Films
Afterwar
Four survivors confront us with their own words in a cinematic post-war report from Kosovo. A performative feature film created over 15 years in a twilight borderland between raw realism and inner battlefields.
Bushman
A Nigerian man embarks on an adventure in 1960s San Francisco in this rediscovered sensation, which blends documentary and fiction, and manages to collapse and reinvent itself along the way. The greatest rediscovery of the last year, screened in a newly restored version.
David Schickele / United States / 1971
Dance First
Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh's biopic on the life and works of the literary genius. The man behind the myth is portrayed with humour and irony.
James Marsh / United Kingdom, Hungary & Belgium / 2023
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
... but expect one of the wildest and most entertaining films of the year when Romanian iconoclast Radu Jude drums up a blistering social satire. A true speedball of a film that moves freely across forms and genres.
Radu Jude / Romania, Luxembourg, France & Croatia / 2023
Gasoline Rainbow
Five teenagers embark on an all-American road trip to the Pacific Ocean in a dreamy and sprawling hybrid film from the Ross brothers. A feature film shot as a documentary headed for the end of the gasoline rainbow.
Bill Ross & Turner Ross / United States / 2023
Music
Angela Shanelec's enigmatic and elliptical reinterpretation of the myth of King Oedipus is one of the greatest works of the past year. A deeply original highlight in the artistic career of one of the most singular names in European cinema.
Stephen
A young actor in rehab is cast as a gambler in a crime thriller based on a film from 1901. Realities are layered in a British visual artist's performative film about the risk - and freedom - of letting go of yourself and becoming someone else.
Melanie Manchot / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
The Buriti Flower
Enchantingly beautiful hybrid film from the Brazilian forests about the indigenous Krahô people and their fight for freedom while the outside world tries to steal and destroy their territory.
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
Three years in the life of revolutionary post-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon. Based on extensive research and Fanon's own notes, and reconstructed as a cinematic docufiction from a psychiatric hospital in Algeria.