American Essentials Film Festival touring the country this May!
Opening nationally with Sophie Brooks’s directorial debut THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS featuring Girls star Zosia Mamet as Diana, an ambitious, aspiring writer who finds the perfect Brooklyn apartment only to discover that her new downstairs neighbour is her ex-boyfriend. Join us at the opening night for a New York style bite and live music.
The strong program features hard hitting dramas including: 55 STEPS - based on the true story of the friendship between lawyer Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank) ...
Missy Higgins Solastalgia Australian Tour this May!
Kicking off in Queensland at Brisbane’s QPAC Concert Hall on Friday 4 May, the tour will go on to visit Toowoomba, Wollongong, Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide before wrapping up with a special hometown show at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on Sunday 13 May.
Higgins’ highly-acclaimed albums The Sound of White (ARIA Album Of The Year featuring hit singles ‘Scar’ and ‘The Special Two’), On A Clear Night (featuring North American gold selling single ‘Where I Stood’ and ‘Stee...
Watch the trailer for Palace Films new release – Loveless
Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival 2017, LOVELESS is the searing new drama from Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Elena, The Return), arguably the most fearless and vital filmmaker in modern European cinema.
In the midst of a vicious divorce, and already embarking on new lives with new partners, Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Alexey Rozin) are impatient to start again, even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov...
The Squeeze Mini-Festival touring this May!
Oli and Louis say "We love discovering new music at festivals and so that’s why we’re announcing our first ever Mini Festival, The Squeeze! It's something we’ve been working on for a while now and it’ll be an annual event, showcasing some of our mates and some hidden gems too. We're fired up to have some of our favourites, such as Bootleg Rascal and the hilarious Aaron Gocs, joining us on the road. We’re taking this festival to Melbourne, Brisbane and our own hometown in Sydney!...
The Spanish Film Festival Returns for 2018 with a stellar lineup!
The twenty-day festival, which showcases 25 films, will close with Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece PAN’S LABYRINTH. The visionary Mexican director recently took home four Academy Awards including Best Film and Best Director with a further nine nominations for his whimsical and spellbinding underwater romance The Shape of Water. To celebrate this incredible achievement, we’re bringing his beloved dark fairy-tale back to the big screen to close the 21st Festival.
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SUPERDUPERKYLE coming to Australia this May for his debut tour!
South of the equator for Groovin’ The Moo, the Ventura-native will bring his trademark brand of feel good hip-hop to Aussie fans for the very first time – kicking things off at Sydney’s Manning Bar on Tuesday May 1, Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Wednesday May 2, Brisbane’s Woolly Mammoth on Wednesday May 9, and wrapping up on the west coast at Perth’s Jack Rabbit Slims on Thursday May 11.
Lauded for his playful lyrics, video-game sampling and positive “you, do you” attitude, ...
The Apia Young at Heart Film Festival 2018 now screening around the country!
With 16 films scheduled across 11 venues in 5 cities, the Apia Young at Heart Film Festival is dedicated to seniors, but the curated program will appeal to discerning film lovers of all ages. This year, early evening sessions have been added to the schedule, making the festival even more accessible for everyone.
Highly anticipated festival favourites include:
On Chesil Beach in which Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) and Billy Howle star as Florence and Edward, a young couple on their honeymoon ...
Dermot Kennedy Debut Australian Tour
Imbuing the folky grit of Glen Hansard and Ray Lamontagne while variously employing production techniques more familiar to the likes of Drake or James Blake, Kennedy will hit the East Coast on the back of the whirlwind success of his EP Doves and Ravens. The release has garnered fans worldwide for it’s stark combination of electronic wizardry and heartbreaking balladry.
A prodigious talent, Kennedy’s love of music came from humble beginnings. As a 10-year-old up to no good at a ...
ACMI presents the World Premiere of Wonderland this April!
The enduring fascination with Carroll’s stories and characters uniquely traces the evolution of filmmaking, providing the perfect subject matter for Australia’s national film museum, ACMI, to illustrate our ongoing fascination with new visual technologies over more than a century. From the earliest optical toys to silent film, animation, puppetry, live-action cinema, videogames, CGI, 3D and beyond, WONDERLAND explores how the moving image has kept Alice and her stories in the public ...
Jake Bugg Solo Australian Accoustic Tour
Hitting Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane for three huge solo acoustic shows, Bugg is well known to audiences down under for his boundless energy and shopworn tenderness, with his visits always attracting fevered excitement from both locals and ex-pats alike.
Recorded in Nashville with Black Keys frontman (and super producer) Dan Auerbach, Hearts That Strain shows a side of Jake Bugg rarely revealed on his previous three studio albums. It could be the secrets of the road or maybe just one ...
