2021 German Film Festival returns with a feast of films!
This year’s programme, presented in association with German Films, will screen from 25 May – 20 June at Palace Cinemas across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide.
German Film Festival spokesperson Bettina Kinski said, “We're truly excited to return to screens with the latest in German Cinema, something we sadly missed in 2020. The Festival will be a great opportunity for people interested in German language films and culture to reunite and reconnect ...
Aleksei German: History Though a Keyhole is screening at GOMA’s Australian Cinémathèque!
With the exception of his final work, the Boschian sci-fi Hard to Be a God 2013, German’s films are all set within the post-Revolution pre-Khrushchev Russia of 1918-1953. This tumultuous milieu underpins his portraits of morally complex characters often teetering on the edge of calamity. Through these stories, German builds allegorical explorations of both his own past and the past of his compatriots.
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German crafted a unique cinematic language that extends ...
Movie Review – The Goddess of Fortune
From the outside looking in, Alessandro (Edoardo Leo) and Arturo (Stefano Accorsi) are the perfect couple, but the cracks are starting to appear. When a former muse, Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca), and her two young children arrive unbeknownst to Alessandro, it shifts the couple’s dynamic in a major way. When the truth behind her visit becomes known, it shifts things into overdrive.
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Every family has its secrets and Annamaria’s upbringing was rife with trying times ...
Studio Ghibli Film Festival is coming to Dendy Coorparoo!
Check out our magical lineup of 22 animated classics and beloved favourites from one of the most acclaimed studios in the world, Studio Ghibli, headed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki and home of some of the most revered and beloved animated works to have ever graced the screen.
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Don't miss out on one of the most enchanting big screen experiences ever.
All films are in original Japanese Language with English Subtitles.
Studio Ghibli Film Festival
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Brisbane International Film Festival 2020 now on sale!
Presented by the Australian Cinémathèque at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and city-wide cinema partners, BIFF 2020 launches on Thursday 1 October with the Australian premiere of Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s High Ground 2020 and closes on Sunday 11 October with the world premiere of Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin’s inspiring documentary Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra 2020.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Queenslanders would be eager to return to the ...
The Birth and Death of Stars is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
Sitting between music and theatre, this show is brought to the stage by a powerful collaboration of creative minds, including director Benjamin Knapton, Finnish animator Laura Matikainen and writer Pauline Maudy.
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Contemplate your place in the universe as the sounds of some of Australia’s most diverse musicians and songwriters transport you to another time and place.
The Birth and Death of Stars
10-11 September 2020
The Tivoli, Brisbane
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The Big Bike Film Night is coming to Queensland this September!
Showcasing our 2020 collection that has everything a cycle-centric audience could want - action, drama, humour, and plenty of inspiration; the evening is unashamedly and utterly, utterly, utterly designed and devised for the two wheel devotee!
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So...listen to the voice inside you; it’s telling you to go. Grab your mates, grab your tickets, GO ON… grab your bike and come along for the ride!!
The Big Bike Film Night
Brisbane - New Farm Cinemas, Wednesday 9th ...
Cowboy, featuring a score from Ben Ely is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
From surfing trains to taming horses to wandering the desert, this work unpacks your ability to have a complete, genuine, and meaningful experience as an imagined self.
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Saddle up and enter the world of Cowboy for a poignantly funny yet sensitive ride.
Cowboy
4 – 6 September 2020
Metro Arts, West End
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Circa’s Leviathan is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
Under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz, 36 performers defy gravity as they propel themselves across the stage, tumbling, balancing and soaring together as one.
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Exploring the massive and unpredictable energies that are unleashed in a civilisation careening toward an unknown fate, Leviathan offers hope in these complex times. Connecting the local with the global, it celebrates what we can achieve when we work together.
The dramatic power and extreme skill of ...
BIFF 2020 is coming to GOMA this October!
Starring Simon Baker, Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Jack Thompson, Aaron Pedersen, Witiyana Marika, Caren Pistorius, Esmerelda Marimowa and Sean Mununggurr, High Ground is the second feature film from Stephen Maxwell Johnson, director of Yolngu Boy 2001.
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With over 70 films from 28 countries, BIFF can’t wait to welcome audiences back for BIFF 2020. Experience 11 exhilarating days of unmissable cinema! And they will be taking extra steps to prioritise the health and ...
