The Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival will open with Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness. 

Rolf de Heer, lead actress Mwajemi Hussein, and producers Molly Reynolds and Julie Byrne will be in attendance. 

The Survival of Kindness, filmed in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges and Tasmania, will launch a 150-session line-up of screenings and events at SWIFF’23, running 16 days and nights across three screening venues in Coffs Harbour and Bellingen, including the newly upgraded historic Bellingen Memorial Hall, having just finished a three-year multi-million dollar restoration and upgrade project.

The Screenwave International Film Festival began as a new grassroots film festival in 2015, founded by metropolitan expat husband-and-wife couple, festival directors Dave Horsley and Kate Howat and is supported by Australian screen icon and SWIFF Festival Patron Jack Thompson. 

Film Passes: Six films for $99 or up to 20 films for $269