Writer/director François Ozon on his gripping and elegant new adaptation of Albert Camus' landmark novella ​​THE STRANGER, in cinemas now: "What compelled me wasn’t to make a film from the perspective of the 1940s, but make it with today’s perspective, with the distance we have from this period of French Algeria, and of the colonization, and contextualizing the book a little in the era in which it was written..."

Premiering in Australia as the Centrepiece Selection of the German Film Festival (6–27 May), AMRUM is the new film from award-winning director Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven, In The Fade), a deeply affecting historical drama about a young boy caught between family allegiance and an emerging moral conscience in wartime Germany. A profound meditation on innocence, loss, and the enduring need for compassion, inspired by true events.

Writer/director Thierry Klifa on his irresistible dark comedy THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD: "What fascinated me from the start was the Shakespearean quality of the story. There is at once tragedy and farce, the two blend together. I wasn’t going to make anybody cry for the extra-rich, so we might as well laugh at them. Their wit is funny, and so is their cruelty. But we also laugh at their ridiculousness, their excess."