Following a sold-out world premiere and encore screenings that packed cinemas, the powerful Western Australian documentary, POINTE: Dancing On A Knife’s Edge, is preparing to tour across Australia with screenings confirmed for Canberra, Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Launceston, and an additional encore screening in Perth at Windsor Cinema. POINTE: Dancing On A Knife’s Edge is a…
A celebration of splendiferous messiness to open on Fwiday nights only, with special cast and crew Q&A screening at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova on 7 November Sophie Somerville’s award-winning debut directorial feature film Fwends is set to hit cinemas on Fwiday nights only throughout November from the 7th, with the city of Melbourne serving up the…
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has today launched its full program for the 2025 Festival, to be held from October 15 – October 26 at cinemas across Adelaide. Twenty-seven World Premieres and 37 Australian premieres are among the 123 films from 27 countries to be presented at AFF 2025. The Festival is book-ended by the…
The powerful new Australian short film For My Mother will celebrate its world premiere at the Catalina Film Festival in California this September. Produced by Attic Films in association with Sugarland Productions, For My Mother is a moving exploration of the fragile complexities within a parent-child relationship. On the way to a school recital, a…
Submissions have officially opened for the 2026 WA Made Film Festival. WA-based filmmakers are encouraged to submit their feature films, short films, documentaries, student films, web series, television episodes, and Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best smartphone films to be part of this unmissable event running from February 20 – March 1, set…
Expressions of Interest Now Open Filmmakers in Western Australia for the CinefestOZ Film Festival’s Industry Program – running 4 to 5 September 2025 – will have the opportunity to meet with some of Australia’s leading streamers, broadcasters and practitioners – including Stan, Paramount Plus, BBC Studios, Minderoo Pictures and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF)…
Bina Bhattacharya’s (co-director Here Out West) feature directorial debut From All Sides will celebrate its NSW premiere at the upcoming Queer Screen Film Fest. From All Sides is described as a subversive, sexually frank drama about a seemingly average suburban middle-class family. The film follows Western Sydney married multiracial bisexual couple Anoushka and Pascal who maintain…
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced the first six films to screen at the 2025 Festival, with five of them directed by Australian women. These must-see films include the outstanding documentaries Journey Home, David Gulpilil, by directors Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas, and – having their World Premieres in Adelaide – The Colleano Heart from director…
The NT premiere of the powerful new documentary, Journey Home, David Gulpilil will open the Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) on Thursday 11 September with filmmakers, family and special guests in attendance at Darwin’s spectacular Deckchair Cinema to celebrate an extraordinary homecoming. The 11-day Darwin International Film Festival is presented by the Darwin Film Society, NT Government Community…
Think you can make a movie in just one weekend? Quick Takes is calling your name. Presented for the first time by the Newcastle Comedy Festival and Newcastle Film School, and proudly sponsored by FilmInk and Cinema Australia, Quick Takes is a brand new 44-hour short film competition open to creatives of all backgrounds and…
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