Bondi Icebergs is the most photographed pool in the world. This gorgeously shot documentary about the pool and the diverse community for whom it is a place of challenge, solace, meditation and connection shows there’s still much left to be revealed beneath its surface.
Beautifully and inventively shot in sublime black and white, this film marked a new artistic height in Hitchcock’s career. Ingrid Bergman stars as the daughter of a German war criminal enlisted by Cary Grant’s U.S. government agent to infiltrate a nest of post-war Nazis — but at what cost?
Reimagined history with Vicki Krieps (The Phantom Thread) magnetic as the rebellious Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who must decide over the course of an imagined year how long she can bear life in a gilded cage. Carefully deployed anachronisms remind us these 18th Century lives are not so distant after all.
A beautifully woven and uplifting tapestry of wonderful absurdist humour alongside heartache and loss, this is the fish-out-of-water story of Syrian musician Omar and three other asylum-seekers marking time on a remote Scottish island while their applications are assessed.
Beautiful, universally relatable capturing of hopes, dreams, love found and love lost through the lives of nurses who have come from small towns to Mumbai, where privacy is a luxury and loneliness is found throughout.
A fascinating and beautifully shot backstage view of the unexpected challenges for both creators and performers when Czech dance stars Jiří and Otto Bubeníček are invited by the Royal New Zealand ballet to turn their short work based on the film The Piano into a full-length ballet.
Come for a never-better Russell Crowe, for Peter Weir’s extraordinary cinematic artistry, for the deeply thrilling, you-are-there naval battle scenes, or for the music by Wollongong’s own Richard Tognetti — just come and see this epic the way it should be seen, on the big screen.
A film for people who love films, from Wong Kar-wai, ‘the most romantic filmmaker in the world’. Stylised, stylish and seductive for those prepared to surrender to it, this is the seemingly separate but actually cleverly connected and mirrored stories of two lovelorn cops in bustling, colourful Hong Kong, before it was handed back to China.
Meditative, dreamlike, fantastical and mysterious, slyly funny and philosophical, surreal and free of plot as we know it, this film shows us the interior life of a calmly dying man visited by visions of his past, and past lives, and spirits from the beyond.
Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster were never better — and that’s saying something — brilliantly cast against type as a desperate small-time press agent and the monstrous gossip columnist who can make or break lives with a line.
Istanbul is famed for many things, including its street cats. This beautifully shot documentary reveals the city’s life and heart through seven of its distinct feline characters and the people who interact with them.
This story of a lost-soul archaeologist turned tomb-raider (Josh O’Connor) in 1980s Italy and the people around him is beguiling, poetic, funny, mournful, romantic, strange, magical and utterly distinctive.
An immersive, sometimes heart-stopping spectacle that demands to be seen on the big screen, this documentary from the director of Gunda has no narration. It lets its incredible visuals and audio tell the story of water in all its forms on our planet.
Glass-obsessed heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett, already extraordinary in one of her first films) and guilt-ridden naif priest Oscar (Ralph Fiennes, in a role unlike any other in his career) are inveterate gamblers, and lifelong misfits until they meet one another. But even then neither can resist an all-or-nothing bet.
