Few filmmakers command anticipation quite like Martin McDonagh. The Academy Award-winning writer-director behind In Bruges (2008), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) returns with his most ambitious film yet: a wickedly funny, sharply observed and thoroughly unpredictable new work set on Easter Island in the lead-up to the 1973 Chilean coup. Led by an extraordinary cast including John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey and Tom Waits, Wild Horse Nine combines McDonagh's trademark humour, moral complexity and razor-sharp dialogue with a sweeping international canvas. By turns absurd, moving and audacious, this is event cinema from one of the great storytellers of our time. Adelaide Film Festival is proud to present the Australian Premiere of Wild Horse Nine as our Opening Night celebration reinforcing the power of cinema at a time when global leaders must take heed of history.