Discover what might have been. A widower embarks on a journey across the world to find his first love before time runs out. Based on the best-selling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Kormákur’s epic romance celebrated its International Premiere at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival. | Country: Iceland | Language: English, Japanese, Icelandic

The final chapter of Ti West’s twisted trilogy. In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. | Country: United States, New Zealand, Canada | Language: English

World premiere, Venice Film Festival. A young woman vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies. | Country: Canada | Language: French

Experience the day the world went quiet. A spin-off prequel in the A Quiet Place film series, with an original story written by John Krasinski and director Michael Sarnoski. This is Sarnoski’s sophomore feature following his critically acclaimed directorial debut, Pig (2021). | Country: United States | Language: English

May the odds be ever in your favor. The award-winning adaptation of the best-selling young adult dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A feisty 93-year-old gets conned by a phone scammer and sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken. Margolin’s directorial debut is a poignant action-comedy that gives Academy Award nominee June Squibb her first leading role and features the final performance of trailblazing actor Richard Roundtree. | Country: United States | Language: English

Nominated for an Academy Award. Dog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, and they become inseparable friends. World Premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. | Country: Spain, France | Language: Spanish with English subtitles

In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Winner of the 2024 César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. After Blanche and Gregoire begin a passionate romance, they quickly marry and move far from their loved ones. Little by little, Blanche finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man in this psychological thriller. | Country: France | Language: French

A struggling singer-songwriter falls into an intoxicating romance that leads her to a deeper appreciation of her artistic journey and the discovery of a voice that is authentically her own. A celebration of the creative spirit, this second feature from Ohio-born writer and director Nicole Riegel premiered at SXSW 2024. | Country: United States | Language: English

A dazzling debut feature and 2023 Berlinale prize winner. Aleskei, a Belarusian in the Foreign Legion and Jomo, a Nigerian guerrilla fighter will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death. | Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Poland | Language: French, Russian, Polish, Igbo, Nigerian English

World Premiere, 2023 Woodstock Film Festival. With unprecedented access to Taiwan’s sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. | Country: United States, Taiwan | Language: English, Chinese

César Award Winner. Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her a chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed? | Country: France, Italy | Language: French, Italian

Official Selection, 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes. | Country: United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand | Language: English, Maori

Regarded as one of the most accurate depictions of drug addiction put to film, Danny Boyle’s Academy Award-nominated film tracks the misadventures of young men in Edinburgh. Based on Irvine Walsh’s novel, the film melds grit with poetry, resulting in a film of harsh truths and stunning grace. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (1958) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

The next film from the director of Poor Things (2023) is a triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

World Premiere, 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Fear will find you. As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home. | Country: United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar, Iran | Language: Persian 

A genre-bending surrealist noir our of FrightFest 2023. Something very strange is happening in Hollyweird. Two rookie detectives set out to solve a homicide, but end up in an alternate reality made up of their worst nightmares. | Country: India, United States | Language: English

Screening as part of our Kubrick in July series | In Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece, Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren’t prepared for the madness that lurks within. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English