Flickerfest is Australia’s only Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA Recognised Short Film Festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screening the best of shorts from Australia and around the world, hand-picked from over 3,400 entries.
The Alliance Française French Film Festival, the world’s largest showcase of French cinema outside of France, will return for its 35th edition in March. Opening the festival will be Martin Bourboulon's The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (Les Trois Mousquetaires - D'Artagnan), while other highlights include Léa Domenach's The President’s Wife (Bernadette), Tran Anh Hung's The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant), Thomas Cailley's The Animal Kingdom (Le règne animal), Jeanne Herry's All Your Faces (Je verrai toujours vos visages),...
The 2nd Inner West Film Fest has announced the first five films from this year’s program, including actor and director Faouzi Bensaïdi’s comical road film, Déserts, which premiered at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight; and the Australian premiere of Drugstore June. The line-up will also include writer-director Ally Pankiw's directorial debut feature, I Used to Be Funny, starring rising star Rachel Sennot as a promising stand-up and the latest film from Denys Arcand, Testament, which pokes fun at political correctness, identity...
The Fantastic Film Festival returns to Sydney and Melbourne in May for its fifth edition, offering a cross-section of cult, genre, arthouse, and alternative cinema across 24 feature films and 14 short films. The festival will open with a bang with the Australian premiere of Kiah Roache-Turner's Sting, with the director to participate in a Q&A following the screening. Other highlights include a 4K restoration of Gareth Evans 2011 Indonesian action thriller The Raid, and a 30th anniversary screening of...