Miércoles con Almodóvar When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a drag performer (Gael García Bernal) who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation. From two-time Academy Award-winner Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education is an outrageous tale of desire, revenge, and murder.

WINNER: Best Feature Film 2021 Berlinale Film Festival WINNER: Best Feature Film 2021 East West Golden Arc Festival Romania's entry into the 2022 Oscars for Best International Film Schoolteacher, Emi, finds her reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is uploaded onto the internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender. ...An honest look at contemporary life during the pandemic and offers a withering critique of the many issues of misogyny, shaming, censorship, hypocrisy and bigotry both within its modern story line and how these retrograde attitudes and prejudices are rooted in European history. It is a film with a raucous and exasperated attitude but nevertheless deadly serious in addressing the issues it raises.

Renowned composer Maurice Ravel (Raphaël Personnaz) is haunted by self-doubt and melancholy. Commissioned by eccentric and magnanimous Russian dancer Ida Rubenstein (César-winning Jeanne Balibar), he must compose a carnal, rapturous fanfare for her latest ballet. Blocked creatively and cast aside by his peers, Ravel turns to his closest friends for inspiration – pianist Marguerite Long, his friend Cipa & her sister Misia, whom he hopelessly adores. Set against the decadent, industrialised Paris of the 1920s, "Bolero" demands that Ravel draw on the essence of sound itself to redeem his raw genius, or risk being consumed by it completely. A tribute to the timelessness of the composer’s haunting masterpiece, writer-director Anne Fontaine takes us on a deconstructed, elliptical journey through the idiosyncratic life of Maurice Ravel, via his struggle to complete that 17-minute piece of music. Premiering at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, BOLERO is a celebration of a classical genius.

Amid the haze of fading memory and shifting desires, Ruth, a retired cook, quietly navigates her transition to assisted living. With grace, wit, and the enduring threads of her identity, she deals with her changing sense of self and her bonds with those who care for her. As her surroundings grow unfamiliar, something unexpected begins to take shape - what if we glow most warmly at the edges of memory?

SPECIAL EVENT Join us for a special Q&A screening with Sophie Somerville (Director & Producer) of FWENDS Em is a junior lawyer who lives to work to pay her ludicrously high rent in Sydney while navigating an abusive workplace that she has worked so hard to get into. Jessie is a former stripper and world traveller who has recently ended her long term relationship and is now living a life of existential loneliness. What starts as a simple reunion quickly transforms into a whirlwind weekend filled with adventure, As they explore the city and share stories, their conversation dives deep into the complexities of modern life, exposing the layers of their personal journeys and the weight of their existential dread. This film captures a lonely, worried generation seeking meaning in a fast paced, ever-changing landscape. It’s a celebration of the power of friendship and an ode to the splendiferous messiness of real life, raw emotion, and poignant revelations.

TAMURA x ECLIPSE Pre-Release Special Event $40pp inc. Sake, Snack and Ticket - In a dystopian urban landscape where technology is used to curb civil liberties and student rights, a diverse group of teenagers struggle to maintain their long-held friendships. Tokyo, sometime in the near future: against a backdrop of constant government warnings about an imminent mega-earthquake that never seems to arrive, five music-loving high schoolers stage an elaborate prank on their principal’s prized sports car. In response, their school installs an all-seeing facial-recognition surveillance system that uses AI to monitor and punish student behaviour. As both the school and Japanese society grow more repressive – with climate panic and nationalism used as cynical political tools – the group’s bond is put to the test. When it feels like the world is ending, do you protest and fight, or just opt out and have fun? Director Neo Sora, who documented the final concert of his legendary father, Ryuichi Sakamoto, in Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023), takes a far different tack with his first narrative feature. Winning Sora the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Happyend is a melancholy coming-of-age story about friends drifting apart in a time of social tumult, in which differences are entrenched and young lives are inherently political. Season Commences Nationally 30th October

Miércoles con Almodóvar Adapted from Alice Munro's short stories, Julieta (Adriana Ugarte) is about to leave Madrid to live in Portugal when she runs into Bea (Michelle Jenner), the childhood friend of her daughter Antía. This chance meeting sets off a range of emotions in Julieta, and she begins to write a long and revealing letter to her daughter – one filled with regret, guilt and love. With a sense of mystery, an expressive score and his trademark use of vibrant colour, Almodóvar has made a film of spellbinding beauty

