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Directed by Sandra Sciberras (The Dustwalker), the action-packed Australian thriller places a formidable female sniper at the centre of a relentless battle for survival.
Robbie Studsor’s The Retained follows the youngest daughter in a wealthy family that must choose between loyalty and morality when she is forced to conceal her father’s dark secret.
Written and directed by Xavier Coy, Unremarkable follows the life of Tim Smith (played by Coy) who is, by every metric, an unremarkable man, until his life becomes a movie.
Western Australian indie feature film Skeleton Girls. A Kidnapped Society has become the first Australian film to receive the Special Jury Award in the Fantastic Cinema competition at the prestigious Fantasporto International Film Festival held in Porto, Portugal.
Directed by Armin Džafić, Richard Jamze and Natalie Rose, How Quickly Clouds Move follows two estranged childhood friends who reunite during a chance drug deal. As the struggling dealer and an addicted realtor catch up, their night morphs into a confronting look at family, culture and sexuality.
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Filmmaker Jordan Giusti joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss Floodland, a new documentary set in flood-prone Lismore, where residents face life-changing decisions after devastating floods.
From the world of Thornton's acclaimed 2017 film Sweet Country, Wolfram features standout performances from Deborah Mailman and its remarkable young leads, delivering a moving story of survival, resilience and unexpected connection.
Just announced as the Closing Night film of the Gold Coast Film Festival, Don't Be Prey is set against the world’s most challenging open-water channel swims, following Australian Mark Sowerby as he takes on the legendary Oceans Seven.
Written and directed by James Litchfield, Alphabet Lane stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Apple Cider Vinegar, Jimpa) and Nicholas Denton (Talamasca, Dangerous Liaisons), alongside Helana Sawires (Stateless) and Henry Nixon (The Pacific), Alan Dukes (The Stranger) and Bishanyia Vincent (The Twelve).
A total of 27 awards were handed out across this year’s WA Made Film Festival, the highest number in the festival’s seven-year history.
The nominees for the 18th Australian Film Critics Association (Auscritic) Awards have been announced with Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back receiving an impressive eight nominations!
Submissions are now open for the internationally acclaimed Australia Independent Film Festival - Brisbane's biggest short film festival.
Screening at the upcoming Stellar Short Film Festival, Duncan Ragg and Anna Phillips’ Over is a small film with a big heart, plenty of laughs, and fine performances from its two leads, Adam Dunn (Dad) and James Carey, who plays his Damien Leith–obsessed son, James.
Independent cinema, like Davo Hardy's erotic dramedy Mothers, Lovers and Others, is generally not regarded as 'safe' for winning the favour of festivals. This unconventional melodrama opens at an orgy, contains explicit sex scenes and juggles multiple plot lines for a solid 135-minute runtime.
After Bark - Flying Bark’s live action label - has announced that it will collaborate with Mad Ones Films and Minor Realm on Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s It’s All Going Very Well…
“Cinema is our country’s number one cultural activity, yet only 5% of people are seeing Australian films. I believe that’s because our funding-production festival-distro pipeline too often shuns authorial voices in favour of safe, homogenised storytelling.” - Badlands co-founder James Robert Woods.
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Electric Feel follows Jane who is addicted to a public TV broadcast scientifically engineered to reduce depression and anxiety. When the broadcast suddenly goes off-air, Jane’s world unravels.
Celebrated Australian actors Steve Le Marquand and Pippa Grandison will present a special acting masterclass at the WA Made Film Festival!
On the dark web where users bet on who will win, a talented chess player is kidnapped and thrown into a game where she is one of the pieces, and when your piece gets taken, you die.
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Stellar Short Film Festival has unveiled its Stellar 12 finalists for 2026, cementing its reputation as Australia’s only invitation-only short film festival and one of the country’s most distinctive celebrations of short-form cinema.
Stellar Short Film Festival has unveiled its Stellar 12 finalists for 2026, cementing its reputation as Australia’s only invitation-only short film festival and one of the country’s most distinctive celebrations of short-form cinema.
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Teresa Palmer and director Marcelle Lunam join the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their new rom-com, Addition.
It Will Find You follows Emily (Kylah Day), a young Indigenous woman who unwittingly reactivates a generational curse that has laid dormant for 25 years.
Pasa Faho, the celebrated feature debut from Igbo-Australian filmmaker, writer and visual artist Kalu Oji, will kick-off its national tour of special event screenings this month, following its Central Queensland premiere at the upcoming Capricorn Film Festival.
𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧-𝗦𝗘𝗘!
Following three years embedded in the Northern NSW town of Lismore, Australia’s most flood-prone postcode, Jordan Giusti's Floodland captures the raw humanity behind the headlines of the devastating 2022 floods.
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Few cinematographers working in Australia are shooting films like Benjamin Bryan, and his work in his latest film, Iron Winter, is nothing short of breathtaking.
Central Queensland’s premier screen arts event, the Capricorn Film Festival, returns to Yeppoon next week from 15–18 January 2026, kicking off four days of films, filmmaker talks and creative events — all celebrating 10 years of storytelling on the Capricorn Coast.