"When the tall, idealistic, baggy-suited Danish architect won the competition for the breathtaking city monument, his name rang no bells... [he arrived] as a political ingenue in the snake pit of Mitterrand’s Paris, just as Utzon arrived in Cahill’s Sydney. The film moves through von Spreckelsen’s steadfast insistence that the project’s significance required the impossible and justified vast cost blowouts, resulting in a final cost of some 2.7 billion francs (about $650 million in 1985)." Elizabeth Farrelly considers THE GREAT ARCH and the drama of great buildings for Architecture AU.

The winner of the five 2026 Goya (Spanish Academy) Awards including Best Film, Actress and Director, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's quietly spellbinding new drama SUNDAYS (M) follows a brilliant 17-year-old who announces she is leaving university behind for a silent, cloistered convent, a decision her distracted father and fiercely secular aunt can neither accept nor agree on.

🏆 Andrey Zvyagintsev’s MINOTAUR (CTC), winner of the 2026 Sydney Film Prize and the Grand Prix at Cannes, next screens this Oct at the Adelaide and Capital film festivals. From the acclaimed director of Leviathan, this gripping portrait of a Russian businessman’s emotional and moral collapse under mounting personal and political pressures is already one of the year’s most talked-about films.