Ukranian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's 20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege through the courageous reporting of AP journalists. On the back of the film's Oscar nomination for best documentary, Mstyslav joins us.

In the Emmy nominated series How To With John Wilson, an anxious New Yorker attempts to give everyday advice while dealing with his own personal issues. Creator and star John Wilson is our guest.

Mstyslav Chernov is an online guest at this year's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC)

John Wilson is a special guest of this year's Antenna Documentary Film Festival

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and fresh from an Oscar nom, it unpicks the story of a married couple whose tabloid romance gripped the world twenty years earlier. Plus, as it becomes available to stream on Docplay, Adrian Francis discusses Paper City, his moving feature documentary about the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Fresh from five Oscar noms, French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which also took home the 2023 Palme d'Or, an electric courtroom drama starring Sandra Hüller, about woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise. 

Korean Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony Shim discusses Riceboy Sleeps, his touching indie drama about a Korean single mother raising her adolescent son in the suburbs of Canada during the 1990s. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Korean-born American filmmaker Celine Song discusses her first feature, one of the best reviewed films of the year, Past Lives, a love story about migration, connection and fate, and French actor/director Louis Garrel on his quirky mother-son crime caper The Innocent, a very charming film set in Lyon.

U.S. indie director Greta Gerwig discusses her billion dollar blockbuster Barbie, followed by three guest critics who write for ABC Arts give their verdict on both Barbie and the other big box office hit of the year, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton on The New Boy, his outback fable about an Aboriginal boy who comes under the care of a renegade catholic nun in 1940s Australia and his apprehension at directing Cate Blanchett in the role. Plus, the team behind Mission Impossible movie - director Christopher McQuarrie and some of his cast stop by to discuss the seventh film in the evergreen action franchise.

U.S. actor Nicholas Braun AKA Cousin Greg from the hit series Succession talks about his role of a lifetime. Plus, local filmmaker Alena Lodkina's the sophomore feature Petrol, and British acting legend Lesley Manville talks about her role in the TV series Citadel.

Cate Blanchett discusses her acclaimed film Tar, in which she plays a celebrity orchestra conductor who falls from grace. Plus, two more celebrated Australian actresses, Toni Collette and Angourie Rice, who chat about TV shows they were a part of this year, The Power and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Michael Mann, the director of summer blockbuster Ferrari joins us, plus, a trippy new Nicolas Cage film and Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott play lovers in All of Us Strangers.

Legendary British character actor David Thewlis on his role in The Artful Dodger, and Berlin Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.