The 2025 Revelation Perth Worldwide Movie Competition (2–13 July 2025) has introduced its full program, with titles starting from outrageous animation and genre-defining horror to poetic coming-of-age tales and restored cinematic landmarks.
With a lineup of greater than 45 options and documentaries and greater than 100 brief movies, this yr’s Rev, say the organisers, ‘delves into various narratives, innovating storytelling and cinematic artistry, providing a platform for each established and rising filmmakers and confirming Rev’s place as probably the most daring and various movie festivals down beneath’.
‘This system options all the pieces from sweaty punk realism and psychedelic cult journeys to iconic restorations to animations exploding with color and energy and a few of the most acclaimed movies direct from the worldwide pageant scene,’ mentioned Competition Director Richard Sowada.
Function movies vary from deeply intimate tales to genre-bending visible spectacles, and embody the opening night time movie, science-fiction comedy U Are The Universe, which tells the story of Andriy Melnyk, an area trucker who turns into the final human within the universe after Earth’s sudden explosion.
Amongst different standouts on this yr’s lineup is Eddington, a recent Western black comedy from director Ari Aster that arrives recent from Cannes. Set in New Mexico in the course of the Covid pandemic, the movie stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler.
Mr Burton, one other spotlight, is a British biographical drama delving into the adolescence of Welsh actor Richard Burton, starring Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones.
And September Says, the directorial debut of Ariane Labed, which delves into the complicated and unsettling bond between two sisters grappling with isolation and psychological rigidity.
Different must-see movies at this yr’s Rev embody:
- Spermageddon, an animated comedy musical that follows two sperm, Simen and Cumilla, on their journey to fertilise an egg.
- The Finish, a post-apocalyptic musical drama directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and starring Tilda Swinton.
- The Final First Time, a coming-of-age movie about 18-year-old from a small city in Mexico experiencing love and self-discovery throughout a visit to Guadalajara.
- Micro Funds, a pointy and irreverent comedy a few soon-to-be-father who strikes himself and his nine-months pregnant spouse from Iowa to Los Angeles to make an indie movie he hopes to promote to a streaming platform.
- Skeleton Women, an Aussie indie-punk movie from Western Australian director Richard Eames.
Rev will mark the 40th anniversary of award-winning Fran, starring Noni Hazlehurst, and can return the 1988 function movie Disgrace starring Deborra-Lee Furnessback to the massive display, each titles initially filmed in Western Australia. The Competition may also have fun Wim Wenders’ 80th birthday, providing uncommon alternative to expertise three of the German auteur’s most influential works on the massive display.
This yr’s documentary program brims with various voices and consists of:
- Abebe: Butterfly Music, a musical and cultural odyssey following Australian artist David Bridie as he uncovers the origins of a track that modified his life.
- Blue Street: The Edna O’Brien Story, which presents a vivid portrait of the legendary Irish author.
- The Extraordinary Miss Flower, which brings a strikingly private narrative to life via a fusion of archival love letters and modern efficiency, unveiling the key romantic lifetime of an in any other case forgotten lady, with narration by Nick Cave, Richard Ayoade and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
- Chain Reactions, which delves into the far-reaching cultural penalties of The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath.
- Eno, a filmic experiment as unpredictable and ingenious as its topic, Brian Eno.
- College of Laborious Knocks, a WA-made movie that tells the story of wrestler Mana The Polynesian Warrior’s profession and life.
Greater than 100 brief movies (together with practically 40 by Australian filmmakers) will display in the course of the Competition, which may also run an Experimental showcase and Horror and Sci–Fi lineups in its program.
The favored Worldwide Household Animation Explosion may also return, with a vibrant assortment of animated shorts from across the globe designed to thrill audiences of all ages – all screening without spending a dime.
First Nations voices will take centre stage within the First Nations showcase, and Wimmin’s Work will current assortment of audio, audio-visual and photographic tales capturing the historic and modern experiences of ladies residing and dealing in WA.
‘As regular we’ve gone all the way in which in bringing the perfect new and traditional worldwide cinema to WA audiences,’ mentioned Sowada. ‘Its a worldwide dialog informed via the language of movie.’
