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 ...
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 ...
