Events

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...

The 2022 Greek Film Festival returns to Leichhardt’s Palace Norton Street Cinema in October to celebrate the best of contemporary and classic Greek cinema. Thirteen narrative features, three documentaries, and the Student Film Festival make up a diverse festival line-up designed to transport audiences Athens (Monday), explore generational history (Smyrna), and highlight ambitious, local art (The Greek Bar Jacket). This year's festival is dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, an event described as ‘changing the face...

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Cunard British Film Festival presented by Palace, will once screen the biggest and best films from the region. Opening the festival on October 19 (October 18 in Adelaide) is the premiere of the highly anticipated Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, starring the fabulous Lesley Melville as the titular Mrs. Harris. The festival will also see special program of James Bond films, including Dr. No (60th anniversary), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), starring Australia’s Bond George Lazenby, Skyfall...

Byron Bay International Film Festival returns in-person with a 10-day celebration of cinema, this year with the tagline: Shining Light in Darkness. The festival will open with Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness, with other international feature films to include Klondike, Mayna Er Gorbach's story of a Ukrainian family at the centre of the MH-17 air-crash catastrophe; Piotr Zlotorowicz's Faithbreaker; The Noise of Engines; Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave, andEverybody Hates Johan.  Surfing features prominently in the program, including the...

The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) returns to cinemas across Australia this October for its 30th anniversary year. The upcoming festival edition, the second for 2022 following a rescheduled 2021 festival that played in cinemas in March, is JIFF's most geographically expansive yet, screening across nine venues in seven cities. For the first time, JIFF screens at the iconic State Cinema in Hobart, and the new Dendy Cinemas site in Southport (Gold Coast, Queensland). Kicking off the season with an...

The Melbourne Cinémathèque presents Queering the Archive: The Cinema of Barbara Hammer, screening at ACMI from October 26 – November 2. Over a career spanning 50 years and more than 80 moving-image works, American filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) initiated a new kind of cinema made from a distinctively female and lesbian perspective, challenging the assumptions of mainstream culture and opening a discourse for marginalised groups in society. The upcoming season pays tribute to a range of Hammer’s...

Celebrating its 28th year, Queensland’s brightest celebration of film, the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) will screen with a diverse selection of award-winning films, anticipated releases, home grown content, heartfelt stories and exciting films from emerging voices. Venues include Brisbane Powerhouse, QAGOMA Australian Cinémathèque, New Farm Six Cinemas, The Elizabeth Picture Theatre, Dendy Coorparoo, Dendy Portside and Reading Newmarket. The Brisbane Powerhouse will transform into the 2022 Festival Hub, hosting Opening Night and key galas with; Seriously Red, A League of...