DREAMQUIL

Saturday 21st November - 18:30

DREAMQUIL (UK Premiere)

Dir: Alex Prager. Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Jon C Reily, Sofia Boutella. USA (2026) 84mins. 

In a choked, dystopian near-future where toxic air locks humanity indoors, exhausted executive Carol (Elizabeth Banks) is suffocating inside a crumbling marriage to her oblivious husband, Gary (John C. Reilly). Desperate for a mental reboot, she checks into DreamQuil—a sinister, retro-futuristic AI wellness retreat promising to rewire her trauma. To keep domestic bliss humming in her absence, the company dispatches an identical, hyper-compliant mechanical clone: Carol-Too. When the real Carol returns refreshed and ready to reconnect, she uncovers a chilling nightmare: her family prefers the robotic upgrade. Dripping in candy-coloured mid-century paranoia and razor-sharp satire, visionary photographer Alex Prager’s feature debut turns domestic bliss into a hallucinatory, technicolour fight for survival.

Screening with THE WORM (UK Premiere)

Dir: Tom Noakes. Starring: Joe Bird, Heather Mitchell, Susie Porter. Australia (2026) 13mins. 

Kieran is convinced a telepathic earthworm is manipulating him into making bad choices in his life. His concerned family decide to stage an intervention. The result? An amusingly bizarre showdown between reason, belief and one very unlucky invertebrate.

Festival passes and individual tickets can be purchased here.