts
A portrait of modern America as a collection of stories told through former Pizza Hut buildings across the country: from an LGBTQ+ church in Florida, to a karaoke bar in Texas, to a cannabis dispensary in rural Colorado.
- 83 min Australia
- Urtext Films
Red One
When a villain kidnaps Santa Claus from the North Pole, an E.L.F. (Extremely Large and Formidable) operative joins forces with the world's most accomplished tracker to find him and save Christmas.
- 123 min USA
- Universal Pictures
Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story
Jelena Dokic overcame extraordinary odds, and of her ultimate triumph becoming tennis world no.4 in the face of poverty, bullying and extreme brutality by her violent father and manager.
- 105 min Australia
- Roadshow Films
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
Momonga ends up in his favourite computer game where he helps the Sorcerer Kingdom and its undead army to join the fight alongside the Sacred Kingdom and the Slane Theocracy in hopes to defeat the Demon Emperor.
- 136 min Japan
- Sony Pictures, Crunchyroll
Mozart’s Sister
For the first 16 years of her life, Maria-Anna Mozart shared equal billing with her brother. They collaborated and played together, however she was forced to withdraw from public life because she was a woman.
- 99 min Australia
- Bonsai Films
Here
Based on the 2014 graphic novel, the story centres around multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form.
- 104 min USA
- VVS Films
The Red
In the remote Australian outback town of Axehead, the undead beast leaves a trail of carnage. Local police officer Maddy with the help of her eccentric uncle Schmitty, and aunty Donna, takes on the colossal creature.
- 82 min Australia
- Radioactive Pictures
There’s Still Tomorrow
Delia lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s with her domineering husband, Ivano, three children, and father-in-law. She accepts her fate - the good with the bad - until one day a mysterious letter arrives.
- 118 min Italy
- Limelight distribution
The Moogai
A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.
- 81 min Australia
- Maslow Entertainment
Weekend In Taipei
After a destructive uncovering of a drug smuggling operation, DEA agent John Lawlor travels to Taipei where he had previously worked undercover to find the evidence of the source of the heroin.
- 100 min USA, Taiwan, France
- Rialto Distribution
Saturday Night
Saturday, October 11, 1975. New York City. 90 minutes until showtime. Producer Lorne Michaels anxiously awaits outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza on a bustling evening that might just make or break him.
- 108 min USA
- Sony Pictures
Lee
The story of photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II creating some of the 20th century’s most indelible images.
- 117 min USA, Norway, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, UK
- Studiocanal
Venom: The Last Dance
Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds, Venom ultimately opts to sacrifice himself in an acid bath that takes out the xenophages and ensures that evil Knull will stay locked up forever.
- 111 min USA
- Sony Pictures
Left Write Hook
For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a groundbreaking program turns into a journey of recovery, transformation and friendship in this documentary from director Shannon Owen.
- 93 min Australia
- Bonsai Films
My Freaky Family
Betty Flood is just like any regular thirteen year old, but she just wants to be like the rest of her very different family. As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns her family secrets and discovers that she is not so normal.
- 86 min Australia, Ireland
- Pivot Pictures
A Different Man
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play.
- 112 min USA
- Kismet Movies
Look Back
The overly confident Fujino and the shy Kyomoto couldn't be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together.
- 55 min Japan
- Signal Pictures
He Ain’t Heavy
Jade is too worried about her meth-addicted brother Max, who she kidnaps and confines in a room inside the rural house. But when Jade’s mother arrives, she is appalled that her son is caged like an animal.
- 103 min Australia
- Bonsai Films
CatVideoFest 2024
A compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
- 73 min USA
- Pivot Pictures
The Sisters
A series of unexplained missing cases and disturbing deaths start to occur in a faraway village when the Chief's dead daughter comes back to life, unveiling shocking secrets of human sacrifice.
- 122 min Vietnam
- Magnum Films
Like My Brother
Filmed over 6 years, the documentary explores 4 talented Tiwi Island Indigenous girls who dream of AFLW stardom, and with the support of their community, battle the social and physical obstacles standing in their way.
- 90 min Australia
- Mushroom Pictures
Operation Undead
1941: In Chumphon Province, Thailand, Mok and his ragtag unit of young soldiers are thrown against the invading Japanese forces. The invaders bring with them a terrifying biological weapon, but it has plans of its own.
- 110 min Thailand
- Signal Pictures
From Hilde, With Love
Berlin, 1942. Heavily-pregnant Hilde Coppi and many of the other activists known as Die Rote Kapelle are detained by the Gestapo and awaiting their sentencing accused of conspiring with Soviets.
