Freedom Rides. In 1965, a group of university students boarded a bus and embarked on a 15-day journey through regional New South Wales, confronting the racial discrimination and segregation experie…

Sarah Jeavons as Ollie in Ruby, Ruby. The Adelaide Film Festival has launched its full program for the 2026 Festival, to be held from October 14 – October 25 at cinemas across Adelaide. Twenty-seve…

Taylor Broadley In 2024, filmgoers were introduced to Taylor Broadley via his debut feature film, Stubbornly Here, when it premiered in Broadley’s hometown of Perth at the Revelation Film Festival.…

Branden Wittchen. A trip, a missed handshake, going in for an uncomfortable hug, accidentally treading on someone’s toes, forgetting someone’s name, or having no idea how to pronounce it. We’ve all…

Fresh from its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, where it won the Intrepid Audience Award, Australian feature documentary Hard As Puck will hit cinemas national…

Kelly Bergsma. Filmed across Australia and The Netherlands over almost two years, the powerful new Australian documentary Invisible Injuries explores the unseen wounds carried by soldiers long afte…

After a devastating professional betrayal, ex-lawyer Samara has rebuilt her life from the ground up – trading courtrooms for creativity as the owner of her own event-planning business. When h…

Anthony Brandon Wong. Acclaimed actor Anthony Brandon Wong has joined the cast of Kennedy as Liu Dihuan, the journalist whose pursuit of the truth behind the Kelly Gang’s victims drives one of the …

Dasha Melnik on the set of Morning Afternoon Night. They say you can start over. But if the music in your head sounds different, the smells aren’t the same, and everything that once felt familiar e…

Vee Shi. Filmmaker and screen industry professional Vee Shi has been announced as the recipient of the Screen Presence Trailblazer Award 2026, given by the thriving screen initiative to a…

The Hunter (Gabriel Sheehan) and The Poacher (Paul Wallencamp) in Dead Centre. Photo by Salt & Honey Productions. Production has commenced in Western Australia on Emilie Lowe’s sophomore featur…

The Candy Bar. Finalists in the 2026 CinefestOZ Short Film Competition were announced today ahead of the Short Film Awards, which will be held Thursday 3 September in Busselton, Western Australia, …

Producer Greer Simpkin, one of the creative forces behind the upcoming film adaptation of Prima Facie, starring Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo, will chair the CinefestOZ Film Prize Jury, which will decide …

Isaac Elliott. Of the Australian sports feature documentaries released over the past decade, it’s no surprise that such a large number of them have focused on AFL, the biggest sport in the land.&nb…

Meat Daddy. Over the last two decades, the Sydney Underground Film Festival has cemented itself as a force of creativity in Sydney’s arts and culture scene, with programs that continue to promote i…

Tina Arena: Unravel Me Tina Arena will join Mary Coustas on stage at special preview screenings and in conversation events in Sydney on Sunday 23 August, to celebrate the upcoming cinema release of…

Arlo Dean Cook. If you were around during the late ’90s and early 2000s, and you enjoyed driving around for hours with more people in the car than there were seatbelts, wagging school, partyi…

Mia Wasikowska and Mia Morrissey in Agata The Writer. Ahead of its full program launch on September 15, the Adelaide Film Festival has announced the Australian Premiere of the Adelaide Film Festiva…

Room 8. Written, directed, shot and edited by Russell Wyatt Roberts, Room 8 follows a grief-stricken man in need of work. He soon takes on an mysterious assignment from an anonymous online benefact…

Harvey Zielinski in Sweet Milk Lake. Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast.  In this episode, I’m joined by Harvey Zielinski – writer and director of Sweet Milk Lake w…

Adam C. Briggs I love a film that evokes the same symptoms as a fever dream, or if you’ve dabbled in acid in your past, an acid trip.  That’s how I’d describe the feeling of watching Adam C. B…

Gideon Aroni One of the great pleasures of my job is getting to watch so many debut feature films from exciting new talent, and right now the Australian film industry is absolutely brimming with it…

Midori Francis as Hana in Saccharine. Filmed in Melbourne, the Stan Original Saccharine with Midori Francis (Grey’s Anatomy) and Australian actors Danielle Macdonald (The Tourist) and Madelei…

Professor Juli Coffin Horses are among the most majestic of creatures. While their immense strength and power have long been exploited throughout Australia’s history, particularly within the racing…

Tristan Balz in In the Dog House. Aron Attiwell’s latest short film, In the Doghouse, is now available to stream below. The film follows an incarcerated father (Tristan Balz) who discovers ho…

Isabel Dickson Melbourne actor, Isabel Dickson is challenging the film industry’s traditional path by making 12 films in 12 months, completely solo. Her self-initiated solo-filmmaking project…

Skeeta Newman Following a decorated 27-year career as a Navy and emergency services paramedic, Western Australian author, actor and producer Skeeta Newman has announced that his 2025 debut novel, G…

Mia Wasikowska in Agata the Writer The debut feature film from Polish-born Australian visual artist and filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, Agata the Writer, and Australian producer Alex White (B…

Mia’Kate Russell Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. On this episode, I’m joined by writer and director Mia’Kate Russell to discuss her very excellent, highly enter…

Noah Taylor in Shine. The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced a 30th anniversary celebration screening of Scott Hick’s Oscar®-winning Shine as part of an early look at this year’s program.&n…

Maddelin McKenna. Not that long ago, all you’d have to do to avoid being scammed was to trash an email from a Nigerian prince offering a family inheritance.  Nowadays, we’re facing increasingl…

Penny Lane is Dead Thanks to our friends at Umbrella Entertainment, we’re giving you the chance to win a double pass to see Penny Lane is Dead. Penny Lane is Dead is the rip-roaring debut fea…

Of Womb. Peter Firebrace’s debute feature film, Of Womb, will celebrate its world premiere at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival. Three young women have been raised in innocen…

Steve Willems and Tal Davida Australia remains in the grip of a family, domestic and sexual violence crisis. I won’t go too deeply into the statistics here, but they’re confronting, and…

Jennifer Robinson, Brittany Higgins, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro. Photo by Michael Latham. Sharmill Films and Stranger Than Fiction have shared the official trailer for Silenced, the critically acclaimed…

Harvey Zielinski as Jake in Sweet Milk Lake. Photo by Jane Zhang. A striking new voice in Australian cinema, Harvey Zielinski, makes his feature film debut with Sweet Milk Lake. The tender story of…

French Girls. Tonight, the 74th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) unveiled its full 2026 program including more than 300 screen works spanning features, shorts and XR experiences, and sp…

From All Sides Following celebrated festival screenings, a theatrical season at Cinema Nova, and being named by film critic Matthew Donlan in the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia’s t…

Dayna Di Fulvio. Melbourne filmmaker Dayna Di Fulvio makes their directorial debut with Urban Nipple, a thought-provoking documentary exploring how technology, censorship and social media policies …

Rem (Vonne Patiag) and Mark (Max Brown) in Homo. © In-Between Pictures / Julia Firak. Homo, the latest short film from award-winning Filipino-Australian filmmaker Vonne Patiag will have its world p…