Today, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) offers its first look at the 2026 program, announcing 25 films and special events, among them six MIFF Premiere Fund titles, a selection of 17 international and local highlights and special live events, many of which will make their Australian premiere at this year’s 74th edition. Running 6–23 August across Naarm,…
Australians have always had a unique way of speaking. From our slang and laid-back attitude to the unspoken rules that make up everyday life, it can be a difficult culture to understand from the outside looking in. That’s the idea at the heart of How to Talk Australians, the new feature comedy from filmmaker Tony…
Written and directed by Jack Johnston, and starring Sophie Reynolds, Sandy Keayes, Cameron Mighell, Nicholas Vincent and Kira Nelson, Everything Grows in Eden follows a young woman who promises to take her suicidal best friend to an alternative retreat but when their volatile mutual friend joins the trip, an unexpected detour to a local commune…
Imagine a world without cancer… Conquering Breast Cancer is a compelling social impact film that inspires us to do just that. Asking: Can Australia rise to the challenge of conquering breast cancer? In a country where breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the most common cancer among women. Breast cancer is often seen as…
Perth filmmaker Giles Chan’s new short film Interview follows an anxious woman desperately looking for work tries to survive a job interview. Giles Chan was born in Hong Kong and moved to Australia at the age of seven. He studied English Literature at university while writing, directing and producing his first feature film Jellyfish. It played…
A short documentary and original music video created by a group of multilingual young people will launch this Refugee Week on ABC. Developed through a series of arts workshops run by not-for-profit organisation Same Drum in partnership with Healthway and the Intensive English Centre at Aranmore Catholic College, the films celebrate friendship, family and resilience…
The 29th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival is set to be a journey of sophistication, emotion, new ideas, and change. Boasting a lineup of over 50 features and documentaries and almost 100 short films, this year’s program is all about risk and adventure for the viewer and the creative community of Perth, with many new…
Independent Australian feature film Southerly will premiere on Netflix Australia on 5 June 2026. Written and directed by Gregory McCann, Southerly marks the filmmaker’s feature debut. McCann, founder of Good Grief Pictures and co-founder of Blakground Productions, has spent years developing independent screen projects with a focus on authentic Australian voices, regional communities and character-driven…
Cinema Australia readers and followers have been treated to an exclusive clip from James Branson’s survival nightmare, Bunny, ahead of the film’s screening at the Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival. Set in the aftermath of a climate-collapsed Australia, BUNNY follows a young woman as she roams the ruins of a world she never got to…
VicScreen, National Indigenous Television (NITV) and Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), today announced the four distinctive projects that have been selected for Sovereign Shorts. The four Victorian-made short documentaries exploring Treaty are set to premiere at MIFF 2026 on Wednesday 19 August. The joint initiative by VicScreen, NITV and MIFF was announced following the historic…
Mostly driven by an obsessed media and our willingness to worship infamous antiheroes like Ned Kelly and Chopper Reid, Australia has a long-running fascination with crime and the people who commit it. Australian filmmakers have tapped into that fascination for decades, delivering some of the country’s most memorable and celebrated films along the way. From…
Zeke Morgan-Hind’s new documentary Prompt: Make a Documentary asks the question: Are we trading the auteur for prompts and probability? Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology in filmmaking. It is already shaping how stories are written, images are created, films are edited, and audiences are targeted. Tools once reserved for major studios and…
In an age where streaming services, smartphones and digital entertainment dominate our daily lives, the humble piano has quietly slipped from the centre of Australian homes. Yet, as filmmaker Natalia Laska reveals in her moving documentary The Piano Tuner, these instruments, and the people who own them, still have stories to tell. The film follows…
Legendary Australian film director Peter Weir has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter will receive the Award – presented by Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Council Chair, Rachel Perkins – at the Sydney Film Festival on Wednesday June 10. On that…
Madman Entertainment and Bus Stop Films have today launched the trailer for Boss Cat, a new Australian family drama that follows Sonja, a young woman with Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome), on her quest for independence, empowerment and identity through the performance of Krump dancing. Boss Cat is the world’s first inclusively made feature film, placing…
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