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Filmmaker Jordan Giusti joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss Floodland, a new documentary set in flood-prone Lismore, where residents face life-changing decisions after devastating floods.
𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗣 🎙
Filmmaker Jordan Giusti joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss Floodland, a new documentary set in flood-prone Lismore, where residents face life-changing decisions after devastating floods.
From the world of Thornton's acclaimed 2017 film Sweet Country, Wolfram features standout performances from Deborah Mailman and its remarkable young leads, delivering a moving story of survival, resilience and unexpected connection.
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Just announced as the Closing Night film of the Gold Coast Film Festival, Don't Be Prey is set against the world’s most challenging open-water channel swims, following Australian Mark Sowerby as he takes on the legendary Oceans Seven.
05.03.2026 03:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Written and directed by James Litchfield, Alphabet Lane stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Apple Cider Vinegar, Jimpa) and Nicholas Denton (Talamasca, Dangerous Liaisons), alongside Helana Sawires (Stateless) and Henry Nixon (The Pacific), Alan Dukes (The Stranger) and Bishanyia Vincent (The Twelve).
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A total of 27 awards were handed out across this year’s WA Made Film Festival, the highest number in the festival’s seven-year history.
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The nominees for the 18th Australian Film Critics Association (Auscritic) Awards have been announced with Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back receiving an impressive eight nominations!
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Submissions are now open for the internationally acclaimed Australia Independent Film Festival - Brisbane's biggest short film festival.
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Screening at the upcoming Stellar Short Film Festival, Duncan Ragg and Anna Phillips’ Over is a small film with a big heart, plenty of laughs, and fine performances from its two leads, Adam Dunn (Dad) and James Carey, who plays his Damien Leith–obsessed son, James.
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Independent cinema, like Davo Hardy's erotic dramedy Mothers, Lovers and Others, is generally not regarded as 'safe' for winning the favour of festivals. This unconventional melodrama opens at an orgy, contains explicit sex scenes and juggles multiple plot lines for a solid 135-minute runtime.
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After Bark - Flying Bark’s live action label - has announced that it will collaborate with Mad Ones Films and Minor Realm on Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s It’s All Going Very Well…
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“Cinema is our country’s number one cultural activity, yet only 5% of people are seeing Australian films. I believe that’s because our funding-production festival-distro pipeline too often shuns authorial voices in favour of safe, homogenised storytelling.” - Badlands co-founder James Robert Woods.
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Small gripe on main.
While I enjoy working with most publicists, I'm less than stoked by the ones who repeatedly check in about when or where something will be published. Mate, you're not paying us. You're not putting money into the site. You're not our boss. It will go up. Be patient.
Electric Feel follows Jane who is addicted to a public TV broadcast scientifically engineered to reduce depression and anxiety. When the broadcast suddenly goes off-air, Jane’s world unravels.
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Celebrated Australian actors Steve Le Marquand and Pippa Grandison will present a special acting masterclass at the WA Made Film Festival!
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On the dark web where users bet on who will win, a talented chess player is kidnapped and thrown into a game where she is one of the pieces, and when your piece gets taken, you die.
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Stellar Short Film Festival has unveiled its Stellar 12 finalists for 2026, cementing its reputation as Australia’s only invitation-only short film festival and one of the country’s most distinctive celebrations of short-form cinema.
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Stellar Short Film Festival has unveiled its Stellar 12 finalists for 2026, cementing its reputation as Australia’s only invitation-only short film festival and one of the country’s most distinctive celebrations of short-form cinema.
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Teresa Palmer and director Marcelle Lunam join the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their new rom-com, Addition.
It Will Find You follows Emily (Kylah Day), a young Indigenous woman who unwittingly reactivates a generational curse that has laid dormant for 25 years.
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Pasa Faho, the celebrated feature debut from Igbo-Australian filmmaker, writer and visual artist Kalu Oji, will kick-off its national tour of special event screenings this month, following its Central Queensland premiere at the upcoming Capricorn Film Festival.
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𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧-𝗦𝗘𝗘!
Following three years embedded in the Northern NSW town of Lismore, Australia’s most flood-prone postcode, Jordan Giusti's Floodland captures the raw humanity behind the headlines of the devastating 2022 floods.
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Few cinematographers working in Australia are shooting films like Benjamin Bryan, and his work in his latest film, Iron Winter, is nothing short of breathtaking.
Central Queensland’s premier screen arts event, the Capricorn Film Festival, returns to Yeppoon next week from 15–18 January 2026, kicking off four days of films, filmmaker talks and creative events — all celebrating 10 years of storytelling on the Capricorn Coast.
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If you’re looking to add more Australian films to your watch list, here are over 80 new Australian films I watched in 2025, including release dates, streaming details, interviews with the filmmakers, and more.
Dive in and discover something new. Happy watching!
A massive program of high-quality feature films, documentaries and short films will make up the 2026 Capricorn Film Festival which returns to Yeppoon in January, marking a major milestone as the festival celebrates 10 years of championing film, creativity and community on the Capricorn Coast.
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I've still got about eight Aussie films to watch for the rest of the year before I compile my best of 2025 list.
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The film is inspired by the urban legend of 18-year-old Ruby Bland, who died in 1909 in Kapunda, South Australia, with claims her ghost haunts the town’s St John’s Cemetery.
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For YAS Studio founder and acting teacher Daniel Fischer, the vision is clear: build a highly credible, industry-connected creative environment that empowers young people to explore, express and grow, while establishing a sustainable, future-focused creative training model for Melbourne.
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