TannaMartin Butler & Bentley Dean
Australia/Vanuatu · 2015 Australian documentary filmmakers collaborate with Vanuatu villagers to create this luminous tale of forbidden love and evolving tradition. "A stirring tribute to the power of love " – Variety Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
ZamaLucrecia Martel
Argentina/Brazil/Spain · 2017 The brilliant Argentinian auteur delivers a feverish period piece about a Spanish bureaucrat relegated to colonial South America. “Beautiful, hypnotic, mysterious and elliptical” – New York Times Screening times, review and trailer >> |
AquariusKleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil/France · 2016 An engrossing and surprising portrait of a fiercely independent woman fighting to save the apartment she loves from demolition. “A career-defining performance by the great Sonia Braga” – Village Voice Screening times, review and trailer >> |
Girl AsleepRosemary Myers
Australia · 2015 A a wonderfully eccentric modern fairytale of female adolescence set in '70s suburban Australia. “An effervescent yet astute splash of teen life that delights the eyes, warms the heart and tickles the funny bone” – Screendaily Screening times, review and trailer >> |
Lady MacbethWilliam Oldroyd
UK · 2016 Florence Pugh is mesmerising as she transmutes from nervous bride to femme fatale in this bracing British period drama based on a 19th century Russian classic. “A barbed feminist fable of class, cruelty and sexual power” – New York Times Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
HouseboundGerard Johnstone
Aotearoa/NZ · 2014 Delinquent heroine Morgana O’Reilly finds more than she bargained for when she is placed under home detention. “A marvellously entertaining combo of haunted-house thriller, murder mystery and domestic comedy” – Variety Screening times, review and trailer >> |
A Man Called Ove
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The Divine Order
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In This Corner of the World Kono sekai no katasumi niSunao Katabuchi
Japan · 2016 This exquisite animated Japanese film is a captivating coming-of-age tale tracing the life of a young girl who marries into a family in Hiroshima amid the escalating intensity of WWII. “An enchanting delight…" - Screen Daily Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
In A World...Lake Bell USA · 2013 Lake Bell writes, stars and directs this sharp and hilarious satire on sexism in the film industry set amongst the curious world of Hollywood voiceover artists. “As surprisingly tender and wise as it is deftly wise-cracking” – Denver Post Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
Ash Is Purest White
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For more contemporary festival titles in the 2019 season, see also:
French Connections · German Cinema · Documentaries 
FRENCH CONNECTIONS
GERMAN CINEMA
DOCUMENTARIES
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