Events

The 33rd annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival opens November 9 with the provocation 'Rewind to Fast Forward', with this year's program celebrating the indisputable existence of LGBTQIA+ peoples throughout history. Audiences can expect a selection of local and international drama, comedy, documentary, and everything in between. The program features 50 feature films and 17 documentaries, 11 short film packages, 3 world premieres, 26 Australian premieres and 19 Victorian premieres. MQFF will launch with the Opening Night screening of the Australian premiere of...

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...

Moonlight Cinema returns to n Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide this summer, offering a mix of box office blockbusters, festive favourites, and family films. Included are upcoming Hollywood titles such as The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Trolls Band Together, and new rom-com Anyone But You, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. A full weekend of ‘Pink Party’ screenings for Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, will turn Moonlight pink on December 8 and 9, with...

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....

Forty films by Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) graduates will be streamed for free on the Melbourne International Film Festival's digital player, MIFF Play. The 2023 Film and Television Graduate Season features a diverse range of films, from those shot on antique 16mm film to future-facing virtual production projects created with the University of Melbourne’s education partners NantStudios. VCA will celebrate the new lineup of films at an official launch December 1.

Eighteen short films produced through Bus Stop Films’ Accessible Film Studies Program are set to tour nationally, kicking off with a gala event in Perth on Sunday December 3, hosted by Julia Hales. The films were created by 180 filmmakers, all young adults with mild/moderate intellectual disability or autism. The participants in the Accessible Film Studies Program worked with their tutors to create short films alongside industry professionals who mentor the students on set. The films include dramas, documentaries and...