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Fri 5 June, 6.30pm: Wendy and Lucy

Fri 5 June, 6.30pm: Wendy and Lucy

Lucy is the dog. Wendy is her owner, a 20-something urchin chasing dreams of economic stability in Alaska and trying to cross the country in a shaky car and a precariously small amount of cash in a money belt. A high point of Reichardt’s career, Wendy and Lucy stands as a defining work of the neo-realist filmmaking that transformed American independent cinema in the early 2000s.
Fri 5 June, 8.15pm: Mare's Nest

Fri 5 June, 8.15pm: Mare's Nest

Responding to a world that seems evermore surreal, disastrous, and doomed by the day, the latest speculative feature by British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers immerses us into an unsettling natural terrain – equal parts bucolic and wasteland – entirely devoid of adults.
Sat 6 June, 5.30pm: Olivia

Sat 6 June, 5.30pm: Olivia

As if in a fairy tale, the ethereal heroine of the first feature by Sofía Petersen exists in a dream-like world in a permanent dream-like state, suspended in time. While the music by Utsav Lal envelops Olivia in an enchanted atmosphere, cinematographer Owain Wilshaw captures the light of Tierra del Fuego in Petersen’s mesmerizing debut with the attention and delicacy of an old master.
Sat 6 June, 8pm: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Sat 6 June, 8pm: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.
Sun 7 June, 3pm: Pictures of the Old World

Sun 7 June, 3pm: Pictures of the Old World

Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist's work in reflecting a myriad of human stories.
Sun 7 June, 4.30pm: Andrei Rublev

Sun 7 June, 4.30pm: Andrei Rublev

With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Appearing here in his preferred 183-minute cut, Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time.
Sun 7 June, 8pm: Casa de Lava

Sun 7 June, 8pm: Casa de Lava

Cape Verde’s colonial histories and displaced emigrants have been central to many of Costa’s films, but his rarely seen second feature is the only one thus far to have been shot on the archipelago. Inspired by Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, this is one of Costa’s most direct reckonings with Portugal’s colonial legacy.
Mon 8 June, 6.30pm: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Mon 8 June, 6.30pm: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.
Mon 8 June, 8.15pm: Stroszek

Mon 8 June, 8.15pm: Stroszek

One of Herzog's most accessible films, Stroszek is a lyrical, melancholy, bitterly funny tale of three oddly-assorted Berlin misfits who follow the American Dream to Wisconsin and find a bleak El Dorado of television, football, CB radio, truck stops, and mobile homesteading.
Tue 9 June, 8.15pm: Daisies

Tue 9 June, 8.15pm: Daisies

Věra Chytilová unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authoritarian oppression in any form.
Wed 10 June, 8.15pm: Wendy and Lucy

Wed 10 June, 8.15pm: Wendy and Lucy

Lucy is the dog. Wendy is her owner, a 20-something urchin chasing dreams of economic stability in Alaska and trying to cross the country in a shaky car and a precariously small amount of cash in a money belt. A high point of Reichardt’s career, Wendy and Lucy stands as a defining work of the neo-realist filmmaking that transformed American independent cinema in the early 2000s.
Fri 12 June, 8pm: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Fri 12 June, 8pm: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.
Sat 13 June, 2.30pm: Pompei: Below the Clouds

Sat 13 June, 2.30pm: Pompei: Below the Clouds

From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. The result is a portrait at once local and universal: a reflection on humanity’s capacity to live, love, and rebuild in the shadow of the unimaginable.
Sat 13 June, 8.15pm: Good Time

Sat 13 June, 8.15pm: Good Time

After Heaven Knows What, filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie return to the mean streets of New York City with Good Time, a hypnotic crime thriller that explores with bracing immediacy the tragic sway of family and fate.
Sun 14 June, 3pm: Pictures of the Old World

Sun 14 June, 3pm: Pictures of the Old World

Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist's work in reflecting a myriad of human stories.
Sun 14 June, 4.30pm: Andrei Rublev

Sun 14 June, 4.30pm: Andrei Rublev

With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Appearing here in his preferred 183-minute cut, Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time.
Sun 14 June, 8pm: Casa de lava

Sun 14 June, 8pm: Casa de lava

Cape Verde’s colonial histories and displaced emigrants have been central to many of Costa’s films, but his rarely seen second feature is the only one thus far to have been shot on the archipelago. Inspired by Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, this is one of Costa’s most direct reckonings with Portugal’s colonial legacy.

Calendar

Sat 06 Jun 5:30pm
Olivia
Sat 06 Jun 8:00pm
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sun 07 Jun 3:00pm
Pictures of the Old World
Sun 07 Jun 4:30pm
Andrei Rublev
Sun 07 Jun 8:00pm
Casa de lava
Mon 08 Jun 6:30pm
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Mon 08 Jun 8:15pm
Stroszek