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BIFF2023 Full Program has Launched!

BIFF is a carnival of cinema in Brisbane’s cultural heartland showcasing World and Australian premieres, exclusive preview screenings and filmmaking talent within Red Carpet screenings, industry panels, filmmaker Q&As, and networking opportunities.   //     BIFF proudly profiles our region to filmmakers and screen industry professionals on a national and global stage with a spotlight on the thriving industry in South East Queensland. Brisbane Internati...

Women’s Adventure Film Tour is back for its 7th season!

This year’s tour is headlined by the Australian film, MAKING IT, which follows pro surfer, India Robinson, former Australian netball captain Caitlin “C-Bass” Bassett, promising rugby star and UNSW student Aneeka Riley, and competitive skier Annabel Blake. The film explores the unrelenting pursuit of success for female and non-binary athletes and the complex and often conflicting ideas of when one truly “make it”. Plus witness the destiny of a sherpa woman, run solo across 6 ...

The Undercover Artist Festival is back this September!

Presented by Access Arts in association with CPL – Choice, Passion, Life, Undercover Artist Festival promises to dazzle audiences with an electrifying showcase of theatre, comedy, dance, music, poetry and more from 20 to 23 September. Over just four incredible days audiences can expect a high-energy, electrifying music concert that will get them moving, hilarious comedy that will have them laughing out loud, and thought-provoking theatre productions that will linger in their minds long ...

The full program for the 2023 Italian Film Festival has been announced!

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival will open with the Australian Premiere of THE LAST NIGHT OF AMORE (L'ultima notte di Amore), a stylish Milan-set thriller starring the magnificent Pierfrancesco Favino. A major Italian box office hit, the film follows a police lieutenant who is drawn into a web of crime and corruption on the eve of his retirement. 2023 Fstival Ambassador Silvia Colloca, multi-talented Italian Australian food writer, actor, TV producer ad Opera trained mezzo-soprano, will ...

Brisbane Serenades returns to the Brisbane Festival this September!

The much-loved Brisbane Serenades returns in 2023 with both beloved programs and new surprises. Traversing the city from north, south, east and west, over 23 suburbs will take centre-stage for a celebration of music and community like no other and it is all FREE. Following a standout success last year, the Moorooka Block Party returns bigger and better than ever! Mosaic Multicultural Festival is back and Victoria Park becomes Brisbane residents’ stage for the Closing Concert with a new ...

Salamander is coming to the 2023 Brisbane Festival!

Time to go, Time to wake up Time to stand up and hold each other before it is too late Before there is nothing left Do we fight and stay? Do we make a change? Or do we adapt?   //     A dance-theatre visual feast, Salamander sees a warehouse at Northshore, Brisbane transformed into a fully immersive, climate-fiction dream-like world through light, sound, design, and movement. Es Devlin’s labyrinthian and kinetic sculptures live within a flooded ...

Check out the first look at the 2023 St. Ali Italian Film Festival Lineup!

The Festival is thrilled to welcome the wonderful and talented Italian-Australian food writer, TV producer and host Silvia Colloca as the 2023 Festival Ambassador. A great film lover, Silvia will be talking about her top picks plus her Italian heritage and will be in attendance to open the Festival in Sydney and Melbourne. Opening the 2023 Festival is the exciting drama THE LAST NIGHT OF AMORE (L'ultima notte di Amore) led by Italian superstar Pierfrancesco Favino. The stylish, Milan set ...

Brisbane Festival unveils a World-Class 2023 Program!

The fourth program from Artistic Director Louise Bezzina simultaneously welcomes the world and spotlights Brisbane on the global stage across 23 days of evocative, accessible, and uplifting work. Brisbane’s premier arts venues and some of the city’s most iconic locations will stage more than 1000 performances – 230 of which are free – including 19 world premieres, two Australian premieres and 11 Queensland premieres. Brisbane Festival will provide employment opportunities for ...

Screwball season arrives at the Australian Cinémathèque!

The screwball comedy is one of the great treasures of American cinema. Emerging in the 1930s, these fast-talking farces subverted the conventions of romantic comedies with acid-tongued wit and slapstick silliness. The genre rose to prominence amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, with audiences responding to the intermingling of metropolitan glamour and acerbic class commentary. Famously described by critic Andrew Sarris as ‘sex comedies without the sex’, screwball ...

The global hit, Lightscape, finally lights up Brisbane!

This uniquely created immersive experience takes you on a journey of the senses through light, colour and sounds, showcasing the gardens as never seen before. Journey beneath glowing tree canopies filled with colour. Stroll alongside larger-than-life flowers and neon roots bursting from the undergrowth and amble through sparkling tunnels of light or under giant poppies suspended high in the night sky.   //   These breathtaking lightworks follow a two kilometre path to ...