Theo Anthony’s debut feature documentary RAT FILM looks at Baltimore through a discursive documentary lens akin to Harun Farocki and Chris Marker.
The Nothing Factory
Pedro Pinho’s narrative debut is easier to admire for the scope of its ambition than it is to necessarily enjoy.
All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn’t Open
Martin DiCicco’s debut feature documentary follows the day-to-day lives of track workers in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Prevenge
Alice Lowe’s pre-natal horror Prevenge shies away from biting commentary, content with absurd bloodlust.
Assholes
To call Peter Vack’s anilingus-filled debut feature film ‘graphic’ would be a gross understatament.
Killing Ground
Damien Power’s debut feature harks back to the golden age of Australian genre film but its approach to landscape is sadly ahistorical.
The Butterfly Tree
Priscilla Cameron’s debut feature is every bit as adolescent and as troubled as its protagonist, writes Greer Forrester.
Golden Exits
Alex Ross Perry’s fruitful return to a romanticised celluloid Brooklyn finds tension in a group of suburbanites caught in tangled webs of familial obligation, writes Dominic Ellis.
It
The latest take on Stephen King’s murderous alien clown is an effective jump scare machine, satisfying and exhausting in equal measure.
Yourself and Yours
At the Melbourne International Film Festival, YOURSELF AND YOURS is a sharply observed romantic comedy that’s unique among director Hong Sang-soo’s work, writes Conor Bateman.