Fiesta time is near! The HSBC Spanish Film Festival returns this June!
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This year’s festival Centrepiece is THE TEACHER WHO PROMISED THE SEA (El Maestro que Prometió el Mar), which recently won the Audience award at the 2024 Gaudí Awards. The acclaimed drama stars Enric Auquer (the lead from last year’s festival hit Two Many Chefs) and Laia Costa, and tells the true story of Antoni Benaiges, a teacher who brought progressive teaching methods to a small village in 1930s Burgos.
Featuring in the New Spanish Cinema selection is JOKES AND CIGARETTES ...
Check out the 2024 HSBC German Film Festival Programme!
The festival is delighted to welcome special guest Andreas Dresen, the award-winning director of the Opening Night selection FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE (In Liebe, Eure Hilde) which premiered to widespread acclaim at the recent Berlinale. Featuring an extraordinary performance from Liv Lisa Fries as a young woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II, the film is a compelling historical drama and remarkable true story.
Andreas Dresen will be attending Opening Night ...
Alliance Française French Film Festival – The Three Musketeers – Part I: D’Artagnan Movie Review
The Three Musketeers touches on the timeless themes of integrity, a sense of duty and brotherhood but also includes kick-ass sword fights and more than its fair share of damsels in distress. With this new (2023) take on the classic, The Three Musketeers - Part I: D’Artagnan and Part 2: Milady, it’s fitting to be shepherded by French director and second-generation movie man Martin Bourboulon.
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These two films were major productions in France and as such feature ...
2024 HSBC German Film Festival first highlights have been revealed!
First highlights include the acclaimed new drama from Camera d’Or winning writer/director Claire Burger, FOREIGN LANGUAGE (Langue Étrangère), which arrives direct from the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). Two teenage pen pals in Leipzig and Strasbourg forge a friendship through letters and language exchange in this cross cultural coming-of-age drama, starring Nina Hoss as one of their mothers. Their bittersweet and boundary-testing friendship is strained as they ...
Palestinian Film Festival coming to Dendy Coorparoo next month!
The festival focuses on universal themes of people, place, and politics, aiming to navigate intercultural understanding and promote Palestinian life, art and culture.
Showcasing a diverse and innovative selection of Palestinian films from around the world, the festival is a cinematic journey of creative, thought-provoking storytelling.
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The festival is part of a thriving Palestinian film industry working to facilitate Palestinian cultural output while ...
Vive le cinéma: Alliance Française French Film Festival Programme has been announced!
The whirlwind programme of 41 films features some of the greatest directors (Catherine Breillat, Michel Gondry, Albert Dupontel...) and biggest stars (Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laure Calamy, Camille Cottin...) of the French silver screen. Established by the Alliance Française, the French culture and language institution offering online and in-person language courses and events nationwide, the AF FFF is a celebration of cultural exchange, fostering deeper connec...
Chinese Film Festival is coming to Dendy Cinemas!
This is a brand-new celebration of Chinese film in Australia, aligned with Chinese Lunar New Year.
The program includes a curated selection of new and classic Chinese film titles including:
Green Night – From director Han Shuai comes this thrilling action drama in the vein of Thelma and Louise but with a difference. Starring China’s biggest movie star Fan Bingbing, the film highlights the idea that an invisible hand restrains women’s agency and maybe gender equality is, after ...
BLUSSH Romance Festival is coming to Brisbane this month!
BLUSSH Romance Festival Director, Sue-Anne Chapman, shared the inspiration behind the event: "Queensland was producing more romance films and publishing more romance writers than anywhere else in Australia. And it was determined this was cause to celebrate. And so, BLUSSH was born. BLUSSH is for the lovers of love. Through film and literature, the festival will share the magic and beauty of falling in love.”
The festival boasts a diverse program that includes premieres, previews, ...
Ocean Film Festival World Tour 2024 is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
This unique collection of short films from around the globe document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of the big blue.
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The films feature captivating cinematography, complete with awe-inspiring underwater scenes and fast-paced wave sequences that have been captured from unbelievable vantage ...
