Europa! Europa is set to bring the very best of European cinema to Australian shores for the first time from
February 4-27 2022. From international film festival favourites, to star-studded blockbusters and subversive works by Europe’s most celebrated auteurs, Europa! Europa presents 3 weeks of entertaining Australian premiere screenings, live music and special events.
Featuring 43 films from 32 countries, the festival brings Europe’s most innovative, audacious and daring films to audiences down under in Sydney and Melbourne. Europa! Europa opens on
February 4 at Ritz Cinemas, Randwick with the Australian Premiere of Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated new drama
The Souvenir Part II.
All tickets are now on sale.
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THE SOUVENIR PART II
The Souvenir Part II is British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s sequel to her acclaimed autobiographical feature The Souvenir (also screening). Starring film icon Tilda Swinton and her real-life daughter, Hogg’s film is a shimmering story of first love and an enigmatic portrait of a young woman’s formative years.
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FRANCE
Closing the Festival is writer-director Bruno Dumont’s (Coincoin and the Extra Humans) 2021 Cannes Palme d’Or nominated satire France, a rich and beguiling critique of the French media landscape featuring charismatic French star Léa Seydoux (No Time To Die, The French Dispatch).
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THE INNOCENTS
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. Suddenly, playtime takes a dangerous turn. Nominated for Cannes Un Certain Regard, Norwegian director Eskil Vogt’s (Blind) The Innocents is a gripping supernatural thriller.
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MURINA
Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Murina is an engrossing drama, exploring the shifting power dynamic between a restless teenager, her oppressive father and a family friend. This Camera d’Or winning film (from the 2021 Cannes Festival for the best first feature film) is an impressive debut.
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NAKED 4K RESTORATION
Newly remastered in 4K by the British Film Institute, the brilliant and controversial Naked stars David Thewlis as antihero Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Master director Mike Leigh’s depiction of England’s underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy.
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SUNDOWN
Fresh from the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is two-time Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Michel Franco’s (New Order, After Lucia) gory drama Sundown. A riveting and incisive study of class disparity and familial strife starring Oscar nominated actor Tim Roth (Broken) and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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VORTEX
From France comes acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé’s (Climax) sobering drama Vortex, depicting the tragedy of an elderly couple in decline due to the onset of dementia. Vortex follows the couples daily rituals, played to perfection by Françoise Lebrun and cult Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento.
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SWEAT
Sweat captures the nuances of influencer culture unlike any film before it. It covers three days in the life of Sylwia Zajac, a 30-year-old fitness motivator who gained celebrity status due to her avid use of social media.
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COW
Acclaimed British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) makes her documentary debut in this observational portrait of a dairy cow on an English farm. Tagged ‘social realism for animals’, this moving and considered documentary makes for wholly compelling viewing.
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TRUE THINGS
2021 Venice Film Festival Venice Horizons Award nominee True Things is a compelling psychodrama from BAFTA-nominated director Harry Wootliff (Only You). It focuses on a perennially unattached millennial who becomes emotionally entangled with an intoxicating stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
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