Events

Adelaide Film Festival is South Australia’s premier screen event and one of Australia’s leading film festivals. This year's event...

Byron Bay’s 10-day celebration of independent cinema returns, screening in Palace Cinemas Byron Bay and venues in Lennox Head, Ballina and Murwillumbah. With a tagline of Anything Is Possible, this year’s screen showcase includes the latest work of experienced and emerging Northern Rivers filmmakers alongside feature films and documentaries made by some of Australia’s leading directors.

The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) is marking its 50th anniversary at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia with a program of newly-restored short films from some of the school’s most celebrated alumni. The selection showcases the first forays into filmmaking of some of the founding class of ’73 – Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Chris Noonan – alongside distinguished directing alumni from the past 50 years: Ivan Sen, Cate Shortland, Robert Connolly, Sue Brooks, Catriona...

Featuring 55 Australian premiere films from 19 countries, this year's Jewish International Film Festival will deliver a program 30 feature films, 20 documentaries, two series, and six short films alongside a suite of live events to audiences in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart and Gold Coast. Launching JIFF 2023 is the Australian premiere of Erez Tadmor's Matchmaking, the story of Moti Bernstein (Amit Rahav), an Ashkenazi ideal, who defies tradition for Nechama, a Mizrahi beauty. The local contingent includes...