PERTH FESTIVAL 2020

Australia's premier curated multi-arts festival, the Perth Festival, is hitting Western Australia once again from the 7th February to the 1st March 2020.

Featuring a huge collection of films, it's the perfect opportunity for cinephiles to check out the best new films before they hit cinemas! The SWITCH team has checked out their top picks of the competition - browse through our reviews below, and check back throughout the festival as we add more!

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM

A documentary with lessons on sustainable farming and family

This film documents how we should live: with an appreciation of the balance of Mother Nature, and with a fearless tenacity to live out our dreams.

IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS

An eye-opening tale of struggling Indigenous youth

The documentary excels in never sensationalising any aspect of Dujuan's story for dramatic effect; simply capturing Dujuan's daily life is enough to make blood boil and tears fall.

PAIN AND GLORY

Pedro Almodóvar delivers a rhapsodic masterwork

A portrait of an artist entering the last act of their lives, looking back at what they have created and the battlefield left in their wake, and facing the fear of never creating again.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

A perfect film on the language of desire

This is a rare and precious film, breathtaking in its craft and intensely honest in its passions, and one of the best films of this or any year. This is great, great cinema.

YOUNG AHMED

A disappointment from a world of talent

There's just an inherent "something" missing here that could be blamed on a number of factors, all of which stem from behind the camera.

THE DEAD DON'T DIE

A zombie comedy that's anything but grave

A luxuriously paced, wittily gory zombie comedy, it’s part social commentary, part homage to cinema, and all ridiculous. You’d be dead right to want to check it out.

LES MISÉRABLES

A remarkably thrilling act of cinematic protest

A remarkable, electrifying and ultimately shattering film, a stellar debut for Ladj Ly, and most importantly, a work that feels necessary. It's a thrilling act of cinematic protest.

THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON

Wholesome and heartfelt

It's a comedy that is as sweet and unique as its main star, and points towards a bright future for disabled inclusivity in film.