Events

The Irish Film Festival (IFF) Australia has been sharing the culture, traditions, history, and character of Ireland and the Irish people with Australians since 2015. Following a national festival touring a different city’s Palace cinema each weekend from late August through September, the IFF is proud to present a different and expanded selection of films streaming online in October 2022. The festival is a not-for-profit cultural event supported by the Irish Embassy in Canberra, the Irish Consulate in Sydney, and...

The 2022 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival returns to cinemas nationally in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, and Byron Bay from September, featuring a mix of contemporary drama, comedy, and documentaries, while also honouring one of Italy’s greatest filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The 2022 Festival opens with the Italian box office hit Belli Ciao, starring comedic duo Pio and Amedeo. It follows two formerly inseparable friends who reunite in their hometown in Puglia after years apart, resulting in an...

In partnership with Screen Queensland, Panavision is heading to Cairns to deliver creative and technical camera workshops — one targeted for filmmakers working in non-technical areas such as directing or producing, and the other designed to support technical roles in production and post. To take place September 20 and 21, the two workshops will incorporate case studies, “lit set” demonstrations and theory presentations, with access to cameras and optics from Panavision’s rental inventory. The workshops will discuss how technology influences...

ACMI celebrates the life and career of iconoclastic French auteur Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away earlier this month at age 91, with Goodbye to Godard – a season showcasing six films from the director’s career-defining French New Wave period, including his breakout 1960 film Breathless  (À bout de souffle) and his satire of youth culture, Masculin, Féminin (1966). Six films will screen as part of Goodbye to Godard: Breathless (1960) – Godard’s debut feature heralded the French New Wave movement and inspired...