Events

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...

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...

The Other Film Festival and Arts Access Victoria have come together to present Flaunt – an online, accessible film program available for streaming on demand via ACMI’s Cinema 3, as part of the Alter State Festival. All Flaunt films are made by deaf and disabled people either as key creatives, collaborators, and performers, with the entire program free to watch, audio described, and captioned. The Other Film Festival is proudly disability-led, with a festival team including artistic director Fiona Tuomy...

Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) will return as an in-person event this October, comprising major industry conferences as well as family fun events, while an international following will join online. The week incorporates PAX Aus — three days of new game demonstrations, music performances, panels, and live tournaments at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre – while developers, publishers, and brands will come together at the Games Careers Expo. There will also be the two-day High Score conference, which will...