Wes Anderson goes sci fi in his latest colourful concoction, screening first at the Festival as a jaw-dropping A-list cast converge on the small desert town of Asteroid City for a space convention.
Festival Programme
Films — by Genre
- Action
- Animals
- Animation
- Artists
- Award-winners
- Based on Books
- Body and Mind
- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Crime
- Education
- Environment
- Family Lives
- Fantasy
- Films about Films
- Finding Home
- Historical
- Horror
- Indigenous
- LGBTQIA+
- Love Stories
- Media and the Internet
- Music
- Māori/Pacific
- Photography
- Politics
- Religion
- Sci-Fi
- Stylistic
- Travel
- WTF?
- War Zones
- Writers and Theatre
Love Stories
![Carmen](/assets/resized/sm/upload/e8/nm/ia/3z/CARMEN%20Hero-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=393c3d816b)
Carmen
Sensual and simmering with tension, Black Swan and Dune choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s debut feature reimagines classic opera Carmen for the modern era, a musical drama set in the hotbed of the America–Mexico border.
![The Eternal Memory](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5z/ff/wx/k9/HERO_LMI_1-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=5f60575483)
The Eternal Memory
La memoria infinita
Oscar-nominated Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi documents a love story for the ages as a woman struggles to preserve the brilliant mind of her partner of 25 years who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
![Fallen Leaves](/assets/resized/sm/upload/bw/6g/lj/os/HERO_LESFEUILLESMORTES_Photo1_Malla_Hukkanen_c_Sputnik-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d8d098c039)
Fallen Leaves
Kuolleet lehdet
We close this year’s festival with the most delightful film from Cannes. Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki returns with a deadpan romantic crowdpleaser about two lost souls on a bumpy road to finding each other.
![Of an Age](/assets/resized/sm/upload/cw/tn/1g/rl/OF%20AN%20AGE_Hattie%20Hook_Thom%20Green_Elias%20Anton_000401_Photo%20Credit-Ben%20King_HEROweb-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=007d5d9587)
Of an Age
Goran Stolevski’s tender sophomore film is equal parts coming-of-age and coming-out story, as much a commentary on the pressures of masculinity and heteronormativity as it is a witty, sentimental romance set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Melbourne.
![Past Lives](/assets/resized/sm/upload/m9/m0/cq/we/Past-Lives-Hero-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=71b8981cfa)
Past Lives
Celine Song’s gorgeous, intensely bittersweet romance ruminates on the lives and loves of two childhood friends fleetingly reunited after decades apart – a remarkable debut feature that was the talk of Sundance.