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
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- Award-winners
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- Education
- Environment
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- Films about Films
- Finding Home
- Historical
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- Indigenous
- LGBTQIA+
- Love Stories
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- Music
- Māori/Pacific
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- WTF?
- War Zones
- Writers and Theatre
Stylistic
![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.
![Disco Boy](/assets/resized/sm/upload/ap/ig/ph/8o/HERO_DISCOBOY_STILLS2-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=6c6a8a6fe7)
Disco Boy
Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom, Transit) is thrilling as a foreign legionnaire fighting demons on the battlefront and urges on the dance floor in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s striking debut feature.
![Kokomo City](/assets/resized/sm/upload/wa/uo/9z/ni/HERO_KOKOMO%20CITY%20Dominique%20Silver%20rev-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=b5d45736ef)
Kokomo City
Winner of Audience awards in both Sundance and Berlin, this vibrant, taboo-busting, music-filled documentary invites us into the lives of four black trans sex workers in New York and Atlanta.
![Little Richard: I Am Everything](/assets/resized/sm/upload/lw/10/vs/0b/HERO_S0021_ALM_M_BXXBCB-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=391f8b7353)
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Revealing the black, queer origins of rock n’ roll and the complex genius of its conflicted originator, Little Richard, Lisa Cortés’ stirring documentary takes aim at the white-washed canon of popular music.
![L’immensità](/assets/resized/sm/upload/pp/69/81/cx/hero-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=2d30ae93a2)
L’immensità
Penélope Cruz delivers retro-glamour in this gorgeous 70-set Italian melodrama, starring as a wife in a failing marriage and the mother of three children, the eldest of which is questioning their sexual identity.
![May December](/assets/resized/sm/upload/f6/t5/5p/yp/HERO_MAYDEC_1-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=75bd895baa)
May December
Natalie Portman shadows Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes’ salaciously entertaining metafictional psychodrama about an actress researching for a role in a film about a tabloid sex scandal.
![Omen](/assets/resized/sm/upload/sn/5w/4h/o7/HERO_Omen_still%201_copyright%20Wrong%20Men-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=b1175997e6)
Omen
Augure
An invigorating tale of alleged witchcraft seeped in magical realism, director Baloji tackles grief and guilt as a Congolese man returns home in this Kinshasa set mind-bender.
![Orlando, My Political Biography](/assets/resized/sm/upload/za/a2/jf/92/Orlando%20hero%20web-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=7cb6c7fa45)
Orlando, My Political Biography
Orlando, ma biographie politique
Documentary, film essay, biography and performance piece meld together in Paul B. Preciado’s avant-garde, ruffed reclamation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. This award-winning exploration of trans lives re-imagines the past and asks who are in the present.
![Phantom](/assets/resized/sm/upload/70/9n/y5/ys/HERO_PHA_STI-MKT-17-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=1d8aba4e3c)
Phantom
Yuryeong
Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1933, five people are held captive by a security chief determined to find the spy “Phantom” in this stylish, highly entertaining thriller.
![Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed](/assets/resized/sm/upload/zb/3h/bh/3t/HERO_full_ROCK_HUDSON-02-Clean-16x9-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=66f7525562)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
A trove of archival footage accompanies this whirlwind overview of the life of Rock Hudson, one of the Hollywood studio system’s brightest stars and closeted member of the LGBTQ+ community.
![Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams](/assets/resized/sm/upload/ap/ps/bc/60/HERO_SALV1-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=054a205dd4)
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
There are shoemakers, and then there's Salvatore Ferragamo—whose glittering life is explored in this affectionate, glam-packed documentary film by award-winning Italian director Luca Guadagnino.