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...

Moonlight Cinema returns to n Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide this summer, offering a mix of box office...

The Other Film Festival and Arts Access Victoria are jointly presenting Resistance – an online, accessible film program available for streaming on demand via ACMI’s Cinema 3. All Resistance films are made by Deaf and Disabled people either as key creatives, collaborators, and/or performers. All films are free to watch, audio described and captioned. The Other Film Festival is proudly disability-led, with a festival team including artistic director Fiona Tuomy and curatorial/advisory team including Kath Duncan, CB Mako and Fury....

Every Colour In Between Film Festival is dedicated to celebrating diverse voices in LGBTQIA+ cinema and giving Australian cinemagoers access to new films from across the globe. The festival will be available simultaneously across nine Palace Cinema locations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Byron Bay and Canberra. The festival's lineup has been selected from top tier festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Slamdance, BFI London Film Festival, Locarno and New York Film Festival. It includes Rotting in the Sun,...

The annual Casting Guild of Australia (CGA) Awards Ceremony is moving to Sydney this year, with the invite-only event...

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...

The Iranian Film Festival of Australia (IFFA) returns in 2023 after being forced to pause in 2022, with screenings taking place across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth from November 16 to December 13. Of the 13 films to be presented, there are eleven Australian premieres and both the 2023 UK and the 2024 Iranian official entries for the Academy Awards, as well as six award-winning shorts. The festival will also feature a retrospective honouring acclaimed director Dariush Mehruji...