Events

The first-ever SWANA Film Festival, presented by Arts & Cultural Exchange (ACE) Parramatta, is a three day festival of Southwest Asian and North African cinema screening at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta across the weekend. The festival will screen 20 unique films across the program, from Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Armenia, and Syria. These include two LGBTQIA+ films and represent more than five languages. Australian premieres include opening night film Baghdad in My Shadow by Swiss-Iraqi filmmaker Samir (Iraqi Odyssey) and...

The 2023 German Film Festival will screen May 2 – 24 at Palace Cinemas nationally as well as Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas. First highlights include Margarethe von Trotta's Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert and Frauke Finsterwalder's  Sisi & I , both of which premiered in Berlin. This year’s line features the Sönke Wortmann's sequel to 2019 hit comedy of manners How About Adolf? (GFF19), Family Affairs, which reunites the families from the first film, this time...

Uniting the pillars of entertainment, media, and technology, Screen Forever is one of the largest congregations of screen industry professionals in the Southern Hemisphere, attended by a broad cross-section of the Australian screen business. Discussions encompass aspects of producing, creating, writing, directing, distributing, and financing screen content across film, television, games, interactive, and online. The event will conclude with the annual SPA Awards, featuring categories such as Animated Production of the Year, Feature Film Production of the Year, Commissioner of...

The South African Film Festival (SAFF) will be held from May 4-31 across Australia and New Zealand. Now in its 5th year, the hybrid event showcases the very best of contemporary South African film to antipodean audiences, presented through in-cinema screenings and on their online platform. Net proceeds from the festival support Education Without Borders (EWB), a not-for-profit organisation that has been providing educational programs for students from under-resourced and socially disadvantaged communities in the Western Cape of South Africa...

The Screen Producer Australia (SPA) Awards are back for 2022, with winners from each category to be announced at an in-person ceremony on the final night of Screen Forever 37, taking place on Gold Coast from May 3-5, 2023. The awards honour industry contributions and are the only awards voted solely by production businesses. With the awards ceremony scheduled for May 2023, the eligibility period has been extended and encompasses July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Returning categories include...