Festivals
Stay spry! Stay sane! Three more film festivals to stream
More couch streaming with an East Asia film fest from Italy, as Perth goes profound and perverse, and docs keep…
St Kilda Film Festival reveals best of 2020's 100 Australian films
Some films just keep pushing through even though the selection of finalists for each festival may be very different. As…
What can the world's oldest games festival teach the arts about survival?
Freeplay independent games festival has survived for over sixteen years. The past and present directors share the lessons they have…
Sydney Film Festival 2020 finds four compelling winners
Free diving, performative eating, vagina power and the horrors of internet stardom—all the winners at the virtual edition of the…
Robust, Relevant and Diverse: Documentaries at Sydney Film Festival
The ten Australian films vying for the $10,000 Documentary Prize are a quietly effective bunch, revealing much about the evolution…
Women on Top: Sydney Film Festival Highlights
It's possible to view the best of this pared-down program and not see a single film by a man. Critic…
See-Saw Films brings an Australian touch to the strangest Cannes Festival of all
The appearance of Ammonite at the Cannes Film Festival is just words on a piece of paper, but they cast…
Global Film Festival streams to us for next ten days, for cost of donation
If you could distill the absolute essence of cinema and watch it in the ultimate binge at home, you would…
The distilled digital Sydney Film Festival launches towards us
The program is now out for the online edition of SFF, provoking us to look under the hood with CEO…
St Kilda Film Festival goes national, booted into future by virus
Going online, the St Kilda shorts platform enables the festival movement to experiment with robust digital services which could change…