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Brand new festival – Brisbane Winter Sessions – is debuting this August!

After a challenging past 12 months for the live music industry, Winter Sessions is all about celebrating our city’s amazing live music scene. Taking place in Brissie’s most iconic venues, from the CBD to the suburbs, the Winter Sessions program features a stellar lineup of established and emerging artists, across a wide range of music genres.   //   The inaugural year of this festival includes more than 30 free and ticketed events, with over 100 artists performing in ...

The Scandinavian Film Festival IS BACK – full program announced!

This year’s specially curated selection encompasses films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, including ten directed by women, with many screening for the first time outside of Europe. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, THE EMIGRANTS (Utvandrarna) will close the Festival. The Emigrants follows a struggling farming family in mid-19th Century Sweden who decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America. Starring the late Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, The ...

Vive La Revolution French Festival is coming to Dendy Coorparoo this July!

Celebrating Bastille Day, and running July 1-28, the same month as the 2021 Festival de Cannes, Dendy has collated twelve iconic titles, each either hugely influential in their own right, modern classics exemplifying the titanic talents of France’s celebrated film industry, or just possessing a certain je ne sais quoi.   //   Between romance and drama, comedy and adventure, experience these films as they were meant to be - on the big screen- and rediscover the artistic ...

The Scandinavian Film Festival returning to Palace Cinemas this July!

The Festival will open with WILDLAND (Kød & Blod). Set in Denmark’s underbelly, Jeanette Nordahl’s striking Scandi-noir follows an impressionable teenage girl who is placed in the care of her estranged aunt, (an incredible Sidse Babett Knudsen), the head of a family crime syndicate. From Finland comes the GAMES PEOPLE PLAY (Seurapeli). A group of old friends gather at an idyllic Finnish seaside villa to celebrate a surprise birthday, where old feelings and power struggles rise ...

German Film Festival reveals full 2021 program!

The Festival, in collaboration with German Films, opens with the eagerly anticipated feature debut of actor Daniel Brühl (Good Bye Lenin!) who directs and stars in NEXT DOOR (Nebenan), fresh from its world premiere at Berlinale. In this darkly comic skewering of celebrity and privilege, Brühl plays a famous actor whose day gets completely railroaded by a stranger with ulterior motives. The multi award-winning Closing Night film, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ is a slick new adaptation of Alfred ...

Brisbane Street Art Festival is returning bigger and better in 2021!

Since 2016, BSAF has rapidly been growing into one of the largest Street Art festivals in Australia. Building on the foundations and support from the last five years, BSAF is back in 2021 bigger and better than before. BSAF 2021 is incredibly excited to be announcing an extensive mural program with over 40 artworks being created by some of the most exciting street art practitioners from Brisbane, Australia and Internationally.   //   Running alongside this is our largest ...

Watch the 2021 Oscar Nominees at Dendy!

Check out the 2021 Oscar Nominee’s only at Dendy, we will be screening: Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Another Round, The Father, Collective, Sound of Metal, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mank. www.dendy.com.au

2021 German Film Festival returns with a feast of films!

This year’s programme, presented in association with German Films, will screen from 25 May – 20 June at Palace Cinemas across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide. German Film Festival spokesperson Bettina Kinski said, “We're truly excited to return to screens with the latest in German Cinema, something we sadly missed in 2020. The Festival will be a great opportunity for people interested in German language films and culture to reunite and reconnect ...

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2021 is coming to Brisbane this month!

The 2021 tour promises three hours of captivating footage, shot in some of the most wild and remote corners of the world. Sure to set your pulse racing, this carefully curated program showcases a selection of films packed full of mesmerising cinematography, thought-provoking storylines and adrenaline-inducing action sequences.   //   Audiences will experience incredible highs and agonising lows through the lenses of some of the most accomplished climbers, paddlers, ...

Lord of the Rings Marathons and Special Cast Reunion Q&As at Dendy!

Join the Dency for our Lord of the Rings Marathon Screening on Saturday, April 3 from 12:15PM to 10:38PM for Peter Jackson's award-winning motion picture trilogy.   //   Join the Dendy for some special PRE-RECORDED Cast Reunion Q&A screenings of Peter Jackson's epic Lord Of The Rings Trilogy! Interviewed by Stephen Colbert, each session will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with varying cast members, exploring their time on set and their experiences in J. R. R. ...