An introverted space princess is forced to leave her home planet on an inter-gay-lactic mission to save her ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens. A laugh-out-loud adventure through the far reaches of queer outer space, Lesbian Space Princess showcases the incredible talents of South Australian writers/directors, Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs. Daughter to the flamboyant lesbian Queens of Planet Clitopolis, introverted Princess Saira is devastated when her bounty-hunter girlfriend, Kiki, suddenly breaks up with her for being too needy. After Kiki is kidnapped by forgotten incels of the future, the Straight White Maliens, Saira must leave the comforts of gay space to deliver their ransom: her royal labrys (the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind). Only problem is… she doesn’t have it! With just a 24-hour window to get her labrys and save Kiki, Princess Saira finds herself on an inter-gay-lactic journey of self-discovery that includes encounters with a problematic spaceship and a new-found friendship with gay-pop runaway Willow. An animated comedy like no other, Lesbian Space Princess is a riotous, candy-coloured joy from start to finish: a locally made animation by emerging creatives that embraces LGBTQIA+ and culturally diverse voices, on and off-screen.

Join Director Eliza Cox for a Q&A and screening of this SXSW and MIFF feature documentary. - Shot over eight years, Queens of Concrete chronicles the journey from childhood to adulthood and the moments that define us. It’s 2016 and Hayley (14), Ava (13) and Charlotte (9) are following their dreams to qualify for the first ever Australian Olympic skateboarding team for the 2020 games. The three girls are strong contenders, but they face crushing life lessons as they navigate heartbreak, betrayal, a global pandemic, and pressure beyond their years. As childhood naivety ebbs away, what began as Olympic ambition becomes a tale of resilience, triumph and self-discovery, and they must each wrestle with their own definition of success and find balance between the people they want to be, and the adults life is turning them into.

One of Sundance’s buzziest debuts, this A24-backed dramedy about a young woman’s recovery from trauma announces writer/director/star Eva Victor as a formidable new talent. Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track. Writer/director Eva Victor’s performance as Agnes is a breathtaking tonal balancing act between heartbreaking and hilarious. Rather than focusing on the traumatic event, the non-chronological story illuminates the smaller moments in Agnes’s life, such as attending jury duty, adopting a kitten and eating a sandwich – patchwork details punctuating her uneven road to recovery. Sorry, Baby is a funny, gentle and nuanced look at what it means to survive.

Starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, SPLITSVILLE comes direct from MIFF after premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Not long into their marriage, Ashley (Arjona) asks her good-natured husband Carey (Marvin) for a divorce. Instead of accepting the conversation, he runs to his friends Paul (Covino) and Julie (Johnson) for support, who reveal that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage. Shocked but enticed by this knowledge, Carey and Julie sleep together, crossing an invisible line that fractures both couples' relationships and throws everyone's lives into chaos.

Josh O’Connor headlines indie icon Kelly Reichardt’s 1970s-set spin on the heist movie, a moving and wryly funny Cannes Competition highlight. The aimless J.B. is a former art student who’s fallen on hard times as an out-of-work carpenter, has hatched a cunning plan: to steal a handful of paintings from a small museum outside of Boston. It may seem like a bad idea, but he’s got it all figured out... Kelly Reichardt’s empathetic portraits of characters consigned to the fringes, from frontier times to present-day suburbia, have made her an icon of American independent cinema. Built around O’Connor’s remarkable portrayal of a hapless daydreamer carrying out a harebrained scheme, along with Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) as his increasingly frustrated wife, and frequent Reichardt collaborator John Magaro (Showing Up) as an old friend offering refuge, The Mastermind is Reichardt’s most openly comedic work yet; but it’s also as artistically rigorous as anything she’s previously turned her camera to. Deftly undoing the cinematic clichés of the heist movie while also paying homage to the New Hollywood classics of the era in which the film is set – at the outset of the 1970s, with the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s presidency at their height – this Cannes-premiering tour de force conveys a national narrative in microcosm. “The Mastermind may be a heist movie about a novice thief with a dumb plan. But Reichardt pulls it off like clockwork: This film is stupendously smart.” – RogerEbert.com

