Filmed at St Petersburg's Hermitage, Alexander Sokurov's spellbinding masterpiece Russian Ark is a multi-award winning film consisting of one unbroken camera shot. Opening to critical acclaim upon its 2003 Australian release, Russian Ark returns to the big screen in pristine, digitally remastered high definition.

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EXCLUSIVE TO LUNA: A man obsessed with his tasselled designer deerskin jacket...a new lease of life...and a fair bit of murdering.

Deerskin defies easy explanation; director, Quentin Dupiex has created a surrealist black comedy that dances merrily along the line of absurdist film, heading straight for cult status. Jean ... more

The gang from Little White Lies is back!

When Guillaume Canet’s star-studded comedy Little White Lies exploded at the global box office in 2010 (achieving a stunning 5.2 million admissions), it seemed almost assured that the glittering cast would reunite. The challenge has taken nearly a decade to achieve, but ... more

A heart-warming comedy-drama about finding love later in life.

Dave and Fern, two older strangers, have both been bruised by events in their past. They meet walking their dogs in a North London park, and over the course of twenty-three walks together romance begins to blossom. But Dave (Palme d'Or winner Dave Johns, I, Daniel ... more

Pierre Cardin, the legendary designer, is front and centre in the new film about his life, times and oeuvre.

Undoubtedly a giant in his field, we hear from stars in talking heads about the man and his work, in David Eversole and Todd Hughes' captivating doco: Sharon Stone, Naomi Watta, Alice Cooper and Jean-Paul Gaultier are among his ... more

Director Franco Lolli's crafts an honest, empathetic portrait of modern motherhood with this lived-in study of a single mother in personal and professional turmoil.

Between raising her young son, taking care of her ill-tempered, cancer-battling mother, navigating her career as a top-notch lawyer dealing with a major corruption ... more

Crackling with electric dialogue, the world of politics has never exploded off the screen with more force than Alice and the Mayor.

In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant drama, writer/ director Nicolas Pariser drills deeply into the generational tensions that mark contemporary politics. Not surprisingly, such a ... more

Giants of French filmmaking Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano return with another unforgettable powerhouse film, The Extraordinary, which was honoured as the Closing Night feature at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

The follow-up to the Opening Night film of AF FFF18, C’est la vie!, The Extraordinary ... more

Themes of social inequality erupt in Ladj Ly’s fearless Les Misérables, prompting comparisons to other classic hard-hitting dramas such as Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Mathieu Kassovitz’s Hate (La Haine).

On a meteoric rise from the Kourtrajmé collective to winning the ... more

For more than 70 years, every song by crooner Charles Aznavour invited his legions of adoring fans into a magical dream of music and romance.

Aside from the thousands of songs that made this French-Armenian polymath a star, Aznavour’s life beyond music was even more extraordinary. An actor, political activist, diplomat and ... more

In an unconventional pairing, Cyrano de Bergerac meets a chicken farm in this exciting animal fable from young filmmaker Mélanie Auffret. Idyllic Brittany serves as the backdrop for this amusingly sincere film that observes the economic realities of contemporary rural life.

Poultry farmer Raymond (Guillaume de Tonquédec, ... more

The perfect film for lovers of literature and intrigue alike, writer/ director Rémi Bezançon (AF FFF12, A Happy Event) presents a riddle wrapped in an enigma, packed into a cheese-stained pizza box, that begs the questions: Who is Henri Pick, and how did this supposedly illiterate pizza cook write an acclaimed ... more

A compelling and superb directorial debut that brings subtlety and depth to a heart-rending subject.

Tunisia, summer of 2011. The holiday to Southern country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year old son Aziz when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives as Aziz needs a liver transplant, ... more

An adaptation of the successful Belvoir Theatre play by Rita Kalnejais, this warm-hearted and bittersweet comedy about love, loss and family was shot on location in and around Sydney.

What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. When seriously ill teenager ... more

The art world and the underworld collide in director Giuseppe Capotondi's elegant and erotic neo-noir thriller.

Set in present-day Italy, irresistibly charismatic art critic, James Figueras hooks up with provocative and alluring fellow American, Berenice Hollis. He's a classic anti-hero in the making with a charm that masks his deep ... more

From Saturday Night Live sensation Pete Davidson and movie mastermind Judd Apatow comes a hilarious and heartfelt comedy about a New York State burnout who is forced to re-evaluate his life when his widowed mother starts to date again.

Scott (Davidson) is a classic case of arrested development living in his mother's basement, smoking ... more

Richard Linklater directs Cate Blanchett in an inspiring comedy about a loving mum who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions.

Based on the runaway bestseller, Where'd You Go, Bernadette? is an inspiring comedy about Bernadette Fox (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett), a loving mum who becomes compelled to ... more

Winner of the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking, Shirley is a fresh take on the period drama, full of contemporary intrigue and dynamic in style. 

Newly-wed students, Fred and Rose (Australia's Odessa Young), move to a small Vermont college town with the hope of starting a new life. They receive an ... more

The overwhelming Scandinavian success story of the recent Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Hlynur Pálmason confirms the considerable promise of his multi-award-winning debut Winter Brothers with this spellbinding and darkly humorous new drama about a stoic grandfather whose emotional reserves are pushed to their ... more

Kitty Green’s follow-up to her acclaimed Casting JonBenet, premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival impressing audiences with its tightly framed, quietly devastating, and intense portrayal of oppression in a workplace.

Jane (Julia Garner) is a junior assistant to a prominent entertainment executive, a man whose ... more

When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. 

Directed by Louie Schwartzberg, this is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an ... more

A charming and uplifting film starring Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).

Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, 19-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella and her ... more

Director Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin) brings his sardonic wit — and a stellar cast of Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie and Ben Whishaw — to Charles Dickens' classic autobiographical novel. This thrillingly realised adaptation of Dickens’ personal and optimistic narrative is gloriously ... more

One English couple. One battered English car. 5000 miles through the heart of India.

Meet Rupert and Jan Grey, a free-spirited and eccentric upper-class English couple in their sixties, married for 35 years and on the verge of retirement.

Not content to live out their autumn years by the fire, this intrepid couple ignores ... more