Flickerfest is Australia’s only Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA Recognised Short Film Festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screening the best of shorts from Australia and around the world, hand-picked from over 3,400 entries.
The Fantastic Film Festival returns to Sydney and Melbourne in May for its fifth edition, offering a cross-section of cult, genre, arthouse, and alternative cinema across 24 feature films and 14 short films. The festival will open with a bang with the Australian premiere of Kiah Roache-Turner's Sting, with the director to participate in a Q&A following the screening. Other highlights include a 4K restoration of Gareth Evans 2011 Indonesian action thriller The Raid, and a 30th anniversary screening of...
The Natalie Miller Fellowship is inviting applications for its $5,000 Catalyst Grants, which are open to five female and...
The 2024 HSBC German Film Festival, presented by Palace in cooperation with German Films, is set to feature a selection of contemporary German cinema. First highlights include the new drama from Camera d’Or winning writer/director Claire Burger, Foreign Language, which arrives direct from the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival; One For the Road, starring Frederick Lau and Nora Tschirner; Dark Satellites, starring Nastassja Kinski and Albrecht Schuch and Lubo, starring Franz Rogowski. The ‘Kino for Kids’ sidebar, presented by the...
The annual Independent Cinemas Australia conference will be held in Sydney this May at Ritz Cinemas. The Tuesday will be a combined NACO/ICA day where the MPDAA studios will screen footage of their upcoming line ups. From Wed-Fri the event will then move into the traditional ICA Conference format, with this year's focus 'The Future is Now'. On the agenda is premium seating, digital marketing, food and beverage and AI amongst other discussions. The ICA Gala dinner will be held...
Screen Australia's Enterprise 2024 program is open for applications. The program aims to foster sustainable screen businesses and careers...
The First Nations Film Festival (FNFF) will be held from May 27 to June 10, with the program to stream during National Reconciliation Week, which this year carries the theme of Now More Than Ever. Among the featured films is Sinem Saban's Luku Ngarra - The Law of the Land, set in the Yolngu Nation of Northeast Arnhem Land and driven by one of the country's most respected Indigenous elders, Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra. Other notable titles include Ivan Sen's...