Josh O’Connor headlines indie icon Kelly Reichardt’s 1970s-set spin on the heist movie, a moving and wryly funny Cannes Competition highlight. The aimless J.B. is a former art student who’s fallen on hard times as an out-of-work carpenter, has hatched a cunning plan: to steal a handful of paintings from a small museum outside of Boston. It may seem like a bad idea, but he’s got it all figured out... Kelly Reichardt’s empathetic portraits of characters consigned to the fringes, from frontier times to present-day suburbia, have made her an icon of American independent cinema. Built around O’Connor’s remarkable portrayal of a hapless daydreamer carrying out a harebrained scheme, along with Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) as his increasingly frustrated wife, and frequent Reichardt collaborator John Magaro (Showing Up) as an old friend offering refuge, The Mastermind is Reichardt’s most openly comedic work yet; but it’s also as artistically rigorous as anything she’s previously turned her camera to. Deftly undoing the cinematic clichés of the heist movie while also paying homage to the New Hollywood classics of the era in which the film is set – at the outset of the 1970s, with the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s presidency at their height – this Cannes-premiering tour de force conveys a national narrative in microcosm. “The Mastermind may be a heist movie about a novice thief with a dumb plan. But Reichardt pulls it off like clockwork: This film is stupendously smart.” – RogerEbert.com

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. She can recall memories of beach holidays and anything else he programs her to remember. During the day they drift through the summer and at night he takes her to bed. Designed to resemble one of his memories, she seems very much alive -sometimes, she even seems to dream and yet, she remains a machine, a container for those memories that mean everything to him and nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Miércoles con Almodóvar This colorful and controversial tribute to the pleasures & perils of Stockholm syndrome is a rambunctious dark comedy starring Antonio Banderas as an alluring ex-mental patient & Victoria Abril as the former porn star he takes prisoner; hoping she will marry him. A highly unconventional romance, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world’s most beloved and provocative auteurs, radiantly shot by the director’s great cinematographer, José Luis Alcaine.

BUBS Session - All welcome! After meeting in a twin bereavement support group, Roman (Dylan O'Brien) and Dennis (James Sweeney) develop an unlikely bromance as they both search for solace and an identity without their better halves. They soon become inseparable, but old wounds reopen that will have permanent consequences for their friendship. Lauren Graham and Aisling Franciosi also star in this stirring, whip-smart, wholly original dark comedy from breakout multi-hyphenate director James Sweeney. “A probing and personal dramedy about men and loneliness and grief’s hollow aftermath. Twinless announces the ascendancy of a thrilling filmmaker.” – Vanity Fair

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE 20th Anniversary A contemporary classic in the found footage horror genre, NOROI: THE CURSE is Director Kôji Shiraishi’s experimental approach within the J-horror genre. A prominent paranormal journalist Kobayashi (Jin Muraki)goes missing shortly after completing a documentary. What begins as an Cinema Eclipse info.docx investigation into strange noises soon evolves into the terrifying mystery of a demonic entity named Kagutaba

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE Re-Animator 40th Anniversary Synopsis: Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's sepulchral 1922 pulp horror story, arguably thefirst such tale to ever consider scientifically affected corpses as zombies, Re-Animator is Stuart Gordon's cult classic trip into the realm of the living dead. Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs, From Beyond, The Frighteners) reveals to fellow graduate student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE 4k Restoration Hideo Nakata’s Ringu(1998) opens on a group of teenage friends who are found dead, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko, a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate. In the process, she uncovers an urban legend about a cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE 4k Restoration Widely considered to be the most shocking and hallucinatory horror movie in history -and described by Argento as "an escalating experimental nightmare", SUSPIRIA stars Jessica Harper as a young American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy and is confronted by a series of bizarre and horrific deaths. Packed with vicious violence, ultra gory effects and dazzling cinematic set pieces, SUSPIRIA is a gruesomely Gothic masterpiece of the macabre.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 1960s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE The Stuff - 40th Anniversary When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white substance bubbling up from the earth, a conglomerate markets the gooey, addictive fluff as a dessert.

UMBRELLA x STATIC VISION Umbrella Presents, in collaboration with Static Vision, VENUS IN FURS. In Istanbul, a jazz trumpeter pulls the murdered body of a young woman from the surf. Jimmy leaves for Rio. Rita, a singer, invites him to live with her and helps him recover his equilibrium. Then, into the room walks a woman who looks like Wanda, the murder victim.

Miércoles con Almodóvar When Pepa Marcos' (Carmen Maura) lover Ivan (Fernando Guillén) suddenly leaves her without any explanation, she embarks on a strange journey to discover why. On the way she meets a variety of eccentric characters, including Ivan's son from a previous relationship (Antonio Banderas), his fiancee Marissa (Rossy de Palma) and a Shiite terrorist cell who have been secretly holding her best friend Candela (María Barranco) hostage. It's a film noir take on the romantic comedy