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…
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…
Cinema Australia is thrilled to share an exclusive first look at new feature documentary, Hard As Puck. Watch it now below. Behind every local sporting club are volunteers giving up their time, solving problems and doing whatever it takes to keep the doors open. It’s a story that will be familiar to sporting communities across…
Following its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, a European premiere in the Berlinale Special Section, and sold-out shows at the recent 2026 Sydney Film Festival, Saccharine opens nationally in cinemas from 9 July 2026. The stunning new psychological horror comes from writer and director Natalie Erika James, a distinctive new voice in genre…
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…
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…
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…