Events

Ritz Cinemas in Randwick has announced a This Is Celluloid retrospective, featuring a lineup of 35mm and 70mm screenings every Friday night from 10 March to showcase cinematic triumphs from the 1920s to the present day across almost 40 weeks. The program kicks off with a 35mm screening of Michael Mann's modern crime masterpiece Heat on Friday 10 March. Other highlights include a special 35mm marathon presentation of George Lucas's Star Wars Saga, featuring six films from the original and prequel trilogies...

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, AFTRS will screen a series of acclaimed feature films directed by AFTRS alumni, beginning with Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm at 6.30pm on March 28. The screening will also feature a special video introduction from Noyce. Each film in this series was directed by an AFTRS alumnus and almost all feature alumni in key creative roles including producers, cinematographers, editors, production designers, and costume designers. In partnership with the National Film and Sound Archive...

The Screen Music Awards, put on by the APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, are an annual celebration of the champions of screen music composition. Thirteen awards will presented at this year's ceremony, to be held November 9 at Forum Melbourne. Hosting the awards is  comedian, actor, writer, and improviser Susie Youssef, while the musical director will be Erkki Veltheim. Veltheim will lead the Screen Awards orchestra, who will perform interpretations of the four Feature Film Score...

The 33rd annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival opens November 9 with the provocation 'Rewind to Fast Forward', with this year's program celebrating the indisputable existence of LGBTQIA+ peoples throughout history. Audiences can expect a selection of local and international drama, comedy, documentary, and everything in between. The program features 50 feature films and 17 documentaries, 11 short film packages, 3 world premieres, 26 Australian premieres and 19 Victorian premieres. MQFF will launch with the Opening Night screening of the Australian premiere of...

Featuring 55 Australian premiere films from 19 countries, this year's Jewish International Film Festival will deliver a program 30 feature films, 20 documentaries, two series, and six short films alongside a suite of live events to audiences in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart and Gold Coast. Launching JIFF 2023 is the Australian premiere of Erez Tadmor's Matchmaking, the story of Moti Bernstein (Amit Rahav), an Ashkenazi ideal, who defies tradition for Nechama, a Mizrahi beauty. The local contingent includes...