Asian Cinema Collective presents an encore screening of MAGELLAN - Gael García Bernal stars as a turncoat explorer, embarking on an ambitious but ill-fated voyage around the world. Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan dreams of being the first person to circumnavigate the globe. When his ambitions are nixed by his king, he decides to defect, taking his grand plans to the King of Spain instead. Having obtained the funding he needs, Magellan embarks on a journey across the high seas. Along the way, power dynamics shift and objectives change, but when Magellan arrives in the Philippine archipelago his plans truly unravel.

Backrooms is a sci-fi horror film based on the viral YouTube series of the same name by Kane Parsons, produced by the powerhouse indie studio A24. - At an ordinary, discount furniture store, a strange doorway appears in the basement. An employee, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), investigates and discovers a sprawling, seemingly infinite, maze of sickly yellow, fluorescent-lit rooms. He quickly becomes obsessed with the place, venturing deeper and deeper into "the Backrooms". - Upon telling his therapist, Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), about his discovery, she is hesitant to accept that what he saw was actually real. Attempting to prove its existence, Clark sets out to document footage of the Backrooms.

CINEMA ECLIPSE SUNDAYS with film director Saara Lamberg. All sessions feature a Q&A afterward. - We will be presenting the retrospective of the entire feature collection to date directed by the Melbourne director Saara Lamberg. Contains: strong psychological themes, coarse language, drug references, nudity - Two shorter features that complement each other. - COMA: You are Alex Devine. You see and hear your friends and relatives come to you with their revelations, demands and grief, whilst you are unable to move or talk. Will your secrets be safe or compromised before it's all over? - CONVERSATIONS WITH SPITHEAD: A lonely genius adopts a cat and reorganises the world in his living room. "Conversation with Spithead and Coma are easily some of the best films I've seen in quite some time. Substance over flash, improvisational but you would not pick it as the acting was high calibre." IMDb review

CULT CLASSIX ...a presentation of Umbrella films - Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men.In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. - A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’s threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty.

CULT CLASSIX ...a presentation of Umbrella films - Directed by Chris Broadbent & Enzo Tedeschiand starring Kylah Day, Luke Ford - When Emily moves out of home, she unwittingly reactivates a generational curse that has laid dormant for 25 years. Dismissed as crazy by all those around her, she must reconnect with her ancestry to defeat the vengeful “giniirr” before it takes her life,as payment for her ancestors’ sins. Bringing a new First Nations spin to the horror genre, IT WILL FIND YOU brings a fresh take to a tried-and-true supernatural horror.

CULT CLASSIX ...a presentation of Umbrella films - 2k Restoration Small-town girl Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is determined to make it as feature dancer in the bitch-eat-bitch, sex-soaked world of the Las Vegas showrooms.The reigning queen of Sin City Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon) is not going to give up her crown – or man (Kyle MacLachlan) – without a fight. - Imagined by master stylist director Paul Verhoeven and legendary screenwriter of the outrageous Joe Eszterhas (the duo behind Basic Instinct), Showgirls is more than a movie – it's a phenomenon.

Presented by Splash DVD - CULT CLASSIX ...a presentation of Umbrella films - Matt Johnson’s (Blackberry, Operation Avalanche, Nirvana the Band the Show) first feature, THE DIRTIES is one of the most haunting coming-of-age films of the decade.Told with equal parts satire and warning through a raw, painfully authentic feeling found-footage style, and with almost no scripted dialogue, THE DIRTIES is a darkly comic and deeply disturbing exploration of friendship, obsession, and the power of storytelling.

CULT CLASSIX: a presentation of Umbrella films - In 1920s Los Angeles, whilst rehabilitating in hospital after a fall, innocent optimist Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) strikes up an unlikely friendship with Hollywood stuntman Roy (Lee Pace; Twilight Saga, The Hobbit). Recovering from a near fatal accident and a personal betrayal, Roy begins to tell of a magical, mythological land ruled by Governor Odious and the 5 extraordinary heroes charged to defeat him -an enthralling story of colour, texture and immense riches unravels and it is only when the lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur that Alexandria realises how much there is at stake.

CULT CLASSIX: a presentation of Umbrella films - In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic characterand seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment... - A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful people, each representing a planet in the Solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal. - Incredible 4k Restoration

Asian Cinema Collection presents... CULT CLASSIX: a presentation of Umbrella films - 4k Restoration Directed with kinetic intensity by Gareth Evans, THE RAID has become a cult favourite for its bone-breaking stunt choreography and edge-of-your-seat thrills. - A rookie member of an elite team of commandos, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back while his comrades-in-arms go ahead with their mission to take down brutal crime lord Tama (Ray Sahetapy). However, the team's cover is blown and Tama offers sanctuary to every criminal in his high-rise apartment block in exchange for the commando's heads. Now Rama must take command and lead those remaining on a charge through the building to complete the mission.

