Brisbane Writers Festival launches its 2025 program!
The 2025 program is packed with literary A-listers across more than 100 live events including author talks, conversations, panel discussions and special events. Two hundred artists, half of them from Queensland, form part of the blockbuster line-up of national and international guests.
Australian headline authors include Helen Garner, Trent Dalton, Sally Hepworth, Michael Robotham, Di Morrissey, Anita Heiss and Pub Choir’s Astrid Jorgensen, while international highlights include ...
First highlights of the 2025 St. Ali Italian Film Festival announced!
Presented by Palace, the 2025 edition of the festival will screen in Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Byron Bay and Ballina, commencing on September 24 in Brisbane.
The full 2025 line up will be revealed in late August with these first highlights offering a tantalising taste of what to expect in this year’s program, which will showcase the filmmaking and acting talents of Italy’s finest.
Opening the festival is Paolo Genovese’s record-breaking ...
CatVideoFest is coming to 150+ Cinemas for two days only!
Every ticket sold raises money for cats in need, with the Festival raising approximately $170,000 for feline-focused nonprofits since its North American launch in 2019.
Curated by filmmaker Will Braden and distributed by Oscilloscope, CatVideoFest brings the internet’s favourite felines to the big screen in a purr-fectly crafted compilation. Each year’s program features the latest and greatest cat videos — from hilarious home footage and animations to music videos and iconic viral ...
The Marx Brothers – Monkey Business is currently screening at Australian Cinémathèque!
Anarchic, absurdist and anti-authoritarian, the films of the Marx Brothers — wisecracking Groucho, crafty Chico, silent clown Harpo and straight-man Zeppo — remain eternally revolutionary and side-splittingly hilarious.
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This program brings together their first six films, presenting their five screen appearances together (including such classics as Horse Feathers 1932 and Duck Soup 1933) and their first film as a Zeppo-less trio, the comic masterpiece A Night ...
Let the good times roll Brisbane – The Big Bike Film Night 2025!
Proclaimed as “a feast of short films devised and designed for the two-wheel devotee” it has its humble beginnings in Taupō, New Zealand in 2015. The Big Bike Film Night is now a much-anticipated global Film Festival that brings a love of cycling to cinemas, presenting an array of international movies specifically selected by New Zealander Curator | “Film Pedlar”, Brett Cotter.
“Each year I set out with just one goal- to bring together the best short cycling films from around ...
Afterglow flickers to life with a world premiere season at Brisbane Festival 2025!
Follow the flame and be captivated by a glowing dreamscape of dancing shadows, candlelit installations and fire sculptures in the world premiere of Afterglow.
The fire trail is an all-ages experience, perfect for family outings, date nights or solo moments of reflection and is presented by Sony Music Entertainment as part of Brisbane Festival 2025.
A nocturnal wonderland, the City Botanic Gardens beckons visitors to enter its gates as the sun goes down and immerse themselves in a ...
Wynnum Fringe returns with mateship, music and magic in the bay!
Queensland’s quirkiest winter arts festival will once again transform Brisbane’s bayside into a buzzing hub of music, comedy, cabaret and circus from 2 – 20 July 2025.
Wynnum Fringe Founder and CEO / Artistic Director Tom Oliver said this year’s program was built around the idea of connection – cultural, creative and geographical.
“Our 2025 theme is Mateship, a celebration of connection in all its forms,” Oliver said.
“It’s about the ties that bind us, between ...
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 ...
Roger Corman: B-Movie Maestro is currently playing at GOMA!
Over a career that stretched across eight decades, Corman found acclaim for both his work as director — particularly his 'Poe cycle', a series of eight sumptuously realised films each adapting different tales by Edgar Allan Poe — and as a producer who mentored some of Hollywood's brightest talents in their formative years.
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This program brings together the complete 'Poe cycle', alongside a selection of his other significant directorial efforts and some of the ...
