Naarm drag artists JENS RADDA and IVA ROSEBUD are Neely O’Hara and Helen Lawson, in this lavish act of diva worship committed to Super 16mm film. Adapted from the camp classic 1967 film Valley of the Dolls, itself an adaptation of the Jacqueline Susann novel of the same name from 1966.
A determined creative works through the expansion of his artistic practice. A young man seeks community in a life filled with laborious odd jobs. A young academic looks to embrace the change in her circumstances. Three New Yorkers in their mid-to-late twenties navigate personal, professional, and creative stagnation in the exploration of their purpose.
Siew Bong is, with respect, quite an average person. He’s unexceptional in anything and has not achieved much, which typically isn’t a problem until he has to meet his girlfriend’s ultra-rich, ultra-high-achieving family that believes in flawlessness as the highest form of human value, a value especially upheld and enforced by the tyrannical matriarch of the family, Antoinette. Things turn south over a family dinner when Siew Bong’s beliefs on a person’s value grinds against the family’s facade of perfectionism.
A game as old as time faded into the ashes of youth. Travel through this three-part memory as a young boy discovers the decay of his grandfather as they take part in an old game of Chinese chess. With every move he makes, he takes a step closer towards realising the extent of time. This film will explore themes of love, loss and what it really means to grow old in an optimistic way
After discovering cassette tapes hidden behind a green door, Wahida begins to unravel the truth about her twin sister's death. Plagued by tinnitus, her journey into the mountains uncovers an unsettling revelation.
For a documentary they’re making, Edouard and Justine interview single, young pregnant women in their camper. One of these women is Alice. As the conversation draws to a close, the mood in the cramped vehicle changes.
The lamentations of a missing person’s mother lead a murderer suffering from amnesia to question his actions. He travels to the spot in the jungle where he murdered and buried his most recent victim.
Emre, a man in his early thirties, is moving out of his apartment. His girlfriend Defne talks to him, conjuring up images and uncovering traces of the bittersweet memories of their relationship. With the help of some friends, Emre collects his belongings and says goodbye to the neighbourhood where he was happy. But is he ready to say farewell to his home?
On a spring day, a young couple drifts apart and back together: Nima, lost in office routines and an evening celebration, and Tara, roaming markets in search of both a dress and a place to bury her secrets. Meanwhile, Aban, a young woman swept up in the tremors of first love, embarks on a journey of her own. Their paths, at once ordinary and fateful, begin to circle and echo one another in ways that move beyond the limits of time and space.
Under the influence of a mysterious synthetic drug, exotic dancer Vivienne slips into a distorted night where reality bends and nothing feels stable. As her senses blur, she drifts between memory, withdrawal and surreal visions, unable to tell what’s real and what’s imagined.
A lonely teenage writer photographs strangers with his Polaroid camera, characterising those in each picture. When he re-encounters an eccentric girl whom he photographed earlier that day, his world is turned on its head.
Danbi, a star pupil in everything she does, loses her chance to play her chosen piano piece at a major competition. Determined to win it back, she sets out to master rock, paper, scissors.
After an accident that leaves Mila paralysed, she and Paul begin to drift apart. Mila focuses on the future, while Paul is haunted by guilt and the past. To save their relationship, they must find a way to reconnect before everything falls apart.