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 ...
World Press Photo Exhibition 2025
This compelling exhibition presents the winning images from the 68th annual World Press Photo Contest, showcasing the most important and impactful photojournalism and documentary photography of the past year. An independent jury of 31 professionals from around the world—led by Lucy Conticello, Director of Photography at M, the magazine of Le Monde—selected the winners from 59,320 photographs submitted by 3,778 photographers across 141 countries.
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The selected ...
The Life of Chuck – Club Dendy Preview Screening!
Book now for your exclusive early screening on Friday, 1 August of the critically acclaimed new film THE LIFE OF CHUCK from director Mike Flanagan and starring Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Mark Hamill.
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
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"An absolute miracle." - Awards Radar
"One of the most profoundly beautiful films ever made." - KTLA ...
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 ...
The Friend – Dog Friendly Preview Screening is coming to Dendy Powerhouse!
Be the first to meet Bing – a 150 pound Great Dane – making his big screen debut alongside Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in the heartwarming new film THE FRIEND.
Based on the best selling novel, writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) bequeaths her his beloved Great Dane, Apollo. The regal yet intractable dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture ...
Roger Waters – This Is Not A Drill – Live from Prague
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Roger Waters, the creative force behind the golden years of Pink Floyd, presents his first Farewell Tour with ROGER WATERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL – LIVE FROM PRAGUE
This cinematic extravaganza includes 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: “Us & Them”, “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, and “Is This The Life We Really Want?”. Waters also debuts his new song, “The Bar”.
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Waters is joined on stage by Jonathan ...
Cats is returning to Brisbane – let the memory live again!
In July 1985, the ground-breaking musical production had its Australian Premiere in Sydney, heralding an era of the British “mega-musical” in Australia. The new Australian tour will open this week at its original home, Theatre Royal Sydney, before playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide from September, Crown Theatre Perth from November and at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne from December.
“CATS is a legendary show that I’ve admired for over 40 years. A sparkling fusion of ...
The stage is set for monsters, mayhem and music mash-ups in the world premiere of WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
The fiercely funny and fearlessly inventive new work combines a razor-sharp script, all-Queensland cast, cutting-edge puppetry and a banging Brisbane soundtrack in a high-octane showdown set among the city's iconic landmarks.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! is equal parts eco-thriller, schlock horror, laugh-out loud comedy and live-action comic book, brought to life by a team of talented Queensland creatives.
It follows Theo, a young Brisbane student who first senses a strange and menacing ...
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 ...
