The debut feature film from Polish-born Australian visual artist and filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, Agata the Writer, and Australian producer Alex White (Babyteeth) will have its World Premiere in Giornate degli Autori at the 2026 Venice Film Festival. Mia Wasikowska (Leviticus, Club Zero) stars as a Polish-Australian satirical novelist who travels from Sydney to Sarajevo to write a war novel…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. On this episode, I’m joined by writer and director Mia’Kate Russell to discuss her very excellent, highly entertaining, violent and bloody cat-and-mouse horror, Penny Lane is Dead. Set in 1986, during a scorching Aussie summer, Penny Lane is Dead follows three best friends who’s celebration…
Western Australian feature film Wreckage will return to the big screen on 30 July for a special charity screening in partnership with Phoenix Support and Advocacy Service, bringing together community leaders, advocates and audiences to raise awareness of domestic and family violence while supporting those affected by it. Following a sold-out screening at the WA…
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced a 30th anniversary celebration screening of Scott Hick’s Oscar®-winning Shine as part of an early look at this year’s program. Premiering a brand new 4K digital restoration of the acclaimed film, the story stands the test of time, featuring the stand-out performance from Geoffrey Rush that catapulted him…
Not that long ago, all you’d have to do to avoid being scammed was to trash an email from a Nigerian prince offering a family inheritance. Nowadays, we’re facing increasingly sophisticated and much more convincing scams, like the one at the heart of Maddelin McKenna’s debut feature film, Mad Rush, which is set to premiere…
The 2026 WA Screen Culture Awards were held in Perth last night, paying vibrant tribute to the remarkable talents and accomplishments shaping the captivating world of screen culture in Western Australia. Held at Luna Cinemas Leederville, and hosted by enigmatic WA performance artist and producer, Rose Kingdom-Barron, the WASCAs once again highlighted the amazing achievements…
Australia’s leading and emerging filmmakers will head west from 28 August to 6 September for the 19th CinefestOZ Film Festival, the nation’s largest dedicated celebration of Australian film. Released today, the CinefestOZ 2026 Official Program features more than 100 new feature films, short films and television series, alongside an exciting calendar of unique events hosted in cinemas, galleries, breweries, bars and restaurants throughout Western Australia’s beautiful South West. CinefestOZ CEO Cassandra Jordan said this year’s program celebrates the extraordinary diversity of Australian…
Thanks to our friends at Umbrella Entertainment, we’re giving you the chance to win a double pass to see Penny Lane is Dead. Penny Lane is Dead is the rip-roaring debut feature from writer-director Mia’Kate Russell that blends pitch-black ocker humour, and blood-splattering horror with a distinctly Australian twist. The film follows 17-year-old Penny (Bailey…
Peter Firebrace’s debute feature film, Of Womb, will celebrate its world premiere at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival. Three young women have been raised in innocence on a remote, dilapidated homestead, alone with their bedbound, intensely religious mother. Fuelled by a heady brew of existential terror, dogmatic belief and desire to dominate, The Eldest…
Australia remains in the grip of a family, domestic and sexual violence crisis. I won’t go too deeply into the statistics here, but they’re confronting, and as a society, we simply must do better. Considering storytelling has always been one of the most powerful ways to reflect the realities of our society, these issues are…
Sharmill Films and Stranger Than Fiction have shared the official trailer for Silenced, the critically acclaimed feature documentary making waves around the world. Billed as an “essential, galvanising watch” by Screen International, Silenced follows the powerful fight of Australian human rights lawyer and free speech defender Jennifer Robinson against the weaponisation of defamation laws by alleged perpetrators to…
Umbrella Entertainment has dropped the official trailer and poster for new Australian film, Storm Bird. Filmed in the Far north Queensland town of Babinda, Storm Bird is a character driven comedy-drama that follows Richard Hollingsworth (Anthony Phelan), a once-revered classical musician, now reclusive nihilist, living out his final months in tropical North Queensland. When Jack (James…
Madman Entertainment and Causeway Films are thrilled to unveil the official trailer for The Fox, writer/director Dario Russo’s striking debut feature. A darkly comic folktale blending satire and surrealism, The Fox stars Jai Courtney, Emily Browning, Damon Herriman, Claudia Doumit, Zlatko Burić, Frankie J. Holden, Heather Mitchell, Peter O’Brien and Kim Gyngell, Sam Neill as The Magpie, with Miranda Otto and Academy Award® winner Olivia Colman as The…
A striking new voice in Australian cinema, Harvey Zielinski, makes his feature film debut with Sweet Milk Lake. The tender story of family, masculinity and belonging, will have its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) this August, where it has been selected to compete for the prestigious Bright Horizons Award. The film…
Tonight, the 74th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) unveiled its full 2026 program including more than 300 screen works spanning features, shorts and XR experiences, and special events. On screen and beyond, MIFF 2026 bursts to life with an unmissable slate of special events – including the World Premiere of Tina Arena: Unravel Me, the…
