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Moon Film Festival is coming to the Dendy Cinemas this month!

In the years before and since, the Moon has featured in stories of exploration, inspiration, and retrospection, especially so in the movies.   //   The Moon Film Festival, curated by Adventurer of the Year Michael Smith, will showcase a selection of favourite, obscure, short and even the “cheesy” films that feature our beloved celestial buddy. Moon Film Festival 16-24 July 2019 Dendy Cinemas around the country www.dendy.com.au

ZIRK! Circus – The Big Top Spectacular is coming to Australia

Prepare to be wildly entertained as ZIRK! CIRCUS brings together Russia’s finest big top traditions with the daring skills of today’s greatest circus superstars. Featuring an all-star company whose talents have been perfected with some of the most celebrated circuses in the world, artists join us from past tours with Cirque Du Soleil, The Russian State Circus, Ringling Bros – Barnum and Bailey and the Swiss National Circus.   //   Step inside the Big Top Chapiteau ...

2019 Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival program has been announced and trailer released!

The Festival will open with the cheeky, star-studded Danish comedy HAPPY ENDING from actress-turned-director Hella Joof (2015 Scandi FF smash hit All Inclusive). Top Danish actors Birthe Neumann (five Robert Awards from the Danish Film Academy, two Bodils from the Danish Film Critics) and Kurt Ravn (two Bodils) head up the cast, which also includes Mette Munk Plum (Borgen), Tammi Øst (The Killing) and Scandi FF 2017 guest Charlotte Sieling (The Man, Borgen, Homeland). The centerpiece ...

Monet – Impression Sunrise Exhibition is now open at NGA

Impression, Soleil levant, which rarely leaves the museum walls in Paris, will be coming to a newly designed exhibition space at the NGA this winter, along with some forty impressionist and related paintings from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the Tate, and Australian and New Zealand collections. Alongside Monet’s masterpieces are key paintings by JMW Turner, whose early works inspired Monet, James McNeill Whistler, Alfred Sisley and Eugène Boudin, among others.   // ...

Moro Spanish Film Festival – Carmen & Lola Movie Review

This secret has the ability to blow both their worlds apart but young love only knows young love. This examination of a culturally forbidden love is presented as part social story and part teen drama. It helps the teen drama aspect that both women are very attractive, this however blunts the film’s social impact. It is still a fascinating insight into the Gypsy world, a world very few know.   //   Carmen & Lola is screening in Brisbane: Palace James Street Sunday ...

Moro Spanish Film Festival – The Good Girls Movie review

Sofía deals with this financial crises the only way she can, by completely ignoring it. Things are crumbling around her and it’s to the quality of Salas’ performance that you see this uncertainty and the fear it instills in her in such fine detail. It’s in the cracks of her tightly wound persona that the details become apparent. This is a voyeuristic tale of the rich with a stark reality at its centre. The Good Girls is screening in Brisbane: Palace Barracks Thursday 25, April ...

German Film Festival 2019 first program announcement!

With the best new films from Germany, this year’s program, presented in collaboration with German Films, showcases festival favourites, works of auteurs as well as the brightest new talent. The opening selection, BALLOON (Ballon) by Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig is a spectacular and thrilling true story of two ordinary families who extraordinarily escape from East to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. Starring Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Friedrich Mücke and Alicia von Rittberg ...

The 2019 Moro Spanish Film Festival has announced its full program!

Screening nationally at Palace Cinemas from 16 April, the 22nd edition of the festival features two key programme strands: New Spanish Cinema and Cine Latino. Opening with Javier Fesser’s critically acclaimed Goya Award-winning box office smash hit CHAMPIONS (Campeones), the festival will close with a digital restoration of the firecracker comedy WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), directed by leading Spanish auteur, Pedro Almodóvar, ...

Banff Mountain Film Festival Australian Tour

Showcasing a carefully curated selection of the best films from Canada’s famous nine-day international festival, the event will travel to 30 Australian towns and cities, inspiring audiences in 70 packed screenings. Travel to exotic landscapes and remote cultures, and get up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2018/2019 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. Give your adventure dreams more oxygen this year, with a ticket ...

Calling all Ocean Lovers! The Ocean Film Festival World Tour begins next month!

Designed to mesmerise and enthral, the Ocean Film Festival World Tour showcases more than two hours of sublime footage taken above and below the water’s surface. The films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of the big blue. Heart-stopping shots of surfers riding wild waves and adrenaline-inducing scenes of divers ...