Sunday Pass

The final day of the festival explores Hollywood’s shifting visions of East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) through four films spanning almost the entirety of Cary Grant’s screen career. Beginning with one of his earliest appearances and concluding with his final film, Sunday’s programme offers a unique opportunity to reflect on both the evolution of a star and the changing ways that Hollywood represented the wider world.

From wartime adventure and exotic melodrama to romance and comedy, these films reveal how ESEA is often conflated into the generalised “East”, functioning as a place of fantasy, danger, desire and cultural encounter in the Hollywood imagination. Along the way, audiences will encounter a young Cary Grant still finding his screen persona, a mature star at the height of his powers, and finally a performer gracefully taking his leave of the screen. The day culminates with Walk, Don’t Run, screened on the anniversary of Grant’s death, providing a fitting and poignant conclusion to our festival journey.

The Sunday Day Pass offers the best value and the richest festival experience, allowing you to immerse yourself in a full day of cinema, conversation and discovery. Join fellow film lovers as we celebrate the beginning and end of Cary Grant’s extraordinary career, while exploring the fascinating histories, contradictions and pleasures of classic Hollywood cinema.