Interest: Fiction Feature

Rocks

British-Nigerian teenager Rocks is a dynamic presence at her high school, doing her classmates’ makeup and initiating food fights in Home Ec class. What her…
True History of the Kelly Gang

1917’s George MacKay puts his charismatic stamp on the legendary 19th-century Australian outlaw in Justin Kurzel’s thrilling, drenched-in-blood adaptation of Peter Carey’s acclaimed novel. Rebelling…
Amulet

“Evil must be contained,” says Sister Claire (Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake), but trying to achieve that proves challenging in actress Romola Garai’s gory and hypnotic…
The Personal History of David Copperfield

Armando Iannucci (In the Loop, Festival 2009) reimagines Charles Dickens’ epic, autobiographical masterpiece as a curiously contemporary tragicomic adventure. An exuberant Dev Patel (The Man…
The Perfect Candidate

Saudi Arabia has one of the least satisfactory records with respect to women’s rights, but Haifaa Al Mansour’s latest film reminds us that great change…
Marona’s Fantastic Tale

Marona is a mixed-breed pup who has a profound impact on every human she encounters. After an accident, she journeys into the past, revisiting all…
Shit & Champagne

SF stripper Champagne White (multi-hyphenate talent D’Arcy Drollinger) is expecting her boyfriend Rod to pop the question; when he instead tells her of a secret…
Two of Us

The perils of a closeted relationship take on an almost unbearable weight for Nina (the incomparable Barbara Sukowa), who finds her dreams of a shared…
Promising Young Woman

Carey Mulligan is nothing short of sensational as a one-time med student reduced to slinging coffee in Emerald Fennell’s (Killing Eve‘s executive producer) brilliant pitch-black…
Suk Suk

The challenges facing aging gay men are dramatized with great warmth in Ray Yeung’s Hong Kong-set portrait of a new love affair. Hoi and Pak…
Rose Plays Julie

Rose is a veterinary student whose complicated feelings around being adopted make her feel as though she hasn’t become the person she was meant to…
Workforce

Issues of inequalities in income and housing are at the heart of this powerful film. When an accident happens on the construction site of an…