- 104 min Germany
- Palace Films
The Commandant’s Shadow
Eight decades after Auschwitz, war criminal Hans Jurgen Höss and survivor Anita Lasker Wallfisch come face to face, together with their children, to explore how the Holocaust has impacted all their lives.
- 103 min Germany, USA, Poland, Israel, UK
- Universal Pictures
Assassin’s Plan aka Know Goes Away
A contract killer diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia. He is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son.
- 114 min USA
- Studiocanal
Memoir Of A Snail
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit who collects snails and loves her books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her twin brother, she finds hope again when she befriends an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky.
- 95 min Australia
- Madman Entertainment
The Hopeful
Aboard a steamship sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in 1874, widower John Andrews delights the restless minds of his two children with a tale of courage, hope, war, and true love that begins with the end of the world.
- 90 min USA, Australia
- Roadshow Films
Bocchi The Rock! Recap Part 1&2
Hitori Gotoh is struggling with social anxiety in school, but practises her guitar all the time. One day, she meets Nijika Ijichi, the drummer for Kessoku Band, who encourages her to change her tune.
- 165 min Japan
- Sony Pictures, Crunchyroll
The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends.
- 100 min Norway
- Netflix
Smile 2
About to embark on a world tour, singer Skye Riley is struggling with back pain. She goes looking for painkillers at the apartment of her drug dealer who is possessed by a demon. Skye is left alone to face a malevolent entity.
- 128 min USA
- Paramount Pictures
Ghostlight
Chicago labourer Dan stumbles into a local theatre, and before long he’s playing Romeo – despite not even knowing the plot. Unexpectedly, this most low-budget production provides him an emotional outlet he’s never had.
- 116 min USA
- Vendetta Films
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Actor Christopher Reeve rises to stardom when he lands the role of Superman in the 1970s. When a horse-riding accident leaves him paralysed in 1995, Reeve spends the rest of his life searching for a cure for spinal cord injuries.
- 105 min USA, UK
- Universal Pictures, Warner Bros.
Greedy People
When the two policemen of a small, picturesque island town must deal with a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars, a series of increasingly bad decisions upend the once peaceful community.
- 113 min USA
- Kismet Movies
Hellboy: The Crooked Man
While trying to catch an escaped dangerous spider, Hellboy and FBI Agent Bobby Jo Song find themselves in a remote area, ruled by a Satanic figure known as The Crooked Man, who it appears is linked to Hellboy's past.
- 99 min Germany, USA, UK
- Rialto Distribution
The Apprentice
In the 1970s, Donald Trump seeks independence from his father's influence. With notorious lawyer Roy Cohn's support, he enters Manhattan real estate and becomes a leader.
- 118 min Canada
- Madman Entertainment
Terrifier 3
After surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother struggle to rebuild their shattered lives. Just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare.
- 125 min USA
- Umbrella Entertainment
My Hero Academia: You’re Next
Together with the rest of the class of superheroes, Deku is trying to protect the world by putting an end to Dark Might, the man claiming to be the new Symbol of Peace, but turns out to be a villain.
- 110 min Japan
- Sony Pictures, Crunchyroll
The Critic
London. Summer of 1936. Nina, a West End actress, is witness to an attempted murder, who gets lured by a well known theatre critic into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.
- 101 min UK
- Transmission Films
Six Inches Of Soil
The story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.
- 96 min UK
- Limelight distribution
Noah’s Ark
Vini, a poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist, sneak their way onto Noah's Ark and together avert a showdown among the ship's carnivores and plant eaters.
- 96 min Brazil, USA, India
- Rialto Distribution
Seven Samurai
A veteran samurai gathers six of his men for a job to protect a village from the cruel bandits. As the samurais teach the villagers how to defend themselves, the village is attacked by 40 bandits.
- 207 min Japan
- Madman Entertainment
I, The Executioner
A veteran detective Seo Do-Cheol of the Violent Crimes Investigation Division teams up with a rookie cop Park Sun Woo to track down a serial killer who taunts the police by identifying the next victim.
- 120 min South Korea
- Signal Pictures
Joker: Folie A Deux
Arthur Fleck is institutionalised at Arkham, awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.
- 136 min USA
- Universal Pictures, Warner Bros.
Megalopolis
A conflict between Cesar, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, and partisan warfare.
