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Brisbane International Film Festival arrives with a storm and lands where it should
Battered by change, the Brisbane International Film Festival can now build for the future and give the city the festival…
What's On Your Screen: festivals, great schlock, while Ladies in Black charms
There is a pile of stuff on at the cinema for all possible tastes, including First Man and Bad Times…
Australia's Fearless Mermaid Swims On
A new online exhibition curated by the NFSA celebrates the life of Annette Kellerman: champion swimmer, silent movie star, aqua…
Adelaide Film Festival melts bones with sound, purely for fun
Will you like Hotel Mumbai? Adelaide Film Festival road tests it with the Australian premiere.
The Scribe - Graham Freudenberg, shaper of power, poet of ambition
Graham Freudenberg holds high the flag for decent public discourse as we hold our noses in political sludge.
Maintaining Hope in the Face of Apocalypse
Don't slit your wrists, be inspired, says the Program Director of the Environmental Film Festival Australia. There are films for…
Hearts of Gold triumphant - an excursion into another world
Heart of Gold is the biggest rural film festival entirely dedicated to short films, which run over four days. There's…
Box Office: Ladies in Black keeps doing fine
Ladies in Black looks very stable, the best tentpole is subversive and the going is tough for some good films.
Flickerfest: short, sweet important announcement
Want your film to run under the stars? Many people will help you make it happen but you have to…
Defining the Australian story - hunting a dream within a dream
Globally focused director Cate Shortland takes serious issue with our favourite fuzzy idea.