The Rooster

The Rooster (2024) is an Australian drama with a detective thread you can watch online on iFILM. Dan, a small-town cop, learns that his oldest friend has been found buried in a shallow grave.

The last person to see the dead man alive was a volatile hermit living off in the bush, far from anyone. Dan goes looking for answers and slowly sinks into a stranger's isolation and his own buried wounds. The investigation here is less about clues and interrogations than about two broken men whom grief pushes together under one cabin roof. Phoenix Raei plays the cop on the edge, while Hugo Weaving is the hermit, all rough edges with something fragile underneath.

This is the directing debut of actor Mark Leonard Winter: 101 minutes of slow, somber cinema about guilt, friendship, and the idea that hope turns up where you least expect it. The Australian backcountry is shot like a character of its own, cold and beautiful at once. It is for viewers who favor quiet psychological dramas over fast-moving thrillers. Stream The Rooster (2024) online on iFILM.