What to Watch Right Now

The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats. Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other?

Confined to their glasshouse, a family survives The Shred, a toxin that erases memory. Until the sisters are seduced by a Stranger who shatters their peace and stirs a past best left buried.

In 2020 Madrid, Ernesto Caral, a sarcastic loudmouthed fortysomething theater director is trapped in a middle-age crisis: after splitting with his domestic partner Julia, he moves to a new floor with their smart teenage daughter Cloe. Ernesto belongs to a clan of artists: his mother Carolina was an actress, his brother Max is a concert pianist, and Cloe is a talented painter (who wants to be a lawyer). Ernesto divides his time between finding a new project to recover his fallen-into-disgrace career, and caring for his aged mother. Worried as a number of her friends die in a short time, Carolina forces Ernesto to promise that after she dies, he'll take her corpse to her birth town in Altea, Alicante, Valencia, and throw it into the sea. While he's reluctantly filming a TV series to solve his money troubles, he takes a bad-news call from Max: Carolina has died suddenly of a heart attack. Devastated with the loss and doubtful he can keep his promise, Ernesto finally steals the hearse during the funeral service and calls Cloe who, aware of the promise, determines to make the trip with Ernesto. While Max warns the funeral company and they call the police, Cloe and Ernesto start a long road trip of 479 km (about 297 miles) where the different secrets and troubles from the past collide not only between father and daughter but a troubled Max, always cared for by his boyfriend Iván, who feels himself as a fraud by his career as pianist, playing others' songs instead of his own. While the police sends an APB to catch Ernesto, he must face the life he lived and his fragile relationship with Cloe, who is still resentful about her parents' split. The father/daughter journey is an unforgettable and very touching odyssey for both.

After being taken away from her birth parents as a baby by the state, and adopted out of foster care at age 4, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert (AKA Cami) decides to go searching for her birth father. After weeks undercover on the street of LA, she finally finds him: homeless, addicted, and running from the law, yet a musician, just like her.

A sacrificial son. Sisters with a shocking secret. A man on Death Row. Testament invites you to bear witness to the dark underbelly of The Good Book. Set in modern day America, Testament explores the compelling re-imagining of four oft-forgotten Bible characters against a haunting score of gospel and blues as we behold how their lives have unfolded in today's society.

In the fall of 1874 a New York journalist Henry Olcott decided to take a trip to Vermont. He wants to investigate the mysterious apparitions of the ghostly spirits in a remote Vermont homestead. On the train he meets a peculiar woman, who calls herself Madame Blavatsky. Madame is also going to Vermont, and claims to be a messenger of the Great Mahatmas of Tibet and a member of the The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. Because in the 19th century Tibet was closed to the European and American visitors, and The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor was still a secret organization, Madam's revelations sound especially interesting. Madame Blavatsky tells Henry that the connection with the Great Mahatmas of Tibet allowed her to obtain some supernatural powers.

The famous merchant and his daughter Rose are onboard the good ship Queen Elizabeth that is returning from great travels with gold and spices, when they are attacked by a Spanish crew and Rose is taken prisoner when the captain takes a shine to her.

An environmental thriller following investigative journalist, Matt Blomberg, and ocean activist, Paul Ferber, in their dangerous effort to create a marine conservation area to combat the relentless tide of illegal fishing. Along the way a new generation of Cambodian environmentalists are inspired to create a better life for their people.

While visiting a massacre memorial, a photographer finds herself drawn to a local woman. But their romance stirs up painful memories of a shared past.

It showcases the women partners of the men who put President Vladimir Putin in charge as they risk everything by revealing the secrets of staying in his good graces and the price some have paid for speaking out.

17-year-old Jakob wants nothing more than to feel alive. Uncontrollable anxiety attacks prevent him from doing so and force him to escape into virtual worlds. One night, he meets 26-year-old Kristjan in a cam chat. Their encounter marks the beginning of a transpersonal journey to the wounds of their souls.

A disgruntled donut shop employee escapes the banal circumstances of her work life by imagining she is the hero in an old-fashioned Western movie. As she wages battle against a bad guy who looks suspiciously like her co-worker, brows sweat... pistol-hands shake... and gunshots ring! But who will end up with the most cream on their face in this DONUT WESTERN.

Directed by award winning director Professor Larissa Behrendt (Eualeyai, Kamillaroi), the documentary offers compelling insight that explores the deeply personal and poignant stories of three Indigenous AFL players and celebrates Aboriginal Australia and its association with the Australian Football League.

Laura Green suffers from amnesia after a near fatal attack causing her memories to be erased every night once she goes to sleep. Each morning she must reacquaint herself, painstakingly piecing together fragments of her jagged past from cryptic clues on her computer. When her friends video call her to celebrate her birthday, reminding her of a life she cannot recall, she becomes suspicious. Are they being completely truthful? Are they even her real friends? Laura soon learns that her friends are not who they say they are, and the truth behind her attack that harbours the key to a sinister twist to her own identity.