The Stellar Short Film Festival proudly announced the winners of its 2026 awards last night, celebrating an exceptional lineup of emerging and established filmmakers from around Australia. The annual festival continues to champion bold storytelling, diverse voices, and innovative short-form cinema, proudly boasting the finest lineup of short films in the country. Major winners on…
A total of 27 awards were handed out across this year’s WA Made Film Festival, the highest number in the festival’s seven-year history. The festival, which ran over 11 days and wrapped on Sunday night, awarded three Best of the Fest prizes – Best of the Fest: Film, Best of the Fest: Documentary and Best…
The nominees for the 18th Australian Film Critics Association (Auscritic) Awards have been announced with Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back receiving an impressive eight nominations, including Best Australian Film, Best Director, and three nominations across the gender-neutral acting categories. The 18th Auscritic Awards recognise the best of Australian film for the year…
Entries for Australia Independent Film Festival – Brisbane’s biggest short film festival – are now open! Located in Brisbane, Australia within one of Australia’s best cinemas within one of Brisbane’s coolest precincts is the internationally acclaimed Australia Independent Film Festival. The festival screens at Palace James Street which is a world-class cinema that boasts cutting-edge…
Written, directed and co-produced by actor-turned-filmmaker Ashley Zukerman, new short film Jason is my Dad follows an Uber driver who finds himself helping a private school kid with a paper route while trying to get a refund for a washing machine that he says never arrived. Ashley Zukerman is most known for his acting work…
Set in a small coastal town, SoundBoy follows Connor (William Ladder), a young fisherman torn between family obligation and a secret life as a music producer. “This film has been a way for me to explore some of my own experiences growing up in a house full of intense male figures, often without a shortage…
Maslow Entertainment has announced today that Jasmin Tarasin’s stunning feature film debut Life Could Be a Dream will be released in cinemas across Australia on 14 May 2026, with the film’s trailer also being released today. In support of one of the key themes of the film, a donation of $1.00 from every ticket sold…
Stranger, Brother, the new short film from Naarm-based filmmaker Annelise Hickey, is an intimate story about family, distance and the quiet need for connection. The film follows Adam, a millennial drifting through a carefree life, whose world is disrupted when his 10-year-old half-brother Mose unexpectedly appears at his door. The two are strangers in every…
by MATTHEW EELES Duncan Ragg and Anna Phillips’ Over is a small film with a big heart, plenty of laughs, and fine performances from its two leads, Adam Dunn (Dad) and James Carey, who plays his Damien Leith–obsessed son, James. The film follows a father who’s forced to confront his apathy towards the world’s big…
Renegade independent cinema, like Davo Hardy’s erotic dramedy Mothers, Lovers and Others, is generally not regarded as ‘safe’ for winning the favour of film festivals. This unconventional, dialogue-heavy melodrama opens at an orgy, contains explicit sex scenes and juggles multiple plotlines for a solid 135-minute runtime. Around the quirky ensemble cast of unknown actors, there…
After Bark – Flying Bark’s live action label – has announced that it will collaborate with Mad Ones Films and Minor Realm on It’s All Going Very Well… the first project to be officially released under the After Bark banner since the division’s launch in 2022. Written, directed and led by acclaimed South Australian actress…
Interview: James Robert Woods Sydney-based production house Badlands is venturing into the distribution space with the rollout of its critically acclaimed feature The Birthday Trip. Previously known as Moonrise Over Knights Hill, the unflinchingly funny drama following three millennial couples whose relationships are thrown into disarray when they descend on a Southern Highlands farmstay for…
Sean Bell’s Electric Feel is a personal and ambitious leap into feature filmmaking Cinema Australia is thrilled to give readers an exclusive first-look at Sean Bell’s dystopian sci-fi drama, Electric Feel. The upcoming film follows Jane (played by newcomer Naomi Belet), who is addicted to a public TV broadcast scientifically engineered to reduce depression and…
Celebrated Australian actors Steve Le Marquand and Pippa Grandison will present a special acting masterclass at the 2026 WA Made Film Festival. This practical session encourages actors to deepen their connection to the text and to each other through two-handed scene work, using contemporary film, television and theatre scripts. Scenes will be provided in advance,…
A new trailer has dropped for The Rules of the Game, a new horror thriller from directors JD Cohen and Lani Castle. Here’s the synopsis: On the dark web where users bet on who will win, a talented chess player is kidnapped and thrown into a game where she is one of the pieces, and…
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