Melbourne International Film Festival

Emma Dante’s unconventional Sicily-set drama poignantly captures, over decades, the mourning between sisters after a tragic accident.

You might be sick of video calls by now, but ‘Language Lessons’ celebrates their awkward and intimate power to connect us.

There are no simple truths in this bittersweet, confronting film of a delinquent Polish youth masquerading as a Catholic priest.

Emma Seligman’s debut feature is an affecting examination of the pressures, anxieties and insecurities of young womanhood.

The repetitive imagery and near silence of Allison Chhorn’s experimental film may cause pandemic-era viewers to reflect on their own daily routines.

Joanna Hogg’s fragmentary portrait of an emotionally abusive relationship is both painful and distancing.

Diao Yi’nan’s expressively shot Chinese neon-noir is a pointless exercise in hard-boiled posturing.

Peter Strickland’s killer dress movie wears its influences proudly on its sleeve, but its competing stories are sloppily stitched together.