- 138 min USA
- Madman Entertainment
Never Let Go
When an unspeakable evil takes over the world, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and strong bond. When one of the boys questions if the evil is real, the ties that bind them together are severed.
- 102 min USA
- Roadshow Films
The Beautiful Summer
17yo Ginia experiences the ecstasy and turmoil of the mysterious journey into adulthood. Meeting with Amelia confronts her with new and shocking emotions, but only by recognizing this love, she can be herself.
- 116 min Italy
- Palace Films
A Difficult Year
Two out of luck friends Albert and Bruno stumble upon a group of young environmental activists. More attracted by beer and free chips than by their arguments, they turn the situation to their advantage.
- 120 min France
- Palace Films
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
Excess, violence and corruption mark the notorious emperor Caligula's reign in first-century Rome as he kills his devious adoptive grandfather and takes control of the decadent Empire, spiralling into depravity and madness.
- 176 min USA, Italy
- Umbrella Entertainment
Paul Mccartney - Wings: One Hand Clapping
Filmed over four days at Abbey Road Studios in August 1974, the film provides an insight into the inner workings of Paul McCartney and Wings as they work and play together in the studio as they define their signature sound.
- 67 min UK
- Trafalgar Releasing
My Old Ass
An 18th-birthday mushroom trip brings Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self forcing herself to rethink everything about family, love, and the current summer.
- 89 min Canada, USA
- Universal Pictures, Warner Bros.
Trapezium
First-year student at her high school, Yu Azuma forms a J-pop group with three other girls. With the help of her mentor Shinji Kudo, they set off on the road to stardom navigating the bumpy ride of the pop industry.
- 93 min Japan
- Sugoi Co
The Paradise Of Thorns
Thongkam and Sek are an unmarried gay couple running a durian farm. After an accidental death, Sek’s family seizes assets due to lack of legal marriage recognition, but Thongkam decides to reclaim their life's work.
- 121 min Thailand
- Pinnacle Films
Sirocco And The Kingdom Of The Winds
Juliette and Carmen, two sisters, discover a secret passage to The Kingdom of Air Currents, their favourite book. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, they will have to find each other again.
- 74 min France, Belgium
- Moving Story Entertainment
The Substance
After being fired from her TV show, Elisabeth learns about a mysterious injection that brings a young version of yourself from one's spine. And when younger Elisabeth runs away, the elder begins paying the price.
- 141 min USA
- Madman Entertainment
Slingshot
Three astronauts have embarked on a trip to Saturn's moon, Titan. Under the influence of hibernation drugs John begins having hallucinations of his ex-partner Zoe being on board, alarming the crew.
- 98 min USA, Hungary, Indonesia
- Rialto Distribution
Space: The New Frontier
From self-assembling habitats, commercial space stations, launching rockets without fuel to building the Lunar Gateway to deep space. More than 50 years after the moon landing, what is the next step for humankind?
- 41 min USA
- IMAX corporation
Transformers One
Origin story about brothers-in-arms Orion Pax and D-16 who become sworn enemies Optimus Prime and Megatron, changing forever the fate of Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers.
- 104 min USA
- Paramount Pictures
Bonnard, Pierre And Marthe
French "Painter of Happiness" Pierre Bonnard wouldn't be the painter everyone knows if it weren't for the enigmatic Marthe, who was a subject for more than a third of her husband’s paintings.
- 123 min France
- Palace Films
Harold And The Purple Crayon
Inside of his book, Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.
- 90 min USA
- Sony Pictures
Runt
In a bid to save their family farm, 11-year-old Annie Shearer and her adopted best friend Runt go into Agility Course Championships at the prestigious Krumpets Dog Show in London.
- 92 min Australia
- Studiocanal
Dancing Village: The Curse Begins
Mila decides to follow the advice of a shaman to return a sacred object to the village on Java Island for her mother's recovery only to face an evil creature named Badarawuhi who is already waiting for her arrival.
- 123 min Indonesia
- Kismet Movies
Occupied City
The excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.
- 266 min UK, Netherlands, USA
- Madman Entertainment
Speak No Evil
After they meet on holiday in Italy, London-based American expats Ben and Louise accept an invitation to spend the weekend in the countryside with hippie couple Paddy and Ciara, which turns into a living nightmare.
- 110 min USA
- Universal Pictures
Neneh Superstar
Set in the Paris Opera Ballet School, 12-year-old dancer Neneh discovers that her natural talent and discipline may not be enough to win the approval of the school’s harsh headmistress, Marianne Belage.
