History from a deeply personal lens in From Hilde, With Love launches the German Film Festival as it celebrates both contemporary cinema and titans like Werner Herzog, whose gothic vampire film Nosferatu the Vampyre has never been bettered.
Focussing on the day-to-day response by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to the 1973 military crisis, this film is a smoke-filled study of an extraordinary woman that misses an opportunity to go deeper.
When nature is disturbed, it finds ways to fight back in acclaimed director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s strange and immersive fable set in a village outside Tokyo.
Intellectual titans CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud pit God and faith against reason and psychoanalysis at an imagined meeting shortly before Freud’s death in 1939.
The sixth Omen story loops back in time to the 1970s in the lead-up to the birth of Damien, who unleashes the forces of Satan and wreaks havoc on earth.
This ultra-violent revenge flick set in a mythical Mumbai launches Dev Patel as a fresh new director and an action man in the making.