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…
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…
Production house and distributor Badlands has announced that their feature film The Birthday Trip will release in cinemas nationally on July 30. The trailer for the already-acclaimed indie feature – an unflinchingly funny drama that follows three millennial couples whose relationships are thrown into disarray when they descend on a luxury Southern Highlands farmstay for…
Madman Entertainment and Causeway Films have unveiled the teaser 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 with Sam Neill as The…
Today Umbrella unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming ripper Aussie comedy How to Talk Australians: The Movie, ahead of its nationwide theatrical release on 11 June. How to Talk Australians is based on the hit web series of the same name that became a viral sensation and amassed more than 12 million YouTube views.…
Nominated for two awards at the upcoming Sydney Film Festival, a rare co-production between Australia and New Zealand directed by Matasila Freshwater and Lachlan McLeod, Sukundimi Walks Before Me is an urgent plea by Indigenous people about their existential fight through lyrical expressions of existence, resistance and life along the mother river. The Sepik River…
Written and directed by Stephen De Villiers and starring Callan Mulvey, Charlotte Maggi and Felix Cameron, The Run is a gripping action thriller set in the near future, in a dystopian world that is crippled by global lockdowns and a mysterious infertility crisis. An ageing smuggler, Mac, a man with secrets and a tragic past,…