Fantastic Film Festival Australia is back in town, promising cinema without restraints.

Set against the harsh backdrop of the Berlin Wall, Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 cult classic Possession is a genre-defying chronicle of marriage in decay.

All in all, After Blue (Dirty Paradise) is a wild and weird dreamscape of a film, complete with glowing crystals, high fashion accessories, and no less than 25 mentions of the words “Kate Bush”

Like a well thought out stage performance, Dreams on Fire aims not just to thrill, but also to move. Pulsing through its veins is a rich marriage of emotion and style, resulting in a film experience that commands attention, intoxicating the audience with an audio-visual assault on the senses.

One of the defining contentions of the film is who is justified in this situation, or rather who is the true captor and who is the true victim? Is it David, an obsessive programmer who didn’t think of the consequences of his actions? Or is it Al, a supercomputer who didn’t ask to be made but will stop at nothing to be free?

While not packing the usual one-two gut punch of most of its horror contemporaries, World’s Fair blends familiar mumblecore, coming-of-age and micro-budget horror elements into a film that’s greater than the sum of its parts, equally unnerving, hypnotic and experimental in the same breath.

Wanting to dip your toes into arthouse cinema, or are you a seasoned veteran looking for something that's out of this world bonkers? Look no further, because from April 21st until May 6th, Fantastic Film Festival Australia is back in town, and it's as bold and beautiful as ever.