Avarice, by award winning Australian film Director John V. Soto, starring Gillian Alexy and Luke Ford, is 'a rock-solid homegrown thriller' (FilmInk). Kate, a champion archer (Gillian Alexy) must rescue her husband Ash (Luke Ford) and daughter, after they are abducted by a team of mercenaries during a violent home invasion. She must use her archery skills to overcome their captors and save her family.

Narrated by Margot Robbie and sharing the lives of an eclectic group of women throughout Australia, UNDER COVER shines a light on a devastating reality, that women over 50 are the fastest growing cohort experiencing homelessness in Australia. These moving but optimistic portraits reveal the struggles these women face and lay bare the flaws in our society, as well as our economic fragility in the modern world.

A lone soldier returns home from a mission in Myanmar with traumatic PTSD. Trying to save his relationship with his daughter and assimilate back into society, he’s pressed for questions by one of his dead soldier’s sister, who needs to know what happened on the mission. Facing the ghosts of his past, Seth has to overcome his own battles to be able to begin to move forward with his life. THE GUARDIAN - 3/5 Stars | “Hallucinatory depiction of a soldier's fractured mind”. | “Josh McConville’s knife-edge performance brings psychological realism”.

1897, Paris in the `Belle Epoque'. Edmond Rostand is a playwright of potential genius. Unfortunately, all he has written until now has been a flop. He is paralysed by the sight of a blank page and his inspiration has dried up. Thanks to his admirer Sarah Bernhardt, he is approached by the greatest actor of the day, Constant Coquelin, who absolutely insists on playing in his next play. And he wants to premiere it in three weeks! The only problem: Edmond has not yet written it, and has no idea what story he will tell. All he knows is its title: Cyrano de Bergerac.

Based on Henry James’s 1888 novella and set in the late 19th Century, The Aspern Papers tells of an ambitious American editor obsessed with the late Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Determined to obtain the letters Aspern wrote to his lover and muse Juliana years earlier, the editor travels to Venice and meets the suspicious elderly woman along with her quiet niece in their grand but dilapidated palazzo. Assuming a false identity and initially concealing his true intentions, the editor ultimately charms the niece into helping him with his obsession. But when the niece presents him with a condition he can’t accept, the future of the papers and the mysteries they contain hang in the balance.

A birthday party quickly devolves into chaos when a mysterious natural disaster traps eight teenage girls alone in a house, where paranoia, and group manipulation test friendships, identities, and eventually their grip on reality. / “A Surreal, Savage and Superbly Preformed Creation” - Sarah Ward, SCREEN DAILY / “Brings another fierce female perspective to the world of cinema” - Emily Sears, BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH. / “A Ferocious Battle Cry Against Pigeonholing FEMALE IDENTITY” - Kristy Puchko, SYFY WIRE / “A Brave and Challenging Attack on the Audience’s Pysche” - Sarah Truesdale, GOOMBA STOMP / “A Daring and Unforgettable Feature Film Debut” - Heather Wixson, DAILY DEAD / “A Hellish Symphony” - Andrew Winter, FILM INQUIRY / “Filmmaker Amanda Kramer is a Fearless Visionary” - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, ALLIANCE OF WOMEN’S FILM JOURNALISTS / “Uncanny” - BFI / “Haunting” - SCREEN DAILY / “Twisted” - SHUFFLE ONLINE / “Powerful” - BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH. / “Important” - Daily Texan / “Divisive” - GEEKSPACE / “Terrifying” - FANTASTIC FEST / “Nightmarish” - GOOMBA STOMP / “Trippy" SYFY / “Grotesque” - SHUFFLE ONLINE / “Disturbing” - VULTURE HOUND UK / “Madness” - MOVIE BABBLE

Oliver Laxe’s slow-burn Cannes gem combines arresting landscapes with the smouldering inner life of a reticent ex-con whose return to his mother’s home in the Galician countryside sparks tension. Amador Coro has been condemned for having provoked a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life goes by slowly, following the rhythm of nature. Until one night when a fire starts to devastate the region. | "A grounded, taut drama with a real sense of time and place… a stately film that builds slowly from silence to a crescendo". - Ed Frankl, THE FILM STAGE | "Fire Will Come is pure cinema. Set to the atmospheric ambient sounds of nature and full of naturalistic details and subtle undercurrents it is joy to behold". - FILMUFORIA | "Takes time to ignite but sparks a powerful blaze". - David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"I am Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director. I made my first film in 1896 at age 23. I went on to write, direct or produce more than 1,000 films". Pamela B. Green’s Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, narrated by Jodie Foster, is a feature documentary that rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cinema’s first female director, screenwriter, producer, and studio owner Alice Guy-Blaché. | “A detective story wrapped up as a biopic…had me in tears by the time it ended. A stirring document of an amazing filmmaker!” – Pete Hammond, DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD. | "A timely contribution to the conversation about the challenges facing women filmmakers… someone who really should be better known by now.” – Leslie Felperin, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

