Spanish Film Festival 2025 – El 47 Movie Review
These transplanted communities were improvised and garnered few in the government that really cared about their plight. In the heart of this world, we meet Manolo Vital (Eduard Fernández) a man with a pronounced sense of empathy who rallies the people around him to improve their plight in life.
From extremely humble beginnings we then catch up with Manolo twenty years later. His lot in life has improved but his local community is still ignored by the local government and lacks almost ...
Announcing first highlights of the 2025 Hurtigruten Scandinavian Film Festival!
Palace is delighted to announce five of the first highlights ahead of the full programme being unveiled in late June.
This year’s Special Presentation is QUISLING: THE FINAL DAYS (Quislings siste dager). Set in 1945 Norway, this bold and fascinating drama from acclaimed director Erik Poppe (The King’s Choice, ScandiFF 2017) follows the post-liberation trial of the country’s infamous and controversial head of state Vidkun Quisling, in a stirring meditation on complicity, faith and ...
Inspiration, delight and escapism await at the 2025 HSBC Spanish Film Festival!
The party will start with Opening Night comedy SAMANA SUNRISE (Amanece en Samaná), featuring an all- star cast including Luis Zahera, María Luisa Mayol, Luis Tosar and Bárbara Santa-Cruz. The story follows two Spanish couples celebrating their 20-year friendship with a trip to a beachside resort in the Dominican Republic, where a confession about the past leads to a reality shifting ‘Sliding Doors’ moment.
The Centrepiece of the Festival is the highly acclaimed EL 47, which ...
Dendy Cinemas Portside Presents Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers!
This included experimental and erotic photography, “Angura” theatre.
Underground street performances.
Surreal illustrations and seminal graphic design.
Moriyama Daidō and the Provoke magazine photographers pioneered “Are, Bure, Boke” (rough, dark and out of focus.
Araki beautified bondage and Hosoe Eikoh sublimated the male body.
Ishiuchi Miyako captured her experience of American military bases.
Kawada Kikuji’s era-defining photobook The Map captured the poignancy ...
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is returning to the Brisbane Powerhouse this month!
Approximately 375 films are entered into the film festival annually, and the top 80 films are selected by a pre-screening committee to be shown at the week-long festival in Canada. During the festival, the international film festival jury chooses the best films and presents awards in various categories including: Best Film on Mountain Sport, Best Film on Mountain Environment, Best Film on Mountain Culture, Best Film on Exploration and Adventure, and more.
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2025 HSBC Spanish Film Festival returns this June!
This year’s Festival Centrepiece EL 47 scooped the pool at the recent Goya Awards (the Spanish Oscars), winning five major awards including Best Film. Inspired by a true story, EL 47 is an urban tragicomedy starring Eduard Fernández that follows a bus driver in an act of peaceful dissidence that transformed modern Barcelona during the city's boom in the 1970s.
UNDERCOVER (La infiltrada), a Special Presentation, was the co-winner of Best Film at the 2025 Goya Awards, sharing the ...
The full programme 2025 HSBC German Film Festival has been released!
Long term collaborators German Films commented “We are having another successful year for German cinema – you can see the strong presence of German films at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) with films like WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS and HYSTERIA. A very special event will be the screening of the documentary RIEFENSTAHL with director Andres Veiel in attendance. We wish all our Australian viewers a wonderful cinematic experience.”
Opening the festival is one of Germany’s ...
The Ballad of Wallis Island opens and Blue Horizon closes Gold Coast Film Festival 2025!
Included in the 12 day festival are incredible events featuring the Gold Coast Film Festival Awards Gala including the Chauvel Award, Women in Film Lunch, Script to Screen, Emerge! Student Shorts Gala and two incredible Industry events.
GCFF will open on Wednesday April 30 from 5:30pm with the Australian Premiere of THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND, a Sundance Film Festival favourite directed by James Griffiths and starring Tim Key, Tom Basden, and Carey Mulligan.
Described by the Los ...
Celebrated German filmmakers and stars shine in 2025 HSBC German Film Festival first highlights!
This year’s dynamic line-up of contemporary German cinema, a number arriving direct from the 2025 Berlinale, includes thought-provoking dramas, insightful and timely documentaries, delightful comedy and charming family films. The 2025 HSBC German Film Festival takes place across the country at Palace Cinemas, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas.
A Special Presentation at this year's festival is the highly acclaimed documentary RIEFENSTAHL directed by celebrated filmmaker Andres Veiel. ...
Alliance Française French Film Festival 2025 is returning this March and April!
The striking 42-film lineup has no shortage of French star power, with icons such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Call My Agent! favourites Laure Calamy and Camille Cottin, as well as Pierre Niney, Louis Garrel, Vincent Cassel, and many more lighting up the silver screen. This year’s festival also
showcases the exciting rise of a new generation of French talent, with standout performances direct from the Cannes Film Festival. Don’t miss Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil in Beating ...
