Australian distributors have returned from Cannes lamenting the scarcity of "buzz" titles but happy to have bought a handful of US, UK and foreign films.
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute epic Winter Sleep won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival.
These Final Hours, an Apocalyptic thriller from first-time writer-director Zak Hilditch, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section in May.
Australia hasn't had a film selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival or the Un Certain Regard sidebar since 2011 and in the Directors' Fortnight section since 2009.
The Tasmanian BOFA Film Festival will build on the success of previous years, and features the premiere of 'First Fagin' and big picture debate: 'social media does more harm than good'.
The Melbourne International Film Festival releases it's schedule of films presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
Some 20 minutes of Patrick, director Mark Hartley's re-imagining of Richard Franklin's 1978 Australian psychological thriller, was screened for US and international distributors at the Cannes Film Market.
The Cannes Film Market has proved to be a happy hunting ground for almost all the Australian independent distributors.