Films

In a rural Indian village called Ujhaas, three ordinary women struggle to break free from misogynistic century-old traditions that have kept them locked in servitude.…

In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker, is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2015 Mohammed and his sister Farrah are in many ways oblivious to their troubled surroundings. They…

The President tells the story of a dictator who comes face to face with the people he previously subjugated. The President and his family rule their land…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2015 In northeast Thailand, soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are sent to a temporary hospital. The memory-filled space becomes a…

The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer’s and the anonymous Indonesian directors and producers powerful companion piece to The Act of Killing. Via their footage…

Arabia, 1916. Theeb lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Empire. Having recently lost his father, it falls to Theeb’s…

Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2013 Anwar Congo and his friends have been dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster…

A World Not Ours is an intimate portrait of three generations of exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of…

As heavy rains lash Mumbai, a cop on his first assignment faces a life altering decision when he must decide to shoot or not. Each…

Winner, Best Documentary Film Feature, 2012 Husham works tirelessly to build the hopes, dreams and prospects of 32 damaged orphans of war under his care…

“A girl’s life is cruel…A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director…

Marathon Boy is the story of a four-year-old boy who is plucked from the slums of India by his coach and trained to become India’s…

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s and yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained, until now. Enter Thet…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2009 The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical film, in four historic episodes, about a family – Elia Suleiman’s family –…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2017 Set in 1992 amid the remote Ushguli community of Georgia’s Svaneti province in the country’s…

Winner – Hildur Guðnadóttir & Jóhann Jóhannsson – Best Original Score, 2018 Set in the Holy Land in the first century, Mary Magdalene is the story of…

In the years since winning Australian of the Year in 2014, Aboriginal Australian footballer Adam Goodes took a defiant stance against racism in mainstream culture.…

Aquarela is the deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a…

Blending creative documentary with cinematic realism, Krabi, 2562 explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi in southern Thailand – a major tourist…

Masafumi Yoshida and Kazuyuki Minami – or Fumi and Kazu as they are known – operate Japan’s first openly gay law firm in Osaka. Across…

The story of Delhi’s apocalyptic air and its escalating communal violence is woven together by an unlikely figure – the black kite. In the toxic…

Within the idyllic Philippine tourist destination of Palawan, illegal loggers and President Duterte’s cronies are destroying forests and wildlife. Despite extreme mortal danger, a small…

Brothers As’ad (12) and Taha (28) barely scrape a living as rubbish pickers in ‘Hanging Gardens’ – the local nickname for Baghdad’s smouldering dumps –…

Following her mother’s death, a British Jewish girl is moved by her father from London to Jerusalem in the hopes that a new beginning can…

Man in Black is a portrait of 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important modern classical composers and now based in Germany. During the…