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An Eye for an Eye
An Eye for an Eye unfolds like a real-life courtroom thriller, with stakes as high as life and death. Years after…
Australian Shorts
EARTH AND THE EXOPLANETS Ceridwen Dovey, Matt Grech | Australia | 2026 | 20 min To name a planet is an…
Cameraperson
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family…
Celtic Utopia
After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of Irish musicians is reclaiming and reinventing the nation’s folk traditions. Celtic…
Close Up
“We can never get close to the truth except through lying.” – Abbas Kiarostami Blurring the line between documentary and fiction,…
Do You Love Me
Do You Love Me is a playful and deeply personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. A…
DocTalk 2026
10:00AM – 4:30PM | TUE 10 FEB 2026 | ETERNITY PLAYHOUSE DocTalk is a full-day industry event featuring a curated program…
Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment
It’s 2014, and tech billionaire Elon Musk unveils his plans for a self-driving car before an enthusiastic audience. What consumers don’t…
Fiume o morte!
Die yes, live no! This was the motto of the flamboyant Italian officer, poet, dandy, aristocrat and fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio. In…
Flophouse America
You never really know if it’s day or night in Flophouse America. Here we meet 12-year-old Mikal, a bright boy in…
Ghost Elephants (Closing Night)
For over sixty years, Werner Herzog has been fascinated by human obsessions, dreams, and imagination. In Ghost Elephants, he continues this…
Gillian Armstrong & The Adelaide Three: 50 Years Later In A Longitudinal Series
Antenna is proud to present a special retrospective celebrating one of Australia’s most extraordinary documentary achievements. In 1976, Gillian Armstrong met…
Hair, Paper, Water…
Winner of the ‘Filmmakers of the Present’ award at Locarno, Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý’s second collaboration is a delicate…
Iron Winter
Over the generations, as winter approaches and snow descends on Mongolia’s Tsakhir Valley, herders have led thousands of horses across the…
Khartoum
Playful yet quietly radical, this film was shot before and during Sudan’s latest civil war — a conflict that, since spring…
La Jetée, The Fifth Shot
Few films have been held historically dearer than Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a minimalist masterpiece often grouped among the greatest…
Man With A Movie Camera
Voted one of the ten greatest films ever made in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll — and named the best…
Memory
After her parents’ separation, six-year-old Vladlena Sandu moves from Crimea to Grozny. There, in 1994, she becomes caught up in the…
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
A gripping portrait of Russian journalists living and working under the crosshairs of a hostile regime. It’s late 2021, and the…
Nova ’78
Nova ’78 is an electrifying plunge into 1970s counter-culture, constructed from long-lost 16mm footage of the legendary ‘Nova Convention’ in New…
One Sings, The Other Doesn’t
In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country…
Opening Night: The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel
In 1970s Britain, Tony Powell was a star defender for Norwich City Football Club — until one day he disappeared from…
PARA VIVIR: The Implacable Times of Pablo Milanés
A deeply personal and music-filled portrait of Cuban icon Pablo Milanés, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years. Co-founder of…
Sambizanga
This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a…
Seeds
Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance, Seeds is a lyrical and down-to-earth portrait of life,…
Sentient
Fresh from Sundance 2026, the beloved Australian journalist-turned-filmmaker Tony Jones takes us inside animal laboratory research, exposing a hidden world in…
Shifting Baselines
In the quiet border village of Boca Chica, Texas — hemmed in by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande…
Soldiers of Light
They are on a crusade against “darkness.” In Germany, the “Citizens of the Reich” (Reichsbürger) movement belongs to the same family…
Stories of a Lie
During a stay in her native Greece, Olia learns that a childhood friend has cancer — a diagnosis her doctors and…
Synthetic Sincerity
At the University of Southern England, the Synthetic Sincerity Lab is developing AI characters capable of true emotional authenticity. To teach…
The Castle
Out on the street, chaos reigns. But in an abandoned building in the middle of Sicily, Angelo, Mery and Rosy have…
The Clown of Gaza
A portrait of the greatly beloved performer Alaa Meqdad, whose life has been upended by the bombings of Gaza City, forcing…
The Colleano Heart
Before cinema, the circus was the world’s grandest stage, and the Colleano family were among its brightest stars. Embarking on a…
The Last Guest Of The Holloway Motel
In 1970s Britain, Tony Powell was a star defender for Norwich City Football Club — until one day he disappeared from…
The Travelers
Along the heavily militarized border between Morocco and the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North African coast, young Sub-Saharan men…
Trade Secret
Trade Secret is a gripping exposé of one of the world’s most shocking and little-known wildlife trades. It follows three unlikely…
Trains
Trains take families to the seaside, soldiers to the front, prisoners to their doom; they bring loved ones — and bodies…
Trillion
A woman walks across weather-beaten rocks by the sea. Barefoot in a simple white dress, her face hidden beneath a floppy…
We Are Jeni
Dr Jeni Haynes’ childhood mind and body are a crime scene and her memories are fractured across 2,500 alternate personalities. Diagnosed…
With Hasan in Gaza
It is 2001 in Gaza, and Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist Kamal Aljafari travels from north to south, accompanied by a…
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