CULT CLASSIX ...a presentation of Umbrella films - A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, don't miss this 2k restoration of Gregg Araki’s audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. - Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralising. Both a defiantly raw anthem of outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with all-American homophobia, Araki’s answer to the 1980s teen comedy captures youthful angst with an immediacy that still bruises.

CULT CLASSIX ...a presentation of Umbrella films - Indefatigable genre director Franco reteams with leading lady Maria Rohm, cast here as a murdered woman who returns from the dead and dons the titular accoutrements to mete out revenge on those who assaulted and slew her; jazzman James Darren forsakes alive-and-well Barbara McNair to heed the siren’s call. With Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price (in the first of his five films for Franco), and musician Manfred Mann away from his band onscreen and as composer.

Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2. the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. The film is directed by David Frankel, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and Aline Brosh McKenna. - Cast: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci

Winner of an Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival, DJ AHMET is about a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia who finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else. Writer/Director Georgi M. Unkovski makes his delightful feature film debut with this inspiring tribute to the unifying power of music at any age, as well as the unexpected freedoms it can provide. Uplifted by warm humour, lovable characters, and an unsurprisingly catchy soundtrack, DJ AHMET casts a welcome spell that reverberates long after the last joyous note.

Catch an exclusive Eclipse introduction by the filmmakers... - Gacked: The Movie to the Soundtrack is a new release full-length indie film completely produced by a few mates in Melbourne. Set in the year 3008, Melbourne has become a post-apocalyptic landscape where corrupt DJ’s restrict the use of music strictly to the EDM genres of their usbs. Tony and Robbie, two drug dealers stumble upon a musical artefact of the good old days leading them on a fantastical path of Pythonesque proportions as they rebel against the techno way of the DJ. It’s Melbourne music wars baby!!! - 9pm Fri 29th May (followed by HUMAN TRAFFIC at 10.30pm) - 9.15pm Sat 6th June (preceded by GOING DOWN at 7.30pm) - 8.30pm Sun 14th June (preceded by BACKROOMS at 6.30pm TBC)

Middle-class Karli, alcoholic Jane, unemployed Jackie, and square Ellen are four friends living together and barely scraping by in suburban Sydney. But when Karli’s father offers her a little money and a one-way ticket to New York, she finally sees a way out of her dead-end life—that is, until the money goes missing, kickstarting a final night out on the town that none of them will ever forget.

HUNDREDS OF HOMIES presents... A triumph of imagination, Mike Cheslik's joyously silly HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been acclaimed by critics and audiences around the world for capturing the spirit of Looney Tunes in a micro-budget slapstick comedy. During a supernaturally cold winter, Jean Kayak (Ryland Tews), a drunken applejack salesman, discovers that beavers have burned down his distillery. Frustrated, he sets off on a path of revenge and begins to orchestrate increasingly complex traps to become 19th Century North America's greatest fur trapper, win the hand of a mischievous lover, and defeat hundreds of beavers. Replicating the over-the-top surrealness of Looney Tunes cartoons, Cheslik's comedy of escalating proportions is a visual delight.

CINEMA ECLIPSE SUNDAYS with film director Saara Lamberg. All sessions feature a Q&A afterward. - We will be presenting the retrospective of the entire feature collection to date directed by the Melbourne director Saara Lamberg. Contains: strong psychological themes, coarse language, drug references, nudity - When a mysterious young woman starts a new life as an art model, will her demons leave her alone or finally reveal the naked truth? Filmed in Finland and Australia, Innuendo won the Cinema Australia Audience Award and several international festivals. "A very important piece of Aussie cinema- riveting, offbeat and has a fantastic twist" OzIndieCinema

Directed by Chris Broadbent & Enzo Tedeschiand starring Kylah Day, Luke Ford - When Emily moves out of home, she unwittingly reactivates a generational curse that has laid dormant for 25 years. Dismissed as crazy by all those around her, she must reconnect with her ancestry to defeat the vengeful “giniirr” before it takes her life,as payment for her ancestors’ sins. Bringing a new First Nations spin to the horror genre, IT WILL FIND YOU brings a fresh take to a tried-and-true supernatural horror.

Gael García Bernal stars as a turncoat explorer, embarking on an ambitious but ill-fated voyage around the world. Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan dreams of being the first person to circumnavigate the globe. When his ambitions are nixed by his king, he decides to defect, taking his grand plans to the King of Spain instead. Having obtained the funding he needs, Magellan embarks on a journey across the high seas. Along the way, power dynamics shift and objectives change, but when Magellan arrives in the Philippine archipelago his plans truly unravel.

