Matchbox Pictures' 'Bad Behaviour' will have its international premiere at the 2023 Berlinale Series, after being selected as one of eight global titles for the event.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Rolf de Heer's 'Survival of Kindness' will be in the mix for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival next month, the first Australian films to screen in the official competition since 2006's 'Candy'.
Sara Kern's debut feature 'Moja Vesna' will make its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, screening in the youth-focused Generation program.
Another four Australian projects have joined the line-up at the Berlin International Film Festival: feature documentary 'She Who Must Be Loved', 2015 film 'Tanna' and two shorts, 'Blackbird' and 'The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland'.
An air hostess escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee saving his family, an Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat trying to contain a national scandal each struggle – to the limits of their sanity – with an immigration system that is itself struggling.
Jub Clerc's debut feature 'Sweet As' will make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month in the Generation Kplus strand, which is aimed at a youth audience.
Danny and Michael Philippou's debut feature 'Talk to Me' is shaping up to have quite the international festival run, due to make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February. Also announced for the festival is short 'Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)', created by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and artist Matthew Thorne.
“[Sen's] brilliant. And I like that he’s brilliant without having to wear a shirt that says ‘I’m brilliant’... He just does his thing. And I don’t think he really cares what other people’s opinions are of him or how he goes about it. That’s really admirable.” - Simon Baker.