Events

The Iranian Film Festival of Australia (IFFA) returns in 2023 after being forced to pause in 2022, with screenings taking place across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth from November 16 to December 13. Of the 13 films to be presented, there are eleven Australian premieres and both the 2023 UK and the 2024 Iranian official entries for the Academy Awards, as well as six award-winning shorts. The festival will also feature a retrospective honouring acclaimed director Dariush Mehruji...

The Other Film Festival and Arts Access Victoria are jointly presenting Resistance – an online, accessible film program available for streaming on demand via ACMI’s Cinema 3. All Resistance films are made by Deaf and Disabled people either as key creatives, collaborators, and/or performers. All films are free to watch, audio described and captioned. The Other Film Festival is proudly disability-led, with a festival team including artistic director Fiona Tuomy and curatorial/advisory team including Kath Duncan, CB Mako and Fury....

Every Colour In Between Film Festival is dedicated to celebrating diverse voices in LGBTQIA+ cinema and giving Australian cinemagoers access to new films from across the globe. The festival will be available simultaneously across nine Palace Cinema locations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Byron Bay and Canberra. The festival's lineup has been selected from top tier festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Slamdance, BFI London Film Festival, Locarno and New York Film Festival. It includes Rotting in the Sun,...

The annual Casting Guild of Australia (CGA) Awards Ceremony is moving to Sydney this year, with the invite-only event...