I Am Paul Walker is a feature-length documentary film exploring the life and legacy of actor Paul Walker, the Southern California native who cut his teeth as a child actor before breaking out in the blockbuster Fast and Furious movie franchise. Featuring interviews with those who knew Paul best both professionally and personally and using an extensive archive of rarely seen candid video and still photographs provided by family and friends of the late actor, I Am Paul Walker explores Paul’s private side alongside a wildly successful film career. His devotion to his family, his fascination for surfing and auto racing, his passion for marine biology and sharks, his dedication to humanitarian work through his NGO, Reach Out Worldwide, and his love for his daughter define the character of the man behind one of the most wildly successful film franchises of all time. The film features a dynamic cast including Fast and Furious actor Tyrese Gibson and director Rob Cohen, director Wayne Kramer, family members Cody Walker, Caleb Walker, Ashlie Walker, Cheryl Walker, and Paul Walker III, Oakley Lehman, Dr. Michael Domeier and Manager Matt Luber.

An unspoken event has caused civilisation to crumble, leaving the survivors to cluster in the wilderness. Among them is a blind girl who struggles to survive with her father – a tormented and emotionally abusive clown. There is no future anymore, so the past becomes their only resource for meaning.

A doctor, wife and grieving mother. Amy is falling. It has been two years and she still cannot manage to leave her comatose son, David’s side. Amy falls further into her own selfish and twisted world of obsession and denial, blocking out everything and everyone around her. Meanwhile the walls of the hospital she is neglecting begin to fall apart. Awakening in what seems to be an abandoned old school, Amy finds herself a prisoner to a hoard of displaced cultish and feral kids. Trapped in a hostile supernatural purgatory for children (THE SCHOOL), Amy becomes an unwilling surrogate mother and must try and escape an impending evil. As supernatural and psychological terror ensues, Amy must find her way out, fighting against the demonic, supernatural and ultimately her own demons.

In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.

Submergence is a love story that takes us into the extremely different worlds of our two protagonists, Danielle Flinders (Alicia Vikander) and James More (James McAvoy). They meet by chance in a remote hotel in Normandy where they both prepare for a dangerous mission. They fall in love almost against their will, but soon recognise in each other the love of their lives. When they have to separate, we find out that James works for the British Secret Service. He’s involved in a mission in Somalia to track down a source for suicide bombers infiltrating Europe. Danielle ‘Danny’ Flinders is a bio-mathematician working on a deep sea diving project to support her theory about the origin of life on our planet. Soon, they are worlds apart. James is taken hostage by Jihadist fighters and has no way of contacting Danny, and she has to go down to the bottom of the ocean in her submersible, not even knowing if James is still alive...

The Coming Back Out Ball Movie is an observational feature documentary that follows a group of older LGBTIQ+ people, who have been invited to attend a Ball celebrating their gender and sexual identity. Faced with the complexities of ageing and isolation, these extraordinary people seize each day with determination and humour. In a world that is rapidly changing for the LGBTIQ+ community around the world, we witness some of our cast experiencing acceptance and love for the very first time in their lives.

Forty something, foul-mouthed and aggressive, with an unquenchable thirst for booze and fags; Woods Weston appears to be a hopeless case. The once charismatic, artistic and loving husband and father is on the brink of emotional breakdown following the death of his wife. He must find a way to come to terms with his grief to save his relationship with his sons. A deeply moving and visually arresting story of love, loss and family bonds.

Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé’s desire to live a life free from convention scandalized society but spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Rée and her lover, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud, she became the first female psychoanalyst.

Physicist and researcher Jane Chandler (Jacqueline McKenzie) is happily married to writer, Matt (Myles Pollard). They have two kids, Jake and Samantha. Jane has her own lab and together with her assistant, Regg, they experiment with matter teleportation. Later, tragedy strikes: Matt is killed in a car crash. Grieving, Jane falls to pieces. But a few weeks later comes a ray of hope. Using her revolutionary teleportation machine Jane finds a way to travel to a parallel world where she finds an ‘alternate version’ of Matt. But this version of her deceased husband reveals himself to be a very different man. A soldier, he carries a strange, deadly weapon and has a temper that can erupt at any moment. It soon becomes clear that she has made a terrible mistake and now she must find a way to defeat him and save her family.