- 97 min France
- Limelight distribution
Kid Snow
In the 1970s, a washed-up Irish boxer gets a chance for redemption with a rematch against a man he fought a decade earlier, and is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing when he meets a single mother.
- 128 min Australia
- Madman Entertainment
The Wild Robot
Shipwrecked on a deserted island, a robot named Roz must learn to adapt to its new surroundings. Building relationships with the native animals, Roz soon develops a parental bond with an orphaned young goose.
- 102 min USA
- Universal Pictures
Last Summer
Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.
- 103 min France
- Potential Films
Land Of Broken Hearts
Huang Zhenkai, who hastily ended a relationship, moved out of his girlfriend's house. He meets Li Xiaole, a young girl who was also drifting in the city, and begins to share an apartment with her.
- 101 min China, Hong Kong
- Niuvision Media
Kizumonogatari - Koyomi Vamp
During Spring break Koyomi saves a mysterious woman by giving her his own blood only to find himself reborn as a vampire. Koyomi with the help of Mememust find the way to revert back to being human.
- 144 min Japan
- Sony Pictures
Thelma
Frustrated by the lack of action, 93-year-old Thelma Post sets out on a quest across Los Angeles, accompanied by an ageing friend and his motorised scooter, to reclaim what was taken from her by a phone scammer.
- 98 min USA
- Maslow Entertainment
A Horse Named Winx
Winx, a remarkable Australian racehorse, wrote her name in history with an extraordinary 33-race winning streak, cementing her status as a modern-day legend akin to the iconic Phar Lap.
- 117 min Australia
- Transmission Films
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River after an unexpected family tragedy. Lydia has to call upon a demon called Beetlejuice after her teenage daughter discovers a portal to the afterlife.
- 105 min USA
- Universal Pictures
Land Of Happiness
A presidential assassination shakes the nation. Taking on the defence of Park Tae-joo, the secretary involved in the presidential assassination, lawyer Jung In-hoo enters what would be South Korea's most notorious political trial.
- 124 min South Korea
- Signal Pictures
Kneecap
When fate brings together a Belfast teacher with self-confessed "lowlife scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on an Irish language hip-hop act like no other. They soon lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
- 106 min USA, Ireland
- Madman Entertainment
The Crow
When Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered, Eric is given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself and sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead.
- 111 min USA
- Roadshow Films
Midas Man
When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could. He was a 26-year old with something to prove and who wanted to tear up the rulebook.
- 112 min UK
- Transmission Films
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
A sword belonging to the wealthy Onoe family in Hakodate, Hokkaido is about to be stolen by Kid the Phantom Thief. Conan and Heiji Hattori are on the case to capture the thief when the Onoe family is killed by the sword.
- 111 min Japan
- Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures
Bookworm
11-year-old Mildred's estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise, comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
- 104 min New Zealand
- Rialto Distribution, Kismet Movies
Afraid
Curtis and his family are selected to test a revolutionary digital family assistant called AIA, who learns the family's behaviours and begins to anticipate their needs, until someone gets in her family’s way.
- 84 min USA
- Sony Pictures
I Saw The Tv Glow
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show - a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own.
- 100 min USA
- Sony Pictures
Suddenly
Vincent and Laura decide to explore an island off the coast of Chile. Caught in a violent storm, they shelter in an abandoned whaling station for the night but wake up the next morning to find their boat has disappeared.
- 113 min Belgium, Iceland, France
- Limelight distribution
Strange Darling
"Are you a serial killer?" the Lady asks the Demon as they are travelling in the car on a date followed up by a one-night stand that spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree.
- 96 min USA
- VVS Films
Decoded
The life of Rong Jinzhen from the loss of his parents in early childhood to his work as decryption genius in 1940 after showing a unique mathematical talent and meeting his mentors.
- 156 min China
- Cmc Pictures
Blink Twice
When tech billionaire Slater King meets waitress Frida, he invites her to join him and his friends for a dream vacation on his private island. But when strange things start to happen, Frida hopes to make it out alive.
- 102 min USA
- Universal Pictures, Warner Bros.
Touch
50 years ago, Kristófer, an economics student in London, met Miko. They start seeing each other, but one day Miko suddenly disappears. Decades later, Kristófer is on a quest to track her down.
- 121 min Iceland, UK
- Universal Pictures
Take My Hand
At the peak of her career in London, a woman is diagnosed with MS. After losing her job and her husband, she moves home with her three sons, where a chance encounter with a childhood sweetheart changes her life.
- 101 min Australia
- Rialto Distribution