The 2024 HSBC Spanish Film Festival
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.
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DocEdge
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:...
Showdown Showfest
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...
Saudi Film Nights
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...
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
The festival screens more than 200 international films at cinemas and bars across Perth and Fremantle. Combined with its moving image art collaborations at galleries across Perth and its XR:WA games and VR expo, Revelation attracts around 22,000 patrons.