Across a body of work spanning five decades in films such as Walkabout, Storm Boy, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Charlie’s Country, David Gulpilil undeniably became one of Australia’s greatest actors. Before he passed in 2021, his family promised to lay his body to rest at his birthplace of Gulpulul on Yolngu country in East Arnhem land, a journey that would quickly prove to be anything but straightforward.

Narrated by Hugh Jackman, this moving and thoughtfully observed documentary chronicles the final chapter in Gulpilil’s story: an extraordinary, multi-month odyssey involving planes, boats and helicopters to transport his body across more than 4,500 kilometres. Offering an intimate look at the Yolngu ceremonies performed to guide his spirit back to the sacred Marawuyu waterhole, this powerful story of grief, community, and sacred ceremony is fitting tribute to an Australian legend, solidifying Gulpilil's legacy as an artistic and cultural trailblazer who always navigated two worlds.

In 1970s Massachusetts, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) is an unassuming family man who, in a haphazard act of delusional confidence and self-entitlement, hatches a plan to steal four paintings by American modernist Arthur Dove from a lightly guarded local art museum. What follows is an unconventional ‘anti-heist’ film which focusses on the chaotic – and comical – aftermath of the heist. With his long-suffering wife, Terri (Alana Haim), becoming increasingly frustrated and his ill-trained accomplices proving unreliable, JB finds his life quickly unravelling.

Acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Certain Women) puts her storytelling prowess to good use reinventing the heist genre with this wryly funny character study rooted in the social and political turbulence of a post-Vietnam War, Nixon-era America. The Mastermind is less about the crime itself and more about the mediocre man running from reality whose spectacular failure to plan turns his life into a quiet, yet gripping, disaster.