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 2024 HSBC German Film Festival, presented by Palace in cooperation with German Films, is set to feature a selection of contemporary German cinema. First highlights include the new drama from Camera d’Or winning writer/director Claire Burger, Foreign Language, which arrives direct from the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival; One For the Road, starring Frederick Lau and Nora Tschirner; Dark Satellites, starring Nastassja Kinski and Albrecht Schuch and Lubo, starring Franz Rogowski. The ‘Kino for Kids’ sidebar, presented by the...
The First Nations Film Festival (FNFF) will be held from May 27 to June 10, with the program to stream during National Reconciliation Week, which this year carries the theme of Now More Than Ever. Among the featured films is Sinem Saban's Luku Ngarra - The Law of the Land, set in the Yolngu Nation of Northeast Arnhem Land and driven by one of the country's most respected Indigenous elders, Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra. Other notable titles include Ivan Sen's...
The Sydney Film Festival (SFF) returns in June, offering its usual mix of titles from Australia and the world across 12 days and nights. Films will screen alongside a series of public program talks and events set to be attended by both local and international guests. The first titles in this year’s 71st SFF program will be announced in April, and audiences can expect the full festival program to be revealed in May. The venues for the festival are the...
The Children's International Film Festival (CHIFF) is back with a month-long celebration of cinema designed to captivate and inspire young audiences and their families. The CHIFF program features 18 Australian premiere titles, a program of family short films and special events tailored to young filmgoers aged from three years old and up.
The best cinema from Spain and Latin America. This year’s festival centrepiece is The Teacher Who Promised The Sea (El Maestro que Prometió el Mar), winner of the Audience Prize at the 2024 Gaudí Awards.
Doc Edge will move its international documentary festival to Christchurch this June. The 19th edition of this Oscar-qualifying festival will take place in multiple venues across Christchurch offering immersive experiences with screenings, talks, exhibitions, live performances, awards, and screen industry events. After its Christchurch premiere, the festival will be available in Auckland, Wellington, and across Aotearoa New Zealand through Doc Edge's Virtual Cinema. Stay tuned for additional festival programme details to be unveiled early in the new year. FESTIVAL DATES:...
The two-day red-carpet event will premiere six short films locally-produced by the Sunny Coast Showdown team and presented by Bendigo Bank Community Bank. They will compete for the festival’s prize gong, the Gold Yewwy award. The event will also premiere director Chris Sun’s acclaimed comedy short film, Loophole, starring Hugh Parker and Libby Munro while the Hello Sunshine ‘Light, Camera, Lunch!’ story-telling event will host Showdown co-founder and Showdown Winner Emma Morgan. The festival will also feature a new international...
The Saudi Film Commission, in partnership with Australian production company Blacksand Pictures, is bringing Saudi Film Nights to The Sydney Opera House and Sofitel Melbourne on Collins from June 26 - 28. Aimed at fostering collaboration between the Australian and Saudi film industries, the event comprises two separate screenings with two films each. In Sydney, there will be Abu Bakr Shawky's Hajjan, represented by producer Majed Samman and actor Ibrahim Alhasawi, and Sara Balghonaim's short film Me & Aydarous, represented...