Based on Enid Blyton’s best-selling children’s classic The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly and Tim and their children Beth, Joe and Fran – a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. Soon after the family’s arrival in the countryside, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the family learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.

A wickedly warped spin on the age-old adage of be careful what you wish for. After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic gets exactly what he asked for. However, he soon discovers that some desires come at a dark and sinister price.

After a chance meeting, wedding band front man Rick (Paul Rudd) drunkenly jams with former boy-band sensation Danny (Nick Jonas). Six months later, Rick is astounded to discover their impromptu song has skyrocketed to global fame, yet Danny receives all the glory. As Danny’s solo career takes flight, Rick fights for recognition. However, in his relentless pursuit of fame, fortune, and the rockstar life he’s dreamed of having, Rick risks losing a grip on his real fortune—his wife, daughter, and cherished friends back home.

Four intergenerational stories anchored by one German farmhouse evoke impressions of girlhood across the 20th century in this Cannes Jury Prize winner. - Sound of Falling is a novelistic epic, unfolding in nonlinear fashion and preferencing sense memory over specific, plot-driven events. The four protagonists are connected visually with mirrored gestures, objects and storylines, while Fabian Gamper’s ethereal cinematography hovers through space with ghostlike movements and voyeuristic angles. Earning comparisons to the work of auteurs such as Sofia Coppola, Michael Haneke, Terrence Malick and Jane Campion, writer/director Mascha Schilinski’s second feature is as elegant as it is assured.

Join David Quirk and the filmmakers at Eclipse as part of their national tour ahead of a July 30th release. - When three upwardly mobile millennial couples descend on a luxury Southern Highlands farmstay to celebrate a joint birthday, the weekend spirals out of control and the dark foibles of the Australian bourgeoisie are laid bare. Sophisticated and sardonic, The Birthday Trip announces itself as Australia’s answer to the intricate and wryly funny cinema of Noah Baumbach and Joachim Trier. - With an acclaimed ensemble cast including Luke Jacobz (Home and Away), David Quirk (Rosehaven, Please Like Me), Annelise Hall (Grease, MammaMia), Ben Gerrard (Wolf Creek, The Fall Guy) and Sapphire Blossom (Mr Inbetween, Slapper), this uniquely Australian drama is equal parts sophisticated and satirical, speaking loudly to the current moment. - “Funny, sharp, incredible performances. Very clever satire, in conversation with Joachim Trier” Jared Richards (ABC, SMH, The Guardian, The Monthly) - “An intense handheld character study taking a leaf from Steven Soderbergh. That rare film that literally gets better with each progressive minute.” FilmInk

CINEMA ECLIPSE SUNDAYS with film director Saara Lamberg. All sessions feature a Q&A afterward. - We will be presenting the retrospective of the entire feature collection to date directed by the Melbourne director Saara Lamberg. Contains: strong psychological themes, coarse language, drug references, nudity - An eccentric director on the rise travels to Cannes Film Festival, Berlin, German countryside, New Caledonia, Australia and England to create their latest art house film and has to negotiate many entertaining hurdles before finally fulfilling their vision. The Lies We Tell Ourselves inspired two film festivals to create a brand new price category, because the film didn't fit any of the pre-existing boxes; it won "Best Rebel Feature Film" by Winchester Film Festival and "Best Metamentary" by Sydney Underground Film Festival

ROCCO'S BOLOGNA x ROULEUR WINES x ECLIPSE $45 Tickets, Rocco's Snack + glass of premium Rouleur wine - In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Armed with his field notes and loyal dog Birba, she searches for a prizewinning truffle to save his home. "Trifole is the must-see film for fans of truffles, Italy and cute dots." FORBES "To watch Trifole is to fall in love with Langhe. An agrarian past perfectly preserved in an uncertain present." LA TIMES

CINEMA ECLIPSE SUNDAYS with film director Saara Lamberg. All sessions feature a Q&A afterward. - We will be presenting the retrospective of the entire feature collection to date directed by the Melbourne director Saara Lamberg. Contains: strong psychological themes, coarse language, drug references, nudity - Sally gave her son Sam up for adoption 20 years ago and when they reunite, they fall passionately in love with devastating consequences. Most awarded of all their films to date (and Saara's personal favourite), FilmInk titled the article about the film "The Saara Lamberg Effect" and said the film "grips and stuns not just through its daring subject matter, but by the highly artistic manner in which it is platformed."